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The expiry of Roy Hodgson’s contract is perfectly-timed. But Palace can’t risk getting lost by lurching off down a different road… This is the managerial departure that the term ‘mutual consent’ was coined for. But Crystal Palace did the decent thing and allowed Roy Hodgson to ‘step down’ as their manager on Tuesday morning. […]
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There is a very simple way for Harry Kane to get the quick, pain-free exit from Spurs to a better Premier League club that he quite understandably now desires. All he has to do is hop in a time machine and travel back to 2018 when he signed a six-year contract for Daniel Actual Levy. […]
Read More… from Of course Kane wants out – who wouldn’t? – but he trapped himself
When Fulham manager Scott Parker cried tears upon the full-time whistle at Wembley Stadium last August having guided the club back to the Premier League at the first time of asking, questions were already being asked of the former England midfielder’s abilities to make the most of this Premier League season. An admirable performance as […]
Read More… from Fulham really should have been so much better
Andre Ayew scored the winner but Daryl Dike scored with us all. This was such good fun. There are cult heroes and there’s Daryl Dike. This was the first opportunity the Barnsley fans have had to pay homage to their 6’1”, 220 pound Oklahoman, and boy, did they make the most of it. They arrived at […]
Read More… from F365 says: Dike the hero despite Ayew’s Swansea winner
Jamie Vardy loves a party. It’s been so long we had almost forgotten. It was closing down on 90 minutes and the ball went out for a corner following a challenge on the striker. Triumphantly returning to his stance, he beckoned the crowd in hordes no more than five yards away, swaying his arms for […]
Read More… from The people’s club? Are we all Leicester City now?
Sometimes there’s nothing else to do but just sit back and wallow in some sheer undiluted Barclays. We were 20 seconds away from having nothing to talk about apart from the ineffectiveness of Liverpool’s huffing and puffing, musings about whether they really deserved a crack at Champions League football after the season they’ve produced, analysis […]
Read More… from Alisson header a dizzying shot of pure undiluted Barclays
There are still a great many problems with this Spurs team, but at least it is now one that attempts to play to its strengths. Today’s was as comfortable a 2-0 win as you could wish to see against a Wolves side who have had a low-key terrible season after back-to-back seventh-place finishes and today […]
Read More… from Spurs remain flawed but at least they’re fun again
Why would Crystal Palace plump for Frank Lampard while Roy Hodgson offers stability and adaptation? Hodgson won’t be drawn on rumours suggesting he will retire at the end of the season, but there have been suggestions Crystal Palace could announce his departure from the club ahead of Arsenal’s visit to Selhurst Park on Wednesday, to allow returning fans […]
Read More… from Why go for Lampard as old dog Hodgson learns new tricks?
It’s been five years yet the conundrum remains unsolved. Paul Pogba should compromise and Manchester United need to find him a mate… It has been almost five years, yet here we are still trying to suss out how Manchester United can get the best out of Paul Pogba. The France midfielder was far from […]
Read More… from Go all in on Pogba and a partner, or pack him off…
Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea “process” is working but didn’t work at Stamford Bridge, on a night when the absence of Mikel Arteta’s worked in Arsenal’s favour… 1) This was the first time Arsenal have done the Premier League double over Chelsea since 2003-04, when Thierry Henry et al went on to claim their last league […]