Stories By Dan Tracey
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Arsenal indiscipline undermining Arteta efforts
As we approach the festive period, there is little reason for Arsenal fans to be cheerful and, although they showed some fight in their 1-1 draw with Southampton on Wednesday, it is that fight and their indiscipline which is perhaps getting them into trouble.
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Can Southampton go marching into European football?
With a third of the latest Premier League season now in the history books, the table is finally starting to take the kind of shape that we would all imagine it to be in and although the usual suspects sit at the top, there are still a few surprises to be found underneath Liverpool.
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Has home advantage in the Premier League gone?
With last season’s Premier League caught up in a global pandemic, it meant football like so many other sports was mothballed for a number of months and causing the 2019/20 season to finish far later than planned.
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Who will be the next Premier League manager sacked?
As the number of Premier League fixtures each team has played reaches double figures, a certain topic is beginning to rear its ugly head once again. With none of the 20 clubs yet to change their managerial personnel, one wonders if that status will soon change.
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Liverpool injury list shows their luck has run out
To have one of your back four out injured is an inconvenience, two is frustrating, three is certainly something you can do without and four is nothing short of an injury crisis. Unfortunately for fans of The Reds, it is the latter that Jurgen Klopp may have to deal with this weekend with the mounting Liverpool injury list now posing a serious threat to their season.
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Who are the Premier League overachievers and underachievers so far?
With eight weeks of this new Premier League season behind us and yet another international break drawing to a close, now is the perfect time to take stock of everything that has happened thus far. At this stage of proceedings, they say that the table begins to stop lying and it becomes a truer measure of who will finish where.
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The outlook appears bleak for Burnley and Sean Dyche
After four weeks of the season, Burnley hadn’t enjoyed the start Sean Dyche wanted. Although their standing in the Premier League table looked precarious at the first international break, there was no need for great concern at Turf Moor.
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Does anybody want to win this Premier League title race?
If there’s one thing that pundits and punters are guilty of, it is making sweeping assumptions on the opening weekend of the season. With an opening day defeat or victory, a whole campaign’s fortunes are then quickly mapped out, the Premier League title race is decided.
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Could time be up for calamitous Jordan Pickford?
The history books will read Everton 2-2 Liverpool but might not tell the full story for Jordan Pickford, who was extremely fortunate to escape censure after another madcap performance. Although he was not technically at fault for the two goals that were conceded by the Toffees, he can thank technicalities that he was even on the pitch to pick the ball out of the net.
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Project Big Picture proposals
The announcement of the Project Big Picture proposals certainly made the first international break of the season a little more interesting and, with the plans of both Liverpool and Manchester United now being made public, all manner of debate has now been generated.
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Sheffield United and Wilder facing difficult second season
Although the Premier League is contending with the impact of a virus at present, there is another plague that sometimes befalls those who compete in it and with the threat of ‘second season syndrome’ always looming large, two clubs will be hoping they are not floored by its virility.
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