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/ 5212 days ago

Milan and Juventus Set to Challenge for Serie A Title

Milan and Juventus are currently the top two teams in the Italian league with the Rossoneri ahead by two points but the Serie A champions have played two more matches than their rivals Juventus. Juve's positive run, the club is undefeated this season in official play, is due to a number of factors such as […]

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/ 5212 days ago

Premier League Sunday: Feb. 12, 2012

Manchester City has a chance to regain the top spot in the Premier League today when they travel to Villa Park to take on Alex McLeish's side. The Scot's job is rumored to be on a razor's edge as is the jobs of the two managers involved in the Black Country derby played earlier in […]

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/ 5213 days ago

Man United 2-1 Liverpool: The Day Class Left The Stadium

I don't care which side you happen to support. If you're a Liverpool or Manchester United supporter, or just a neutral viewer, this is a dire day in the Barclay's Premier League. It's the day we saw petulance win out over professionalism, pettiness over peace. Today the Manchester United-Liverpool derby became less about the history […]

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/ 5213 days ago

Premier League Saturday, Gameweek 25: Open Thread (Including Man Utd vs Liverpool)

The biggest rivalry in the Premier League is, still, Manchester United against Liverpool. It's not your Manchester derby. Neither is it Chelsea against Manchester United. The Red Devils against the Reds remains at the top, featuring the two most successful teams in English football. Now that Manchester United has the bragging rights to the domestic […]

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/ 5214 days ago

Spurs v Newcastle Preview: Premier League's Top Two English Managers Meet At White Hart Lane

In a week where Alan Pardew has been linked with managing England, the Newcastle boss takes his side to Tottenham Hotspur as they aim to continue their odds-defying season. Following Fabio Capello’s resignation from the national set-up on Wednesday evening, Pardew was asked at his mid-week press conference about the possibility of him succeeding the […]

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/ 5214 days ago

Arsenal Home Shirt for 2012-13 Season Revealed: Photo

The design of Arsenal's home shirt for the 2012-13 season has been revealed on the Internet. Arsenal's home shirt for the 2012-13 season will feature the classic red shirt with white sleeves. However, the design also features what appears to be a charcoal rounded collar and charcoal or black bottom to the sleeves. Also of […]

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/ 5215 days ago

Ken Bates in No Rush to Fill the Leeds Manager Hot-Seat

Leeds United under Simon Grayson rose from a League One side to a promotion contender into the hallowed Premier League. Grayson took over and steadied a rocking ship and has to be given credit for this. Despite starting strongly in Grayson’s first full season in charge, Leeds stumbled near the finishing line but still managed […]

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/ 5215 days ago

1.377 Million Viewers Tuned In to FOX to Watch Chelsea vs Man Utd On Super Bowl Sunday

FOX's live airing of Chelsea against Manchester United on February 5, 2012 delivered an average 0.8 rating with 1.377 million viewers, which was approximately 119,000 viewers more than the viewing figures for the Arsenal versus Manchester United match shown live on FOX on January 20, 2012. The audience for the Chelsea versus Man United match […]

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/ 5215 days ago

Premier League Racism Scandal Has Made Everyone Look Bad

One of the most depressing things to have emerged from the racism scandal that has threatened to overshadow large parts of the Premier League season is the loyalty blindness that has affected large amounts of fans throughout the league. The boos that rained down on Patrice Evra and Anton Ferdinand were a signal that all […]

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/ 5215 days ago

7 Reasons to Fall in Love With Swansea City This Season

There are a lot of reasons to love Swansea City. Even if I hadn't been supporting them for 32 years, I still think I probably would be writing this article. During the past 10 days, Swansea picked up three points on the road, got a home draw against Chelsea — and manager Brendan Rodgers was […]

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/ 5215 days ago

Is Aston Villa Ready to Tame Manchester City?

This Sunday’s Premier League clash between Aston Villa and Manchester City certainly has the makings of a decisive game in the outcome of the title race. With City’s stuttering away form over the last six weeks seeing them lose three times in the Premier League, would a defeat by Villa on Sunday represent a fatal […]

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/ 5215 days ago

Alternative Premier League, Gameweek 24: Sunderland Sits On Top Of The Form Table

Despite big away wins for Wolves and Swansea, the weekend undoubtedly belonged to the Gunners, who ran out six goal winners over lowly Blackburn. Arsenal’s seven goal mauling won them an impressive 7.67 points, easily the highest of the gameweek. As we’ve seen many times, it can be difficult for the top teams to prosper […]

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/ 5215 days ago

How to Solve the Issue of Too Many London Teams in the Premier League

I’ve spent too much of my 25 years in the States trying to convince Americans that there’s more to England than the great city of London. However, it’s quite likely there’ll be 6 London-based teams in the EPL next season. I’m presuming QPR don’t get relegated — which is unlikely given their new signings — […]

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/ 5216 days ago

How Martin O’Neill Has Turned Sunderland's Season Around

Sunderland fans would have been fearing the worst when the Wearside club had only amassed 11 points from 13 games in the Premier League and were sitting at a dismal 16th after a disappointing 2-1 loss at home to bottom side Wigan. With these results Steve Bruce became Managerial causality number one. With frustration growing […]

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Fabio Capello Resigns As England Manager

Fabio Capello has resigned as England manager. The fallout from The FA's decision to remove John Terry's England captaincy must certainly have been a key issue in the decision by the Italian to resign. The decision by Capello to resign was given after his meeting with The FA. The discussions focused on The FA Board’s […]