By Charles Scott
Location aside, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham have little in common, something that suits their own fans down to the ground. They do however share one similarity. Each has invested large sums of money on highly rated Russian internationals in recent years without seeing any kind of positive return. Despite promising much and impressing at first, Arsenal’s Andrey Arshavin, Tottenham’s Roman Pavlyuchenko and Yuri Zhirkov, formerly of Chelsea, have all failed to shine in London. Read More
Three games which can shape the season
By Harry Drew
All of this weekend’s Barclays Premier League fixtures will, as they always do, excite punters across the world. If we look beyond Saturday’s games, there are three contests which have outstanding significance: Newcastle at home to Aston Villa, Chelsea playing host to Manchester United, and the encounter between Liverpool and Spurs.
The next round of fixtures will signify the two-third mark in the season – we tend to scrutinise the final third of the campaign as ‘squeaky-bum time’, with results in this period having immense consequences. The matches mentioned above have repercussions for the fundamental battles within the Premier League: the title race, fight for fourth and struggle to stay in the league. Read More »