Category: Football
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Dawn of a New Era: Anticipation and Excitement as the 2023/24 Season looms
As the curtain rises on a new Premier League season that kicks off tomorrow, Friday 11 August, fans around the world who have eagerly awaited the start of the new Premier League season will have a chance to breathe a much needed sigh of relief. With each new campaign comes…
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Too soon to be talking about Man United as title hopefuls?
Fresh from a spectacular thriller at the Camp Nou where Manchester United for a breathless ninety odd minutes went toe to toe with an in-form Barcelona, Manager Ten Hag was queried about his team’s chances of winning the Premier League this season. The Dutchman as expected was quite diplomatic in…
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Talking points from week 6 of the Premier League
Another weekend of Premier League action came to an exciting conclusion on Sunday night as Manchester United battled for a win at Old Trafford to end Arsenal’s unbeaten start to the season. The big issue that’s dominated PL this weekend however, has been the wrong interpretation of VAR calls. So…
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Ruthless Liverpool silence critics but are they really back?
Form as they say in football is temporary but class is permanent. Liverpool proved that age-old maxim to be true when they emphatically destroyed Bournemouth FC 9-0 in less than a week after they lost at Old Trafford to Manchester United. Stories of their loss in form and lack of…
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Dark horses Arsenal are a team to keep an eye on
The start of the 2021/22 season started on a sweltering summer day in England as Arsenal strode into the Gtech Community Stadium to take on a Brentford side that had only just a few months before been promoted to the Premier League. The visitors couldn’t have asked for a better…
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Manchester United are in a right proper rut
Over the last few days, social media has been blowing up with vitriolic postings from incandescent Manchester United fans who still can’t believe how tame United were in their 4-0 loss to Brentford on Saturday evening. There’ll be a few who would say that after last week’s loss at home…
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Winners and losers of Premier League opening weekend
It was a dramatic opening day in the Premier League as Arsenal who now look like a finely-tuned automotive engine easily swatted away Patrick Viera’s Crystal Palace like you would an annoying fly on the lip of a beer bottle. Arsenal are certainly in my opinion, one of the real…
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Best for Ronaldo and Man United to part ways now
Manchester United’s appointment of Erik ten Hag just before the end of the 2021/22 season was perhaps one of the few highlights in what was a dismal season characterised by a deluge of unsavoury issues including rumours of dressing room unrest, dissatisfaction of players with training methods, and a damning…
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Premier League Preview: Hard to see beyond City or Liverpool
If the spectacle served up by Liverpool and Man City at the Community Shield this past weekend is any indication of what could be on offer in the Premier League this season, then I’d have to say that fans could be in for a really exciting season. For all the…
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More than a Community Shield for Liverpool and Man City
On Saturday the 30th of July Liverpool take on Manchester City in what is essentially a precursor to the start of the Premier League season. To all intents and purposes, this is supposed to be a friendly tune-up as both teams put finishing touches to their preparations for a long…