Stories By Jamie Smith

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  Copa America 2021 | 11 players to watch

  Football fans don’t just have the Euros to look forward to this summer, with the 2021 Copa America taking place at the same time. Build-up to the event has been typically chaotic, with Colombia having recently been stripped of co-hosting rights due to civil unrest in the country.

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  5 key players in the 2021 UEFA Champions League final

  An all-Premier League clash sees the eyes of the sporting world turn to Porto this Saturday night as the UEFA Champions League final draws an end to the 2021 European season. Premier League champions Manchester City are the favourites to clinch what would be their first Champions League title, finally fulfilling the burning ambitions of owner Sheikh Mansour.

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  An XI of Underrated Premier League players – 2020/21

  Awards in football tend to go to the biggest names at the biggest clubs, the star players with flashy reputations. But what about the players who go under the radar? With a maximum of one player per club, we’ve put together an XI or the underrated Premier League players of the season.

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  Tuchel vs. Guardiola – Four previous meetings

  Chelsea’s recent 2-1 Premier League win away to new champions Manchester City was something of a proxy war considering both sides had their eyes on a far larger prize. But Thomas Tuchel will still have been delighted to get one over on his opposite number Pep Guardiola ahead of the Champions League final, which has been moved from Istanbul to Porto.

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  Is Graham Potter the EPL’s most overrated manager?

  Graham Potter remains a top candidate for the Tottenham job according to both the media and the betting odds. The Brighton boss is currently the Premier League’s flavour of the month. Brighton’s pleasingly progressive style undoubtedly catches the eye, but it is a surprise to see a manager from a club rooted in the bottom third of the table so strongly linked to a big job.

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  5 relegated players who could be in demand this summer

  With Fulham joining West Brom and Sheffield United in the Championship, the vultures are likely to start circling in search of bargain buys. While the bottom three ended up being significantly cut adrift from the rest of the Premier League, some players will still escape the blame and emerge with their reputations intact.

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  6 key players in the 2021 FA Cup final

  Leicester City are bidding to win their first ever FA Cup but Chelsea will provide a stern test at Wembley in the 2021 final, having become an extremely resilient outfit under Thomas Tuchel. Both sides edged through tight semi-finals 1-0, with Leicester knocking out Southampton and Chelsea coming through a tense affair with Manchester City.

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  Who should be the next Premier League Hall of Fame inductee?

  Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry became the inaugural inductees into the Premier League Hall of Fame, with few arguments made against them being selected as the first players. But debate is already raging over who should follow them into the elite club, with 23 names having been picked out as the next nominees by the Premier League.

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  Rating the 2021 Championship play-offs hopefuls

  Unusually for the Championship, typically one of the most dramatic leagues in the world, the promotion picture is clear with two rounds of games still to go. Last year, Nottingham Forest lost their place in the top six amid scarcely believable scenes as Swansea City snatched it away from them in the dying seconds of the campaign.

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  6 Norwich and Watford players to watch in the Premier League

  Norwich City and Watford have sealed their return back to the Premier League at the first time of asking, with their automatic promotion secured with games to spare. Planning for next season can now begin at both clubs, with their fans hopefully able to pack out Carrow Road and Vicarage Road when the action resumes at the end of the summer.

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  Six contenders to be the next Tottenham manager

  Jose Mourinho’s sacking has been coming for a while but for Tottenham to confirm the news at the start of the week they play in the Carabao Cup final still came as a surprise. Ryan Mason has been confirmed as interim manager until the end of the season and, after beating Southampton in his first match, will next take Spurs to face Manchester City at Wembley, which itself is some story after the 29-year-old was forced into early retirement by a terrible head injury.

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