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All the players that sit in Pep Guardiola’s circular dressing room enjoy equal status. Photograph: Victoria Haydn/Manchester City FC via Getty Images

Pep Guardiola’s Circular Dressing Room Offers One Way to Split Up Team Cliques

by Barry Glendenning | Sep 20, 2017 | Sports

London- The butt of much public mockery when Sky’s cameras captured assorted well-heeled corporate clients peering through its walls of two‑way glass last Monday night, Manchester City’s Tunnel Club is the most amusing but not necessarily most interesting renovation...

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Pep Guardiola and Andres Iniesta. (Getty Images)

Guardiola: My Debt to Andrés Iniesta and how he Opened my Eyes on Tactics

by Marc A. Thiessen | Sep 19, 2017 | Sports

Barcelona – Late summer 2008. Barcelona lose 1–0 in Soria against little Numancia on the opening day of the league season. A tough baptism for the debutant coach, Pep Guardiola, made all the harder when the result isn’t much better in their second game against...

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Former Crystal Palace manager Dave Bassett. (Getty Images)

Frank de Boer Left Crystal Palace after 77 Days. Dave Bassett Didn’t Last 77 Hours

by Steven Pye | Sep 18, 2017 | Sports

London – Frank de Boer didn’t win a league game in his short tenure at Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park. Back in 1984, Dave Bassett didn’t stick around long enough to see the team play. Bassett’s stock was on the rise in the summer of 1984. After guiding Wimbledon...

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Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho. (AFP)

Transfer System Isn’t Perfect but Premier League Plans Don’t Make Sense

by Nick Miller | Sep 18, 2017 | Sports

London – The news that Premier League clubs are considering closing the transfer window before the season starts is not a particular surprise. Complaints from virtually everyone in the game are long-standing that transfer business dragging on alongside actual...

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PSG forwards Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edison Cavani. (AFP)

MCN to LOL: the New Super Forward Lines Set to Dominate the Champions League

by The Guardian | Sep 17, 2017 | Sports

London – When Paris Saint-Germain signed Neymar from Barcelona for £198m this summer they not only broke the transfer record but also destroyed one of the most successful attacking trios of all time. Neymar, Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez – nicknamed MSN – had...

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Roy Hodgson on the training ground at Crystal Palace. ‘He’s very good at getting players to understand their role within the team,’ says his former assistant Terry Burton. Photograph: CPFC

Why Roy Hodgson could be Perfect for Palace

by James B. Stewart | Sep 16, 2017 | Sports

London- When West Bromwich Albion players think back to the early days under Roy Hodgson, the memories that stick in the mind are of the shift in the intensity of their work on the training ground, the way they returned to the dressing rooms exhausted, and how their...