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/ 4783 days agoHas Complacency Cost Manchester City's Season?
The concluding moments of the 2011/2012 Premier League season are ones ingrained into the memories of most avid fanatics of the English football scene. Sergio Agüero's last ditch attempt flashing past Paddy Kenny in the dying seconds of the season coupled with the celebrations that naturally ensued in light of Manchester City's first top flight […]
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/ 4791 days agoLionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and... Gareth Bale?
Since being jettisoned into the spotlight of European football in October 2010 following his remarkable hat-trick against Inter Milan, Gareth Bale has gone from strength to strength. The year 2013 has seen Bale continue to churn out a string of similar profile boosting, eyebrow raising performances for both club and country, the latest of which […]

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/ 4813 days agoWilfried Zaha: The Latest in a Long Line of Expensive English Acquisitions
In today’s modern football world, we are all programmed to lap up anything mentioning minimum fee release clauses or grandiose match-highest earner contracts. Therefore the recent trend of young English footballers being involved in huge mega money transfers has been something that we've all been largely exposed to; watching on partly in excitement and partly […]