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Perhaps Gary Neville was right. His declaration that Manchester United “are never going to win the Premier League with that centre-back pairing” came in September. A chastening defeat to Crystal Palace saw Victor Lindelof and Harry Maguire struggle against the speed and movement of Wilfried Zaha, Andros Townsend, Jeffrey Schlupp and Jordan Ayew. Pre-season predictions […]
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Often, when a team bounces back to the Premier League at the first time of asking after relegation, it can seem quite the anti-climax. With Norwich City’s return to the Premier League looking more and more like an inevitability with every passing victory, the story is quite different. This is a more mature, more efficient, […]
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It’s taken a very, very, very long time for the penny to drop, but for Spurs and Jose Mourinho this very strange season could still have a happy ending. An extremely kindly run of fixtures at an opportune time has certainly helped, but these are also the precise kind of fixtures Spurs were busy making […]
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Manchester United were excellent but have been here before and must make this count for something. Pep Guardiola has a few thoughts to ponder. 1) “Our challenge is to finish second but I want to congratulate City for the title – because they are going to win and deservedly. They gave no chance to the […]
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Eight months ago, a plane flew over Anfield during the final home game of an extraordinary season (for multiple reasons) congratulating Liverpool for their crushing Premier League title triumph. On Sunday, another plane flew over Anfield desperately trying to rally the troops during a 1-0 home defeat to Fulham in a title defence gone horribly, spectacularly […]
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Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck? Would you rather be constantly itchy or constantly sticky? Would you rather crap yourself once a year in public or every day in private? Would you rather be born with an elephant trunk or a giraffe neck? Would you rather have a ten-inch long belly button […]
Read More… from Would you rather? Relegation or Ashley and Allardyce
Manchester City fans have long insisted that media holds an agenda against the club and its owners. Based on this season they have a point. On Friday, March 5, a Sky Sports team meeting would have taken place around lunchtime. Sat around in a Zoom conference with their lower half hidden away in pyjama […]
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Southampton’s 2-0 defeat to Leicester in January triggered the avalanche of losses that saw Saints plummet spectacularly from the summit of the league. Their recent draw at home to Chelsea temporarily cauterised those wounds, but with back-to-back defeats in their last two outings, the Hampshire outfit are haemorrhaging once again. Their Jekyll and Hyde campaign […]
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Liverpool are in trouble and Jurgen Klopp looks completely out of ideas. By contrast, Thomas Tuchel has reinvigorated this Chelsea machine. 1) Hindsight is 20/20, but such a painful lack of foresight might never be more hilarious than in 2021. Bambi was bloody well asking for it. 2) This is why Roman Abramovich […]
Dean Henderson was the only Manchester United player to do himself any favours on Wednesday night. But even that single positive from a dour draw presents Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with a problem. Hardly a new one, mind. Solskjaer has done well to avoid addressing his goalkeeping issue before now. But the United boss has a […]
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