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Boost for Wilder as Blades finally show their steel
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 16/01/2021
» Few Premier League fans will begrudge Sheffield United picking up their first win of the season at the 18th attempt, when they deservedly defeated Newcastle United 1-0 at Bramall Lane on Tuesday night.
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Goals galore in Premier League, but the outlook for fans is gloomy
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 26/09/2020
» When you get down to the basics in football, it is goals that people want to see and that's what we were treated to in the Premier League last week.
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Leeds finally back after painful journey
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 25/07/2020
» When Leeds United went into administration in 2007, their new chairman Ken Bates commented: "Right now we are at the bottom of our cycle, but Leeds United are one of the big six clubs. The small clubs can have their day in the sun but eventually they go back where they came from. Leeds will always be a big club."
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Nigel Clough falls victim to cost-cutting
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 30/05/2020
» One indirect casualty of the coronavirus is Nigel Clough who has unexpectedly stepped down as a manager of League One side Burton Albion, a club with which he has had a very productive relationship for many years.
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Saints keep faith in manager Hasenhuttl
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 06/06/2020
» When Southampton were humiliated 9-0 at their St Mary's Stadium by Leicester last October, few thought Austrian manager Ralph Hasenhuttl would survive the coming weeks as fans and owners understandably demanded some kind of explanation.
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Some people are not missing sport at all
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/03/2020
» Anyone reading these pages may well be suffering withdrawal symptoms of not being able to see live sport, or even read about it, because there simply isn't any.
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League Cup is not worthless for all
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 29/02/2020
» In its early days the English League Cup was dismissed by a senior sports journalist as a "mammoth irrelevance" and some would still agree with that assessment. For all the efforts of the different sponsors -- and they have changed with regular frequency -- the tournament has always been regarded as a poor relation to the League championship and the FA Cup, which itself has lost much of its former aura.
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The real scrap is down at the bottom
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 01/02/2020
» With Juergen Klopp's Liverpool running away with the title in grand style, apart from the customary scramble for European places, the main interest in the Premier League for many fans has switched to the bottom half of the table and the battle to avoid relegation.
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Baggies looking good, but it's still tight
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 15/02/2020
» Although it is only the second tier in English football, the Championship is a fiercely competitive league, and this season is no exception.
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Five gaffers with something to prove
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 11/01/2020
» As winter closed in, the last six weeks of 2019 saw a major upheaval in managers at five Premier League clubs, some changes more surprising than others.
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