Stories By Harry De Cosemo
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Real Madrid and Florentino Perez repeating old mistakes
At the end of the 2005/06 season, Real Madrid knew they had to rip up the manual and start again, it had been a humbling season all round and ended with Florentino Perez resigning as president. Arsenal had knocked them out of the Champions League and Barcelona had stormed to the La Liga title after Ronaldinho received a standing ovation from the Santiago Bernabeu crowd, having scored a brace in a 3-0 El Clasico victory.
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Premier League concussion debate is now urgent
The Emirates Stadium was hollow and empty, so the noise was amplified. It was awful, haunting and will stick with those who heard it for a very long time. Without supporters, there may have been fewer witnesses to a rather disturbing incident but, as Wolves striker Raul Jimenez and Arsenal defender David Luiz clashed heads on Sunday evening, all the emotions present in their team-mates and club staff were reflected by the millions watching from their homes.
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Remember Maradona for his genius, not his flaws, after his death
It was one of those ‘where were you?’ moments. The kind that, for much of recent history, has been reserved for the passing of royalty, either literal or from the worlds of arts or music. The death of Diego Maradona at the age of 60 was confirmed on Wednesday evening and certainly reverberated around the planet in a similar way to Michael Jackson’s or Freddie Mercury’s because, in truth, he was a rockstar in a pair of football boots.
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Mourinho revival proves Guardiola shouldn’t be written off
English football has never seen the sharpest edge to the intense rivalry between Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola up close. When the pair took over the clubs on either side of Manchester in the summer of 2016, the media was sent into a frenzy at the prospect of the bitterness, which defined their shared experience in La Liga at Real Madrid and Barcelona, reigniting in much closer quarters in the same city.
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Javier Mascherano: Profile of an underrated star
As a defensive midfielder, Javier Mascherano was under-appreciated almost by definition. But in the case of the 36-year-old Argentine, who called time on his long and illustrious career over the weekend, that notion always felt particularly pertinent.
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Nations League predictor: Belgium vs. England
Gareth Southgate’s England will need to make up the ground they lost in their UEFA Nations League group last month. Victory over Belgium at Wembley had put them on top but the Three Lions’ inconsistencies continued to haunt them with the home defeat to Denmark.
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Can Kane overtake Shearer as the EPL’s greatest goalscorer?
The Kane vs. Shearer debate is one that the media can finally get their teeth stuck into. Arguably, Kane is the first challenger to Alan Shearer’s all time goalscoring record that can be taken seriously.
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Ansu Fati giving Barca fans hope for life after Messi
Lionel Messi was a boy wonder at Barcelona. His story was so unique for the time, at the turn of the century, as a young Argentine with a lot of baggage and risks attached to him. Every chapter is so well known now, from the napkin he was signed on by Barça’s Technical Secretary, Charly Rexach, to the growth hormone he needed to help him reach the optimum condition in La Masía, the youth academy.
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Newcastle fans right to be annoyed by Sherwood comments
Intermittently during the football season, Newcastle United supporters will log onto social media and let out a defeated sigh of exasperation. What are they seeing is usually the latest unchallenged comments purporting to understand how they feel and what they expect from their football club, isolated and shared widely across various platforms.
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The fall and rise of AC Milan
AC Milan waved goodbye to elite level European competition six years ago as a spent force. The Rossoneri were knocked out of the Champions League in the last 16 stage by eventual finalists Atletico Madrid.
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Are football fans the lifeblood of the game? No chance.
It has long been said that football is a great reflector of society. In some ways that has seldom been more true than now. Back in March, as the Covid-19 pandemic first began to take hold and the United Kingdom went into lockdown, the sport did its bit.
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