Day: 21 December 2020

by Tony Attwood In its report on Leicester’s win at Tottenham, the Guardian mentions Leicester penalty five times.  On the BBC Radio 4 report this morning the penalty was mentioned four times.  But neither news source mentioned the real oddity of the Leicester penalty.   That is that this was Leicester’s ninth penalty of the season. …

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*excluding Pat Rice who only managed four games. By Tony Attwood When a manager leaves a club, normally all his team leave at the same time.  This certainly happened with Mr Wenger and Mr Emery.  Which meant that Mr Arteta needed to recruit his own staff, rather than have a team ready to move with …

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