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Why Mark Hughes deserves another chance at a big club, plus is Szczesny as good as he thinks he is?

Kop That 08 October @ 04:00 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Why Mark Hughes deserves another chance at a big club, plus is Szczesny as good as he thinks he is?

Mark Hughes cuts a sad, sombre, figure these days. He has never really recovered from his ­sacking by Manchester City. His departure from Fulham was strange. It posed questions, and delivered few ­answers.

If You Booed After Yesterday’s Game Please Don’t Ever Come Back To The Emirates Again

Arsenal Arsenal 01 August @ 03:30 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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A pre-season friendly.

Substantial team changes for the starting 11. Even more substantial changes at half time and subsequently.

Young, up-and-coming Arsenal players like Bartley and Afobe getting a run out.

Nobody wanting to get injured before the serious stuff starts in a couple of weeks.

Analyzing the Liverpool Midfield

The Run of Play - Soccer in Style 31 July @ 07:16 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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It's not even August, and Kenny Dalglish has been busier than the Pitt-Jolie's au pair brigade when it comes to restocking the barren midfield corps that awaited him last January. Well, it's perhaps disingenuous to call it barren; more like, not stocked particularly well. Like if a $30 dish at a fine dining establishment boasted signature ingredients like soap, anchovies, a box of Rice-A-Roni, and a plunger.

Know When To Fold 'Em

The Fullback Files 28 July @ 08:37 PM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Bob Bradley's out, and tomorrow, in all likelihood, we learn the replacement1.

I'm not a Bradley hater or apologist. I think he's a fine coach, even if he's tactically limited/cautious, too attached to "trusted" players"2, and lacks the appropriate personality for the grandest stage3. He'll probably pop up somewhere in MLS next year and have a fine career to follow, maybe even fine enough that he gets a second chance at the adult table someday.

Top 5 Woody Allen movies

No Short Corners 06 July @ 12:25 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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I am an unabashed Woody Allen apologist, so you won't find a "Top 5 Worst" list from me. Only the good stuff. He's missed on a few, though none badly, and despite his age he continues to churn out brilliant dialogue, thought-provoking themes and lush backdrops in his movies, which he still dutifully produces at a clip of one a year.

Dimitar Berbatov and the criticisms that don’t quite add up

ManUtd24 22 June @ 07:08 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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"You say what?"

No wonder he frowns all the time. Dimitar Berbatov must be wondering what he's done so wrong in his Manchester United career; while he isn't flawless nor is he immune from criticism there is something that sets Berbatov apart from the rest. He is the darling of the aesthetes and rather unorthodox for a forward, meaning he will not be appreciated by all corners as, say, Javier Hernandez.

QPR Report Update: Lakshmi Mittal and QPR....QPR FC Chairman Gianni Paladini: Another Critical Assessment

QPR Report 12 May @ 06:59 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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Sunny Times Are Here Again

Arsenal Arsenal 08 February @ 04:30 AM EST Blog Details : Related Items
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In the course of Sundays blog discussion re the Toon debacle, a committed fan who unlike me, regularly attends games and who felt totally let down by what she saw as a capitulation by the team that day, advanced the opinion that I was too sunny in my acceptance of the team's performance.

Now leaving aside the fact (if you will forgive the cliché) that I am viewed, rightly or wrongly, it matters not really, as a cup half full man, a Wenger apologist who can see no wrong with the great man and a purveyor of stories of times gone by.