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Team Focus: Clueless McClaren Struggling to Fix Broken Newcastle

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Team Focus: Clueless McClaren Struggling to Fix Broken Newcastle As easy as Newcastle United were to completely pull apart, it was hard to know decide was worse about Saturday’s destruction at Selhurst Park - the hapless performance of the players at Crystal Palace on Saturday, or Steve McClaren’s deeply unimpressive attempt to talk around the logisti...

Team Focus: Newcastle's Defensive Frailties Undermining Progress Under McClaren

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Team Focus: Newcastle's Defensive Frailties Undermining Progress Under McClaren Earlier in the season, Jose Mourinho deemed Chelsea’s 3-0 defeat to Manchester City a “fake” result. He felt City’s win flattered the home side in a scoreline that did not tell the whole story at the Etihad Stadium. The term could not be more applicable when analysing Sunday&...

Manager Focus: Can Newcastle fans dare to dream under McClaren?

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Manager Focus: Can Newcastle fans dare to dream under McClaren? The passion, euphoria and ambition that once engulfed Newcastle United around the turn of the Millennium has become a thing of the distant past on Tyneside under the harrowing ownership of Mike Ashley. However, with Premier League clubs set to benefit from the windfall of the new £5.1bn televi...

Team Focus: Post-January Squad Depth Leading Derby Towards Promotion

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Team Focus: Post-January Squad Depth Leading Derby Towards Promotion Darren Bent has had a curious career. His talent has never been doubted but the most frustrating thing about the 31-year-old is how easily he can flit from prolific to profligate. For each season like the 24 league goals he scored for Sunderland in 2009/10, there was a campaign like 2007/08 at Totte...