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• Premier League Rankings: Manchester United Make Push for Return to Summit
• By Ian Whittell 02/9/2010 12:02 PM GMT
• Welcome back to our regular look at who's hot and who's not in the world's best football competition. Three weeks in and things should be settling down in the Premier League, right? Wrong. ... More »
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• Transfer Window Latest: The Definitive Guide to Your Club's Ins and Outs
• By Ian Whittell 31/8/2010 5:30 AM GMT
• A feverish summer of transfer activity is winding down to a juddering halt. Here is your complete club-by-club guide to the comings and goings through August 30. For live commentary of transfer ... More »
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• Team of the Week: Luke Varney Leads Unfamiliar Names in TOTW
• By Ian Whittell 30/8/2010 8:30 AM GMT
• The modern Premier League may be all about big names and even bigger bucks but Blackpool forward Luke Varney showed at the weekend that there is still room for a little romance in the top flight. ... More »
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• Man United 3 West Ham 0: Wayne Rooney Ends Drought as Reds Romp Home
• By Ian Whittell 28/8/2010 2:22 PM GMT
• Wayne Rooney ended his personal goal drought by setting up a victory that continued Manchester United's unbeaten start to the Premier League campaign, an effort England fans will hope proves ... More »
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• Premier League Rankings: Arsenal Fired Up by Demolition of Blackpool
• By Ian Whittell 26/8/2010 7:52 AM GMT
• Welcome back to our regular look at who's hot and who's not in the world's best football competition. 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 ... the Premier League had one of its most incredible goal-scoring weekends which ... More »
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• Team of the Week: Jussi Jaaskelainen the Perfect Ten for the Trotters
• By Ian Whittell 24/8/2010 4:10 AM GMT
• It was one of the more remarkable weekends in recent Premier League memory but the identity of the first perfect ten of the new campaign may still come as a surprise to FanHouse readers. Amid all ... More »
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• Premier League Rankings: Unusual Suspects Make Early Push For the Top
• By Ian Whittell 19/8/2010 11:11 AM GMT
• Welcome back to our regular look at who's hot and who's not in the world's best football competition. The world's greatest domestic footbal league is back and it's like it's never been away. ... More »
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• Coming to a Ground Near You: The First £200m Premier League Line-up
• By Ian Whittell 19/8/2010 5:41 AM GMT
• Sir Alex Ferguson can call it every name he wants, but the free spending of Manchester City is a fact of football life in 2010. The imminent arrival of James Milner at Eastlands takes the club's ... More »
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• Team of the Week: Gary Taylor-Fletcher Leads Blackpool Heroes into EPL
• By Ian Whittell 17/8/2010 6:40 AM GMT
• No prizes for guessing the biggest story from the opening weekend of Premier League action - in fact, possibly the most eye-catching result from any EPL opener in history. Blackpool - everybody's ... More »
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• Bolton 0 Fulham 0: Mark Schwarzer Left Out of Opening Day Stalemate
• By Ian Whittell 14/8/2010 11:54 AM GMT
• Mark Schwarzer and Paul Konchesky were conspicuous by their absence from Mark Hughes's first Fulham squad as the Cottagers opened the season with a point. The pair have been heavily linked with ... More »
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• The Great Prediction Game: And the 2010-11 EPL Champions Are ...
• By Ian Whittell 14/8/2010 3:20 AM GMT
• So, what exactly does £133 million buy you these days? If the resident FanHouse UK football experts are to be believed, the answer in the case of Manchester City is second place in the ... More »
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• Premier League Rankings: Chelsea Hope To Pick Up Where They Left Off
• By Ian Whittell 13/8/2010 12:01 AM GMT
• Welcome back - for the first time in three months - to our regular look at who's hot and who's not in the world's best football competition. Until the departure of Martin O'Neill, the off-season ... More »
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• James Milner Edges Closer to Man City and Premier League Success
• By Ian Whittell 08/8/2010 6:39 AM GMT
• Experts - FanHouse blogger Simon Kuper, for example - have long since proved what every football fan has intuitively known: Spending big money in the transfer market is no guarantee of an improvement ... More »
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• Theo Walcott Among Those With Point To Prove With New-Look England
• By Ian Whittell 07/8/2010 3:32 PM GMT
• Fabio Capello appears to have ended at least one England career yet started several more following the announcement of the England squad for Wednesday's friendly with Hungary. Following the ... More »
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• Championship Kick-Off: Your Guide to the 2010-11 Season (Part Two)
• By Ian Whittell 06/8/2010 6:06 AM GMT
• Twelve months ago, Newcastle, West Brom and, of course, Blackpool, were getting ready for a long Championship campaign. Today, they are looking ahead to a year of rubbing shoulders with the big ... More »
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• Championship Kick-Off: Your Guide to the 2010-11 Season (Part One)
• By Ian Whittell 05/8/2010 8:43 AM GMT
• Twelve months ago, Newcastle, West Brom and, of course, Blackpool, were getting ready for a long Championship campaign. Today, they are looking ahead to a year of rubbing shoulders with the big ... More »
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• Yossi Benayoun First To Break Ranks And Launch Attack On Rafa Benitez
• By Ian Whittell 11/7/2010 7:39 AM GMT
• A sizeable chunk of Liverpool's passionate support will still hear no evil as far as former manager Rafa Benitez is concerned. The Spaniard positioning himself in opposition to the most unpopular ... More »
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• Team of the Week: Is Wesley Sneijder the World's Best Player?
• By Ian Whittell 08/7/2010 8:09 AM GMT
• The 2010 World Cup may be remembered as the tournament that dented a few lofty reputations - Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo chief among them. But as Holland and Spain line up for ... More »
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• Arsenal Transfer Window Latest: Laurent Koscielny Completes Rapid Rise
• By Ian Whittell 08/7/2010 6:04 AM GMT
• Defender Laurent Koscielny has finally completed his move to Arsenal from Lorient and admits even he can't believe his rapid rise. Koscielny has signed for the Gunners on a long-term deal worth a ... More »
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• The FA May Have Ducked The Issue But Here Comes The Real Post Mortem
• By Ian Whittell 04/7/2010 7:33 AM GMT
• The indecent haste with which the Football Association determined that Fabio Capello is still the right man to lead England forward will have come as a surprise to few of us. After declaring they ... More »
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