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When you sell your soul to the devil, you’re supposed to get something in exchange for your newfound pariah status; but if the past week is anything to go by, Daniel Levy’s long fabled skills of negotiation appear to have failed him and Spurs. Having attempted to run blood from a stone for the past […]
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Chelsea and Liverpool are discovering that profligacy spreads. Timo Werner and Mo Salah’s struggles have been shared across the team. “He missed a big one in West Ham now he missed another big one here.” Thomas Tuchel doesn’t avoid the hard facts of the game with roundabout language. If there was anything niggling the […]
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The Mikel Arteta “process” is being questioned, but why do people expect him to do much more with *this* Arsenal squad? “Bad things will happen,” warned beshawled tarot card reader Martin Keown after Arsenal’s 2-1 defeat to Villarreal. And “the writing is on the wall” for Mikel Arteta after “total disarray”. Keown is never […]
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The visit of Liverpool was perceived as an inconvenience for Man United. After battering Roma, it’s an opportunity for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer defied a clamour for intervention when Manchester United trailed Roma on Thursday night. He was right, just about everyone else was wrong. Now the United boss should summon the same resistance to […]
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A powerful, rangey Paul Pogba run and a pass forward to Edinson Cavani or Bruno Fernandes to assist the other. Loath as I am to give credence to those claiming football clubs – and United in particular – have a genetic identity, because the changing nature of the game makes such assertions patently ludicrous, the […]
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Manchester City rode another first-half Champions League wave away from home to emerge victorious. Pep Guardiola should be awful proud. After 63 minutes of breathless and breathtaking football, Kevin de Bruyne launched a counter-attack with a crisp pass to Bernardo Silva. The Portuguese had no teammate ahead of him to continue the move so […]
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Luke Shaw has overcome the physical demons of a double leg fracture and the mental tests of Jose Mourinho to emerge at Manchester United. Traditionally, fans love an underdog success story. The defying of the odds, the taking down of the elite, those historical giant-killings wrapped up in schadenfreude: we’re all so wilfully seduced […]
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Chelsea could win the Champions League because they have an excellent, tactically astute and pragmatic manager. Chelsea could win the Champions League because they have a disciplined and organised defence. Chelsea could win the Champions League because of the class, energy and persistence of their army of attacking midfielders. Chelsea could win the Champions League […]
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Gareth Southgate has his admirers at Tottenham. He has done some fine work with England but has not managed at club level for over a decade. “I am not going to be England manager for 20 years. I would like to coach and manage for a reasonable period, I don’t know how long exactly. […]
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“You have to have faith,” one of my students told me as I complained about how hard it was to go a day without eating. I put my fasting failure – attempted in solidarity with those adhering to the rules of Ramadan at the school I was teaching in – more down to a complete […]
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