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It’s international week and everybody is struggling for football news. So why not just pull an exclusive out of your arse? Hold the back page It’s international week and Jose Mourinho pulling himself back from the brink by being in charge of the Premier League’s in-form side means that newspapers are scrambling for back-page […]
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Obviously Man United would be brilliant if only they had a better striker. And Erling Haaland is basically on his way… Striker light Manchester United were very poor against Leicester on Sunday. As Dave Kidd wrote in The Sun: ‘The result was a comprehensive defeat.’ The newspaper’s Chief Sports Writer wrote about a ‘horror […]
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The media reaction to Gareth Southgate quite sensibly dropping Trent Alexander-Arnold from his England squad is predictably level-headed. Mind the gap There was a reason Mediawatch found the disparate coverage of Arsenal and Tottenham’s Europa League first-leg victories so jarring in The Sun last week. The former were ‘gormless’ and ‘pushed their luck to the limit’ […]
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Trophies are for egos, says man who was a ‘winner’ when he said otherwise in 2019. Oh Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. But first, some Chelsea… Strange fruit Now here’s a loaded line from Dave Kidd in The Sun after Chelsea beat Atletico Madrid to reach the Champions League quarter-finals: ‘Chelsea’s six-strong £230million summer recruitment drive […]
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Liverpool are under the weather and someone genuinely asking ‘are Man Utd the kings of Europe?’ with no hint of sarcasm is unlikely to help. Windy valley Mediawatch is not here to cast aspersions on the veracity or accuracy of a Sun exclusive concerning the thoughts of Liverpool players. It’s a great story. A […]
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang dominates the news again. And now he has an ally he might not have wanted… Auba the hills and far away Amid almost universal support for Mikel Arteta taking a stand against his captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s tardiness, there is one lone voice describing his actions as ‘rank idiocy’. Yes, ‘rank idiocy’ for […]
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Some walked straight into Jose Mourinho’s trap after the north London derby. And did Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang question Arsenal’s ‘integrity’? Did he balls. PENALTY! As Jose Mourinho spouted some absolute bollocks about the Arsenal penalty in an attempt to divert everyone’s attention away from another poor Tottenham performance against any kind of quality opposition, he […]
Martial awe It was August 2020 when Neil Custis and Jamie O’Hara clashed on talkSPORT over the quality of strikers at Manchester United. The latter was adamant that they needed “a number nine” to replace Anthony Martial, who “is not the number nine who is going to take Manchester United back to the top and […]
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Iron Bru There is obvious currency in suggesting that a frustrated Bruno Fernandes might leave Manchester United anytime soon. It achieves two things: creating a transfer panic around one of the most influential players in the world, while suggesting that a lack of ambition would be his reason to leave. In one fell swoop you […]
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Haal of Mirrors There’s only one place to start this fine Tuesday morning and that is with Stan Collymore – the ‘man who always speaks his mind’ – in the Daily Mirror. This week’s fine idea that is in no way utterly ludicrous: Liverpool should sell their three attackers just a year after winning the […]
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