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Conte Arrival Should Urge Chelsea to Learn from AVB Era with Terry

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, May 16 2016 10:23
Conte Arrival Should Urge Chelsea to Learn from AVB Era with Terry As John Terry paraded around the Stamford Bridge pitch after Sunday’s draw against Leicester City, fans chanted that they wanted him to stay. Terry himself, taking the microphone for an emotional address, agreed that ,I want to stay, the club knows that, the fans know that. And the club, at la...
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Misfiring Norwich All But Condemned to Relegation

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, May 9 2016 13:55
Misfiring Norwich All But Condemned to Relegation If Norwich City lose at Watford on Wednesday, or if Sunderland beat Everton at home, they will be relegated. Even if Norwich win both that game and the one at Everton next Sunday - and they’ve lost their last four - they are reliant on both Sunderland and Newcastle slipping up. An instant retu...
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Has Benitez's Appointment Come Too Late To Shore Up Geordies

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, May 3 2016 17:54
Has Benitez's Appointment Come Too Late To Shore Up Geordies Aston Villa have lost their last 11 games in a row and even if there has been some evidence of a moderate improvement in recent away defeats to Manchester United and Watford, there is little reason to suppose their final Premier League home game of the season will bring a change of fortune. Which is...
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Is Sanchez Flores Following a Trend as Watford Decline Continues?

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 25 2016 11:40
Is Sanchez Flores Following a Trend as Watford Decline Continues? The reaction to the news that Watford are likely to replace Quique Sanchez Flores has been one of shock. After all, their aim at the beginning of the season was to avoid relegation, a job that was effectively done with four straight wins culminating in the 3-0 victory over Liverpool in the week befo...
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Why Hodgson Should Opt Against Taking Andy Carroll to Euro 2016

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 18 2016 15:30
Why Hodgson Should Opt Against Taking Andy Carroll to Euro 2016 There are major problems international managers face that club managers do not. One is that if, say, your country hasn’t produced any left-wingers for a decade you can’t simply go out and buy one. And the other is that as soon as a player who is qualified for your country plays well, the...
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Short Term Looks Bleak But Sunderland Signings Offer Hope

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 11 2016 12:40
Short Term Looks Bleak But Sunderland Signings Offer Hope The mood at the Stadium of Light on Sunday was odd. There were 46,531 there, which is a huge number for a team going through an extremely familiar relegation battle, even when they were playing the unexpected champions elect. And, even though Sunderland lost, meaning they have won just one of their ...
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Assessing the Turning Point as Arsenal Leave it Too Late Again

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Apr 4 2016 14:15
Assessing the Turning Point as Arsenal Leave it Too Late Again And so, for Arsenal, the familiar pattern repeats. Just at the moment at which all hope is almost gone, they start to play again. Saturday’s 4-0 win against Watford was a reminder of how good this Arsenal can be, of the swirl of passes, the sudden darts and thrusts, of football as art. But it ...
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England Options Plentiful but Dier Must Start

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Mar 29 2016 10:57
England Options Plentiful but Dier Must Start There is a spectre haunting England, and it is that of the Lampard-Gerrard debate. It was a debate for a while, no matter how conclusively history seems to have proved that the two wouldn’t ever learn to play together. Or rather, and this is the key point, they couldn’t play together in ...

Excellently Efficient Kane a Throwback to Strikers of Old

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Mar 21 2016 16:28
Excellently Efficient Kane a Throwback to Strikers of Old With his two goals against Bournemouth on Sunday, Harry Kane joined a very select group. He is one of only five English players to have scored 20 or more goals in successive Premier League seasons, along with Alan Shearer, Andy Cole, Robbie Fowler and Les Ferdinand. All the doubts of early season, w...
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Have Palace Reached A Tipping Point Under Pardew?

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Mar 14 2016 17:05
Have Palace Reached A Tipping Point Under Pardew? Crystal Palace reached their first FA Cup semi-final since 1995 with victory over Reading on Friday night, but amid all the celebration of that achievement, there must also be a slight edge of concern. The four victories it’s taken to get from the third round to this point have been their only...
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