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Newcastle fans have been force fed plenty of sh*t in recent seasons. But what they had to swallow on Saturday night was the biggest turd of all. Steve Bruce’s Magpies went to Brighton for a six-pointer in the Premier League relegation fight and failed to lay a glove on their opponents. Brighton, so poor at […]
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Just the six changes made by Pep Guardiola as Manchester City switched targets for the third time this week. But while coming through ‘one of their toughest games in the last year’, according to Guardiola, the question over his best XI is becoming clearer as the Quadruple inches closer. Guardiola certainly needs no more to […]
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“We said we wanted to concentrate a little bit more this season on the FA Cup and we picked the strongest team in every round so far,” Ralph Hasenhuttl said ahead of kick-off on Saturday. It’s been a policy that’s paid dividends as Southampton saw off weakened Arsenal and Wolves sides in the fourth and […]
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At some point you need to stop looking at the milk and wonder whether the fridge itself is faulty. Jose Mourinho and Tottenham have gone off. Since moving house before Christmas, there’s been an issue that’s repeatedly caused annoyance. At least a week before its expiration date, milk has been turning bad in the […]
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Manchester United were second-best for three quarters of this Europa League tie. Given the final result, that should be read as a compliment to their mindset and game management rather than criticism. While Milan’s goal in the first leg at Old Trafford came desperately late, few could argue they hadn’t deserved it over the course […]
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For the first time, the end of Jose Mourinho’s Spurs reign has moved from vaguely distant yet inevitable dot on the horizon to genuine imminent possibility. He and his team have had some real low points – one of the worst as recently as Sunday – but this is the nadir. A dizzying, intoxicating, infuriating […]
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Frank Lampard’s most damaging contribution as Chelsea manager came just three days before the end of his time at Stamford Bridge. On January 22, AC Milan agreed a loan deal for Fikayo Tomori with a £25million option to buy him this summer. On January 25, Lampard was sacked. It’s a move Chelsea ‘already regret’. No sh*t. […]
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Chelsea look absolutely brilliant under Thomas Tuchel and he has not had to sign any of his ‘own’ players for that improvement to set in. In the end it boiled down to one factor: Yannick Carrasco’s toxic push-pull relationship with Cesar Azpilicueta. The Atletico winger collapsed under the questionable weight of two challenges at […]
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“One of those flicks that invariably don’t come off, but this time it’s just trundled into the far corner.” Pretend you don’t know what goal is being described there, or which co-commentator is doing the describing. Now try and picture a goal that could accurately be described by those words. Does it sound like the […]
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“I am older than Mr Zinchenko, I have more experience and I don’t agree with him,” said Pep Guardiola, scalding the Ukrainian for his giddy talk of a Manchester City quadruple, for saying what was presumably supposed to go unsaid or perhaps just for talking about “hungry eyes” and giving him an earworm. And with […]
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