Chelsea’s squad requires major surgery

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It would be fair to say that this season has not quite lived up to the expectations of Chelsea fans. Sitting fifth in the table, requiring a quite remarkable home performance against Napoli to progress in the Champions League and facing a daunting trip to St Andrews to play a Birmingham side in the FA 

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Occupy La Liga

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As this year’s English claim for European dominance is about to come to an abrupt end, leaving the Premier League representatives wounded and empty handed. Five words jumps to the mind of a disappointed anglophile: “The best league in the world”, as local broadcaster, Richard Keys used to simply put it. These days it seems, or 

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Players Arsenal Should Buy

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With a figure of £55 million being quoted in the media this week, many are saying that Arsenal and Mr.Wenger will have this much to spend on a much needed re-construction during an inevitably eventful summer. From this we seek to say the best way to spend this in our opinion. A word of warning 

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Football Rivalries In Numbers

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Britain’s Greatest Football Rivalries Throughout British sporting history (and especially football history) any loyal fan will tell you the importance of the British derby. There are some huge football rivalries in British football and most of these rivalries are based from the same town or city. There are some hugely intense rivalries and this gave 

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Heading into this game Arsenal had suffered two consecutive cup defeats from AC Milan and Sunderland respectively. A lot of people doubted Arsenal’s ability to get something out of the spurs game considering unlike Arsenal, Spurs just came from an encouraging 5-0 win against Newcastle (who I’ll say are the revelation of the season in 

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It was 16 years since Liverpool Football Club last set foot on Wembley for a final, the last which was against arch-nemesis Manchester United in the 1996 FA Cup. It was an excruciating 6 years that supporters of this illustrious club had been starved off silverware that had been eluding them, since the last trophy 

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Turning point for the Gunners?

It’s been a tale of two campaigns for Wenger this season Even if we had no idea what kind of score line to expect heading intothe latest installment of theNorth London derby, we certainly all understood one thing—this match was worth a whole lot more than three points. Not only was Arsenal hobbling in on 

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Please do not crucify me if some of your favourite youngsters are not included in this list. One man’s meat they say, is another man’s poison. Please find below the 20 selected players who barring any unfortunate situation, will take the world by storm in the next couple of years. 1. NEYMAR Now one of 

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132 appearances. 30 goals. 35 assists. The Russian captain Andrey Arshavin, who lit up Euro 2008 created or scored about every 2 games for Arsenal during his short 3 year spell. Signed by Arsene Wenger in January 2009, Arshavin literally kept Arsenal in the top four the season he joined with 6 goals and 7 

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The Premier League is full of world class players, some of which, due to their talent, have become household names across the globe. Examples of these types of players are Sergio Aguero, Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney. However, I think there are a lot of players playing in various teams who don’t get the recognition they 

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Marie Colvin Puts Our Media to Shame

RIP Marie Colvin This week, a widely respected journalist lost her life in her day-to-day job. But for Marie Colvin, it was a risk she accepted and took for one simple reason. As a war reporter, she saw it as her duty above all to do report the truth, and in doing so she would 

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How the mighty have fallen. That may be the best phrase to describe the unbelievable slump of Arsene Wenger’s managerial career at Arsenal. This is a man who has garnered a remarkable 11 trophies for the London club in 15+ years at the helm. But what has led to fans calling for his head? The 

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Manchester United travel to Norwich for the first time since 2005 and during that match, United lost 2-0 with both goals being scored in the second half by Dean Aston and Leon McKenzie. No one from the current Norwich City team was involved in that victory over United. Norwich haven’t lost at home to United 

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An overview and history of the Europa League

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Originally called the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which was created in 1955 to promote international trade fairs. The Europa League has changed formats a few times to keep up with the times and to try and make it a prestigious European competition to compete in. The Fairs Cup was originally played over three to avoid any 

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Top 5 Tips for Winter Turf Survival

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Dan Shemesh, Director of Grounds of the New York Red Bulls, offers his Top 5 tips for getting turf through a winter season and ready for play in the spring. Home of the New York Red Bulls MLS Soccer Team If you are in a cold weather area, your turf cannot survive a winter without 

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Chelsea, Arsenal, Newcastle and Liverpool. Who will take the coveted 4th spot? The race continues this weekend with Chelsea and Arsenal hoping to get back to winning ways, after their UEFA Champions League heartache.Liverpool and Everton will take no part in this weekend’s Premier League fixtures as the former will be at Wembley this weekend 

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On the 15th day of February 2012, the usual football forces that come into play to make some sides look classier than they really are, were manifest. Arsenal got beaten in a match where they never looked like they were going to get a result, especially from their play in the final third.The 4 – 

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The Olympic Park Legacy Company has known for quite some time now that the brand new London Olympic Stadium is going to be rented out after the 2012 Olympics to an English Premier League (EPL) soccer club among others. But, incredibly, the stadium hasn’t been built to meet the standards of the EPL. The EPL states 

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