AuthorBoth Outcasts After indicating what our all-time top 11 team would be, check it out if you haven’t already, we thought we would try our hand at coming up with another fantasy style team. With it being the year the British and Irish Lions rugby side come to the southern hemisphere we thought why not a football version?
Again the only caveat was that we had to have watched these players play during our lifetime and this time we have requested fellow bloggers @SportingMad to submit teams. I shall let my fellow Outcast kick the teams off though, then the Sporting Mad team will provide their teams before I round off this top 11. So down to Sports Billy to start. AuthorJeffEyesRimmer While watching the highlights of the Manchester City versus Everton match last week I was struck by the level of possession that City had yet could not break down the Everton defence. There seemed to be a “pass up the field at all costs” approach from City that seemed all too simple for Everton to defend against. In the end we all know the result, but I thought surely a long ball now and again up the field to chase might have been better than trying to pass it out of defence all the time. Losing the ball in the opposition’s box is slightly better than losing it in your own penalty box.
AuthorJeffEyesRimmer With the large sums of money washing around the English Premier League it is easy to think that clubs spending big bucks on players will bring immediate success. Players coming in for over $20 million must be good right?
Well more Premier League clubs seem to be casting their eye down the divisions now. Some of the recent lower league players that stepped up to the EPL showed that there are bargains down in the lower leagues. The likes of Jamie Vardy and Dele Alli are obvious choices but also Troy Deeney and Rob Holding have proved they were more than capable of playing at a higher level in recent times. Now we are in the January window and Everton have snapped up Ademola Lookman and Arsenal have brought in Cohen Bramall. So who else could potentially make the step up? Below are a few players we think that could potentially make the grade in the EPL. AuthorSports Billy Has Pep been found out as a manager now that he is with Manchester City? This may seem like a rather knee jerk reaction to a 4-0 loss to Everton on the weekend, but judging by his reaction afterwards and the overall performance so far this season, something just doesn’t seem right with him or the squad.
AuthorJeffEyesRimmer It has been in the news and social media so much this week that you can’t help to read about it - Diego Costa being dropped by Chelsea this weekend. It shouldn’t really be news but the various rumours circling about the player’s fitness levels, a potential back injury and a massive transfer offer from China have all been talked about. So too the rumoured fallout with Manager Antonio Conte, with one report saying that Conte shouted at the player to ‘Go to China’. Put simply this is all just speculation and the typical rumour mill the newspapers rely on being in full swing.
Regardless of whether Costa does go to China for a lucrative payoff or whether he plays nice with manager and club we feel that there is one thing that is a given – he will never truly be loved by the Chelsea faithful. AuthorJeffEyesRimmer The African Cup of Nations starts up today in Gabon and with it there has been the inevitable departure of players from the EPL. The African Cup of Nations does have a reputation of being able to influence leagues around the world with players being called up half way through a campaign. Plenty of Premier League clubs have felt their form suffer with the loss of key players to AFCON overs the years.
So which EPL teams will potentially suffer the greatest over the coming few weeks? AuthorJeffEyesRimmer The inevitable has happened and the new FIFA president has asserted his authority and we now have an expanded World Cup to enjoy/deal with. While FIFAs official line is that it is a sporting decision to expand the competition we are not so daft and see it for what it really is: a political based decision to increase the bottom line on the balance sheet. FIFA can spout all the sporting merit reasons it wants (there aren’t many) but at the end of the day the clubs, players and fans are left with an increased World Cup to 48 teams.
AuthorJeffEyesRimmer The FA Cup third round was played this past weekend and while various other websites, pundits and newspapers debate the results, or lack of them, for the Premier league clubs, we are going to come out and say it – the magic of the FA Cup is gone.
Yes, we know others are debating it but we think it is done; the magic has been lost to a world of TV executives and moneymen. The FA Cup, the oldest cup competition in the world, was once respected and the envy of the world, but it has now lost its appeal to the Premier League clubs and if we are honest to the fans as well. AuthorSports Billy Now I realise this article is going to be polarising, but...is Zlatan Ibrahimović one of the most overrated players ever?
I know he has won stuff everywhere he's been, but bear with me while I try and get my thoughts across. |
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