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Payet Shines as France Given a Timely Warning

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Payet Shines as France Given a Timely Warning Didier Deschamps is nothing if not forgiving. The 1998 World Cup-winning captain has been involved in a number of personality clashes during his coaching career at Monaco, Marseille and now France. Yet if some of the grudges endure – former OM sporting director José Anigo is unlikely to...

The Smart Money in Buabook’s Man City-Man United Match Market

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 The Smart Money in Buabook’s Man City-Man United Match Market While neither Manchester City nor Manchester United are in any real sort of form, the consequences of defeat in Sunday’s derby could be catastrophic for their respective campaigns. Both have fallen away dramatically since the turn of the year and need to win at all costs, to not only save face...

Player Focus: Unsettled United Frontline Affecting Martial

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Player Focus: Unsettled United Frontline Affecting Martial Deemed a waste of money by some upon his arrival at Manchester United, Anthony Martial quickly set about proving his critics wrong. The teenage France international injected some much-needed purpose into a United attack that appeared stale in the opening games of the season following his £36m ...

Match Focus: Leicester Host United in Intriguing Top Two Battle

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Match Focus: Leicester Host United in Intriguing Top Two Battle If you would have told a Manchester United fan their side, after 13 games of the season, would be behind Leicester in the league table they would have assumed it had been a disastrous start to the campaign. It’s far from it though, with the Foxes the only team above Van Gaal’s side in th...

Match Focus: Four Key Battles in Sunday's Manchester Derby

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Match Focus: Four Key Battles in Sunday's Manchester Derby Sunday’s Manchester Derby could go a long way to determining who secures Premier League glory this season. City are the current pacesetters having taken 21 points from a possible 27 so far, but United are hot on their heels with 19 points from nine games. With Arsenal welcoming Everton in Satu...

Player Focus: Europe's Top Rated Teenagers

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Player Focus: Europe's Top Rated Teenagers Football fans love a highly rated youngster coming through the ranks before appearing for the senior team. The likes of Ledley King, Ryan Giggs and Steven Gerrard all shared a special affinity with supporters having been a part of their respective team for years before making their first senior star...

Team Focus: Fierce Competition Apparent as France Brush Aside Denmark

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Team Focus: Fierce Competition Apparent as France Brush Aside Denmark Didier Deschamps came close to his Aimé Jacquet moment but the worst, it appears, has since passed. The run of three defeats in four games that led into the last international window hadn’t put the former Juventus, Monaco and Marseille boss in any serious danger - and he hadn’t ha...

Team Focus: Is this United Team Better than it Appears?

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Team Focus: Is this United Team Better than it Appears? Not for the first time this season, Louis van Gaal’s press conference on Sunday was baffling. Ronald Koeman, the Southampton manager, is habitually cautious about discussing the opposition, but he had no qualms about acknowledging Manchester United’s defensive “flaws”. But no...

Player Focus: Martial Fee Obscuring Impressive Capture for United

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Player Focus: Martial Fee Obscuring Impressive Capture for United Amid all the grander storylines of the night, it was easy to overlook one of the more understated elements. Arsenal, however, should have been paying it much more attention.Because, for all the understandable focus on the London side’s collapse and Dimitar Berbatov’s return in Monaco&rsq...

Player Focus: Lowdown on This Week's Premier League Transfer Targets

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Player Focus: Lowdown on This Week's Premier League Transfer Targets Despite the fact that we are still three weeks away from the transfer window opening the rumour mill is in full swing. We'll be giving you the lowdown on a number of the reported targets linked with a summer switch over the coming months, starting with a look at a handful of players reported to be a...