Arsenal are finalising Mikel Arteta's new contract as the longest-serving Premier League manager prepares to secure his future. By Vaelin Lamorra Mikel Arteta is about to become one of the best-paid managers in world football. Arsenal are finalising a new contract that will significantly improve on his current £10m annual deal, with an additional £5m
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FPL autosubs are straightforward until your eight-point substitute remains parked on the bench while a less exciting colleague strolls into the team with two. At that point, the system appears to have abandoned fantasy football and begun interpreting constitutional law.
Pochettino believes Tottenham should get Chelsea's 2016-17 title due to rule breaches, but title stripping is virtually unprecedented and unlikely despite Premier League findings. By Vaelin Lamorra Mauricio Pochettino has made a serious accusation: that Tottenham should be awarded the 2016-17 Premier League title because Chelsea, who won it by seven points, did not compete
Manchester United’s realistic Champions League success means group stage qualification, not trophy ambitions, as financial need and squad rebuild severely limit genuine competitive capability.
Barcelona's tactical preference for Gordon's intensity over Rashford's goal-scoring is proving justified through early assists and Flick's pressing system demands. By Vaelin Lamorra Marcus Rashford scored 14 goals in La Liga last season. Let that sink for a moment. An English winger on loan at Barcelona, in a rebuilt attacking system, contributed a goal every
Your player scored, collected an assist and appeared to have three bonus points safely tucked into his shirt. An hour later, he had none. Somewhere, a centre-back who spent the afternoon heading away crosses had overtaken him without so much as appearing in the highlights.
The Savant returns for Gameweek 4 with his first FPL XI, captaincy verdict, transfer thesis and one differential the masses have overlooked.
Thirty-six clubs play eight league-phase matches before the top eight advance and teams placed ninth to 24th contest knockout play-offs. By Vaelin Lamorra The Champions League no longer has groups. It has one enormous table, eight matches per club and a knockout route influenced by where every team finishes. UEFA has essentially replaced eight tidy
Nothing exposes the peculiar cruelty of Fantasy Premier League quite like buying a player for £7.5m, watching him rise to £7.6m and discovering that selling him still returns £7.5m.
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The ICC runs separate championships for Tests, ODIs and T20Is, each with its own format, schedule and frequently changing qualification system. By Vaelin Lamorra International cricket has four major men’s ICC competitions and roughly seven different ways of explaining them, several involving arrows, percentage points and the phrase “qualification pathway”. The simple version is that
Australia have won the men’s ODI Cricket World Cup six times, a level of sustained dominance usually associated with gravity, tax demands and television detectives who refuse to retire. India and West Indies have two titles each, while Pakistan, Sri Lanka and England have won once.
Pakistan are coming to England for three Test matches, which means Test cricket has once again decided to make itself interesting by inviting Pakistan.
Let’s be honest, nothing – and I mean nothing – gets a cricket fan’s heart racing like India versus Pakistan in a T20 World Cup.
Five performances. One legend. From Gatting’s disbelief to SCG glory, Shane Warne turned cricket into theatre pure, spinning genius.
Cricket’s “gentleman’s game” takes off the gloves five legendary sledges that turned banter into art, from biscuits to brutality.
Five spells of pure swing sorcery Wasim Akram turned cricket into physics-defying poetry, making every delivery a masterclass in menace.
