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August 2008 - Football Food For Thought

Football Food For Thought. Opinions and thoughts from the betting.betfair team from the Premier League to the Champions League to the World Cup. This is where opinions come to live and whatever your football PoV it is sure to disagree with someone here!

Berbatov, Barry and the unresolved question of who really runs the game

TQ gives us his take on superstar club owners, football agents, faxed transfer bids and the on-off transfer sagas of Berbatov and Barry as he wonders who actually calls the shots in today's money-spinning game....

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Tareq Quiroz

Aug 30 2008

In the kingdom of the world's best coaches, Ferguson rules supreme

Morgan in the driving seat - Allsy looks at the candidates for the accolade of world's best coach which include Mourinho, Capello and Wenger. But in Allsy's eyes, there's only one winner....

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Alsy

Aug 15 2008

Darijo Srna, computers studying football formations and the demise of the wing-back

In the days when all the talk is of the "Makelele" role and the deep-lying striker, Jonathan Wilson argues the case for attack-minded full-backs having the potential to be the most important players on the...

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Jonathan Wilson

Aug 14 2008

Premiership Sack Race: Hughes, Curbishley, Keegan and Ince under pressure before the season's even started

Pablo Luna - Moonlighting for Betfair. Pablo looks at the Premiership managers who face the sack and those who are on the verge of walking out even before a Premiership ball has been kicked in...

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Paul Moon

Aug 12 2008

Following Spurs breaks the bank but I wouldn't have it any other way

Dan "The Betting Man" Fitch has angered the bank manager by renewing his season ticket at White Hart Lane. But he's not alone in spending most Saturdays following his team. Here's why we all do...

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Dan Fitch

Aug 12 2008

Why the Premiership is the best European league

Pablo Luna - Moonlighting for Betfair. Pablo appreciates the tactical discipline of Serie A and the South American swashbuckling-like style of La Liga football but both of these still fall short of the excitement and...

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Paul Moon

Aug 8 2008

Being a Premiership manager is a whole different ball game to being an international manager

"Mystical" Mike Norman tells us about the day he bumped into Kevin Keegan down the bookies and considers how the likes of Eriksson and McClaren coped with the different challenges of managing a Premiership club...

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Mike Norman

Aug 7 2008

Trying to understand the man in the middle

Frank Gregan tells us about pre-season briefing sessions from referees and the steps taken by governing bodies to build relationships between referees and players and managers. One day, we may even discover that the men...

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Frank Gregan

Aug 1 2008