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It’s Time to Give Women’s Football the Respect It Deserves
A simple search for women’s football on any video or social media platform inevitably brings up two categories of videos. We either have the comedy videos with footballing mistakes, Piers Morgan spouting rubbish and pieces on why women athletes should not be paid as much as men, or the other category which is the objectifying…
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Six Teams in Europe You Should Be Keeping an Eye on for This Upcoming Season
We all love surprises and we all love telling our friends I told you so after our favourite wonderkid breaks through or we get a surprise team right, so here are my picks for the teams that will surprise us all next season. Aston Villa If you watched the back end of last…
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The Top Five Rangers Signings of the Last Ten Years
It’s been a long journey for Rangers over the last ten years, from playing in the lower leagues of Scottish football against part-time teams to winning their 55th league title, a Scottish Cup and reaching a European final. Along the way, key players played an important part on their way back to the top of Scottish…
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Same Difference: Position of the Season 2022/23 / Part One
The goal of this series is to describe a position of play that had the most pervasive impact on teams’ success across European football during a given season. When looking for commonalities and/or trends in style of play among successful European club teams in the 2022/23 season, it is hard to look past the roles…
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Analyzing RC Strasbourg Alsace’s Transfer Window
Following an extremely underwhelming 2022-23 season, Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace have been active in this summer’s transfer market to help strengthen their squad. After being purchased by Chelsea FC owner Todd Boehly and his group, Boehly is beginning to build a multi-club system for Chelsea similar to Premier League competitors Manchester City. Boehly hopes…
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AC Monza – Berlusconi’s Living Legacy
Back in March of this year, a few friends and I were sitting in the pub, chatting generally about football and our plans for the year ahead. It turned out that all of us wanted to travel overseas to watch a match, but had never been able to organise it properly. Long story short,…
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A Delve Into Everton’s Summer Transfer Business So Far
It’s fair to say Everton will do well to steer clear of another relegation battle in the upcoming Premier League season. Although their manager, Sean Dyche, is renowned for being able to squeeze the most out of extremely tight resources, this is now the third summer in a row that the club are restricted in…
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Selamun Aleykum Karagümrük Geldi: How Karagumruk Secured and Extruded Andrea Pirlo
It all seemed to good to be true for Fatih Karagumruk. With an already strong Italian contingent at the club with the veteran, Emiliano Viviano, as goalkeeper and Andrea Bertolacci and Fabio Borini both making the move to Kara Kirmizi in recent memory, it seemed an Italian manager would make the move to the club…
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What System Should Michael Beale Play to Fit Danilo, Sam Lammers and Cyriel Dessers in the Team?
Rangers recently signed Brazilian striker Danilo Pereira da Silva from Feyenoord in a deal worth up to £6 million. The forward has signed a five-year contract. Starting his career in Brazil, the 24-year-old moved to Holland and played for Ajax, Twente, and Feyenoord. Danilo won the Eredivisie twice, firstly with Ajax in 2021/2022 and last…
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Player Analysis: Igor
Brighton & Hove Albion recently secured the signature of Brazilian defender Igor from Fiorentina for a reported fee of €17 million plus €3 million in add-ons. Following the Seagulls’ unsuccessful pursuit of Levi Colwill on a permanent deal from Chelsea, they found an alternative left-footed centre-back in the form of the Bom Sucesso-born defender. …
