Saturday Morning Round Up @ Drogba to Spurs, United starlet on the way out, plus AVB, McLeish, Magpies and more

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says he would be keen to take Chelsea striker Didier Drogba to White Hart Lane.

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Was Nasri a necessity?

The start to Arsenal’s current season has been well documented throughout the media. Defeats to Liverpool, Blackburn, Tottenham and Manchester United left fans staring into the the abyss that was left at the Emirates by the departures of Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas.

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Gary Speed and the after-effects, the dignity of football fans

The idiom goes that “prevention is better than cure” but what the saying doesn’t consider is the unfortunate factors that characterise the clamour to spread the gospel of prevention. That’s one of the reasons “every cloud has a silver lining” was promoted from mere sentence to fully fledged clichéd idiom.

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Tottenham and title contenders in the same sentence? Surely not....

Ten games unbeaten, nine of them victories, the league table is looking pretty rosy for Tottenham fans at the moment. Third place, two points behind Manchester United and one game in hand has given the supporters reason to be cheerful. It feels like eons ago that we lost away to the champions 3-0 and the 5-1 capitulation to Manchester City is nothing more than a near-forgotten memory.

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Spare a thought for Nasri ?

Our ex wonder boy Samir Nasri got a good booing every time the ball went within 5 yards of him on Tuesday.  He later tried to substitute himself ... without success.  And at the end is said to have benefited from an interesting discussion with hard boy Iroquois Frimpong in the tunnel. My money would be on Frimpong (!)

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Standing up to rising ticket prices

To what extent Wolves v Sunderland at Molineux can be considered to be a ‘Super Sunday’ is a debate in itself, but nonetheless, this is where Sky’s live Sunday afternoon Premier League will be broadcast from this weekend.

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Super Mario... City’s Title Catalyst

Since Mario Balotelli joined Manchester City last summer his off the field antics have brought him more headlines than his football, but 14 months later the Italian is making the headlines for all the right reasons - sort of!

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Manchester City’s failure in Europe – will it bring success in the long term?

Roberto Mancini summed it all up in his press conference:  "In football anything can happen. If Villarreal play a serious match they can get a result. It is important we play our game against Bayern Munich.''. And that's what 212 million Euros gets you, a crunching must-win encounter against the German giants.

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No love lost as Tevez looks to end bad romance

The Carlos Tevez saga maybe coming to a close, and I’m sure everyone is breathing a sigh of relief that it’s all blowing over.

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Do we need Ade permanently?

Many were sceptical about signing Emmanuel Adebayor in the summer, even if it is only on loan. Here is a player who has plied his trade for Arsenal and known to be a disruptive influence in any dressing room he has been in. On the other hand, however, the Togolese man is exactly what Tottenham have been crying out for, a world class number 9 with pace, strength and a knack for knowing where the back of the net is.

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Odds against City. Haven't they always been?

It has been twenty four hours since the defeat in Napoli and now our qualification chances are looking bleak. 

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The emergence of the pint-sized playmaker

There is absolutely nothing better than seeing a wee-man scuttle his way through the midfield with a fine bit of trickery before releasing the marauding front-man to tuck away with a superb finish. And while it may have been a rarity in the Premiership in seasons past, all of a sudden a crop of the technically brilliant play-makers has emerged to light up England’s top league.

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When blue moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, That's Man City!

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Super Mario… City’s Title Catalyst

Since Mario Balotelli joined Manchester City last summer his off the field antics have brought him more headlines than his football, but 14 months later the Italian is making the headlines for all the right reasons - sort of!

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A day in the life of a True Blue

“Beep, beep, beep.” We all dread that loud ringing of an alarm going off in the morning to wake us up.

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