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Football is meant to offer an escape from everyday life. Ninety minutes to forget everything else that’s going on and worry instead about that underperforming left-back or this lazy bastard midfielder or that cheating sh*t of a referee. The real world isn’t supposed to infiltrate this if at all possible. It’s one of the reasons […]
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Let’s start with the good news for Manchester United: that unbeaten away record is now up to 21 games. We will, though, be very surprised if it reaches 22 at the weekend, derby day formbook defenestration notwithstanding, against Manchester City. This was a lifeless, drab display from United in a game that fittingly spent its […]
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If a 1-1 draw was a result that will leave both Burnley and Leicester rueing what might have been, there were plenty of reasons for encouragement for both in the performance. Burnley desperately needed to show… something after the dispiriting goalless draw against 10-man West Brom and Tottenham shellacking. Leicester needed a response to a […]
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It’s ‘bad for football’ we are told, that Manchester City are 15 points ahead of their supposed ‘rivals’. It’s ‘bad for football’, we are told, that Manchester City are cruising towards their fifth title win in ten seasons. It wasn’t ‘bad for football’ when Liverpool walked away with last season’s title – it was historic, […]
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For the first 30 or even 40 years of your life, all those tributes on the news to the recently deceased are to old people you’ve never heard of, or know little about. But once you’re into your 40s, it begins. Movie stars, musicians and TV personalities start disappearing and believe me, it begins to […]
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Offensive, foul and inappropriate. Call it what you will, but for as long as the terraces are no-go areas, profanity is here to stay. Lately it seems we can’t get through a match without the commentator apologising to viewers for overheard “industrial language”. Indeed, if you tuned in to last week’s clash between Atletico Madrid […]
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This is no longer the asterisk season and Manchester City will not be the asterisk champions; this team is too brilliant to be buried in ‘buts’. They have now won 21 consecutive games and been unbeaten in 28. This is not about a pandemic, a lack of fans or fatigue making a farce of this […]
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On October 17, after a 2-2 draw against Liverpool extended their unbeaten run at the top of the Premier League to five games, the question was posed: Can Everton win this open title race? Manchester City’s dominance has turned a fair question into a comically flawed one – this could yet be the most one-sided […]
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1) In the aftermath of a 0-0 draw between Chelsea and Manchester United, there is perhaps no better time to remind everyone that Frank Lampard has still won a Big Six Premier League match more recently than Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The Norwegian has presided over eight goalless draws in domestic competition as United manager: one […]
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That could not have gone much worse for Leicester, nor much better for Arsenal. The hosts lost three things: their recent domestic momentum, as well as Harvey Barnes and Jonny Evans to yet more injuries. Youri Tielemans granted them a well-earned lead they proceeded to squander even before half-time with a resistance that stretched to […]
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