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Player Focus: Milan Badelj

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Player Focus: Milan Badelj When the transfer window closed on September 1st, many HSV supporters were celebrating, full of joy about the club’s most recent acquisitions. After having captured the former German number one goalkeeper René Adler on a free transfer from Bayer Leverkusen earlier in the summer, the &ld...

Premier League Top 10 Key Passers

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Premier League Top 10 Key Passers For our next series of articles on Europe’s main five leagues, we take a look at the ten top players for Key Passes from each league. These are the players who, week after week, set up goal scoring chances aplenty for their team mates during the course of a match. Whether the opportunity leads...

Premier League Top 10 Talismen

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Premier League Top 10 Talismen What makes a talisman? The phrase, bandied about with a certain regularity, tends to be applied to Carlos Tevez more than most Premier League players. Does the likes of Tevez give his team a better chance of winning, does him being on the pitch guarantee more goals or does his presence lift the side...

Premier League All Star Team, Season 2010/11

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Premier League All Star Team, Season 2010/11 In the second of our Big 5 league reviews, the Premier League All Star Team from last season shows no team was overly dominant in terms of stand-out performers; Arsenal and Man City were the main suppliers, with three players apiece, though champions Man United contributed two. The rest were scatter...

Manchester City vs Tottenham

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Manchester City vs Tottenham Man City play host to Tottenham tonight knowing a victory would guarantee them a minimum fourth-place finish and clinch that much sought-after Champions League spot. Roberto Mancini has something of a dilemma, though; with an FA Cup Final against Stoke this weekend, does he choose to rest or rotate ...