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Team Focus: Southampton - The Pochettino Effect

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, Jan 22 2013 16:11
Team Focus: Southampton - The Pochettino Effect The arrival of a new manager at a club is often enough to galvanise a failing side, but in the case of Southampton, Mauricio Pochettino had come to St Mary's with the club unbeaten in 5 Premier League games and on their way up the table. On the back of an impressive draw at Stamford Bridge after hav...
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Team Focus: Juventus

by James Horncastle at Tuesday, Jan 15 2013 14:34
Team Focus: Juventus As the ball came towards him, Mirko Vucinic supposedly heard a shout from the touchline. It was Antonio Conte. Leave it! the Juventus coach claims to have roared. Obedient to a fault, Vucinic stepped over Paolo De Ceglie's pass and let it run for his teammate Sebastian Giovinco. Only it never reache...
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Team Focus: Lazio

by James Horncastle at Thursday, Jan 10 2013 16:56
Team Focus: Lazio Lazio picked a rather curious venue to celebrate the club's 113th birthday on Wednesday. The American Circus was in town, so they chose to blow out the candles under a big top and among some scary-looking clowns. As a location, it was a touch ironic really because unlike their surroundings, there's ...
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Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao

by Kieran Canning at Wednesday, Jan 9 2013 12:30
Team Focus: Athletic Bilbao This time last year Athletic Bilbao were embarking upon what was to prove a wonderful if ultimately fruitless journey that put their name back not only among the footballing elite in Spain, but made them one of the most admired and talked about teams in Europe last season.From the beginning of Janua...
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Team Focus: Valencia

by Kieran Canning at Friday, Dec 7 2012 12:23
Team Focus: Valencia The waving of white hankerchiefs at the Mestalla is a familiar sight and one that doesn’t always indicate that the manager is in immediate danger of losing his job. Los Che’s fickle following also turned against Hector Cuper and Rafa Benitez at times in seasons where they delivered a Cha...
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Team Focus: Arsenal

by Neil Ashton at Monday, Dec 3 2012 13:10
Team Focus: Arsenal The accepted spin from Arsenal’s PR machine is that Arsene Wenger is doing a grand job. Since he was appointed manager on October 1 1996, Arsenal have qualified for the Champions League every year (they have never won it, mind).Arsenal are rightly proud to have won three Premier League titles ...
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How Will Rafa Benitez Fit in at Chelsea?

by James Horncastle at Friday, Nov 23 2012 13:41
How Will Rafa Benitez Fit in at Chelsea? Albelda to Aimar to Baraja back to Aimar. It was a classic show and tell. A football illusion. Sleight of foot, not hand, at Mestalla on September 17, 2002. Liverpool had been lulled into thinking Valencia were planning an attack either down the middle or the left-hand side of the penalty area. Dav...
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Team Focus: Queens Park Rangers

by Michael Cox at Friday, Nov 23 2012 09:50
Team Focus: Queens Park Rangers Good news for Mark Hughes this week – he was not, after all, the first Premier League manager to lose his job this season. His former Chelsea teammate Roberto Di Matteo was instead 2012/13’s first coaching casualty, but although that has deflected the media spotlight away from Hughes, he...
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Team Focus: Brendan Rodgers' Liverpool

by James Horncastle at Friday, Nov 16 2012 14:49
Team Focus: Brendan Rodgers' Liverpool As Wigan manager Roberto Martinez exits the away dressing room on Saturday afternoon, strolls under the This is Anfield sign hanging over the entrance to the tunnel and makes his way out on to the pitch, Liverpool supporters will catch a glimpse of what might have been this season.Back in May, Marti...
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Team Focus: Are West Brom Any Better Under Steve Clarke?

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, Nov 13 2012 15:55
Team Focus: Are West Brom Any Better Under Steve Clarke? Many people hold the belief that West Brom are much improved under new manger Steve Clarke this season. Many have said they have outplayed opponents on countless occasions with the better football, and that their position - fifth in the Premier League - is a good representation of their performances...
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