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Bayern Munich Were at Their Best Last Season When Arjen Robben Wasn’t Playing
A strong finish to last season and a great start to this one makes people forget a very important thing about Bayern Munich and their extremely deep squad – Arjen Robben wasn’t even playing for about half a season last year, probably when Bayern were playing their best football.
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Manchester United – David Moyes Has to Stop Blaming Luck
No one expected for David Moyes to have an easy first season at the helm as Manchester United manager. However, no one expected it to be this bad. What’s more frustrating for those who have the club’s best interest in mind is that there’s no sign of improvement, consistency or some sort of instilling football philosophy. David Moyes is diverting attention from himself to the players, mentioning luck and other things as the culprits in the bad results, but it’s hard to deny he has a huge part in everything that’s going on.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez Only Needs Norwich in His Life
It’s hard to say what it is exactly that makes Norwich such easy prey for Luis Suarez who simply goes ballistic every time he sees them. His most recent stat line? Four goals, one assist, which puts him once again on the top of the scoring charts with 13, two more than Sergio Aguero, while Liverpool themselves find out once again that playing with the right kind of attacking lineup makes all the difference against inferior teams.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Makes Up For Awful Defending
This isn’t the Chelsea team Jose Mourinho had during his first Premier League tenure, so he has to play to the current strengths. Not the defense, which is a mess right now no matter who is playing in it, but the attacking midfield and especially Eden Hazard, the team’s best player that should have more nights of dominant football like his most recent performance, finishing with two goals and an assist.
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Arsenal FC – Mesut Ozil Coming Back to Life
If there was ever an opportunity to give Olivier Giroud some much needed rest, Arsene Wenger finally found it, while getting something out of Nicklas Bendtner to the surprise of everyone. But focusing on more important players for Arsenal down the road, the fantastic job Aaron Ramsey this season in every match resulted in Mesut Ozil getting on the scoresheet, and looking better than he has in over a month.
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College Football Preseason Rankings Mean Nothing – 2013 Edition
Every season there’s another example of how preseason polls are quite terrible at predicting who are actually the best teams in college football. Florida State, undefeated and number one heading into the conference championship game, were outside the top 10. Florida, who finish the season at 4-8 were the number 10 team in the nation when the polls came out.
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Cristiano Ronaldo Proves Again What a Huge Douchebag he is
You aren’t going to convince Cristiano Ronaldo fans about anyone else being the best in the world. The problem isn’t with his football, it’s the man’s ego, that seems to be unsatiable and ever expanding, reaching a new high (or low), announcing that he’ll open a Museum on the island of Madeira, where he grew up, dedicated to… Cristiano Ronaldo of course.
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NBA Rumors – Oklahoma City Thunder & New York Knicks In Trade For Nick Collison & Iman Shumpert
Even deals that don’t really make any sense get made, so it wouldn’t be too much of a shock if the Oklahoma City Thunder and the New York Knicks get together and work out a trade that sends Iman Shumpert for Nick Collison.
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Another Reason Why Missouri or Auburn Don’t Deserve to Jump Ohio State
The logic behind the SEC clamoring for another team in the national championship game, even if it means a one-loss Auburn or Missouri gets to jump an undefeated Ohio State team, is also the same logic that can be used by Arizona State, playing in the very tough Pac-12 with nine conference games and not eight, to jump over both Tigers teams even though they have two losses.
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Now Antonio Smith Doesn’t Think The Patriots Were Cheating
One minute after a loss Antonio Smith is making very easy to spot allegations against the New England Patriots for cheating by spying on the Houston Texans. A couple of days later and it seems like he’s forgotten about the whole thing.