David Raya
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Soccer
Who should be the Premier League Player of the Season 2025/26?
With one round of Premier League fixtures remaining and the title race headed for the wire, the conversation around individual honours has narrowed but not settled. The PL has confirmed its eight-man shortlist for Player of the Season, but the wider debate stretches beyond the official list. Five names deserve…
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Premier League
Can Mikel Arteta survive another trophyless season with Arsenal?
Six years into the Mikel Arteta era, Arsenal sit top of the Premier League, are in the Champions League semi-finals, and have one of the most exciting squads in Europe. They have also not won a major trophy since August 2020. That is the central paradox of modern Arsenal, and…
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Soccer
Champions League Quarter-Finals Review: Bayern, Atlético and PSG take control
The first legs of the 2025/26 Champions League quarter-finals delivered almost everything you could want from the last eight: a youthful record-breaker in Lisbon, a historic night at the Bernabéu, a red card that turned a Spanish city derby completely on its head, and a Parisian dismantling that left serious…
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Premier League
Ultimate Premier League Team of the Season… so far (2)
As of today, this Premier League Team of the Season so far is gloriously lopsided, slightly reckless on the whiteboard, and pretty hard to argue with once you get into the numbers. It is a 3-3-4 in spirit, with João Pedro nudged a little wide because leaving him out would…
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Premier League
2025/26 Premier League Team of the Season So Far
Half a season into 2025/26, the Premier League has seriously developed its own personality. Arsenal’s control at the top has been built on a defence that treats chaos like an optional extra, City’s attack is still a weekly maths problem, and a couple of wild storylines have become completely normal.…
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Premier League
Can anyone stop Arsenal from winning the Premier League?
Arsenal did not so much creep to the top of the table this season as slam the door behind them and twist the key. Twelve games in, they are first, they have the best defence, they have one solitary league defeat and they have turned Sunday afternoons into a kind…
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