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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Is English Football More Focused On Entertainment Than Ever Before?

This season has seen an unprecedented level of high-scoring ‘big’ matches in such a short space of time. This borne out by the fact that the average amount of goals per game is 2.97, compared to 2.59 this time last year.

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Penalty Decisions Need to be Rethought

Please take some time to imagine the following two scenarios, both of which happened during last weekend’s football:

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Saturday Morning Round Up @ City can go unbeaten, Gunners plan Madrid swoop, Black Cats ponder striker

Arsenal are planning a £7m swoop for Real Madrid midfielder Esteban Granero.

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Five things I learned from the Stoke game

Arsenal moved to seventh in the table with a deserving 3-1 victory over Stoke City in a weekend that produced some shocking results

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Scrapping Premier League Relegation Would Be Stupidity

Who can remember the 2007/08 season? Well done to those of you who are nodding, holding their hands up or saying of ‘course I bloody do.’ That season of course Manchester United won the Premier League and Champions League. But I suspect you already knew that didn’t you?

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Why Relegation Needs To Stay

Simply put - the abolition of top-flight relegation would be the abolition of competitive English football. It would kill not only the Premier League, but the whole Football League.

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Liverpool on top despite the Result

So, what can I say? Same old Liverpool, failed to capitalize on arguably their best performance of the season against a spirited if lackluster Manchester United side. I don’t think many people would disagree that Liverpool played United off the park on Saturday. Out-fought them and out-thought them.

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Sunday Morning Round Up @ Tevez out, Chelsea slammed and Kenny hails Rio

Roberto Martinez has called on his Wigan players to end the "negative dynamic" that has led to them sliding down to 19th place in the Premier League.

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Time for tinkering, Fabio!

One announcement from UEFA and the English press has enough ammunition to fill an opinion page on any slow news day for the next seven months; should Wayne Rooney be taken to the European Championships if he is banned for the opening three games (appeal not withstanding)?

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Responding to the Ian Ayre comments

After the pause in domestic proceedings to complete the qualifying for the European Championships, we are back to the drama of the Premier League and we start with what promises to be one of the games of the weekend, what a way to get us reacquainted with the self-proclaimed most exciting league in Europe than the meeting between its two most successful members.

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Arsene Wenger’s five greatest managerial rivals

Arsene Wenger completed 15 years as manager of Arsenal a fortnight ago. And, in those 15 years, he has had several interesting battles with various managers. While very few of those have been on personal fronts, he fought with fellow managers over trophies, tactics, refereeing and approach to football. So let us take a look at what I consider his greatest five rivals. 

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England looking strong going onwards from Montenegro

With the usual chaos and controversy of the Premier League suspended for a weekend, England travel to Montenegro for the culmination of their group G campaign seeking a solitary point to take them into next year’s European Championships.

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League Table Prediction (10-1) Part 2 of 2.

Now that the transfer window has slammed shut now until January I have had time to analyse the teams as they stand right now. With that in mind here is part two of my predictions for the final Premiership Table.

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Together. Diving. We Stand

“It’s a man’s game”. Yeah right! Do we really want this to be the slogan of the FA? For one thing the women’s game is growing and should be given all the financial backing that can be thrown at it so it can continue to grow.

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