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Previewing Matchday 1 of the Premier League Season
It seems like the previous season only finished yesterday, and yet, the 2021/22 Premier League campaign is just around the corner. The season kicks off today as Brentford brace for their first ever Premier League game in club history, and their first match in the English top-flight since 1947. They will be hosting Arsenal, who…
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Player Analysis: Noni Madueke
As if the new generation of English footballers isn’t already special enough, another budding winger is starting to make serious waves with PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie. Most young players who come up in Premier League academies either break into the first team at their respective clubs or end up being sold to a…
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Player Analysis: Antonio Rüdiger
Antonio Rüdiger signed for Chelsea in the infamous summer of 2018. Unfortunately, it was infamous for all the wrong reasons, reasons that eventually led to the unhealthy divorce between club and manager that Chelsea fans are numb to. Just two years removed from Antonio Conte’s time, Rüdiger was frozen out by club legend and then…
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Player Analysis: Caden Clark
There are few American players who have displayed technical skill as well as New York Red Bulls’ Caden Clark has since signing an MLS contract in October of 2020. At 17 years old, Caden Clark burst onto the scene scoring a volley from the top of the penalty area against Atlanta United just one day…
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How Do Tottenham Replace Harry Kane?
Even if Harry Kane fails to make a move to Manchester this summer, his intentions have been made clear; Kane is ready to prioritise success over everlasting loyalty to Tottenham Hotspur. Perhaps Spurs will make a huge turnaround with Nuno Espírito Santo, and Kane does end up committing his future to the club he…
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The Swift Decimation of Scudetto Winners Inter Milan
100 Days. 14 weeks. 3.5 months. Rewind time by these numbers and it was the day Inter Milan became Scudetto Champions for the first time in 10 years, putting the ‘Pazza’ ghosts of Inter to bed along with the taunts. The heavy investment had paid off, the 12m per annum gamble on bringing serial…
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Player Analysis: Luke Thomas
As Brendan Rodgers enters his fourth year as manager of Leicester City, this could finally be the season he finally breaks into the top four. Leicester mean business – they have secured the services of talented youngsters in Patson Daka and Boubakary Soumaré, as well as senior heads such as UCL winner Ryan Bertrand. …
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The Best Footballers from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
After the Euros and Copa América, the footballing world quickly turned their heads to Tokyo for the Olympic Games, which were again delayed by a year. There was yet more controversy here too, as the venue of the Olympics was under a state of emergency with rising COVID-19 cases as the event kicked off, but…
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A Defining Meeting: The Irriducibili and Lilian Thuram
Today, the voice of fans can be heard loud and clear through social media channels or via reaction videos. But, 20 years ago there was no camera lens for them to eye up. Instead, the power of the fans was much more literal, and this was felt most strongly in Italy. Most of the major…
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Player Analysis: Nikola Milenković
FK Partizan is one of the biggest clubs in Serbia, but like many clubs in the former Yugoslavia and the rest of Eastern Europe, its players are often lured away to the western European leagues for much more lucrative pay. Italian club Fiorentina has certainly been appreciative of the Partizan Belgrade production line in…
