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In many ways, the 2020-21 season has been a strange one, but a lot of the usual suspects continue to defy their age to remain in the running for the European Golden Shoe award. Every year the Golden Shoe is presented to Europe’s deadliest striker, with players receiving points for each goal they score. Goals […]
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There have been some frustrating times at Arsenal in recent months, but the introduction of Martin Odegaard is the latest development in reclaiming the club in the hearts of aesthetes. A whole generation of Gunners supporters – and football fans in general – have only ever known the football Arsenal produced under Arsene Wenger. Flaky […]
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In 2014, a 44-year-old David James became player-manager of Kerala Blasters for the inaugural season of the Indian Super League. It was no calamity. You probably remember ‘late period’ David James as the man who won an FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008 and replaced poor Rob Green at the 2010 World Cup. Years later, […]
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A Golden Boot may well be awarded to the player who scores the most goals in a Premier League season, but it does not account for how valuable those goals are. We’ve taken a look at the top 10 goalscorers in the 2020-21 season to date and calculated how many points each player’s goals have […]
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It could well be argued that Barcelona have never been the same since Neymar left for Paris Saint-Germain in 2017 for a world-record fee. With the Brazilian, the club won the treble in 2015 under Luis Enrique, a further La Liga title the following season, two more Copa del Rey crowns and the Club World Cup. Of course, departures […]
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Manchester United‘s transfer business may have helped propel the club to a record number of Premier League titles, but there has still been a number of players that got away. The club have got plenty right, not least with bargains such as Eric Cantona, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Nemanja Vidic, but they haven’t manage to sign everyone they wanted, even in […]
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Last weekend, an hour into Flamengo’s Brasileirao game with Corinthians, Gabriel Barbosa stood on the halfway line, hands on hips. He had put the ball in the net a couple of minutes prior, but, as the VAR checked for a possible offside, he waited, hoping for confirmation of a 69th Flamengo goal in his 100th game for […]
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Kylian Mbappe may have scored a stunning hat-trick in the Camp Nou as PSG thrashed Barcelona 4-1, but the forward’s display still wasn’t enough to earn a 10/10 rating from L’Equipe. L’Equipe is infamous for its stingy match ratings, and Mbappe was unable to break into an exclusive group of players deemed to have played […]
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If last season’s 8-2 humbling at the hands of Bayern Munich was a knife to the heart of the Barcelona-Lionel Messi era of dominance then Tuesday night’s 4-1 reverse at the Camp Nou to PSG was its death rattle. Barca have come back from the same scoreline in a two-legged European tie against PSG before – the Remontada in […]
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For a club so long deprived of material success, the 2004 League Cup final changed everything for Middlesbrough. After more than a century of trying, a 2-1 win over Bolton Wanderers earned Boro the first major trophy in their history. Middlesbrough made a ruthless start at the Millennium Stadium, scoring twice inside the opening seven minutes […]
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