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League Focus: Mid Season Premier League Player Awards

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Jan 3 2014 13:39
League Focus: Mid Season Premier League Player Awards The Premier League season is taking shape and though there is a long way before anything is decided, 20 matches is a decent landmark to take a look at the best and the worst of the season so far. Arsenal have proved themselves as genuine title contenders for the first time in years, while West Ham n...
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Team Focus: Pulis Running a Tight Ship at Palace

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Dec 19 2013 12:05
Team Focus: Pulis Running a Tight Ship at Palace Ten games into the season, 3 points gained and enduring the longest losing streak in Europe's top 5 leagues this season, there was little reason to believe that Crystal Palace's return to the top flight could become anything more than a failure, and it looked like it could go as badly as Derby's in ...
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Team Focus: How Premier League Teams Perform Before and After the Break

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Dec 11 2013 15:19
Team Focus: How Premier League Teams Perform Before and After the Break From Stan Collymore's stoppage-time strike to put Liverpool 4-3 up over Newcastle towards the tail end of the 1995/96 season and Michael Owen's Manchester derby winner in 2009 to Sergio Agüero's title-winning goal against QPR in May 2012, grandstand finishes is something the Premier League has ...
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Match Report: Same Old Spurs Saved by Strikes from Range at Fulham

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Dec 5 2013 09:58
Match Report: Same Old Spurs Saved by Strikes from Range at Fulham Anyone who might have doubted the credentials of Hugo Lloris after he shipped 6 goals at Manchester City 10 days ago were given a stark reminder of his ability at Craven Cottage, as the Frenchman ultimately piled more misery on a Fulham side that succumbed to a sixth consecutive loss.A drab first ha...
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Player Focus: Oscar's Winning Performances Deserve Credit

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Nov 27 2013 10:47
Player Focus: Oscar's Winning Performances Deserve Credit You have to feel slightly for Oscar. Barely has the Brazilian put a foot wrong since moving to London from Internacional 16 months ago, and yet the vast majority of any focus surrounding the Chelsea 'number 10' role has been on Juan Mata's astonishing absence rather than Oscar's presence. It is much...
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Team Focus: World Cup Playoffs Round-Up

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Nov 20 2013 14:57
Team Focus: World Cup Playoffs Round-Up Portugal vs Sweden (4-2 agg)A World Cup without me is nothing to watch, bold words spoken by the legend that is Zlatan Ibrahimoivic after he and his Sweden teammates' hopes of making it to next summer's World Cup were dashed by Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal. The Sweden captain of course does not ma...

Player Focus: Franck Ribéry - France's Man for the Big Occasion

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Nov 15 2013 11:30
Player Focus: Franck Ribéry - France's Man for the Big Occasion The hype surrounding the fast-approaching World Cup playoffs has been primarily concerned with the guaranteed absence from the tournament next summer of one of the world's best players, with Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Sweden playing for a single place in Brazil. Meanwhile,...
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Player Focus: More Midfield Musings for Hodgson

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Nov 7 2013 17:43
Player Focus: More Midfield Musings for Hodgson Naturally, Roy Hodgson could barely hide his delight at the praise he received for gambling on Andros Townsend in England's last round of World Cup qualifiers. He might have enjoyed it so much so that he is tempted into taking more risks in future, rather uncharacteristic of a manager usually known ...
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Match Report: Fluid Arsenal Midfield Too Much for Liverpool

by Alistair Tweedale at Sunday, Nov 3 2013 20:00
Match Report: Fluid Arsenal Midfield Too Much for Liverpool This game was billed as the first real test of this title-chasing Arsenal side. Prior to today, the Gunners had only faced Tottenham of all teams in the top half of the Premier League table, and if there was one criticism of them it was that they hadn’t yet proved themselves against the league...
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Player Focus: October Stats Roundup

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Nov 1 2013 14:54
Player Focus: October Stats Roundup The blistering return to action of Luis Suárez has stopped any potential slide in form that Liverpool had hinted at with successive games without a win towards the end of September. In 3 games in October, Brendan Rodgers' side have scored 9 goals, with Suárez scoring 4 and setting up t...
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