Team Focus: Slomka Must Restore Defensive Stability to Save Hamburg
by Ben McAleer
at jueves, feb. 20 2014 10:45
A little over a year ago, Hamburg secured a 1-0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach. Following on from a 4-1 away win at Borussia Dortmund the previous week, the victory helped the club go on to secure a 7th-place finish last season, with many tipping them to land a European spot this term.Howeve...
Team Focus: Meulensteen Dismissed Just as Recovery Began at Fulham
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunes, feb. 17 2014 14:55
Perhaps the attempt is futile. Maybe we should just accept that there is no logic to what Shahid Khan has done at Fulham, that sacking two managers in a season, lurching from one style of football to another, is just a thing that rich men do and that to try to spy deeper meaning is pointless. Perhap...
Team Focus: Crystal Palace - A Team on the Rise Under Pulis
by Jonathan Wilson
at lunes, feb. 10 2014 15:05
When Tony Pulis took over at Crystal Palace in November, they lay bottom of the Premier League with just four points from 11 games. They seemed doomed, but Pulis nonetheless gathered the players at their Beckenham training ground and told them that he had never been relegated and had no intention of...
Team Focus: Pragmatic Mourinho Proving Hard to Predict
by Miguel Delaney
at miércoles, feb. 5 2014 15:19
Team Focus: Leicester Pulling Clear at the top of the Championship
by Alan Smith
at miércoles, feb. 5 2014 12:12
Team Focus: Belief at Sunderland Gathering Under Poyet
by Jonathan Wilson
at martes, feb. 4 2014 13:24
About 20 years ago, I was drinking in a pub in West Jesmond when I was accosted at the bar by a grey-haired, grey-stubbled man who worked on the Hoppings, an annual fair that was held on the Town Moor in Newcastle each year. Learning I was from Sunderland, he sucked through the gaps in his teeth and...
Team Focus: How Will Yohan Cabaye Fit In At PSG?
by Ben McAleer
at jueves, ene. 30 2014 16:30
In 2011, Paris Saint-Germain were bought byQatar Investment Authority. As is the custom with any team that is purchased, the Parisian outfit made a flurry of big name acquisitions, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Thiago Silva all arriving at the Parc des Princes. The investment paid of...
Team Focus: Leeds' Over-Reliance on Ross McCormack
by Alan Smith
at jueves, ene. 23 2014 17:34