Sam Waddell
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When the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund completed their takeover of Newcastle United in 2021, Amanda Staveley – the public face of the new regime – said that the club aimed to be competing for the Premier League within five years, and win it within ten. That always seemed an ambitious aim but, as they head into what was meant to be the final season before they began regularly challenging for trophies, the idea of the Premier League title at St James’ Park is more distant than ever. This we
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Although League One has become something of a graveyard for big clubs in recent years, there will be an especially notable scalp for clubs to aim to beat in England’s third tier next season: Leicester City. Leicester suffered their second straight relegation – and their third in the last four years – from the Championship last season, the culmination of an embarrassing downfall just ten years on from their miraculous Premier League title win, and a mere five years from their maiden FA Cup triump
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On Thursday 2 July, Americans watching the beautiful game for the first time this summer were introduced to a core experience for football fans – a downright terrible officiating error from VAR that disadvantages your team. Folarin Balogun, the starting striker for the USMNT and arguably their star performer of the tournament, was sent off in the 64th minute of their round of 32 clash against Bosnia and Herzegovina. VAR intervened, deeming a collision with Bosnian defender Tarik Muharemovic wort
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The Semi-finals. The best of the best. By this stage of the tournament, the fairytale runs are meant to be over, with every team left in the competition an elite side with a real shot at winning it. This has not always been the case. Perhaps with an eye to the fact that at the last World Cup Croatia and Morocco made the semi-finals, with the former having gone all the way to the final in 2018, FIFA decided to seed the knockout draw for the first time. The aim was clear: keep the four highest ran
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