With Chelsea failing to kick on from their last season’s laurels, tipsters mooted Manchester City as the title favourites heading into the current season; however, sitting 15 points behind table toppers Leicester City, even their hopes of playing Champions League football next season look bleak. Though they can seek solace in their League Cup success, 

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It gives an insight into the methods of Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino that he has left his full-back positions open to sharing in a season that currently presents him with the chance of landing the club’s first league title since 1961. At left-back Ben Davies has started 13 times in the league and has assumed 

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Arsene Wenger sets foot in his twentieth season as the Arsenal manager next season having won the most FA Cup trophies – tied with George Ramsay on six – and three Premier League titles. Notwithstanding the fact that every English club will relish welcoming him, his job is in jeopardy, as there have been rumours 

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As Leicester City continue their charge towards Premier League glory, they now only have seven games to go before they could lift the title in England’s top division. Coming from a team who were last season battling relegation it is a miracle, but will it be the biggest upset? Which other teams have gone on 

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Having almost spurned the chance to capitalise on the misfortunes of Chelsea and the Manchester clubs and claim the top spot, Arsene Wenger has been getting a lot of stick from Arsenal supporters. However, thanks to the unavailability of ready replacements and Wenger lining Stan Kroenke’s pockets exactly how the American wants him to, he 

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With popular faces pulling out of the title race, it looked as though the Premier League was Arsenal’s to lose. Frequently topping the table, Arsenal added substance to the belief that their infamous title drought would cease to exist at the end of the season. However, Arsenal inevitably did an Arsenal and currently sit four 

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Paul Pogba has at times received some rare criticism this season and might reflect on a mixed campaign, although that would only be by the very high standards he has set over the past couple of years in Turin. At 23, he remains unquestionably one of world football’s elite young players and if there is 

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A first-ever run to the latter stages of the Champions League aside, Manchester City will spend the remainder of their season clambering for a top four finish in order to avoid leaving their new manager with the ignominy of trawling the continent on a Thursday evening in the backwaters of the Europa League. There is 

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Manchester United’s signing of Morgan Schneiderlin last summer looked one of their better buys in recent years and certainly fell into the ‘low risk’ category given his consistently high level of performance for Southampton over the previous three seasons in the top flight. However the jury is still out to some extent at Old Trafford 

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When everybody is competing to be noticed in the jumble of the social media age, obituaries can often be ostentatious affairs designed to exaggerate in the search for maximum impact. However there are not many more deserving of all the tributes attributed to him than Johan Cruyff who on Thursday sadly passed away at the 

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