The only way to save football, ‘joke’ handball rule and more mails…

Keep your mails coming in to theeditor@football365.com…   Let everyone have their cake and eat it… There seems to be an opinion that docking points or threatening relegation may make the owners of the Dirty Six sell up and finally be gone. I’m no Richard Branson, but surely even a temporary blip in league position […]

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‘We gave it our all’: Harry Kane posts message on Twitter after League Cup defeat

‘We gave it our all’: Harry Kane posts message on Twitter after League Cup defeat – originally posted on Sportslens.com Tottenham Hotspur lost 1-0 against Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday.  City defender Aymeric Laporte, who was fortunate enough to be on the pitch after escaping a yellow card in the first […]

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Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal strikers struggling with goalscoring burden

The attackers at Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal are entitled to ask for a little help. At least Leeds’ defenders are covering for their abject lack of goals from midfield.   It is generally regarded as a good sign when goals are spread out throughout a team and the Premier League table seems to back that […]

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Tactical Analysis: How Manchester City overcame Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup final

Tactical Analysis: How Manchester City overcame Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup final – originally posted on Sportslens.com Just a week after he officially took over from José Mourinho on an interim basis as Tottenham Hotspur manager, Ryan Mason found himself in a cup final against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. The visitors were certainly hungry, having […]

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Should Klopp go now to protect his Liverpool legacy?

Keep your mails coming in to theeditor@football365.com…   Klopp’s legacy It saddens me to bring this up because Jurgen Klopp has brought our club to places I couldn’t have envisaged six years ago – without spending vast amounts of money (if you consider net spend) and he is so in tune with Liverpool fans and […]

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Small tweaks make Super League palatable – so we must act now

The Super League failed not necessarily due to fan backlash, but because it was so amateurish. It’ll return – we must cut it off at the legs.   Last week’s Super League coup was amateurish. They bottled it almost immediately. But was this more a failure of marketing and politicking than it was of anything […]

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‘Most dangerous’: Many Spurs fans rave about star who was their ‘best player’ vs Man City

‘Most dangerous’: Many Spurs fans rave about star who was their ‘best player’ vs Man City – originally posted on Sportslens.com Manchester City won the League Cup for a record-equalling fourth time in succession after beating Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 on Sunday.  A number of Tottenham fans have taken to Twitter to discuss Lucas Moura’s display […]

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16 Conclusions: Manchester City 1-0 Tottenham

Manchester City won the Carabao Cup. Again. Not much surprise there, although how long it took for dominance to translate to goals was quite something.   1.Manchester City’s domestic dominance really is quite something. No matter the built-in advantages they may possess, their pre-eminence is staggering. This is their fourth successive Carabao and sixth in […]

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Guardiola ‘incredibly happy’ to win four straight EFL Cups

Pep Guardiola insisted that his side created “a lot of chances” against Tottenham and were the deserving winners in the EFL Cup final. Man City came out firing in the first half and they could have easily been two or three goals up by the break. They were unable to make the most of their […]

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Man City 1-0 Tottenham: Laporte heads in late EFL Cup winner

Aymeric Laporte headed in the all-important winner in the EFL Cup final for Man City against Tottenham Hotspur. The Frenchman, who Spurs felt could have been sent off earlier in the game, nodded in from a corner 10 minutes from time as City claimed a victory their superiority fully deserved. Spurs interim manager Ryan Mason […]

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