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A statistical tale of promotion into the Premier League…

…And how this may apply to the chances of survival for Reading, Southampton and West Ham… Every summer, one of the biggest pre-season talking points of the upcoming Premier League season is the three...

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A transfer window dominated by Manchester

Last season’s Premier League title race involved Manchester and Manchester alone, as City and United finished 19 points ahead of third-placed Arsenal. It wasn’t quite the 30 points between Barcelona...

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Stoke City: why the outright praise?

There it was again. Another Stoke City draw, and more praise from a MOTD pundit, this time Mark Lawrenson. Last week it was Alan Hansen, who basically said the biggest positive you can give Stoke is...

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Cole deserves number 100, but it’s time for Baines to become number one

Everyone always remembers the likes of Michael Ricketts, Steve Guppie and Anthony Gardner: those lucky enough to somehow don the Three Lions on their chest, despite rarely looking anything more than...

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Who will – and should – win the PFA Players’ Player of the Year Award?

Robin van Persie romping to the PFA Players’ Player of the Year award last season was as inevitable as yet another aggressive North Korean political statement. Two seasons ago, meanwhile, it was...

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I’m a footballer, get me out of here!

Following Christian Benteke’s transfer request at Aston Villa, Brett Curtis takes a look at ten of the more shocking and absurd transfer requests that have rocked the Premier League over the years....

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Chelsea’s title? Maybe not

So José Mourinho’s back in town. He’s won the Premier League, the Champions League, Serie A, and the Portuguese league all twice each. He’s also won La Liga, the UEFA Cup, the FA Cup, the League Cup,...

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Colback and Delph signify a dearth of holding midfield talent

It is now approximately a decade since holding midfielders replaced Pokémon cards and Micro Machines as the most collectible objects in England. In many cases, that’s exactly what they were: objects,...

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Assessing Balotelli’s debut and how he may fit in at Liverpool

Brendan Rodgers insisted Tottenham v Liverpool on Sunday would “not be the Mario Balotelli show”; in a sense, he was correct, as Liverpool produced by far their best performance of the season so far in...

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Key talking points from England’s burly night in Basel

Not even England can throw this away now Roy Hodgson remarked prior to England’s encounter with Switzerland that, “if the result costs us, we have to make sure we learn from losing the battle and win...

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