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Dani Alves joined Juventus last summer after seven years at Barcelona. Photograph: Mike Hewitt/Fifa via Getty Images
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Alexis Sánchez has seemed disillusioned at times this season with life at Arsenal and is out of contract in 2018. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian
‘Disappointed’ Alexis Sánchez at the Heart of Arsenal’s Pivotal Summer
London – As usual the vast majority of the punters in the Club Level seats that ring all the way round the prime view at the Emirates Stadium took their time to re-emerge into the sunshine after half-time of Arsenal’s game with Manchester United on Sunday. It is...Caption:
The referee Keith Stroud, with ball in hand, has a lot of explaining to do to Newcastle’s captain Jamaal Lascelles over the penalty fiasco. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Reuters
Referees are Damned by their Errors, Ignorance of the Laws is No Defence
The fact that the referee Martin Atkinson sounds even more like the comedian Bob Mortimer than he looks was not the most interesting revelation to emerge from Sky’s recent effort to show the human side of match officials on The Referees – Onside with Carragher and...Caption:
Gareth Bale has scored in Champions League and Copa del Rey finals but his language skills are still critiqued. Photograph: Alex Caparros/Getty Images
La Liga’s Foreign Players are Easy Targets until They Master the Spanish Language
n Spain, football is played in Spanish. There is a necessity to find both your feet and tongue in La Liga. In December, sports newspaper AS posted a video of Gareth Bale speaking about his recovery from injury under the tag: “Progress with Spanish, watch how he...Caption:
It may be that it is a sense Arsène Wenger cannot hand over Arsenal when the club is in such a mess that has persuaded him to stay on. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA