Michael Carrick
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Champions League
What’s going on at Manchester United?
Five Premier League games into the season, Manchester United have five points, twelfth place and a goal difference of exactly zero. On a table it looks unremarkable. If you support the club, it feels like a dagger. The strange part is that this was supposed to be the calm year.…
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Champions League
Nine new managers and a late start: Premier League 2026/27 Season Preview
The Premier League has spent the summer rearranging itself more thoroughly than at any point in recent memory. Nine of the twenty clubs have changed head coach, a record. Pep Guardiola has left Manchester City after a decade. Arsenal are champions for the first time in 22 years. Over £1bn…
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Soccer
Carrick’s Correcting: Manchester United’s 2026/27 Season Preview
Eighteen months ago Manchester United finished fifteenth in the Premier League, their worst placing in 51 years and their first ever bottom-half finish in the competition. Last season they finished third. Nothing about that transformation was gradual, and almost all of it happened after 13 January. That is the context…
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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
After Manchester City’s MASSIVE slip, where do we stand in the Premier League?
The Premier League season is hurtling towards its conclusion and, true to form, it has saved its most dramatic weeks for last. Monday delivered two results that rewrote the picture entirely: Manchester City dropped points at Everton in stoppage-time chaos, Arsenal are now five points clear at the top, Nottingham…
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