Following a humiliating 5-1 defeat to Bayern Munich in the last-16 of the Champions League, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has faced mounting pressure to step down at the end of the season. It seems certain that this will be the sixth consecutive season that Arsenal have crashed out of the competition in the first knockout…
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Norwich extend unbeaten run to five
Norwich City remain outside of the Championship play-off places despite a run which has seen the Canaries go five unbeaten in the league. This included a 5-1 win over 10-man Nottingham Forest. Jonny Howson, Josh Murphy and Wes Hoolahan scored three goals in the opening 18 minutes, before a late double from Alex Pritchard sealed…
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Premier League winter break debate resurfaces
As the football season enters its busiest time of year once again murmurings of the age old debate rear their heads. Christmas break, or no Christmas break? The Premier League’s lack of a break makes it an anomaly. The Bundesliga has a month off, La Liga has two weeks and Serie A has just under…
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Infantino elected new Fifa president
After a 17-year reign of terror Sepp Blatter and Fifa were finally forced to part ways, and on 26th February Gianni Infantino was voted in as the new President of Fifa. Infantino, the Uefa general secretary, narrowly beat Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa over two rounds of voting. He has placed a great emphasis on…
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Terrible defending undermines decent Norwich attack
In recent years Norwich-Liverpool fixtures have rarely disappointed. The last five games have seen a total of 25 goals scored, including three back-to-back games in which Liverpool managed to put five past Norwich. For the neutral, their last meeting certainly didnít fail to live up to expectation. Norwich threw away a 3-1 lead, eventually gifting…
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Corruption and doping rear ugly heads
As yet another corruption scandal broke on Monday, this time tarnishing the world’s top tennis players, any sports fan must surely be wondering who on earth can we trust? The BBC have damning evidence that points a finger at 16 of the world’s top-ranking tennis players purposefully throwing games. Although these players were repeatedly flagged…
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Goal shortage leaves Norwich struggling
It is no secret that Norwich attempted to bolster their squad during the summer transfer window. They moved for a variety of foreign players as well as attempting to sign Benik Afobe, Dwight Gayle and Jon Walters – but to no avail. Instead all they mustered was a last minute deadline day signing in the…
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Is Le Professeur changing the curriculum?
It’s probably fair to say that Arsene Wenger is a man set in his ways. He knows what he likes and he likes what he knows. For the last nine years, Arsenal have finished third or fourth in the Premier League and have not progressed further than the semi-finals in the Champions League. Excluding their…
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Palace and Leicester excel
It is hard to imagine anyone could have predicted that eight games into the season the Premier League table would look as it does. Chelsea are flirting with the relegation zone, Liverpool and Tottenham are floundering around tenth place, and perhaps most surprisingly Crystal Palace and Leicester are competing for fourth place. Both teams have…
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