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Sometimes, you can just sense it coming. The tension building, the tackles flying in, the all-out rage of a Sunday league game being transferred onto the professional stage. Commentators inevitably tell us that this “isn’t what we want to see”, when deep down they know it’s exactly what we want to see. On such occasions, […]
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When Gareth Southgate omitted Trent Alexander-Arnold from his latest England squad, he probably didn’t expect to have kickstarted a chain of events that would lead to Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher calling each other “gobshite” in a car park on Instagram Live. On Monday Night Football, English football’s two most high-profile pundits injected some helium to the […]
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Feed the Yak and he will score, as the song went. And the Nigerian striker didn’t disappoint. There were more than 200 goals across all competitions – 95 of them in the Premier League – during a nomadic club career, making him a huge fan favourite and a cult hero in English football. Yakubu is […]
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While Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood both made an immediate impact at Manchester United, some players have to cut their teeth out on loan before establishing themselves in the first team. United’s James Garner is currently impressing on loan at Nottingham Forest and will be hoping to break into Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side next season. We’ve taken […]
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Liverpool and Real Madrid have met surprisingly few times in their storied histories, but when they have, the occasion has usually been befitting of two European powerhouses. Someone didn’t give Brendan Rodgers that memo back in November 2014, whereby he infamously made seven changes to his starting XI and appeared to meekly accept a Champions […]
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Liverpool and Real Madrid have met surprisingly few times in their storied histories, but when they have, the occasion has usually been befitting of two European powerhouses. Someone didn’t give Brendan Rodgers that memo back in November 2014, whereby he infamously made seven changes to his starting XI and appeared to meekly accept a Champions […]
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If you advance 60 yards up a football pitch at full tilt and stick the ball in the net but no defenders try to stop you, does it go down as an incredible solo goal? It is one of the great philosophical puzzles of our time, one only a handful of people have ever tried […]
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After finishing sixth in La Liga in 2002-03, Barcelona responded by signing Ronaldinho from PSG in a €30million deal. The former Brazil international helped transform Barcelona’s fortunes and developed into the best player in the world, winning the Ballon d’Or in 2005. But he wasn’t the only arrival at the Camp Nou that summer, and we’ve taken a closer look […]
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Reputations are just like respect. They’re hard-won, but lost in the time it takes to clear your throat. Consider Joe Hart. For a goalkeeper who has won every domestic honour and played 75 times for England, Hart exists as little more than a punchline these days. You don’t need Sherlock Holmes to identify the origin […]
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When Jorge Sampaoli picked up his phone in February this year and found that it was Marseille president Jacques-Henri Eyraud on the other end of the line, his heart must have skipped a beat. The Marseille hotseat vacated by Andre Villas-Boas was to be his. However difficult the job, it was the opportunity he had been […]
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