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Features
/ 12 years agoDirectioners Forget Stiliyan Is The Real Hero
TYPE the word ‘hero’ into an online dictionary and you’ll probably get a definition along the lines of “a man of...
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/ 12 years agoSpend Transfer Deadline Day On Ball Street
TRANSFER deadline day is one of the most frantic, exciting and nerve-shredding events in the footballing calendar. Signings and departures can...
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/ 12 years agoHave Slots Of Fun At Jackpot City
Football betting tips on who the favourites are to win the Premiership With the new season just under way, it is...
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/ 12 years agoLet’s All Meet Up In The Year 2000
WHILE walking down Byers Road in Glasgow’s West End, I found myself stopping to enter the Oxfam charity shop that occupies...
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/ 12 years agoSo You Think You’re ‘Ard Do You? Think On!
WHAT is a football hardman? Look at the myriad lists on the internet and you’ll see names like Kevin Muscat, Roy...
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/ 12 years agoWin, Lose Or Snore
SO here are the stats: 65.2 per cent possession, 4,506 passes made with 88.5 per cent completed, 16.7 shots per game...
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/ 12 years agoBooze, Birds And A Fight Every Week
ROY ‘Red Card’ McDonough was 16 when he tried to strangle the referee in a schools cup final. “The bloke was...
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/ 12 years agoWho’s Better? Who’s Best? Who Cares?
FOR ONCE it seemed as though he was being genuine – no ulterior motive, no hidden agenda and no mind games....
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/ 12 years agoHeskey Revisited
HAVE you heard the one about Emile Heskey? What do you get if you cross a ball and Emile Heskey? A...
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/ 12 years agoBargain Or Bomb? Transfer Traumas!
AH, the transfer window. Eagerly awaited by big clubs, agents and Harry Redknapp. Dreaded by chairmen, minnows and anyone with a...
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/ 12 years agoFollow The Leaders
THIS season is shaping up to be the final farewell to the so-called ‘golden generation’ of English footballers. As Frank Lampard...
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/ 12 years agoGary Lineker – He’s More Than Chips And Quips
IN OCTOBER 1991 I accompanied my granddad to West Ham’s Upton Park for a London derby against Spurs. This day was...
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/ 12 years agoYes, Fergie Was Great, But…
HOW good was Alex Ferguson? On these shores, the answer is obvious. Statistically, anecdotally and clear-as-a-bell obviously, the man was sensationally...
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/ 12 years agoCall That The Way To Run A League?
In England we’re all used to our simple league methods. A standard round robin system, where everyone plays each other home...
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/ 12 years agoTHIS ITALIAN ROMANCE STARTS IN LANCASTER
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the tiny Italian club who have risen to Serie A and wear the same kit as a...
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/ 12 years agoVAN MAN HAS LAMPS IN HIS SIGHTS
MAX CLAYTON-ROBB says Marco van Ginkel is the next Frank Lampard at Chelsea Marco van Ginkel Chelsea’s £9m signing of 20-year-old...
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/ 12 years agoYES, CHELSEA AND ARSENAL DID TOPPLE MAN UTD
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at what would have happened if the Premier League season had been divided into two Ah those crazy...
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/ 12 years agoLET’S HAVE TWO PREM TITLES EVERY SEASON!
JOHN LYONS suggests the South American way could be a hit in England Union Espanola fans Are you, like me, bored...
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/ 12 years agoCALL THAT THE WAY TO RUN A LEAGUE
CAM MELLING looks at the different, and sometimes bizarre, ways other countries organise their football In England we’re all used to...
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/ 12 years agoHAIR’S A THOUGHT…
JON WAKEHAM laments the lack of bald players in the Premier League Stephen Ireland Brad Friedel Wayne Rooney James Collins Something...
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/ 12 years agoJAUNDER WHY VERON WAS SUCH A FLOP?
MAX CLAYTON-ROBB on the one big transfer that Sir Alex got horribly wrong at Man Utd Juan Sebastian Veron is considered...
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Book Reviews
/ 12 years agoBOOK UP YOUR SUMMER
RAMON BENITEZ tackles football reads – and recommends five of the best for the beach this close season AFTER Wayne Rooney...
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/ 12 years agoYOU GOT CLEARANCE CLARENCE
IAIN PEARCE watches on as Clarence Seedorf adapts to life in Brazil WHEN Clarence Seedorf made his unexpected move from AC...
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/ 12 years agoYES, FERGIE WAS GREAT, BUT…
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the true legacy of Britain’s most outstanding football manager HOW good was Alex Ferguson? On these shores,...
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/ 12 years agoIDIOTS ABROAD?
As Tottenham Hotspur’s Gareth Bale perhaps contemplates a mega-bucks fate of some of his fellow move to Real Madrid, the Wales winger...
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/ 12 years agoTHATCHER WAS NO FRIEND OF FOOTBALL
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS THE FA has demonstrated time and again that it is staggeringly out of touch with football fans but, following...
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/ 12 years agoSTILL FIRE IN THE DRAGAN
DOMINIC BLISS on how a European star of the 90s reinvented himself in Japan. DRAGAN Stojkovic has enjoyed nothing short of...
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/ 12 years agoTURN ON? OR TURN OFF
RICHARD FAULKNER casts an eye over the best and worst pundits to hit our screens and airwaves during the season Champions Gary...
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/ 12 years agoWEEDING OUT THE FLOWERS MYTH
JIMMY PIERCE says one of the heroes of Blackburn’s title triumph is remembered for all the wrong reasons Flowers in a...
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/ 12 years agoHOME FAVOURITE ALWAYS WINS
SO SAY THE LMA PAUL CANTWELL finds it strange that so many domestic managers walk away with League Managers’ Association gongs...
