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West Ham: What Next?

A little bit of a farewell feature, picking through the bones at West Ham… After relegation, and a bit of a ruck at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane last night, it’s more apparent than ever that this West Ham squad will be, and needs to be broken-up and spread far and wide. Regardless of where you apportion most of the bla […]

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Chelsea: What Next?

Alright, so we’ve decided to turn what we did with Aston Villa last week into a bit of a series. Next up, Chelsea – no trophies this year, no guarantee of Champions League football yet, and treading an unfamiliar success-free path… Where do you go from here? Commit to your manager Roman, and then trust him… Every tim […]

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Aston Villa: What next?

Ok, so Villa may have won today, but as more than one pundit has noted throughout the season, there’s a glaring disparity between what the club and the team are capable of and what is actually being achieved. Three points against Newcastle almost guarantees their Premier League survival, so what next? Well, maybe one or preferably all […]

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Changing the transfer rules – t…

After all the talk about UEFA’s Platini-sponsored Financial Fair Play initiative, what we’ll be left with eventually is a rule which lots of the richest clubs in the region will learn how to side-step. How do we know this? Because it’s being implemented by UEFA, and will presumably be policed in the same toothless and sele […]

5 things we’ve learnt – F…

Arsenal are growing… The result against Wigan aside, in which nobody has really paid enough attention to the spectacular cheating by Charles N’Zogbia, Arsenal have taken great strides to prove that they can pick up results when they really matter. A year ago, a trip to St Andrews would have been a graveyard for their title ambit […]

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Arsenal: Not quite good enough. Again…

The first of our club writers has arrived, a big welcome to Nadim Naaman – Arsenal if you had to ask. Nadim runs the ‘Play the Arsenal way’ blog, where he can be found musing on all things from the red half of North London. Anyway, reflecting on another sour night at Old Trafford, here he is… When it comes to pre-mat […]

Knee-Jerking the Qatar decision.

Really? If we wade through the rising tide of English xenophobia – and in some cases outright racism – that’s currently trending internet-wide, we should recognise that the true injustice today was in the second ballot rather than the first. From the moment that the Mail on Sunday prioritised sensationalism ahead of natio […]

5 things we’ve learnt

The obvious one to start with… Mark Clattenburg made a mess of the game on Saturday, but Nani’s goal should have stood by the letter of the law. End of discussion. However, the most disturbing aspect of the debacle was Clattenburg’s insistance on sending Tottenham players away from his linesman, while still allowing Rio F […]

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5 things we’ve learnt

After an unpleasant email from the Guardian, containing many errors of punctuation and spelling obviously, we’ve changed the name of this feature… but only very slightly, because we’re clever like that. We were wrong again about West Ham… Last week we acknowledged that West Ham may have had some fight in them. Obvious […]

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Emotionally Stunted

Much talk has been devoted, at least during the Sky television years, to the decline in loyalty of players. There’s an obvious trend, and too many precedents to mention, of players waking up one morning and deciding that they quite fancy a change of club and a bigger contract. Without question, the increase in influence of agents and […]

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Posts in category Analysis

West Ham: What Next?

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Chelsea: What Next?

Aston Villa: What next?

Changing the transfer rules – t…

5 things we’ve learnt – F…

Arsenal: Not quite good enough. Again…

5 things we’ve learnt

5 things we’ve learnt

Emotionally Stunted

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