Day: 14 April 2021

By Bulldog Drummond Slavia Prague’s Ondřej Kúdela has been banned for ten matches for racist behaviour.  This includes the one-match provisional suspension served in last week’s EL quarter-final v Arsenal. Meanwhile there is no certainty about the fitness of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Martin Odegaard.  Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe are however both ready and …

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by Bulldog Drummond Since the first leg one week ago, Slavia Prague, the club run by a subsidiary of the Chinese state, have played one game, as have Arsenal.   While we beat bottom club Sheffield United 3-0 Slavia Prague beat their local rivals Sparta Prague 2-0. So the position at the top of the Czech …

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