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Manchester City won the Premier League title on Tuesday night in news that was greeted with a collective shrug of the shoulders. Now there are a few reasons for that. First and most obviously, it’s been clear that they were going to win the league for quite some months now. Second, they won it thanks […]
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A very strange game with one conspicuously strange line-up in appalling weather and ramifications felt way beyond the two teams involved. Taken in isolation, this was a game in which nothing much made sense. Viewed more holistically, all of it did. Manchester United’s line-up looked utterly bizarre yet at the same time anything more familiar […]
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West Ham’s whole season now looks set to provide a textbook example of the concept of perspective after a deeply disappointing afternoon at the worst possible time. Leicester’s catastrophic defeat at Newcastle on Friday night had left the Foxes facing – in the inimitable words of Joleon Lescott on Sky – “itchy bum time” and […]
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Would it not really just be a lot simpler if we all just agreed not to bother with the rigmarole of actually playing Manchester United away games? There’s still a pandemic on, United have a ridiculously busy season-closing fixture list and, frankly, it just feels like a monumental waste of time and resources when we […]
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Wolves and Nuno Espirito Santo were in trouble at half-time against Brighton, but the younger players showed fine spirit in the comeback. ‘Wolves have named five players aged 21 or younger in their starting XI against Brighton,’ read the tweet from OptaJoe, referencing the youthfully-hyphenated quintet of Fabio Silva, Ki-Jana Hoever, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Vitinha […]
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In Part II of the Manchester City v Chelsea trilogy, Pep Guardiola tried his very best not to give Thomas Tuchel any spoilers ahead of the big finale in three weeks. But another Chelsea triumph suggests Tuchel has read the City boss’s script and he’s already begun to pick holes in Pep’s plot. After ruining […]
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“It’s not a top-six squad at the moment. We’ve got some world-class players and there’s some good players and players off form at the moment. It needs a rebuild. There’s a hell of a lot of work to be done at Tottenham.” The Glenn Hoddle warning before kick-off for those tasked with the Spurs restoration […]
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It was not difficult to see what Mikel Arteta was trying to do. But it is worth wondering why and how Arsenal reached this point. There is an inherent risk in sleepwalking through an entire half when who blinks first is of the utmost importance. Time is finite and 45 opening minutes of footballing […]
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Tottenham’s latest pursuit of a new manager – they happen quite a lot – already appears to be irretrievably mired in banter. Even the sacking of Jose Mourinho itself, which should have been an act of great catharsis and relief, managed to be overwhelmed by the Super League fiasco of which Daniel Levy appears to […]
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will twist in the transfer window on Manchester United’s problem positions, but should he stick with his midfield pivot? Although there are disagreements over what the absolute transfer priority should be this summer, there appears to be a general consensus that three positions need strengthening at Man Utd: centre-back, striker, right winger. […]
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