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“It’s good publicity for me to be linked with Real Madrid but it is not true. I am happy to stay. My target is to make Everton better.” Oh, Everton. Oh, mates. Two weeks ago, Carlo Ancelotti said that. May 18. A different time. A simpler time. Now he’s back in the warm embrace of […]
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Jack Grealish and Jude Bellingham were among those to stake their England claims against Austria. But some let the opportunity pass them by. JORDAN PICKFORD Played like someone who thinks his club manager is still Carlo Ancelotti. The recent quiet resurgence of Pickford has been fun as his emotional excesses have been replaced by […]
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League One will be full of ex-Premier League teams next year. Morecambe, never relegated as a Football League team, will not look out of place. When, in February 2021, Morecambe’s board put out a statement stating they wanted to forget the oft-heard phrase in local and divisional circles, ‘Goodbye Little Old Morecambe,’ many could […]
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Gareth Southgate has named an exciting Euro 2020 England squad. Thoughts on Trent Alexander-Arnold, Bukayo Saka and Jesse Lingard are within. The 26 men tasked with ending 427 years of hurt are here. 1) Gareth Southgate is owed many a grovelling apology, with reserves of humble pie most desperately needed on Merseyside. It was […]
A great deal of time, effort and thought will be wasted today on coverage of Gareth Southgate’s England squad announcement. A great deal of it can be found on these pages, and in this piece. Sorry about that. But the key point is this: it doesn’t matter. When England’s quarter-final/semi-final heartbreak or group-stage humiliation comes […]
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Blackpool took a huge punt on appointing Liverpool youth-team coach Neil Critchley despite his lack of experience at senior level. It worked. At first glance, you would be hard-pressed to find similarities between Blackpool’s managerial situation and that of Champions League winner Thomas Tuchel, but following the Tangerines’ promotion back to the Championship, the […]
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Pep Guardiola gave Thomas Tuchel a gift before kick-off and he and Chelsea gratefully unwrapped it to win the Champions League. 1) It was so comfortable. That’s a statement you would have thought could only be made after a Manchester City win. They’ve got the best coach in the world, they’ve got the best […]
Well this is a first. We have 16 Conclusions on the Championship play-off final between Brentford and Swansea. Soak it in. But first read Brentford are Premier League: Moneyball and a broken jinx 1) Let’s start at the beginning. The past couple of weeks have given us the long-awaited return of fans back in stadiums. […]
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Throw those flatcaps in the air, twang those braces and pass the beard oil – it’s victory for the hipster xG nerds. Brentford are a Premier League football team. They’ve avoided ‘La Decima’; broke their jinx to win the play-offs at the tenth time of asking. They won it in 20 devastating minutes. Freddie Woodman […]
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Chelsea being in the Champions League final brings back a horrible personal memory for me. It was the day my childhood dream died. And the day a friendship was lost forever. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was still in my first few months as a football writer, learning the ropes at Football365 […]
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