Posts by Graham Ruthven
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Meet AFC Bournemouth, the Premier League’s New Rich Man’s Fairy Tale
As recently as 2008, Bournemouth were in last place among the 92 teams in England’s top four divisions. Three months from now, they’ll play their first game in the Premier League.
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Part-Time Patience: Why Manchester City Should Keep Manuel Pellegrini Around for Another Year
Whether City should be looking to replace Pellegrini is a different question entirely, but with his departure looking inevitable, the club would be smart to at least hold on to their manager for one more year.
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We Went There: The Return of the Old Firm Derby
For all the venom and malice between the two sets of fans in the crowd, there was something else amiss about this game.
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Is Financial Fair Play Killing Soccer’s January Transfer Window?
If anything, FFP is protecting clubs like Manchester United and other European super clubs like Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Real Madrid while punishing clubs that aspire to upset the established order.
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Who’s Going to Win the Club World Cup? Related: Who Cares?
Despite all of its shimmering symbolism, soccer’s club world championship can’t escape irrelevance.
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What Happens to Soccer Wunderkinds When They Aren’t So Wonderful Anymore?
At the age of 15, my weekends mainly consisted of sitting on a darkened park bench, trying to keep down sickly swills of cheap cider while listening to tinny dance tunes playing from a cell phone. It’s fair to say that by the same age Martin Odegaard is outperforming me. Born in December 1998, the […]
