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Player Focus: The Ballon d'WhoScored 2013

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, Oct 29 2013 16:38
Player Focus: The Ballon d'WhoScored 2013 The 23 man Ballon d'Or shortlist for 2013 was released earlier today, and as per usual there are talking points aplenty regarding questionable omissions and inclusions. FIFA, nor anybody else for that matter, cannot produce an infallible list of the best performers in any given time frame and points...
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Match Report: Lady Luck Shines On Lacklustre Spurs

by Alistair Tweedale at Monday, Oct 28 2013 10:00
Match Report: Lady Luck Shines On Lacklustre Spurs There is a familiarity to this Tottenham side. After going the whole of last season without picking up a single penalty and relying on the wondergoals of Gareth Bale in tricky games where creative inspiration was lacking, this season Spurs have now been awarded 3 spot-kicks, each of which has won th...
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Team Focus: Wondergoals Paper Over Cracks in Fulham's Attack

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Oct 25 2013 14:03
Team Focus: Wondergoals Paper Over Cracks in Fulham's Attack Pajtim Kasami's goal of the season contender at Crystal Palace on Monday night sparked a first Premier League comeback victory for the Cottagers in 18 months, as well as the first instance of the side scoring more than 3 goals in a match since the opening day of last season. It was a strike of real ...
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Player Focus: Sterling Still Not Worthy of England Call Up

by Alistair Tweedale at Monday, Oct 14 2013 17:30
Player Focus: Sterling Still Not Worthy of England Call Up The success of Andros Townsend's England debut against Montenegro last week seems it might just have inspired the normally overly cautious Roy Hodgson into further risks in his team selection and call ups. After the withdrawal through injury of the decidedly unadventurous Tom Cleverley and right-bac...
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Team Focus: England's Problematic Left Side

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Oct 10 2013 13:30
Team Focus: England's Problematic Left Side The touting of Adnan Januzaj as a potential future England player raised an interesting debate about the national team, and not, incidentally, that which Jack Wilshere felt necessary to pass comment on earlier this week.The Manchester United youngster put in man of the match performance from the lef...
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Team Focus: Hull Proving Their Doubters Wrong

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Oct 3 2013 14:45
Team Focus: Hull Proving Their Doubters Wrong The surprise package of the Premier League season so far is surely Hull City. They were hardly the most entertaining team last season, winning promotion as the Championship's 14th highest scoring team out of 24. Relegated Bristol City scored only 2 goals fewer than Steve Bruce's team, who became ren...
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Player Focus: Rampant Ramsey the Difference for High-Flying Arsenal

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Sep 26 2013 12:05
Player Focus: Rampant Ramsey the Difference for High-Flying Arsenal The clamour surrounding the arrival of Mesut Özil, by some margin the most expensive Arsenal footballer of all time, has been subdued somewhat by the performances of a Welshman also playing in north London. For once, though, headlines are not being hogged by Gareth Bale's wondergoals, but inste...

Team Focus: Southampton's Lack of Goals - The Lambert & Osvaldo Dilemma

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, Sep 24 2013 11:16
Team Focus: Southampton's Lack of Goals - The Lambert & Osvaldo Dilemma When Mauricio Pochettino was appointed Southampton boss back in January, feelings of Nigel Adkins' mistreatment aside, fans were optimistic that the Argentine could bring a style of football that is both attractive and successful to St Mary's. A 14th-placed and lacklustre finish to last season meant...
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Team Focus: Evolution Not Revolution at Norwich

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Sep 12 2013 17:52
Team Focus: Evolution Not Revolution at Norwich Chris Hughton had an honest and understandably smug reaction to not being able to find a place in his Norwich squad for newly-signed Sweden international Martin Olsson for the win over Southampton a fortnight ago: “I suppose I am at the stage where picking substitutes can be as difficult as ac...

Player Focus: Mature Lampard Still Shining for England

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, Sep 10 2013 10:58
Player Focus: Mature Lampard Still Shining for England The Frank Lampard-Steven Gerrard conundrum has troubled managers of the national team for near enough a decade. Nobody has been able to fit the two best English midfielders of their generation into a consistently functional and effective partnership, the generally held conception being that they are...
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