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Friendly rivals

They’re an odd couple, Jason McAteer and David May. One’s skinny, the other’s chubby (don’t tell him that, though). One’s gregarious, the other’s awkward. One’s Irish, the other’s English. And, of course, one used to play for Liverpool, the other for Manchester United. “I don’t even like him!” said Treble-winning former United defender May. “And […]

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Predictions for the season

I really don’t want to write too much about Manchester City. I really don’t. I was actually going to just do my predictions for the season, but right after my last entry on how City have been gleefully living up to their tag as the rich, noisy neighbours of English football, I read about that […]

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Captain Malaysia

There’s a famous char koay teow stall in Kelana Jaya, outside the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) building, that’s become like the unofficial meet-up point for those who’ve any business with the FAM. If you’re a fan of the national football team – and don’t tell anyone I told you this – all you have […]

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Expensive Englishmen

IT’S one of those things you hear so often that you just sort of accept it as truth – in this day and age, English football players cost more. That, my friends, is how ghost stories, mysterious UFO sightings, Bigfoot and the perception of Taylor Swift as a singer came about. As illogical and ridiculously […]

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Rumour has it

It’s been a while since I posted anything here, and I’ve been quite eager to get back to writing, especially with all the transfers going on. I’ve been kept busy by this leadership training thingy The Star asked some of us to do, and I’m finally graduating tomorrow (fingers crossed), after SEVEN months of seminars, […]

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Jones vs. Henderson

So who got the better deal – Liverpool or Manchester United? One is a tough-tackling, uncompromising monster of a defender in the Jamie Carragher mould; the other, an elegant playmaker that could, by some stretch of the imagination, be seen as the English Kaka. Both players are well-built, at around 6 ft 2 in, contrary […]

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Past vs. Present

IT’S not often that Alex Ferguson is described as gracious in defeat, but then again, it’s not often he gets so comprehensively beaten.

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The season that was

For all fans of the English Premier League, the 2010-11 season will be remembered for having as many highs and lows as a James Durbin-Scotty McCreery duet.

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The Pea-rfect debut

With the Premier League trophy as well as engraved with Manchester United’s name now, the question has to be asked: how did this relatively ordinary and unexciting United side manage to win the most competitive league in the world?

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Chicharito outshines rival stars

Here’s a great stat I found online – Fernando Torres, Edin Dzeko and Andy Carroll cost a total of 112 million pounds, and Carroll is the only one to have scored for his new club in the Premier League.

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