Mourinho out? Spurs players unhappy with ‘boot the ball’ tactics

Tottenham players are reportedly unhappy at the ‘lack of focus on offensive patterns’ as Jose Mourinho’s tactics are questioned in the dressing room. Having started the season brilliantly, Spurs’ form has dipped significantly with them taking just 12 points from their last 12 league games, leaving them ninth in the table and raising questions over […]

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The top ten disappointments of the Premier League season

10) Ralph Hasenhuttl The runner-up in the 2020 Football365 manager of the year award has endured this season rather than enjoyed what was tipped – and initially promised – to be a campaign leading to European football. Rotten luck culminating in a high/low point of nine first-team players missing through injury serves as a useful […]

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Carragher ‘sick’ of speaking about VVD; calls home form ‘unacceptable’

Jamie Carragher has argued that Virgil Van Dijk’s injury is not an “excuse” for losing “individual games” against the likes of Everton and Brighton. Liverpool have lost four consecutive home games in the league for the first time since 1923. Their problems were compounded by Merseyside rivals Everton on Sunday. Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson scored […]

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Carragher: ‘Very harsh’ for Tuchel to bring off Hudson-Odoi

Jamie Carragher has claimed that it was “not right” for Thomas Tuchel to sub off Callum Hudson-Odoi against Southampton. The Englishman had made a bright start under Tuchel, as he started in five of his first six games in charge. He did not make the starting eleven against Sheffield United, but he was brought on […]

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Mourinho at 50: Spurs record compared to Klopp and co

The 2-1 defeat to West Ham on Sunday was Jose Mourinho’s 50th Premier League game in charge of Tottenham and means he now has the lowest win percentage of any Spurs manager since Juande Ramos. Here’s how his first 50 games stack up against selected Premier League managers. Thanks to transfermarkt for the stats.   […]

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Twelve daft excuses given by Klopp for Liverpool’s failings

The first iteration of this article was published back in March 2019 after a poor Liverpool performance in a Merseyside derby. Be it due to fate, the photographic memory of us here at Football365 (unlikely), or simply Jurgen Klopp’s propensity for particularly bizarre excuses after Everton games, the amended article comes after an even worse […]

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‘The entire Liverpool team needs a rebuild’? Really?

We (re)Built this City You can almost hear the glee from The Sun as they report on Liverpool’s latest defeat. And of course there is only one conclusion to draw from Liverpool losing a sequence of games less than a year after the Premier League was suspended with the Reds 25 points clear of Manchester […]

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Don’t worry Liverpool, this is the asterisk season

The 2020/21 season will be defined by the sound of silence. Hello darkness, my old friend. Whoever wins the titles and trophies will forever have an asterisk after their name to mark its difference from the norm. They will have won in the fanless year, a time like no others, a time that has no […]

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Neville slams Liverpool ‘zombies’ over ‘really depressing season’

Gary Neville thinks Jurgen Klopp might need to try “something different” to get Liverpool out of their current slump in form. The defending champions sit in sixth place in the Premier League table, 19 points behind leaders Manchester City and five adrift of fourth-placed West Ham, who occupy the final Champions League position. Everton’s 2-0 […]

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Hoddle claims it would be ‘ridiculous’ if Spurs sacked Mourinho

Glenn Hoddle has thrown his support behind Spurs boss Jose Mourinho after they lost 2-1 to West Ham in the Premier League on Sunday. The loss at West Ham on Sunday afternoon was their fifth in six league matches and sees the pressure building on Mourinho, who is on one of the worst runs of […]

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