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Team Focus: Hull Can Take the Most Heart from Promoted Sides' Performances

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Team Focus: Hull Can Take the Most Heart from Promoted Sides' Performances Three defeats, no goals and little more to cheer than the customary 'determined' performance from the three newly-promoted sides in the Premier League represented a somewhat predictable outcome this weekend.The trio faced tough opening matches, with Hull offered the least favours by an away trip to ...

Team Focus: Arsenal's Transfer Failings Exposed

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Team Focus: Arsenal's Transfer Failings Exposed Imagine you hadn’t heard the final score. You pick up the basic match facts and you see that Arsenal had 64% of possession on Saturday. You look at the pass completion rates and see that while Arsenal’s was 87%, Aston Villa’s was only 70%. At first glance it seems like a fairly sta...

Team Focus: Can New York Red Bulls Break their MLS Cup Duck?

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Team Focus: Can New York Red Bulls Break their MLS Cup Duck? It has been said that the New York Red Bulls are the Arsenal of Major League Soccer. However, it’s not because they have Thierry Henry as their number 14. It’s because for all the fluster and hype the Red Bulls remain an unsuccessful club, having failed to register a single MLS champions...

Team Focus: Could This Be Spartak's Year?

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Team Focus: Could This Be Spartak's Year? It seems incredibly odd for a new Russian football season to begin with Spartak Moscow not suffering from some kind of internal crisis. The capital club have all too often been the focus of a raging debate about how the once perennial Premier League champions could collapse to the point where Europe...

Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 10 - West Brom and West Ham

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Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 10 - West Brom and West Ham It was an impressive debut campaign in football management for Steve Clarke as West Brom secured an 8th placed finish last year; the best in their Premier League history. Much of this was down to the impressive performances of Romelu Lukaku as the Belgian finished as the Baggies top scorer (17) last...

Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 9 - Swansea and Tottenham

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Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 9 - Swansea and Tottenham Swansea continue to impress in the top flight since their promotion only two years ago and with their success, the reputation of manager Michael Laudrup grows more and more. Having followed up an 11th placed finish in their debut season in the Premier League with 9th and a victorious Capital One Cup...

Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 8 - Stoke and Sunderland

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Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 8 - Stoke and Sunderland A seven-year association between manager and club came to an abrupt end this summer as Tony Pulis and Stoke City parted ways. The Potters have become infamous through their physical approach to English football and chairman Peter Coates insists that a change of direction was needed, the 75-year-old ...

Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 7 - Norwich and Southampton

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Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 7 - Norwich and Southampton Norwich may have ended last season in a standing that surpassed expectations once again but Chris Hughton was not fooled by their 11th placed finish, strengthening with some eye-catching signings this summer. The Canaries were just three points off the drop with two games remaining after a worrying ...

Team Focus: How Paolo Di Canio Is Moulding His Sunderland Side

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Team Focus: How Paolo Di Canio Is Moulding His Sunderland Side If there was ever an image that summed up a manager, the one of Paolo Di Canio sliding on his knees at St. James’ Park is nigh on perfect. Overseeing his Sunderland side defeat rivals Newcastle United at their home left a good feeling around the Wearside club. Regardless of this,the club only ...

Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 6 - Man United and Newcastle

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Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 6 - Man United and Newcastle It's been all change at the top at Manchester United as Sir Alex Ferguson stepped down after 26 years at the helm. In his place comes David Moyes and despite being linked with big money moves for a host of Europe’s top players; only young full-back Guillermo Varela has been signed. The announcement ...