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Don’t Crack Podcast: Episode 11 – The Crackies! 🏆🎉

by Adam Samuel - 7 May 20187 May 2018 0214

You are cordially invited to the most prestigious night in the world of sports podcasting! The Crackies have a long and storied history stretching back as far as May 2018! The highlight of this years addition is the ''Alternative team of the year'', which heralds players from outside the Premier League's

“I so believed that we were actually going to get to the top six”: Dean Smith reflects on a frustrating season for Brentford

Football

by Joe Leavey - 5 May 201821 May 2018 0154

TS Eliot famously wrote - in his modernist epic The Waste Land - that ‘April is the cruellest month.’ Whilst the poet is here referencing the degradation of humanity, the line in fact seems cannily relevant to domestic football: April signals what many deem ‘the business end’ of the season. For

Dean Smith and Florian Jozefzoon on Brentford’s Premier League Dream

Football

by Joe Leavey - 27 April 201811 June 2018 0295

As another typically hectic end to the Championship season beckons, with plenty still to play for, Sports Gazette visited playoff hopefuls Brentford to chat to manager Dean Smith and forward Florian Jozefzoon about the final push. With just two games to go in the league this campaign, the Bees sit three

Don’t Crack Podcast: Episode 10 – ‘Specialist in Wenger’ edition

by Iman Alaouie - 26 April 20183 May 2018 0498

If you're looking for a 36-minute Arsène Wenger Eulogy guest-edited by yours truly... you've come to the right place! I was invited to join the tenth addition of the Don't Crack Podcast by hosts Adam Samuel and Aramide Oladipo. With special guest and Arsenal super-fan Joe Leavey, we take a personal

#HarryClaims: The Internet’s Story of Kane’s Goal Against Stoke

Football

by James Pike - 17 April 201825 April 2018 0149

Harry Kane has caused an uproar on Twitter after he claimed a goal many thought to be Christian Eriksen’s. In Tottenham Hotspur’s match against Stoke City on 7 April, Eriksen hit a ball that eventually found its way into the back of the net. The ball came close to touching Harry

When David beats Goliath: The best comebacks from underdogs in the Champions League

Football

by José Bourbon - 12 April 201811 April 2018 0208

Last Tuesday there was one of those rare moments where the unexpected happened and the team considered to be worse - Roma - came back against a supposedly way better team - Barcelona, when few thought that was possible. I decided to look back at other times in which the

Is the idea the Premier League is the most competitive League a myth? CIES Football Observatory study may help to answer this

Football

by José Bourbon - 3 April 20183 April 2018 0427

The Premier League is often considered to be the most competitive domestic League in the world. However, if we measure competitivity according to the percentage of matches with a three-goal gap and average goal difference that is far from being true. This, according to the most recent study of CIES

Elections in Egypt: how Salah “defeated” one of the candidates

Football

by José Bourbon - 2 April 20181 April 2018 0569

After three days of presidential elections in Egypt, the current President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, won with 92% of the votes, defeating his only official opponent Moussa Mostafa Moussa. However, it is not Abdel who is attracting the most attention, but Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah. The Egyptian was the unexpected choice of

How Zlatan Ibrahimovic broke the internet once again

Football

by Louis Olvera - 1 April 20181 April 2018 0251

Zlatan Ibrahimovic recently completed a move to the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer in what was not a major surprise for many football fans. Ibrahimovic soon confirmed the news himself in the most Zlatan way possible in the LA Times. In the following days, Ibrahimovic created promotional videos and held

What do you think? Front three edition

Football

by Louis Olvera - 28 March 201828 March 2018 0200