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How Liverpool Won Christmas – WSJ
27Dec By adminNo Comments
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How Liverpool Won Christmas – WSJ

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 11:44 am ETWhen Liverpool won the English Premier League in 2020, ending a 30-year dry spell for the club, something about the title still felt hollow. The relief didn’t wash over the city quite the way anyone expected it to. That’s because it was the season of the pandemic—there could be no public celebration. The best team in the country lifted the trophy inside an empty Anfield stadium. The players never got their open-top bus parade. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Manchester City’s Historic Hangover Begins to Lift
11Dec By adminNo Comments
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Manchester City’s Historic Hangover Begins to Lift

LUTON, England—Standing in the rain on the sideline of the tiniest stadium he will visit all season, Pep Guardiola was losing his mind. The Manchester City manager gesticulated wildly, clapped sarcastically, and hollered at the officials, but nothing seemed to be going right.His lavishly assembled team was proving incapable of getting past Luton Town, the squad with the smallest payroll in the English Premier League. Even once City scraped together a comeback to win 2-1, the defending champions looked far from their dominant selves.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Tottenham Lost Its Star and Became the Premier League’s Surprise Contender
5Nov By adminNo Comments
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Tottenham Lost Its Star and Became the Premier League’s Surprise Contender

The best striker in Tottenham history looked up last weekend, 60 yards from goal with the ball at his feet, and liked what he saw. The goalkeeper was far off his line—it was an invitation to shoot. So Harry Kane launched an effort that traveled half the length of the field, looped over the keeper, and instantly in as one of the goals of the season. It was the kind of inspiration that had dazzled Tottenham fans for a decade. The trouble was that Tottenham’s greatest forward no longer plays for Tottenham—Kane was making long-distance magic these days for Bayern Munich.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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