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The beautiful game can be rather ugly when it wants: Corruption; Exploitation; A disregard for human rights; Racist abuse after every game; Even referees fighting players. What are we doing? Maybe the world is too busy tearing itself apart or perhaps there are too many fixtures for anyone to notice. When football came back, it …
What happens when coaches don’t stick to the narrative? Jurgen has lost it. Pep is either miserably insufferable or insufferably miserable. Mou is Mou. We like Dyche at the moment because he made a silly joke, which, now mentioned, lots of people didn’t like,so maybe not. Wilder is Northern and mildly frightening so we keep …
This is a path that has been trodden before. Mid-level team become unhappy with ‘grind it out’ style football, yearn for a more attractive style of play and eventually succumb to a poorly constructed attacking template and get relegated, otherwise known as ‘Mark Hughes Syndrome’ or ‘MHS’ for short. This is what was supposed to …
‘Call him gun-shot Mike, or Mr Skeng, Quick one-two get skitzed again ‘ Dropping the shoulder quicker than Stormzy drops a bar, Michail Antonio is having a lovely time. A player who for so long has had to play a myriad of positions (remember wing-back Antonio, under Bilic), never really finding his home, has at …
There was a feeling of decisiveness headed into this weekend’s fixtures: That perhaps the three relegation favourites fates would all be pretty much sealed. The big guns would edge closer to Champions League qualification. Spurs and Arsenal can still provide some excitement. And, that FFP would finally prove to be a righteous form of justice. …
Some stories are so elaborate you simply assume they can’t be true. The Melilla border fence forms part of the Spanish border with Morocco. Melilla is one of two Spanish cities that are the only 2 official parts of Europe located in Africa. Constructed by Spain, its stated purpose is to stop illegal immigration and …