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Player Focus: Premier League's Top Goalscorers Analysed

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, May 6 2014 15:28
Player Focus: Premier League's Top Goalscorers Analysed That Luis Suarez has had an exceptional season is not in doubt (and, to offer the information that suddenly seems demanded by Twitter, no, I didn’t vote for him as the FWA Player of the Year because I’m not a member of the FWA and, even if I was, I wouldn’t vote anyway because I do...
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Team Focus: Wily Mourinho Waits for Liverpool's Mistakes to Win

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 28 2014 16:09
Team Focus: Wily Mourinho Waits for Liverpool's Mistakes to Win One of the problems with José Mourinho is that he says so much, in such a range of tones, with such a range of intentions, that it’s never easy to separate out the truth from the bluster. He has, though, consistently spoken of his dissatisfaction with his striking options and it may be ...
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Team Focus: Stats Show United Decline Prior to Moyes

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Apr 22 2014 16:16
Team Focus: Stats Show United Decline Prior to Moyes Nothing, perhaps, is ever the result of one man. It’s easy to pinpoint a hero or scapegoat, to believe that one great or dreadful individual has alone turned the tide of history for better or for worse, but it’s rarely, if ever, accurate. Individuals shape events, of course, and bear a r...
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Team Focus: Mourinho's Criticism of Chelsea Strikers Warranted

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 14 2014 16:36
Team Focus: Mourinho's Criticism of Chelsea Strikers Warranted Jose Mourinho’s frustration with his centre-forward options weren’t hard to discern even before the Champions League tie away to Paris Saint Germain, when he fielded Andre Schurrle as a false nine and then made his loaded post-match comments about “real forwards”. Unless he r...
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Team Focus: Same Old Problems Persist for Arsenal and Wenger

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Apr 8 2014 14:00
Team Focus: Same Old Problems Persist for Arsenal and Wenger There was a moment in early February when even the most self-confident of football writers was beginning to wonder if they might have got Arsenal wrong this season. All logic said that they didn't have the depth of squad to maintain their challenge - quite apart from all the other doubts about their...
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Player Focus: Fellaini Unsurprisingly Floundering in New Role at United

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Mar 31 2014 16:50
Player Focus: Fellaini Unsurprisingly Floundering in New Role at United Marouane Fellaini didn't spit at Pablo Zabaleta. Or at least, it was announced on Monday that he won't be charged with spitting at Zabaleta having very clearly elbowed him in the face. It's not exactly great news, but it's probably the first break Fellaini's had since joining Manchester United on tr...
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Team Focus: Everton's Necessary New Identity Under Martínez

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Mar 24 2014 16:08
Team Focus: Everton's Necessary New Identity Under Martínez On the face of it, it seems an absurd question. Have Everton improved this season? As David Moyes has toiled at Manchester United, struggling under the scrutiny of the global media as results have gone horribly against him, it has only seemed to emphasise his difficulties that Roberto Martíne...
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Team Focus: Swansea's Pleasing Passing Won't Guarantee Survival

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Mar 17 2014 17:15
Team Focus: Swansea's Pleasing Passing Won't Guarantee Survival Since Swansea City were promoted to the Premier League, it's become customary to praise them for the way they've gone about their business after narrowly escaping relegation to the Conference in 2003. This, it seemed, was how to run a club: setting a philosophy, buying players to fit that and then a...
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Player Focus: Van Persie Enduring a Frustrating Season at United

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Mar 10 2014 16:47
Player Focus: Van Persie Enduring a Frustrating Season at United Robin van Persie was far from his best on Saturday. He ambled around, seemed visibly frustrated and offered the perfect visual representation of Manchester United's season when running into Wayne Rooney, both ending up on the ground, as they challenged for a free-kick. He then probably should have r...
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Team Focus: Chelsea's Step Back Has Taken Them Strides Forward

by Jonathan Wilson at Wednesday, Mar 5 2014 15:11
Team Focus: Chelsea's Step Back Has Taken Them Strides Forward It's easy, in retrospect, to see the moment at which Jose Mourinho decided he had had enough. His Chelsea side had just lost to Sunderland in the quarter-final of the Capital One Cup and, in his post-match interview, he seemed weary and distant, and yet at the same time defiant. We may have to take ...
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