All posts tagged "England"

  • MOTD: West Ham United 3-3 Arsenal

    Within the wider narrative of Arsenal’s Premier League season, another disappointing, potentially fatal blow to their title hopes stuck to the script.  First, there was blossoming hope as the Gunners strode to an early 2-0 lead and...

    • Posted April 9, 2016
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  • Ranieri calm about title race ahead of Sunderland matchup

    Claudio Ranieri remains calm about Leicester City’s Premier League title hopes. In his press conference ahead of the Foxes’ meeting with Sunderland on Sunday, the Italian manager said their current focus is on Champions League, and only...

    • Posted April 8, 2016
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  • MOTD: Leicester City 1-0 Southampton

    Leicester City’s great escape from Premier League relegation began a year ago this weekend and ever since, they have kept running. Just like Forrest Gump, as Foxes’ boss Claudio Ranieri once coined. They made another crucial step...

    • Posted April 3, 2016
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  • MOTD: Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham Hotspur missed a vital opportunity to put pressure on Premier League leaders Leicester City with a 1-1 draw against Liverpool.  Mauricio Pochettino’s men came back from behind to snatch a point at Anfield courtesy of a...

    • Posted April 2, 2016
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  • Jack Wilshere again the missing man as other England youth shine

    Jack Wilshere was always the exception. The past three or four years of his young playing career have been wedged between a myriad of injuries that have plagued his fitness and the hopes of the England national...

    • Posted March 29, 2016
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  • Lots to celebrate for West Ham in Noble testimony

    Mark Noble wanted to make tickets to his West Ham United testimonial match just £20 so they could be more accessible to young Hammers fans, as he himself once was.  He got tickets to his first game...

    • Posted March 27, 2016
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  • Leicester’s rise accelerates turnover for England squad ahead of Euros

    Roy Hodgson’s job as manager of the England national team is one that many a pundit or fantasy manager takes for granted.  Yet on May 11, the night Hodgson has to call the unfortunate members of the...

    • Posted March 23, 2016
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  • MOTD: Manchester City 0-1 Manchester United

    It was mid-July and Manchester United were on their preseason tour in the United States.  United faced Barcelona and, per the usual pre-season routine, ran out at halftime with entirely fresh faces, all the youngsters hoping to...

    • Posted March 20, 2016
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  • MOTD: Chelsea 2-2 West Ham United

    Tenth-placed Chelsea denied West Ham United a spot in the top four, at least for a day, holding their visitors to a 2-2 draw in just the latest role-reversal in the Premier League this season.  Cesc Fabregas’...

    • Posted March 19, 2016
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  • Drinkwater’s rise exemplifies hard-working, humble ethos at Leicester

    There isn’t a single player in the Leicester City squad that hasn’t had to overcome some sort of professional adversity.  Being cast off from a big club or, in the case of scoring phenomenon Jamie Vardy, overlooked...

    • Posted March 14, 2016
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