Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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David Moyes feels he is paying for predecessors’ recruitment mistakes at Sunderland, has been unlucky with injuries and wants time to conduct root and branch reform. Photograph: Scott Heppell/Reuters

Sunderland Fans Expose David Moyes’ Decline and Could Spark His Fall

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 18, 2017 | Sports

This time four years ago David Moyes was about to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United but today he is struggling to restore his tattered reputation at Sunderland where a significant proportion of supporters want him sacked. It has been quite a fall from...

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‘Sam Allardyce usually promises solidity and safety, nothing more, and rightly or wrongly some clubs set their sights higher than that.’ Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Sam Allardyce: The Formidable Firefighter Cursed By Unrealistic Expectations

by Paul Wilson | Apr 15, 2017 | Sports

Queuing up for some liquid refreshment at one of the country’s overcrowded beauty spots at the weekend, it was impossible not to overhear the excitable football chatter of a couple of Crystal Palace supporters nearing the bar. This was a day before the prodigious...

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David Moyes will be handed the opportunity to rebuild Sunderland next season, even if they are relegated to the Championship. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Toxic Mood at Relegation-Threatened Sunderland Is Helping Nobody

by Louise Taylor | Apr 5, 2017 | Sports

Managerial stability is supposed to promote reassurance, a sense of safety even, but its belated advent at Sunderland has merely prompted widespread insecurity. Last July David Moyes became the club’s seventh manager in five turbulent seasons as Ellis Short vowed to...

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After guiding Leicester City to the Premier League title in his first season with the club, Claudio Ranieri is in danger of taking them down in his second. Photograph: Ashley Crowden/CameraSport via Getty

Dilemmas Mount for Clubs Engaged In Premier League Relegation Dogfight

by Louise Taylor | Feb 24, 2017 | Sports

Sack the manager? Keep the manager? Sell your best player and import seven new ones, five on loan? Go warm‑weather training in Dubai? Cancel the Gulf trip? Switch to a sweeper system? Revert to a flat back four? Play two up front? Keep the faith with a lone striker?...

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Lynden Gooch’s performances for Sunderland have brought international recognition with the United States. Photograph: Gary Calton for the Guardian

Sunderland’s Lynden Gooch: ‘People say bad Things to Me about the North-East but I Don’t Know Why’

by Louise Taylor | Nov 27, 2016 | Sports

Lynden Gooch sometimes struggles to comprehend just how rapidly his life has changed. “A couple of months ago I don’t think many people knew who I was,” he says, breaking into a high-wattage smile capable of powering a set of floodlights. “No one knew anything much...