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/ 5170 days agoIs Brentford's Fan Ownership The Model for the Rest of the Football League?
“Too Big for This League,” “Too Big for This League,” “We’re the Barcelona,” “Of the Lower Leagues,” Fan Ownership at Barcelona is well known throughout the world but not many know about the Fan Ownership at West London’s very own Barcelona…. Brentford Recently we have all seen the invasion of foreign owners into the English […]
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/ 5202 days agoWhatever Happened to Michael Ricketts? (Who Are Ya)
‘WHO ARE YA?’ is a new weekly feature on EPL Talk that profiles players who have been capped for England and fallen from grace and players who never really reached their full potential, with the help of some anecdotes .Feel free to give some feedback on the article and your memories of the player. If […]
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/ 5203 days agoCan Norwich City and Queens Park Rangers Stay Up This Season?
Apart from The Gaffer waxing lyrically about Swansea, there has not been that much on the other two promoted sides here on EPL Talk. It has been quite a year for QPR and Norwich but what did 2011 mean to them and what could happen to them in 2012? Norwich City: Promotion for Norwich into […]
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/ 5211 days agoWhatever Happened to Francis Jeffers? (Who Are Ya?)
‘WHO ARE YA?’ is a new weekly feature on EPL Talk that profiles players who have been capped for England and fallen from grace and players who never really reached their full potential, with the help of some anecdotes .Feel free to give some feedback on the article and your memories of the player. If […]
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/ 5219 days agoWhatever Happened to Jon Stead? (Who Are Ya?)
‘WHO ARE YA?’ is a new weekly feature on EPL Talk that profiles players who have been capped for England and fallen from grace and players who never really reached their full potential, with the help of some anecdotes. Feel free to give some feedback on the article and your memories of the player. If […]
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/ 5230 days agoWhatever Happened to James Beattie? (Who Are Ya?)
‘ WHO ARE YA?’ is a new weekly feature on EPL Talk that profiles players who have been capped for England and fallen from grace and players who never really reached their full potential. If you’ve got any ideas for players for me to do in the future just mention them in the comments. His […]
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/ 5242 days agoMan City May Be Top Of The Table, But Their Fanbase Still Dwindles In Comparison
Manchester City's Etihad Stadium sounds classier than the Sports Direct Arena, has the fifth largest capacity in the Premier League but they will want to grow their fan base, both nationally and internationally, to help them expand and go on to become more successful. City has just over 1 million fans on Facebook whereas rival […]
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/ 5256 days agoBolton Wanderers vs Stoke City Preview: A Chance For Owen Coyle To Save His Job
Glamour is not a word that will be used to describe Bolton’s clash with Stoke on Sunday but nevertheless it is still an incredibly important to both sides and could well be significant to how they fare this season. Based on league standings, which admittedly is something you never base a prediction on in the […]
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/ 5267 days agoAre Premier League Clubs Holding the Football League to Ransom?
The EPPP (Elite Player Performance Plan) is about to set in and is due to drastically change the way youth players are developed in England. The changes will begin in the 2012-2013 season and it will mean that academies are set up in a four tier system and it will also see every club gain […]
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/ 5267 days agoNewcastle United: Loving the Surprise Team Of The Season
After the incredible 6-1 win against Manchester United, Manchester City are now the leaders of the Premier League, five points clear of their Mancunian rivals. However the surprise story of this season so far though is Newcastle United, with the Magpies in fourth on 19 points. Last season the North East outfit finished 12th in a […]
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/ 5268 days agoWigan Athletic's Time in the Premier League Is Coming to an End
Wigan Athletic are in the bottom three, along with North West neighbours Bolton and Blackburn, after an abysmal run of six losses on the trot. They are much maligned for their poor attendances despite football being Wigan’s second sport behind rugby league and the club faces competition for fans from the likes of Liverpool, Manchester […]
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/ 5270 days agoWest Bromwich Albion Can Finally Stop Being A Yo-Yo Club
West Brom are clearly recognised by most Premier League fans and pundits as the yoyo team of the division. Over the last 10 years they have been promoted to the Premier League four times and relegated three times. Even their now classic BOING BOING celebration sort of represents their predicament as the perennial yoyo club. […]
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/ 5459 days agoHow Liverpool Can Still Qualify for Europe
Let me begin by being clear: This is a long shot. A REALLY long shot. A lot of stars have to align to make this happen. And as a Liverpool fan, I’m not especially anxious or worried about it. I actually subscribe to the argument that one season without European football wouldn’t hurt us and […]
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/ 6179 days agoMan United: The Empire Strikes Back
Liverpool winning 3-1 away at the KC stadium. Surely, no-one expected anything less if not anything more. The reigning champions level again for the umpteenth time, their leaky defence ensuring that the goal difference keeps them behind Liverpool in second place. Yes, they did have two games in hand but chasing points and championships is […]