Big Weekend: Leicester v Liverpool, Man Utd’s keeper, Jose, Arsenal

Game to watch – Leicester v Liverpool Having lost their last three and drawn the previous two, Liverpool will just be glad to get away from home this weekend. But waiting for them in Leicester is Brendan Rodgers and he’s never looked so justifiably smug. Leicester host the Reds looking to put six points between […]

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One per Premier League club: Positive stat leaders

We found a metric each team topped, now it’s time for a player from each team. Thanks to FBref and WhoScored for the lovely Premier League statistics, all of which are per 90 minutes unless otherwise stated.   Arsenal: Bernd Leno – lowest percentage passes over 40 yards (18.4%) The stats get better, I promise. It was […]

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Football’s Greatest Goals No.49

This week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ comes from Tottenham Hotspur’s Dele Alli in a league match away to Crystal Palace on 23rd January 2016. At the time, Alli was in his first full season at Tottenham, having joined the North London club from Milton Keynes Dons for £5 million the year before. He had caught the eye […]

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‘It’s disgraceful’ – Pundit picks Sanchez as ‘worst’ Spurs player

Jamie O’Hara thinks Spurs defender Davinson Sanchez was their “worst player” despite scoring twice in their 5-4 extra-time defeat to Everton on Wednesday. Their FA Cup run came to a chaotic end with a fifth-round defeat at Goodison Park with a most un-Mourinho-like performance of shoddy defensive application. Sunday’s victory over struggling West Brom is […]

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Life after Jose: Six potential Spurs successors to Mourinho

It’s all going to take a while to play out – there’s surely no way Daniel Levy is going to get rid of his beloved Jose Mourinho while there remains at least the theoretical possibility of Spurs somehow beating Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final in April – but there’s no mistaking the tell-tale […]

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‘They still outran’: Don Hutchison claims two Everton players were different ‘class’ vs Spurs

‘They still outran’: Don Hutchison claims two Everton players were different ‘class’ vs Spurs – originally posted on Sportslens.com Former Everton player turned popular football pundit Don Hutchison has showered praise on Abdoulaye Doucoure and Tom Davies after Wednesday’s performance. The Toffees moved into the quarterfinals of the FA Cup after beating Spurs 5-4 in […]

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‘He is a weak link’: Popular pundit rips into £100k-per-week Tottenham man after latest display

‘He is a weak link’: Popular pundit rips into £100k-per-week Tottenham man after latest display – originally posted on Sportslens.com Former Tottenham Hotspur defender turned football pundit, Jason Cundy, has suggested on talkSPORT that Spurs should offload their skipper, Hugo Lloris. The French goalkeeper, who is on £100k-per-week wages at the club, made a poor attempt […]

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Now that’s the way to lose, Jose. And other mails…

Keep your mails coming to theeditor@football365.com… Fixing Liverpool A few months ago, I wrote that this will be Klopp’s greatest challenge and probably his greatest coaching success. I wrote that at a time when things were a lot less simpler and Guardiola hadn’t redesigned his winning juggernaut. I still stand by it. This can be […]

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Ferdinand blasts ’embarrassing’ Spurs player in Everton defeat

Rio Ferdinand has criticised Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris for his “embarrassing” mistake during a thrilling nine-goal FA Cup fifth round encounter against Everton. The Toffees are in the hat for the sixth round as they got the better of Jose Mourinho’s Spurs – eventually progressing 5-4 after extra-time. England captain Harry Kane was named on […]

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Ranking all 22 2020/21 Premier League managers so far…

Don’t know about you, but we reckon 23 games into the season is the perfect time to pass judgement on all the managers who have been in charge of Premier League clubs this season. So that’s what we’ve done.   22) Sam Allardyce (West Brom, since December) Full disclosure, we thought this was a pretty […]

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