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A late winner earns Foden our (far more valuable and important) early winner gong, but even before that potentially decisive moment he had shown time and again just how much of a nonsense he is going to be over the years ahead for club and country. Even in a relatively quiet first half his leg-pumping […]
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Liverpool were brilliant but aided by an awful Arsenal side. Mikel Arteta is in trouble; the entire club needs to pull in the same direction. Winners Round Liverpool pegs in round Liverpool holes I was one of many who praised Fabinho for his role as an emergency central defender. His attributes – reading the […]
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Pass of the season? Probably. Kevin de Bruyne conjured a moment of effortless brilliance at Leicester to keep Manchester City ploughing on. “Well he doesn’t get the assist, Kevin de Bruyne, but this goal’s all about him,” said Jamie Carragher, for whom watching Manchester City double their lead against Leicester at the King Power […]
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The warning signs were there after only four minutes for Thomas Tuchel and Chelsea. A tame shot from Matheus Pereira came at the end of a passage of play that saw the Blues robbed of the ball in midfield. They got away with it on that occasion but it was a familiar sight as Chelsea conceded […]
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On a truncated Premier League weekend there was still plenty to praise (mostly Brighton) and plenty to bemoan (mostly Steve Bruce)… Winners Brighton, the opposite of Newcastle If you’ll forgive me for going all Marks & Spencer, this wasn’t just a 3-0 win. It was emphatic proof that Brighton and Newcastle United are two […]
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Pep is plotting the route to Utopia, while Tuchel’s remarkable transformation of Chelsea continues in the Champions League. Viva the Prem! Winners Manchester City This was a tie as routine as they come in the knockout stages of the Champions League but City still managed to enhance their overall credentials, even if the only […]
What a bitter irony for European football’s big thinker Andrea Agnelli that this year’s Champions League has come so close to fulfilling its correct destiny and having eight proper, important clubs in the quarter-finals, with the only blot on that particular utopian landscape the unwanted presence of Porto in place of his own beloved Juventus. […]
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Real Madrid have been quite a silly team for a little while, and the return of Zinedine Zidane as manager in 2019 was all part of that silliness. Now, though, there is at last a sense of some order being restored. Real Madrid are starting to look like a serious football club once again. There […]
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Another weekend of Premier League football can be crudely divided into winners and losers…which is absolutely what we saw in the north London derby with Arsenal coming out on top. But first… Winners Burnley, staying at the party In early September, in our pre-season predictions, I picked Burnley to go down. They had only […]
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For two neighbours that can barely stand the sight of each other, Everton and Liverpool have stood in solidarity over many worthy causes on numerous occasions in recent years. Even the Reds, though, cannot have expected the Toffees to be there for them during their current time of need. Liverpool have had huge problems recently, […]
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