All posts by Richard Lewis

  • Top takeaways from the Premier League opening weekend

    Our first taste of summer signings, new managers and promoted clubs has come as the 2015/2016 Premier League kicked off the season this weekend. Only West Bromwich Albion and Manchester City play today, and the latter will...

    • Posted August 10, 2015
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  • PSG’s Eiffel Tower of talent!

    Paris Saint-Germain’s towering colossus of star signings is beginning to look as big as the Eiffel Tower; Zlatan Ibrahimovic certainly helps on that measure. Not only will there be a host of stars in the French capital...

    • Posted August 9, 2015
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  • 2015/2016 Premier League predictions; Part 2

    The vacations are over, the preseason tours have all been done and dusted, the kits have been revealed and Arsenal were the first side to lift a piece of silverware this season by claiming the Community Shield...

    • Posted August 2, 2015
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  • Premier League 2015/2016 predictions; Part 1

    Vacations are over, the preseason tours are done and dusted, the kits unveiled and there’s just one more indication that the Premier League is about to begin again: the Community Shield. Tomorrow, Arsenal will face Chelsea at...

    • Posted July 31, 2015
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  • Manchester United’s young stars compared to Justice League characters

    English winger Ashely Young is not the only ‘young’ player at Manchester United, with many other younger squad members impressing in United’s preseason tour of the United States. Young is now 30 years old, so harboring a...

    • Posted July 29, 2015
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  • Didier Drogba an impact signing at Montreal Impact

    Didier Drogba is joining the brigade of international football stars moving to Major League Soccer and is naturally aiming to make a big impact on football in the region. Indeed Drogba one-upped everybody else in that respect...

    • Posted July 27, 2015
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  • England set for a World Cup qualifying meeting with the Auld enemy!

    Vladimir Putin (somehow) managed to keep his shirt on, and no one throw a flutter of fake cash over Sepp Blatter, so things seemed to be running relatively smoothly at the preliminary draw for the Fifa 2018...

    • Posted July 26, 2015
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  • Aston Villa braced for a summer thriller

    “‘Cause this is Villa, Villa fright, and no one’s going to save you from the spending of the might.” Michael Jackson’s songs could have easily been adapted to describe Aston Villa’s summer. Villa are having a...

    • Posted July 19, 2015
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  • China and Turkey: new football destinations make their mark

    What do Turkey’s top division and China’s Super League have in common? From the ordinary to the hardcore football fan, “nothing” is an acceptable answer. Or at least this was true until recently. Only in the past few...

    • Posted July 17, 2015
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  • £49 million in Sterling!

    What does £49 million of British sterling get you these days? Well, Sterling of course! Manchester City are willing to pay a record sum for an Englishman to buy controversial 20-year-old Raheem Sterling from Liverpool this summer....

    • Posted July 12, 2015
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