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Live Blog Commentary Of The Premier League

I’ve been wanting to play around with this stuff for a while and I’ll give it a try tomorrow. I’ll be starting early in the morning at 7:30 and cover Stoke City-Liverpool, Manchester United-Burnley, and Everton-Manchester City games. Feel free

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Money Struggles In the Premier League and Gameweek 22 I Know The Score

This week has been filled with gloom and doom for the two biggest clubs in English football Manchester United and Liverpool. The week started with reports of Manchester United’s money issues. The Glazers announced a plan to raise 500m pounds

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My Thoughts On The Birmingham-Manchester United Game

United will be disappointed that they could not defeat Birmingham as they dominated the game in terms of possession. United started off the game absolutely dominating possession but were not creating chances to trouble Joe Hart. Despite that Birmingham took

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My Thoughts On The Arsenal-Everton Game

The big news in this game at least from an American’s point of view was that this game marked the debut for Landon Donovan, who I paid particularly close attention to during this game. Everton started off very well putting

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Morning News: Premier League Fixtures Postponed, Viera completes Man city move, Dossean leaves Anfield, Thiago joins Atletico and Vidic out for 10 days

The weather is wreaking havoc in Britain as this weekend’s fixtures have been postponed due to weather making travel conditions to the stadium to hazardous. Fulham-Portsmouth, Burnley-Stoke, and Bolton-Sunderland have all been postponed and Liverpool are requesting that their fixture

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Premier League Offensive/Defensive Efficiencies and Gameweek 21 I Know The Score

In soccer there is always a challenge to somehow use statistics to figure out how things are going. I decided to give it a try by looking at the possession numbers as well as the offense and defense efficiencies. I

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My Thoughts On The Manchester United-Wigan Game

This game is a bit old as it happened last Wednesday but I did not get to see it due to technical difficulties with Setanta until today. This was a nice match to watch after the debacle that was the

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My Thoughts On The Aston Villa-Liverpool Game

This game might be the result that turns it around for Liverpool. Fernando Torres scored a late goal in the 93rd minute to give Liverpool the 1-0 game after being outplayed by Aston Villa. It was not resounding domination by

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Premier League Midseason Recap and Predictions

This past weekend completed the halfway point for most teams in the Premier League. I figured it was time to put up a recap of the season so far. I would focus on the surprising/disappointing teams as well as my

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My Thoughts On The Liverpool-Wolverhampton Game

The recap of this game was in my running commentary from the weekend. Wolverhampton tried but really did not create much danger. Liverpool were pretty slow but eventually got the job done against 10-man Wolverhampton. As a note for Liverpool,

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