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Taking the Chelsea job was never going to be easy for Carlo Ancelotti. He still doesn’t speak much English and he is going to have to adapt to the pace on the Premier League pretty quickly. Ancelotti arrives at Chelsea …

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Bolton’s reported pursuit of Swansea midfielder Ferrie Bodde got me thinking. Premier League managers have become hesitant to dip into the lower leagues over the years but anyone who follows Championship football will know there are a couple of gems …

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Bolton Wanderers captain Kevin Davies is reportedly a transfer target for Bolton’s Lancashire rivals Blackburn Rovers. Davies endured a (very) difficult season for the Rovers way back in 1998/99 after a £7.5million move from Southampton. In his spell with the …

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Yaya Toure’s agent has stoked the rumour mill regarding his client. Dmitri Seluk reckons Barca don’t ‘respect’ his client and has suggested the powerful midfielder might be playing his football elsewhere next season. This is what Seluk has had to …

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Last summer I was bored of all the Ronaldo moving to Real Madrid stuff pretty quickly, it carried on through right up until the transfer deadline and I’m fairly sure everyone was thinking ‘just go already’. When Florentino Perez started …

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It’s that time again in the Spanish capital, the Real Madrid presidential elections. The current favourite is Florentino Perez and it looks an almost certainty he will be the man in the Madrid hotseat next season. If anyone out there …

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Real Madrid are historically the most successful club in Spain, Europe and probably the world, as well as one of the richest if not the richest club in the world. Over the years they’ve had some fantastic players and played …

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In today’s footballing world the term, “wonderkid,” seems to be thrown around as often as a Crisitano Ronaldo step over. Most of these so-called 16-year-old phenoms come along and shock the world for a couple of months before going into …

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I’m writing this pretty much as the news is breaking but it seems as if Toon hero Alan Shearer will take the reins at St James’ Park for the remainder of the season. Newcastle sit third from bottom and are …

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Under Sam Allardyce Bolton were a team full of players from a whole host of international destinations.  Gary Megson has changed all that around though and has a core English element to his team.  Granted Bolton haven’t been great to …

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I spend pretty much all my free time scouring around football websites (yep, I’m cool) and the other day I saw an article with an interview with Michel Platini talking about the possibility of a European League.  I must stress, …

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Before 1999 when Manchester United lifted the Champions League you had to go back to 1984 for another British winner when Liverpool won it.  It then took another six years before another English side lifted the trophy (Liverpool again in …

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