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Player Focus: Faith in Wickham Sees Black Cats Claw Out of Bottom Three

by Ben McAleer at Wednesday, Apr 30 2014 12:00
Player Focus: Faith in Wickham Sees Black Cats Claw Out of Bottom Three Defeats to Norwich, Liverpool, West Ham, Tottenham and Everton were supposed to end Sunderland's 7-year stint in the Premier League. 5 consecutive losses that would all but see them succumb to relegation, despite Gus Poyet's impressive work in the Stadium of Light hotseat. The Uruguayan had guided h...
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Team Focus: Uninspiring Poyet Running Out of Ideas

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Apr 9 2014 17:28
Team Focus: Uninspiring Poyet Running Out of Ideas Before Sunderland travelled to White Hart Lane on Monday, one commenter posed as absurd the fact that the two teams should both have former Tottenham players managing them but Spurs, undoubtedly the better of the two teams, should have the worse of the two. It was possibly a little harsh on Tim Sher...
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League Focus: The Battle to Avoid Relegation in the Premier League

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Mar 17 2014 15:00
League Focus: The Battle to Avoid Relegation in the Premier League The Premier League title race took another twist at the weekend, but a win for table footers Fulham closed the gap between themselves and 14th placed Swansea. Just 5 points separate 7 teams at the bottom of England’s top tier, with the battle to stave off relegation expected to go down to the ...
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Team Focus: Belief at Sunderland Gathering Under Poyet

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Feb 4 2014 13:24
Team Focus: Belief at Sunderland Gathering Under Poyet About 20 years ago, I was drinking in a pub in West Jesmond when I was accosted at the bar by a grey-haired, grey-stubbled man who worked on the Hoppings, an annual fair that was held on the Town Moor in Newcastle each year. Learning I was from Sunderland, he sucked through the gaps in his teeth and...
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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Best Betting Tips

by Tancredi Palmeri at Friday, Jan 31 2014 18:19
WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Best Betting Tips With goals ensured in Spain, some predictable Premier League results and some tempting odds in Serie A, the focus of our accumulator is threefold.LIKELY BETSGranada vs Celta Vigo: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE @1.80The odds are relatively high here given that Celta Vigo have have conceded in each of their las...
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League Focus: 3 Conclusions from the Premier League Season So Far

by Jonathan Wilson at Tuesday, Dec 31 2013 11:00
League Focus: 3 Conclusions from the Premier League Season So Far Proactivity and reactivitySince the success of Barcelona and Spain and their approach based on radical possession, teams seem to have become more aware of the advantages – and disadvantages – of holding possession. Although it’s true that, at the very highest level, the most succes...
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Team Focus: How Premier League Teams Perform Before and After the Break

by Alistair Tweedale at Wednesday, Dec 11 2013 15:19
Team Focus: How Premier League Teams Perform Before and After the Break From Stan Collymore's stoppage-time strike to put Liverpool 4-3 up over Newcastle towards the tail end of the 1995/96 season and Michael Owen's Manchester derby winner in 2009 to Sergio Agüero's title-winning goal against QPR in May 2012, grandstand finishes is something the Premier League has ...
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Team Focus: Have Sunderland Actually Improved Under Poyet?

by Jonathan Wilson at Monday, Dec 9 2013 17:10
Team Focus: Have Sunderland Actually Improved Under Poyet? The nightmare run is over and Sunderland can perhaps, at last, begin to contemplate a brighter future. After facing Fulham on the opening day of the season – a game they lost after conceding to the only corner Fulham had – their next seven home games were against Arsenal, Liverpool, Manc...
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Team Focus: Premier League Preview Part 8 - Stoke and Sunderland

by Ben McAleer at Tuesday, Aug 13 2013 10:26
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 ...
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Team Focus: How Paolo Di Canio Is Moulding His Sunderland Side

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Aug 12 2013 14:30
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 ...
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