By Bulldog Drummond We have risen dramatically up the injury table since I last reported on it… # TEAM How many down Last man to fall What he done 1 Crystal Palace 9 C Wickham Groin Strain 2 West Ham United 8 J Hernandez Illness 3 Watford 7 M Britos Illness 4 Everton 6 I …
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By Bulldog Drummond It seems that a home game cannot come along without there being an in-depth enquiry into the number of people who actually attend, with bloggettas constantly putting up complaints about the “laughable” number of tickets sold – even though there is not the slightest bit of evidence that this number of false. …
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By Bulldog Drummond Undoubtedly the best place to start any preview of this game is with the wonderful Calvert Journal which opens its review of Russian football thus: Despite breakneck “Europeanisation”, Russian football hasn’t lost its trademark authenticity: managers still struggle to string words together at press conferences; no one knows any foreign languages, even …
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