Celta de Vigo

Celta de Vigo shock Barcelona as Suarez, Messi and Neymar all fail to score

 November 3, 2014   John Welsh

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In recent seasons the Spanish La Liga has been dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona with Atletico Madrid ending their monopoly last season. However, after 10 matches of the current campaign, Real lead the table but four other teams are within two points and then Celta de Vigo and Malaga are not too far adrift […]

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Suarez Plays His First Match after the Ban for Biting Chiellini in World Cup

 October 12, 2014   R K Gupta

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Uruguay and Barcelona star Luis Suarez made his first appearance in a football match since his infamous international ban in the Brazil World Cup game against Italy. Uruguay visited Saudi Arabia and played an international friendly with the hosts at the King Abdullah stadium in Jeddah on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. It was his first […]

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Liverpool

Premier League Contenders Part V : Liverpool

 September 3, 2014   Paranjoy Goswami

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Until Manchester United overtook them in 2010, Liverpool FC held the record for the most league titles in England. In addition to their 18 league titles Liverpool has also won the European Cup five times in their history, the most by any British club. However the Reds have not been crowned champions of England since […]

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Luis Suarez: A gifted footballer but with an inherent temperament problem?

 June 26, 2014   John Welsh

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The current World Cup tournament has provided the spectators with several fascinating football matches and attacking play within pleasant stadium environments, but the sight of Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez allegedly biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder during the later stages of a match thrust the darker side of football into the spotlight. Suarez […]

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Roy’s boys were toys of their own making in leading Suarez to score against them

 June 20, 2014   R K Gupta

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In the 85th minute of play yesterday night, Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera sent a huge optimistic kick too far down the halfway mark. England’s captain Steven Gerrard had the Uruguayan forward Cavani close to him and the two of them rose together to head the highball. Lurking behind them was the goal-hungry Suarez, Gerrard’s Liverpool […]

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Barclays Premier League’s Top-5 Strikers

 January 19, 2014   Paranjoy Goswami

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These are the top-5 strikers in the English Premier League for 2013/14 season (as of 05/01/2014). The ratings are accumulated by the Player Performance Index (PPI) powered by EA Sports – the official player-rating system of the Barclays Premier League. 5) Romelu Lukaku (Everton) PPI Rating: 411 points After enjoying two excellent seasons with his […]

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Luis Suarez : Deeply Controversial But Utterly Captivating

 December 14, 2013   Paranjoy Goswami

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In the year 2013 perhaps no other footballer has grabbed as many newspaper headlines as Luis Suarez. From jaw-dropping tricks and incredible hat-tricks to transfer rumours and cannibalistic humours, Luis Suarez nicknamed ‘el pistolero’, has produced it all with Liverpool in the past twelve months. Earlier this year at Stamford Bridge, Suarez shocked fans and […]

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