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Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho & The War on Diving
Football managers don’t tell the truth. They say what suits their own ambitions and interests, as for Jose Mourinho and Chelsea, obviously, the issue of diving is something they’re trying to conceal, although the evidence from players like Oscar and Ramires this season point otherwise.
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David Moyes & Manchester United Sinking to the Pleasure of All
Conspiracy theory? Bad players? Bad manager? Whatever it is, something (a lot of somethings) isn’t working at Old Trafford, becoming a stage for setting long forgotten records as Manchester United under David Moyes has turned into something of a laughing stock, and the manager trying to blame everyone else but himself simply doesn’t seem to be working.
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Liverpool FC – Iago Aspas & Resting Stars is All That Mattered
Obviously, Brendan Rodgers wanted to avoid the embarrassment of losing to Oldham in the FA Cup for a second straight season. He managed to get by that difficulty comfortably enough (2-0), but it seemed like finally giving Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho some rest and on the way getting Iago Aspas to actually score a goal might have been just as important as Liverpool winning the match.
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Match Highlights – Juventus vs Roma
For about 10 minutes, Roma were the best team on the pitch. But then Arturo Vidal opened the scoring, and Juventus took complete control of the ‘match of the season’ completing a 3-0 win with goals from Leonardo Bonucci and Mirko Vucinic, while Daniele De Rossi and Leonardo Castan got sent off as the runners-up completely fell apart in the second half.
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Match Highlights – Nottingham Forest vs West Ham
It was difficult to understand why the referee kept adding minutes to injury time while Nottingham Forest were tearing West Ham to shreds in the biggest upset of the FA Cup third round mostly because of the 5-0 win, and not the disparity between the leagues, as Djamel Abdoun and Jamie Paterson put on quite a performance.
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Transfer Rumors – Juan Mata Looking for a New Team
Everyone knows Juan Mata is looking to get himself into a better situation than he currently is in. While Chelsea and Jose Mourinho aren’t planning to sell him, they’re open for offers, while Mata’s father and agent has been shopping him around to Barcelona, Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain, Napoli and Inter, hoping to find a way out of his current situation.
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Juventus vs Roma – Not That Important
Beyond the known football clichés resides the truth – big matches, even against the biggest of rivals, are only worth three points, especially when there’s more than half a season to go in the Italian Serie A. Any result in the Juventus – Roma clash, ‘Match of the Season’ in Italy, will have a big impact on the title race, but it won’t decide anything.
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Chelsea FC Transfer Rumors – Going After Wayne Rooney or Mario Balotelli
No one loves going shopping in January, but Chelsea do have quite a critical situation with their strikers, who have scored a total of 7 league goals so far this season. The answer? Wayne Rooney of Manchester Untied and Mario Balotelli of AC Milan.
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Match Highlights – Arsenal vs Tottenham
The superiority of Arsenal over their biggest rivals, Tottenham, continues, beating Spurs 2-0 with a solid performance, enjoying an opening goal from Santi Cazorla and a second half clincher from Tomas Rosicky.
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FA Cup – Third Round Upsets
The third round of the FA Cup gave us one huge shocker with Sheffield United beating Aston Villa in Birmingham, making them the only Premier League team to lose to a club from a lower division, but three more clubs from the top tier – Tottenham, Newcastle and West Brom lost to clubs from the same level, ending their Cup experience for the season.