Beat the drop

Roberto Martinez

Roberto Martinez

By Striker

 

WITH just a couple of matches left for each team, the relegation battle in the Premiership is gradually turning into a red-hot contest, for, with Reading and QPR already condemned to the Championship, the identity of the third team to accompany them down is still right in the melting pot.

 

Aston Villa, just a few weeks ago, looked prime candidates for the drop, but, with some sterling displays since, have eased slightly away from the danger zone, and do look to have the capabilities for survival, as they are now on the elusive 40 points mark. Villa’s last two games are toughies, Chelsea at home, and their fellow strugglers Wigan away, and they would do well to get three points from these two games.

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A done deal

alex_fergusonby Striker

 

Since the Premiership looks like a done deal for the Red Devils, its only natural that the closing weeks of the season would be focussed on who is going to win the FA Cup, who will the final top four contain, and of course, who will be the the unfortunate three who will be taking the plunge into the relative oblivion of the Championship Section.

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A fighting display

fighting-irishby Striker

 

TALK about making everybody eat their words! Everybody! Well very nearly anyway, and for certain those who didn’t expect “Trapp’s Chaps” to get anything at all out of last Friday’s qualifier against Sweden, but, being the funny type of game that soccer is, our Irish lads bravely went out there and confounded their many critics, with a fighting display that would warm the cockles of any sporting heart.

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Six-pointer for Trap

Trapattoniby Striker

 

What could anyone make of Man City? One would have thought that having made the transition into what are called the “money” teams, that they would eventually go on to collecting some silverware, either in England, or indeed on the European shelf.

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The merry-go-round

Rafa_Benitezby Striker

 

ONE of the real wonders of the current season is that Chelsea seem to have maintained their classy football standard, which has them steady in the top four places in the Premiership, especially when one thinks of the musical chairs that their directors have been playing with some of the top managers in the world of soccer over the years.

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1966 and all that

Bobby Moore World Cup 66 - vaultby Striker

 

Looking at the Premier League table at the moment puts me in mind of a situation many years ago, 1966 in fact, and the World Cup.

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The vagaries of the FA Cup

fa-cupby Striker

 

The vagaries of the FA Cup were very well illustrated over last weekend, when, once again one of the mighty ones has fallen by the wayside, in the shape of Arsenal, who were pipped by a Blackburn goal in the closing stages of a pretty pedestrian style game.

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The best in the world?

premier-leagueby Striker

 

Well, how many times have we heard down the years, especially from the news media across the water, that the English Premier League is the best and toughest soccer league in the whole world?

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Too big a gap?

Man Utd or on course for another title

Man Utd or on course for another title

by Striker

 

Well, after last weekend’s series of matches, the top of the Premiership is beginning to resemble washing on a clothes-line, with large gaps gradually being created between most of those in the leading group.

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Attack of the giant killers

king-kongby Striker

 

Well, the FA Cup once again proved not to be a happy hunting ground for the Premiership teams, with a few of the leading ones biting the dust, and some of the others only barely holding on for dodgy replays.

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