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Fantasy Football – Gameweek 10

For Gameweek 10 we will keep updating the best articles to help you choose your Fantasy Team. Our friends at Fantasy Yirma have been announced as the one of the five finalists for the fantasy football category by the Football Blogging Award. You can find out how to vote for them by visiting their website. Their […]

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Arsenal enter squeaky Gun time

Arsene Wenger is facing the biggest test of Arsenal’s season with a midfield dilemma on his hands. Mikel Arteta is banned for the Gunners’ midweek Capital One Cup tie against Chelsea, while Mathieu Flamini is a major injury doubt for next Saturday’s crunch with Liverpool. Jack Wilshere was only a second-half substitute in Saturday’s win at Crystal Palace, […]

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The joys of managing Man United

  Is the Manchester United job really that hard, David Moyes? We asked Iain Macintosh to fire up his review copy of ‘Football Manager 2014’ and find out the true perils, if any, of managing at Old Trafford.  JULY  It’s important to start a job like this with a statement, so I make mine by […]

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Fantasy Football – Gameweek 9

For Gameweek 9, TKTG brings you the tips and picks from the best fantasy articles out there, so that you can make informed decisions regarding any transfers you’re considering (and not) : The folks at Fantasy Yirma have gone for attack-minded players as their picks for GW 9. High-flying Englishman Andros Townsend is their number […]

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Fantasy Football – Gameweek 8

We’re very relieved that the WC qualifiers are over and done with so we can get back to focusing on what’s really important in life: fantasy football. For Gameweek 8, TKTG brings you the tips and picks from the best fantasy articles out there:     Fantasy Yirma have picked Lukaku as their key choice, […]

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Only one-third of Premier League players are English

  English footballers account for less than a third of all the minutes played in the Premier League, a State of the Game study for BBC Sport has found. The figure for home country players – 32.26% – is down from 35.43% in 2007-08 and is significantly lower than all other major European leagues according […]

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4-4-2 is becoming trendy again

…When Barcelona were Europe’s dominant force between 2009 and 2011, for example, it was extremely difficult to tell whether strategy would move in the first respect (further evolution) or the second respect (a shift toward an opposing style of play). In the end, Bayern’s success last year probably represented a hybrid of the two: They […]

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Fantasy Football – Gameweek 7

It’s a little late but hey better late than never. The best picks from around the web for Gameweek 7! FPL Hints captained Ozil and then Barkley over the last 2 weeks – both of whom have been a hit. So this week they go for Suarez – I say get on the bandwagon!! They […]

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How Bosman’s lawyer is plotting another football revolution

Bespectacled, business-like and Belgian, Jean-Louis Dupont does not look like a revolutionary. But then if revolutionaries looked too obvious, we would see them coming. There is little danger of Dupont sneaking up on anybody now, though. He is the man who took on European football’s bosses as an inexperienced lawyer and claimed a landmark victory […]

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Time to appreciate the Kolarovs of soccer

Let’s talk about Aleksandar Kolarov. Not enough people talk about Aleksandar Kolarov, which is a shame, because he’s a fascinating individual with many varied interests, including botany and Agatha Christie novels. How would you describe Kolarov? Would you suggest that he is a fine footballer, owner of 43 caps for Serbia, possessor of a fierce […]

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