Tom Cleverley – The Missing Link

It was the curtain raiser, the showpiece of the English football season in 2011 where city rivals, Manchester United and City clashed at Wembley in the Community Shield. City started strongly and were 2-0 up at the break. Sir Alex Ferguson made a couple of changes but one of them in particular stood out. Tom Cleverley.

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‘Derby della Capitale’ - Troubled times

On the 21^st March 2004, the Rome derby was abandoned just four minutes into the second half with the game level at 0-0 after riots erupted in the stands.

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Deeney strikes to extend Brighton’s poor run

Watford’s Troy Deeney scored the match winner just seconds after coming on as a second half substitute, as Brighton’s winless run was extended to nine games.

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Watford 1-0 Brighton- The woeful run continues

Life in the Championship was looking rosy for the Seagulls up until early September- a run of 5 league wins and one draw in our opening 6 fixtures had us right at the top of the table with pace-setters Southampton. It had been suggested that Gus Poyet’s brand of fluid, passing football would not get us far in the Championship, but we were absolutely cruising.

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(Another) 2011/2012 Championship Preview (with predictions and odds)

Clichés become clichés for a very good reason; the fact that they have a solid grounding in reality and truth. Usually anyway. Thus, the cliché that the Championship (no marketing here) is the most hotly contested and difficult league to predict has an element of truth to it. However, certain patterns can be deduced.

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Championship Preview

After relegation from the top tier of English football, Birmingham, Blackpool and West Ham will be hoping they can bounce back at the first time of asking. After being harshly axed from previous jobs all to do with dodgy ownership, Chris Hughton and Sam Allardyce want their respective clubs to be pushing for the Championship title. I reckon they would have a good chance of winning it too.

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New Season ... New Manager Needed

As a Watford fan I have got used to players and managers using my club as a stepping stone, but this time I thought it would be different.

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Easter Diary of a Sky Sports Reporter

Easter is normally a part of the year to spend some extra time with the family – but that's usually not the case for a football journalist.

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Why does nobody want to go up?

QPR are flying high, despite a little wobble over Christmas they are still eight points clear of near rivals Swansea

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