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Liverpool Formation Possibilities: A Return to Normalcy
There was a certain high wire act that came to be associated with Liverpool Football Club, a team that at times played as if they were football’s equivalent of “The Greatest Show on Turf”. Defense was an afterthought to Liverpool, as the team treated fans to a product that had team pressing of the highest degree,…
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The FA Won’t Get Out Of The Premier League’s Way
If you read this blog, you probably follow the English Premier League, also known as the greatest football league in the world. It is sooooo exciting and awesome and there are a lot of good teams and a lot of interesting story lines and OH MY GOD THE NARRATIVE which gives us stuff like this:…
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A Fan’s Logic
Sports fandom is a very tricky. You can worship a player one day, and call him a cunt the next. You can pledge your allegiance to a racist, an adulterer or hell even a guy who hangs out with Lil Wayne and you can do it with no problems – all because that guy happens to…
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Liverpool F.C. 2013-14: The Season That Never Was
The start of the 2014-15 Premier League season is less than a month away, but the memories of the previous season are still very much embedded in the minds of football fans who follow the English Premier League consistently. A title race for the ages occurred, with three teams (and Arsenal) at times looking like genuine contenders for…
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Revisiting the Daily Mail’s 2014 English National Team Predictions
Last night, during Italy’s 2-1 victory over England (a game more entertaining than many expected), this tweet appeared on the @edizd_ timeline: https://twitter.com/2014WC_Brazil/status/477947107496968192 Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), this is pretty shocking. How could an esteemed publication such as the Daily Mail (don’t laugh) mess this up so badly? I don’t know; I’m not in…
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David Moyes’ Great Calamity
Manchester United finally sacked embattled boss David Moyes Tuesday morning. Months of pressure on Sir Alex Ferguson’s hand-picked successor culminated in the decision, which was announced after a media firestorm on Monday, and it was a decision reached by the Glazers and the board after United’s dismal display at Goodison Park on Sunday. That 2-0…
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Liverpool 5 Arsenal 1: Meet The New Generation of Liverpool FC
(Note: I apologize for not being able to keep up my previous share of posts on EDIZD. I’ve been writing on an intermediate basis for Back Page Football in the last month or so and I write on a weekly basis on Baller Mind Frame about the NBA. Plus I’ve been swamped with school so…
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11/38’s is All we Need!
We’re 11/38’s through the EPL season. 11/38’s! That’s a non reducible fraction for you mathematics out there. The season has been chalk full of narrative, the likes of which we haven’t seen in ages. We have no more than 8 teams within 6 points of the EPL lead, we’ve said goodbye to a fascist in…
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