I don’t recall ever seeing anything like it, not even at lower levels of competition, let alone in a televised Wembley final. Deep into extra time of Sunday’s League Cup Final under-fire Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri, having seen his goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga twice go down with cramp, opted to replace him with sub keeper Willy […]
As much as everyone suspected the defeat at St James Park was a temporary blip, a one-off, a lapse in focus; no one truthfully saw what happened next coming. As good as Manchester City were in making light work of Arsenal last week, the shredding to pieces of Chelsea last Sunday was simply extraordinary. To […]
Start of the season thoughts- https://football-nerd.org/2018/08/10/football-nerd-weekly-ramblings-the-premier-league-is-back-will-anyone-be-able-to-stop-manchester-city/ As October reached its end, with each of the Premier League teams having now played a quarter of their matches, it feels like an appropriate time to take stock of how things are shaping up. Going into the season considered opinion suggested that the push for the title […]
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