Buzzin Football

Another great weekend of Premier League games including two greatly anticipated matches – Liverpool away to Tottenham & Chelsea travelling to Manchester United just seven days after they destroyed Arsenal 8-2 at Old Trafford.
I don’t think anyone could have expected Liverpool to be so poor.  They never got off the bus, as one cliché goes; [...]

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West Ham are resigned to relegation and within 60 minutes of the full-time whistle against Wigan at the DW Stadium sacked Avram Grant as manager.  The decision apparently had already been made before kick-off.  But indecision early in the season helped West Ham’s decline.
Joint owners David Gold & David Goldman appointed Avram Grant last summer [...]

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Manchester City beat Tottenham Hotspur at Eastlands 1-0 with a Peter Crouch own goal in the first-half last night.  A somewhat ironic twist that sees Man City secure a fourth place finish in the Premier League and Champions League football next season, as it was Peter Crouch’s goal in the same fixture at the end [...]

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Stoke City thrashed a very poor Wolves side 3-0 at the Britannia Stadium last night to move into ninth position in the Premier League and possibly seal Mick McCarthy’s Wolverhampton Wanderers to relegation to the nPower Championship. Though it was not all good news for Tony Pulis, who saw his star winger, Mathew Etherington leave [...]

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Before the third round I fancied either Manchester City or Spurs to have a successful run in this season’s FA Cup; and when Manchester City drew Manchester United in the semi-finals, I still felt confident they would get one over their arch rivals.  That was until Carlos Tevez, their enigmatic striker and captain was ruled [...]

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