Barney Ronay

Rise of long balls marks latest trend in frenzied evolution of Premier League Set pieces, long throws and generally getting it launched are back with a vengeance amid a notable tactical shift

Game Of Throwns
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Rise of long balls marks latest trend in frenzied evolution of Premier League Set pieces, long throws and generally getting it launched are back with a vengeance amid a notable tactical shift

Game Of Throwns
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Maresca’s wild sprint a red-hot release after Chelsea stifle misfiring Liverpool | Barney Ronay The Blues’ head coach was sent off after Estêvão Willian’s injury-time winner but it is Arne Slot who has solutions to find

Crisis-ridden crisis club goes from crisis to crisis
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Maresca’s wild sprint a red-hot release after Chelsea stifle misfiring Liverpool | Barney Ronay The Blues’ head coach was sent off after Estêvão Willian’s injury-time winner but it is Arne Slot who has solutions to find

Crisis-ridden crisis club goes from crisis to crisis
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Wirtz becomes latest footballer battling to best their objectively weird price tag | Barney Ronay High-technique midfielder is talented enough for his Liverpool move to work out but most transfers over £80m don’t

From bad to Wirtz- the top 30 transfers of all time RANKED!!
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Wirtz becomes latest footballer battling to best their objectively weird price tag | Barney Ronay High-technique midfielder is talented enough for his Liverpool move to work out but most transfers over £80m don’t

From bad to Wirtz- the top 30 transfers of all time RANKED!!
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Thug life chose you

Fascinating as these topics are, just getting a sense this album may not be geared specifically towards me

Ødegaard and Gyökeres on centre stage as Arteta’s Arsenal plan takes shape | Barney Ronay With an enticing run of fixtures coming up and the captain back to his best, an enjoyable autumn seems on the cards

This is a very good Arsenal
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Ødegaard and Gyökeres on centre stage as Arteta’s Arsenal plan takes shape | Barney Ronay With an enticing run of fixtures coming up and the captain back to his best, an enjoyable autumn seems on the cards

This is a very good Arsenal
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Faux-humble José Mourinho plays his part on oddly tender Chelsea return | Barney Ronay This was not a hangover from another world. It was bang up to date, a piece of pure theatre, entertainment product

Jose and the way we were
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Faux-humble José Mourinho plays his part on oddly tender Chelsea return | Barney Ronay This was not a hangover from another world. It was bang up to date, a piece of pure theatre, entertainment product

Jose and the way we were
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At any normal club Ruben Amorim would lose his job – but not Manchester United | Barney Ronay Obdurate manager’s Ruben-ball could arguably take the blame for Fernandes’s penalty fluff in another utterly bloodless performance

Smash the system
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At any normal club Ruben Amorim would lose his job – but not Manchester United | Barney Ronay Obdurate manager’s Ruben-ball could arguably take the blame for Fernandes’s penalty fluff in another utterly bloodless performance

Smash the system
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Gianni Infantino’s Faustian pacts face biggest test as prospect of Israel ban moves closer Sport should not be used to normalise abnormal conduct and it’s no longer possible to dispute the idea that Israel shouldn’t currently be participating

Shit gets real
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Gianni Infantino’s Faustian pacts face biggest test as prospect of Israel ban moves closer Sport should not be used to normalise abnormal conduct and it’s no longer possible to dispute the idea that Israel shouldn’t currently be participating

Shit gets real
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Ousmane Dembélé’s Ballon d’Or is a human victory amid the toxic theatre of football | Barney Ronay The ceremony in Paris was reliably nauseating but the PSG star’s award was born out of hard work and tactical intelligence

Whatever the Yamal industrial complex says, this was the correct bullshit story from a bullshit event
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You could say slot plays Isak from the start and goes 2-0 up, arteta plays Eze when he’s 1-0 down. but even this doesn’t work. Isak doesn’t change the shape of the team. It is also a long season

It’s all counter factual history. If you ran a version where Arsenal had Eze at No10 from the start are they not conceding that very good early goal? Maybe they needed the stodgy midfield to protect themselves after that moment. Who knows, they could have been 3-1 down by HT (answer: nobody knows)

Mikel Arteta is allowed to learn, but time won’t wait for him | Barney Ronay Not until the second half with his side a goal down did the manager fully commit to attacking Manchester City

I think it’s pretty simplistic and outcome-based to say arteta FAILED by not winning every minute of this game, just the ones where he changed it up. On the other hand… football is outcome based
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A year on, Manchester City’s legal experts have the Premier League in a corner | Barney Ronay The charges tribunal is still to report on rule breaches, but does the league really want to discredit its eight-time champions anyway?

Win or lose, Manchester City have already won
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Alexander Isak’s Liverpool debut provides box-office glamour despite the rust | Barney Ronay As non-goalscoring club debuts go, Isak’s 57 minutes at Anfield made for a fascinating spectacle

Diego Simeone, even his shoes are weirdly frightening
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Alexander Isak’s Liverpool debut provides box-office glamour despite the rust | Barney Ronay As non-goalscoring club debuts go, Isak’s 57 minutes at Anfield made for a fascinating spectacle

Diego Simeone, even his shoes are weirdly frightening
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When I looked this up the internet said the thing he was accused of was a federal crime. But if you’re a us law expert and this is the case it’s the case

I reckon some teams have scored 4 goals

Bit of unprocessed Gyökeres helps transformed Arsenal finish off Forest | Barney Ronay Striker does the simple thing well and gives Mikel Arteta an alternative to the robot parcel delivery droids at his disposal

Gyokeres, a hot mess
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Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Barney Ronay Portugal star will hand Gianni Infantino the perfect publicity coup if he does play in America for the first time in more than 10 years, having already begun cosying up to Donald Trump

Is America the right place to stage a World Cup? There were three hundred shootings there on Wednesday you know
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Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Barney Ronay Portugal star will hand Gianni Infantino the perfect publicity coup if he does play in America for the first time in more than 10 years, having already begun cosying up to Donald Trump

The greatest shit-show on earth
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England fans’ chants cast Keir Starmer as first prime minister to become The Enemy | Barney Ronay British prime ministers have been pretty much invisible on the terraces … until now. And football is always telling you things

Headline is misleading. Thatcher actually was the enemy of football. But it’s Starmer who has really nailed it www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Fearless Rogers leads England to double act of silencing locals and their doubters | Barney Ronay Thomas Tuchel had his big moment in a World Cup qualifier but the home fans were more concerned with off-pitch issues

Dissent being silenced last night by men with batons. Football always tells you what’s happening and where it can go next
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