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| Rory Smith |
| By Rory Smith |
| Rory Smith is a football reporter for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph in the north west, covering Liverpool and Everton, as well as Manchester United, Manchester City and the myriad other teams who make up English football's heartland. |
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| Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson in position of strength in area of weakness |
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Even after all these years, after all these Champions League finals, it will be an unfamiliar, novel feeling for Sir Alex Ferguson: the Manchester United manager will take his side to Wembley, on May 28, to face what we are obliged to call the mighty Barcelona, spoilt for choice.
It was not like this in 1999: then, with Ottmar Hitzfeld's ruthless Bayern Munich awaiting, the Scot had to plan for a night not just without the silk of Paul Scholes, but the steel of Roy Keane. Necessity was the mother of invention; David Beckham drifted inside, Ryan Giggs switched flanks, Jesper Blomqvist and Ni... ...More |
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| England v Wales: Why football's English Tax is no laughing matter |
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His voice dripped with disdain. It was the sneering disapproval of a man who has stood side-by-side with some of the great central defenders of the modern era. A man who has seen Gerry Taggart in the shower, who has heard Darren Purse swear, who was once called a flaming galah by Lucas Neill.
"I don't rate [Per] Mertesacker," said Robbie Savage, the Sony Award-winning disc jockey and midfield irritant, when asked on Radio 5 Live whether he thought Arsenal's new defensive colossus would be a success at the Emirates. "He didn't do very well at Real Madrid."
The former Leicester and... ...More |
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