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‘Are you listening, Stan Kroenke of Arsenal, the Venky’s bunch at Blackburn, Francesco Becchetti of Orient or those faceless Sisu hedge fund managers who are dragging Coventry to the brink of extinction?’ Illustration: Gary Neill

Faceless, Failing Club Owners could Learn from Juve’s Dazzling Dynasty

by Richard Williams | Apr 21, 2017 | Sports

London – What kind of people do you want to have running your football club? That’s the question fans of teams as different as Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Coventry City and Leyton Orient are asking themselves. Whether faltering just out of range of ultimate...

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Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, left, could not escape the attentions of Ander Herrera, right, at Old Trafford, while Michael Carrick also came off the bench to help Manchester United close out the game. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

Can other Teams Copy José Mourinho’s Template for Nullifying Chelsea?

by Michael Cox | Apr 21, 2017 | Sports

London – José Mourinho’s Manchester United are not the first side to defeat Antonio Conte’s Chelsea or even the first side to defeat Conte’s Chelsea since their season-changing switch to 3-4-3 back in October but no other side has nullified Chelsea’s attacking...

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Gareth Bale flies in on John O’Shea. Photograph: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images

Séamus Coleman’s Horrific Injury Demands Rethink of Misplaced Tolerance

by Daniel Taylor | Apr 19, 2017 | Sports

London – It doesn’t get any easier, no matter how many times you watch it. The way he lands, his instinctive reaction to assess the damage, the split second where you just hope your first suspicions might be wrong. But then Shane Long is cradling Séamus...

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Leicester’s Christian Fuchs takes a corner at Vicarage Road where, seen from this angle, his delivery needs to be extremely accurate in order to be dangerous. Photograph: John Sibley/Reuters

In Defence of the Corner, a Much-maligned Set Piece

by Gregg Bakowski | Apr 17, 2017 | Sports

London – Football fans have a curious relationship with corners. For a set piece that, according to Opta, leads to a goal only 3.2% of the time, they don’t half get excited about them. A stadium invariably gets louder when a corner is given and there is a...

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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

by Barry Glendenning | Apr 12, 2017 | Sports

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...