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3 worst referee decisions of all time
Three letters dominate Premier League most debatse up and down the country… VAR. Love it or loathe it, it’s impossible to deny that VAR has crash-landed into England’s top-flight and caused quite a stir.
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Best Premier League XI 2020
2020 has been the strangest year in living memory and the world of football has had to adapt in serious ways. With the extended 2019/20 season finishing just weeks before the 20/21 campaign began, players have been pushed to the physical and mental edge especially within the Premier League.
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Cristiano Ronaldo wins the Golden Foot Award… so what is it?
The Golden Foot Award isn’t the most prestigious of individual footballing accolades but, crucially, the 2020 edition represents something Cristiano Ronaldo has won and Lionel Messi hasn’t. So what is it? Well, it was created back in 2003 and sees the lucky winner leave an imprint of his feet on The Champions Promenade on the seafront in Monaco.
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Vladimir Ivic sacked at Watford discontent rumbles on
Four months after his appointment as head coach at Watford, Vladimir Ivic has been sacked. “Watford FC confirms the departure of Head Coach Vladimir Ivic with immediate effect” read the tweet, accompanied by a now-infamous photo of the corner flag.
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Could Yves Bissouma be Liverpool’s next star?
There is no Premier League club, at least at the elite level, better than Liverpool at finding value in the transfer market. Consider how they paid a combined £70 million for Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah, two players who would cost at least that fee each.
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Atletico Madrid heading into uncharted waters as La Liga favourites
Diego Godin rose highest at Camp Nou, and competed the fairytale. Perhaps it says more about the landscape of Spanish football than the true extent of Atletico Madrid and their role of plucky underdogs, but the Uruguayan defender’s equaliser against Barcelona in May 2014 was a moment to remember your surroundings.
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John Stones and the unlikeliest of revivals at Man City
If the Manchester City career of John Stones wasn’t already in jeopardy, it certainly became so when the club failed once to make their long-awaited breakthrough in the Champions League. Against Lyon, with City’s season on the line, Pep Guardiola favoured a back three that included teenager Erick Garcia and midfielder Fernandinho over the 26-year-old who watched the full quarter final defeat from the bench.
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Criticism of Marcelo Bielsa is sheer arrogance
Just 14 games, that is all it took. The Premier League season isn’t even at the half way mark and murmurs of doubt are beginning to sound. Marcelo Bielsa and Leeds United were beaten 6-2 by Manchester United on Sunday afternoon; it was the first time they had crossed to Pennines and headed to Old Trafford for a league match in 16 years, and the result was not what anyone connected with the club was hoping for.
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Premier League Christmas wishlist
Christmas is here and those within the world of the Premier League will be afforded little rest and, with a bumper festive schedule on the horizon, their celebrations will not be as rowdy as elsewhere.
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Grealish and Zaha set to serve up Boxing Day treat
Aston Villa’s Boxing Day clash with Crystal Palace will see two of the Premier League’s entertainers go head-to-head. When they are at the top of their games, there are few better players in the division to watch than Jack Grealish and Wilfried Zaha.
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Premier League players who had the worst 2020
For many people, 2020 has been a miserable year and that has included certain footballers playing in the Premier League. Ranging from poor form to terrible behaviour and some big names being entirely of teams rendering them useless and for others, it has been a real shock to the system.
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