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We found a metric each team topped, now it’s time for a player from each team. Thanks to FBref and WhoScored for the lovely Premier League statistics, all of which are per 90 minutes unless otherwise stated. Arsenal: Bernd Leno – lowest percentage passes over 40 yards (18.4%) The stats get better, I promise. It was […]
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It’s all going to take a while to play out – there’s surely no way Daniel Levy is going to get rid of his beloved Jose Mourinho while there remains at least the theoretical possibility of Spurs somehow beating Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final in April – but there’s no mistaking the tell-tale […]
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There is a strong #freeShinji vibe around Donny van de Beek. Juan Seba Veron proved there are no guarantees… Shinji Kagawa There is already a strong #freeShinji vibe around Van de Beek. And it is hard to ignore the parallels between two undoubtedly tidy, technical players recruited apparently without a clear idea of where […]
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Before the start of the season, in the wake of Chelsea’s £70million acquisition of Kai Kavertz – their seventh signing of the summer – we said ‘competition is just as likely to breed fractiousness as it is improvement‘, as we predicted that one of Frank Lampard’s greatest challenges in his bid to bring the title […]
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Don’t know about you, but we reckon 23 games into the season is the perfect time to pass judgement on all the managers who have been in charge of Premier League clubs this season. So that’s what we’ve done. 22) Sam Allardyce (West Brom, since December) Full disclosure, we thought this was a pretty […]
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What was once a “disgraceful” scoreline by the standards of Jose Mourinho is now entirely out of his control at Tottenham. The problem with engaging in constant psychological warfare and nefarious mind games for decades is that eventually you end up punching yourself incessantly in the face just to feel something. When everything you […]
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Sending people death threats makes you a prick. Surely we can all agree on that. But how did we come to this point? So who’s this week’s prick then? It’s a multi-layered prick this week, with the final prick really just an end point (steady) of a journey that has been going on for […]
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In the third and final chat about the psychology of football – read the first about players here and then managers here – Johnny sits down with former F365 warhorse and now top London psychotherapist Al Tyers to tackle the thorny issue of VAR and what it says about the world we live in today… JN: Okay Al. VAR. […]
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As Jurgen Klopp said when Liverpool won the title: “When you think you have reached the pinnacle, you are already on the way down.” Quite. “We have been playing at the limit for six years. Every year we have to raise the level of the previous year. If you have to stretch like that, every downward […]
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A tribunal is deciding how much Liverpool must pay Fulham for teenage prodigy Harvey Elliott. Here are five other deals which featured tribunals… Dominic Solanke (Chelsea to Liverpool) Liverpool and Chelsea eventually found some common ground over Solanke a year after the striker moved to Anfield in July 2017 so a tribunal wasn’t actually […]
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