Buzzin Football

This time last year I had a small accumulator bet on who would be crowned champions of the English football Premier League, Championship, League One & League Two; and following a nail-biting last weekend to the season, successfully collected my winnings as Manchester United, QPR, Brighton & Chesterfield held on to their mid-season poll positions [...]

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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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This weekend continued to be an exciting one as far as the English Premier League was concerned, with wins for Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham, and draws for Chelsea and Manchester City.
For reasons of money, investment and past glories, it is easy to think of the aforementioned clubs as the five teams that still have [...]

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Once again it has been interesting to see the newly promoted Premiership clubs choosing to play decent football and take the more established teams on without resorting to parking nine men in defence and hoofing the ball up to a lone striker week in week out.
West Bromwich Albion’s famous 3-2 victory at Arsenal only serves [...]

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I have just returned from a great pre-season holiday in Turkey where I mainly spent my days around the pool or in bars chatting to football fans about the new season.
There was a devout Geordie fan with his twin 10 year old nephews, one in a Newcastle top the other in a Sunderland top! We [...]

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