Jose’s Roma and Tottenham’s other Europa Conference League opponents…

There are some big teams waiting for the Premier League’s representative in the Europa Conference League. And some not-so-big teams…   So Tottenham it is who will represent the Premier League in next season’s inaugural Europa Conference League. Because Manchester City won the Carabao Cup, England’s representative in the new UEFA competition was to be […]

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Top 10 goalkeepers of the Premier League season

More than half of these goalkeepers were Premier League rookies at the start of the season. Including our number one No.1..   10) Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester City) The Leicester keeper has had a satisfactory season by the high standards he has set in the Leicester goal for the last decade. His 65.7% save ratio ranks […]

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Crying in the kitchen at the noise of football fans…

All it took was a purr of appreciation from Villa fans and John Nicholson was crying in the kitchen… It’s always the small things that get you. I was listening to the final day commentaries on 5live, specifically the Aston Villa v Chelsea game. Villa cleared a ball, Jack Grealish took it down and laid […]

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Klopp pays 322-word tribute to departing Liverpool ‘friend’

Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool will miss midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum when he leaves the club at the end of his contract. Wijnaldum’s current deal expires at the end of the season and the Dutchman noted before the Crystal Palace game that he and the club have not managed to negotiate an extension. Chelsea are thought to […]

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A magnificent seven centre-half beasts Phillips can follow

Liverpool centre-half Nathaniel Phillips has joined the pantheon of blue-collar workers at the back who would rather lump it than play it.   Out of the squintillion different centre-back partnerships at Liverpool this season, who would have thought that the ‘the sh*t brickhouse’ (Bolton Dictionary) Nat Phillips would have come to the rescue alongside Rhys […]

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Antonio Rudiger: Chelsea ‘agent’ turned provocateur

The Chelsea fans saw sublime Mason Mount touches, a Timo Werner body swerve and the dazzling feet of Christian Pulisic on their return to Stamford Bridge. But the greatest roars were reserved for Antonio Rudiger: Chelsea’s ‘agent’ turned provocateur. “Unfortunately, some people of them don’t know how to celebrate. We had to punish them, 100%. Some people […]

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Premier League hall of shame: Christian Poulsen

As Roy Hodgson prepares to oversee what may be the final game of his career, one of the least-loved Liverpool players ever comes to mind.   The Premier League Hall of Fame is now fast filling up with the great and good who have graced the top flight ever since the invention of Association Football […]

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