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John Nicholson has long espoused his theory that football is chaos, and while a league table can be read as a signal that cuts through the noise, an individual scoreline remains an absolute enigma. There’s a good chance that a 0-0 is a bore draw, but sometimes they are great. Meanwhile, having spent years covering …
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Former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner has dropped his appeal against a 50-day jail sentence for assaulting a taxi driver. The move by the 30-year-old makes the judgement final but his current club, Rosenborg, have pledged to stand by him. Bendtner was found guilty of assaulting a taxi driver in Copenhagen in September. The Denmark international …
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Virgil van Dijk accepts Liverpool’s precarious position in the Champions League is their own fault. Jurgen Klopp’s side need to beat Napoli at Anfield on Tuesday, with a 1-0 win or a two-goal margin needed to guarantee a place in the last 16. Van Dijk told a press conference: “You don’t want to be in a …
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“He tells you exactly what he wants you to do, but gives you freedom to express your talent,” Shkrodan Mustafi said ahead of Arsenal’s Europa League clash against Sporting Lisbon. That expressive, yet organised approach was on display at the Emirates Stadium on Thursday night despite struggling to break down their resilient ten-man Portuguese opponents …
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Anything to add? [email protected] Jose is the last of a dying breed Dear Editor, As an Arsenal fan who lived through the big ups and big downs of Wenger, I can see exactly what is happening with Jose Mourinho. Like Wenger, Jose was a master in his day and also like Wenger, he has …
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For too long, England was fixated on the idea that there is one magic way of doing things to make the national side an indomitable force. From listening to Charles Reep to endlessly chasing the German model or the Spanish template or whatever other country is in vogue, England has always been looking for that …
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Jamie Carragher has again opened up over an incident that saw him spit at a Manchester United fan and his 14-year-old daughter. In a video of the event, that happened in March, the teenage girl’s father repeatedly mentioned the score in the match between Manchester United and Liverpool last season and Carragher is heard to …
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Paul Merson thinks that Jose Mourinho would have got a 25-match ban if he had celebrated in the same way Jurgen Klopp did against Everton. Liverpool boss Klopp celebrated Divock Origi’s injury-time winner in the Merseyside derby by running onto the pitch to embrace goalkeeper Alisson. The German has come in for a lot of …
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Gary Neville never thought Paul Scholes would make it to the top of English football when they started off together in the Manchester United youth team. The pair were part of the famous ‘Class of 92’ side, with Nicky Butt, David Beckham, Ryan Giggs and Phil Neville making up the other four members that won …
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Steven Gerrard claims that football will have a “big problem” if celebrations are removed from the game after Jurgen Klopp ran onto the pitch when Liverpool scored a last-minute winner against Everton. Divock Origi sparked wild celebrations at Anfield when his injury-time goal gave the Reds a 1-0 victory over the Toffees in the Merseyside …
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