Tom Cleverley Believes Van Gaal Will Allow Him To Shine - Why The Midfielder Must Look To Restore His Reputation

After watching their side demolish LA Galaxy in their first game of pre-season, optimism has begun to creep back amongst Manchester United fans.  One player who is sharing that sense of optimism is Tom Cleverley.

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Ashley Young Scores Twice As Red Devils Run Riot - How The Winger Will Look To Secure His Future At United

If you are trying to impress your new manager, scoring two goals in a game is certainly the right way to go about it.  That is exactly what Ashley Young did in Manchester United’s 7-0 demolition of LA Galaxy.

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Arsenal Linked With Premier League Defender - Here's Why Wenger Should Forget About Him

Bacary Sagna has been a fantastic servant to Arsenal for a number of years now and is currently enjoying a great season on the right side of a stable Arsenal defence. However, with his contract up in the summer of this year, Arsenal are trying desperately hard to tie Sagna down to a long term contract. But, it appears as though no progress has been made, despite ongoing talks, which has prompted Arsene Wenger to begin a search for a new right-back.

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The Championship – The story so far

With the international break finally allowing us time for reflection in what has been a breathless first quarter of the season in English football’s most manic league, we take stock of the situation so far.

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Are Ashley Young's Best Days Behind Him?

Ashley Young used to be one of the hottest players in the country, so where did it all go wrong for the 28-year-old?

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Football League Talking Points This Weekend

Watford wake up hangover free

Often the side who is the unlucky party in the play-off final suffer somewhat of a slump at the start of the new season. So given Watford were not only the beaten at Wembley but were also narrowly piped to the second automatic promotion spot in dramatic fashion by Hull – you would not have forgiven them for feeling sorry for themselves.

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The wait is over, the beautiful game returns

If you’re not feeling it yet, then you will soon.  Football is back.

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Hard luck for critics of Watford's transfer policy

Having gone so close last season, are Watford certainties to go up next year?

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Championship Preview 2013/2014 (Part 2)

Here is the second part of my preview into next seasons NPower Championship...

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Gianluca Vialli: One of Italy's Greats

When it comes to who is the greatest of all time for the Azzurri, there would be many suitors, here are just a few.

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Plaudits to Crystal Palace - but the real task is staying up

It was one of those moments that makes you think that this wonderful game of football is orchestrated by some sort of higher power.

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You can always rely on Kevin Phillips (video)

Kevin Phillips is one of those players that seem to have been around forever but the special thing about Phillips is that he hasn’t just been around forever he’s also consistently produced the goods and scored goals at the highest level in his time as a footballer.

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Today promotion, tomorrow the sack - The ugly face of modern day football

 

The incredible manner of Watford’s win against Leicester once again demonstrated just how exciting the end of season play offs can be.

The ecstasy of the Watford fans would have been mirrored by

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Premier League clubs set to battle it out for Czech striker's signature

Watford take on Crystal Palace at Wembley this month with the winner taking their place in the Premier League next season. The pressure is on both London sides to win the big money game, but there is another capital club lurking in the shadows should the Hornets lose out on promotion.

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Holloway just one game away from the Premiership (video)

Ian Holloway’s Crystal Palace advanced to the final of the Championship play-offs after his side beat a lacklustre Brighton team last night thanks to two goals from winger Wilfried Zaha. They will now face Gianfranco Zola’s Watford team in the final at Wembley in just under two weeks time.

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