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Gareth Bale Finally Gets A Win, Smalling Goes To Manchester, Americans On The Mend

Gareth Bale finally gets a win It has been a long journey that started in August of 2007, but Gareth Bale can finally say he was the winner of a Premier League game he started. Fulham seem to be good

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Is Robinho The Biggest Premier League Flop?

The biggest news of the day is the possible departure of Robinho for Santos in Brazil. Juan Sebastian Veron is often cited as the biggest flop in the Premier League era, but Robinho is certainly putting up some stern competition.

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My Thoughts On The Manchester United-Hull City Game

The storyline of this game will be Wayne Rooney’s four goals and it should be but there were a wealth of good performances for United. It helped that United got the early goal in the game in the 8th minute.

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Effective Goals And Gameweek 23 I Know The Score

I decided to give another run at a different statistic that might be helpful for determining how important a player is to their team. I decided to look at this by looking at effective goals. This idea was based on

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The Day In Soccer: How Many Liverpool Revivals Is This?

Liverpool got a 2-0 win over Tottenham that leaves them only 1 point out of fourth place and once again there is belief that this is the great Liverpool revival. I almost want to see if the patterns of the

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The Day In Soccer: Saving Rooney, Tiebreakers, and Dempsey Update

I did not put it into the my report on the Manchester derby, but I have to say it. I’m not sure why Sir Alex Ferguson constantly turns out squads with Wayne Rooney up front by himself. He is just

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My Thoughts On The Manchester City-Manchester United Game

This was a mouth watering matchup that I was excited about and the game certainly lived up to its billing. Both teams came out with pretty much their full strength squads. Carlos Tevez was the hero scoring two goals, although

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The Day In Soccer: Manchester Derby Preview and Tevez vs. Berbatov

This game has been delayed a few weeks due to weather, but this matchup should be exciting. The first matchup was memorable as Michael Owen got an injury time winner in a 4-3 game. Ferguson has mainly used the his

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The Day In Soccer: 7 Hours Of Premier League Football and 7 Goals For Chelsea

Chelsea made an emphatic statement that they should be considered the front runners for the title. They were impressive in their 7-2 destruction of Sunderland, which was without Didier Drogba, John Obi Mikel, and Michael Essien. Chelsea still have to

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LIVE BLOG: Premier League Saturday

Like I said, I would going to give this a try through three games today. The first game will be Liverpool’s trip to Stoke City followed by Burnley’s trip to Old Trafford to play Manchester United. The final game could

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