Early losers: Arsenal and their precious momentum

If you really must lose after a seven-game unbeaten Premier League run that has taken you from the edges of a relegation battle to mid-table comfort and a neck craned upwards towards European places, then it is probably better that you are left with a burning sense of injustice rather than boiling anger at your […]

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Early winners: Sheffield United, now just probably f***ed

There’s no doubt that it was a motivation. “The lads 100 per cent don’t want that tag. I don’t want the embarrassment of being remembered for the wrong reason at Sheffield United after seven or eight years at the club,” said Chris Basham on January 1 as he pondered Derby’s 11-point record, which looked a […]

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January 2021 Premier League transfer window: the losers

Jose Mourinho doesn’t want the toy but won’t let anyone else play with it either. Dele Alli is one of the biggest transfer window losers. Head here for the winners.   Dele Alli There is a laboured analogy in there somewhere about the prodigal son wanting to return to the care of the only guardian […]

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January 2021 Premier League transfer window: the winners

It was a January transfer window. That much is certain. But beyond that what can we ascertain from a quiet month? This lot should be cheery.   Jesse Lingard Both men would likely have pondered their career choices and lamented where it presumably all went wrong if Jesse Lingard and David Moyes were told in […]

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