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The clash of the Midlands maestros

04/12/2019 Chris Nee

Gareth Southgate’s preferred 4-3-3 formation brings a certain fluidity to England’s play that’s been there all too infrequently in the national team’s thousand matches.

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Should England recall Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy?

10/11/2019 Chris Nee

Jamie Vardy is unusual. The Leicester City striker is a sort of throwback who’s not a throwback, a player with a story that belongs in the 1970s but a style that suits the modern game to a tee.

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Ecstasy frozen in time

20/09/201920/09/2019 Chris Nee

11th July 2018 started as an ordinary day at the height of the English summer. Close but barely sunlit, morning eased into afternoon and distraction took hold of a nation.

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This ain’t a football song: the story of ‘World In Motion’

29/06/2019 David Hartrick

Before Italia ’90, the worlds of music and England’s national football team had not so much clashed as gently bumped into each other to the sound of men in blazers struggling to sing a chorus.

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You’re about to fall in love with Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish

30/05/2019 Chris Nee

Aston Villa’s promotion back to the Premier League is the claret and blue touch paper of Jack Grealish’s career.

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England players won’t bow to racism

19/05/201928/05/2019 Chris Nee

It should be to the enormous shame of UEFA that players of colour are still openly abused under its jurisdiction.

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