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Inter Milan’s fairly smooth passage through to the last eight of the Champions League after a lacklustre fight back by Chelsea has definitively proved what everyone knows – Inter are a much better side for selling the big Swede in the summer.

Acquiring Samuel Eto’o plus some 50 odd million on top of that looked, at best back then, a crazy piece of business on …

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‘Squeaky bum time’- Sir Alex Ferguson’s famous quote to describe the business end of the season we are entering as the freshness of Spring greets the air. The difference in the title race for his team this season could be in defence, with the return of the defensive marriage of Ferdinand and Vidic from injury.

Cast your mind back to last season during Autumn and Winter when a side couldn’t buy a …

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Tottenham Hotspur fans will know that, for what has seemed like an age, the team has been about as balanced as an obese African elephant walking an unusually thin tightrope. First we had Ginola, but couldn’t defend. Then we had Graham, but couldn’t attack. Then we had Hoddle and Pleat, and couldn’t do either. It’s been hellish. We thought we’d got it …

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This season has been a disappointing one for West Ham. Sitting three points above the relegation zone, they are trapped in an intense battle for survival with the likes of Hull, Burnley, Wigan and Wolves for the last remaining tickets to the Championship. Last season West Ham finished ninth, so they have definitely regressed this season. …

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Old Trafford- will it provide another Man Utd-Liverpool epic?

This Sunday sees the two biggest clubs in English football come head-to-head once again. No matter what the position of the two teams, or what they are trying to achieve in any given season, this is the one fixture in the calendar that both sets of fans, players and managers …

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On the 31st of January 2010, a select few lucky wabbits were treated to a glimpse of the future. Arsenal vs Manchester United became the first live sporting event to be broadcast in 3D, in 9 select pubs around the United Kingdom, and presumably some tense darkened executive screening rooms somewhere at Sky HQ, not to mention Rupert Murdoch’s secret underground volcano lair. With 3D ready …

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Another week, another injury for Tottenham Hotspur. Not only have the Lilywhites been robbed of the vast majority of their midfielders, but now the Gods have conspired to rob ‘Arry Redknapp’s blue and white army of their leading goal scorer. However, whilst one door closes, another always opens, and for Tottenham, it could be Luka Modric bearing the key.

With Tom Huddlestone and …

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Following Cheltenham Town’s staggering 6-5 away win at Burton Albion on Saturday, I felt it was only right to delve into the archives of the best high-scoring games in the past few years.

Game 1: Chelsea 4-4 Liverpool, April 14th 2009.

After a 3-1 win at Anfield the week before, it looked as if Chelsea were going to coast into the semi-finals, …

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Both Wayne Rooney and Leo Messi have four goals in the Champions League this season and both wear the number 10 shirt for their respective clubs but which of these stars should be chosen ahead of the other one? The word “world class” gets branded far too quickly in football but there is no doubt that both of …

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What do Emmanuel Adebayor and Steven Gerrard have in common? The answer, essentially, is that they both have arms. Not a particularly difficult thing to achieve, really, I’ll grant you, but they have both used those arms against an opponent on the football pitch, recently. Though one of them was punished and the other got off without charge.

I’m not one to go for conspiracy theories. I don’t, for example, believe that …

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