How Luton boss Rob Edwards brought out the best in Barkley
by Sam Tighe
at Alhamisi, Feb 8 2024 11:48
Ross Barkley just needs to be loved.It’s always been this way, throughout a career that brought him up and through the ranks at Everton, then to Chelsea, Aston Villa, Nice and now Luton Town. There is a clear common denominator to any success he’s had: He’s been shown care, underst...
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Ross Barkley's renaissance has Luton fans dreaming of beating the drop
by Greg Lea
at Ijumaa, Des 29 2023 11:53
On Saturday Luton Town will be seeking a third consecutive victory in the top flight for the first time since December 1991. Key to their efforts will be Ross Barkley, who will be especially determined to make a positive impression against his former club Chelsea.Barkley was Luton’s standout p...
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Who is Morgan Sanson? Stats, strengths and weaknesses of new Aston Villa recruit
by Martin Laurence
at Jumamosi, Jan 23 2021 17:31
With a fee agreed between Aston Villa and Marseille believed to be in the region of £14m, rising to £15.5m with add-ons, French midfielder Morgan Sanson is set to complete a move to the Midlands.Reports have been circling for over a week regarding a deal for the 26-year-old, with the imp...
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Scout Report
Fantasy football: Who to buy, sell and captain for gameweek 6
by Josh Wright
at Ijumaa, Okt 23 2020 12:45
We climbed nearly 150 places in the WhoScored Invitational last weekend, with new additions Harry Kane and Son Heung-Min both pulling in big scores on their debuts for us. Moving into gameweek six and we are eyeing another big move up the leaderboard in our own private league. As ever, we aren't int...
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Fantasy Football
Top four rivals Man Utd, Chelsea and Leicester dominate gameweek 33 top performers
by Josh Wright
at Jumanne, Jul 7 2020 11:13
There are only five games left to go in the Premier League and still plenty to play for even if Liverpool have already won the title. Gameweek 33 saw Manchester United up the ante on Chelsea and Leicester above them in the race for Champion League football, but both responded with important victorie...
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Featured
Maligned Southgate favourite Ross Barkley making timely return to form
by Martin Laurence
at Jumanne, Mac 10 2020 17:13
Common sense would suggest that the upcoming international break at the end of March will be scrapped altogether amid the Coronavirus crisis. However, common sense is yet to prevail.As things stand England have fixtures against Italy and Denmark to fulfil, and as such Gareth Southgate will be finali...
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Player Focus
Debutant one of six England changes for trip to Bulgaria
by Martin Laurence
at Jumatatu, Okt 14 2019 11:46
In response to his England's disappointing result and performance in the Czech Republic, Gareth Southgate is prepared to make six changes to the starting XI that fell to a 2-1 defeat.Among those set to come into the side against Bulgaria is Aston Villa centre-back Tyrone Mings, who is in line to mak...
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Team News
Countdown: England Euro 2020 player performance rankings so far
by Martin Laurence
at Jumanne, Sep 10 2019 11:15
Three games in, three wins and a goal difference of plus 13, it’s fair to say England’s start to their UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying campaign has been convincing. Some players, however, have been considerably more so in their performances than others, and ahead of Tuesday night’s game ...
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Countdown
England players rated and ranked following fantastic start to qualifying
by Martin Laurence
at Jumanne, Mac 26 2019 10:23
While marred by the racist abuse directed towards some of their players in Pognorica on Monday night, as far as England’s start to their European Championship qualifying campaign was concerned they could hardly have done so any stronger.With ten goals in two matches and two eye-catching full i...
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Team Focus
Two Chelsea stars named in Europa League team of the round
by Martin Laurence
at Ijumaa, Feb 22 2019 12:42
With the Europa League whittled down from 32 teams to 16 yesterday, we run through the team of the round of players to have featured in both of their side’s fixtures in the tournament over the past ten days.GK: Tomas Koubek (Rennes) - 7.43Rennes elimination of Quique Setien’s Real Betis ...
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