Tag: Crystal Palace
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Fulham draw the short straw as opening pairings revealed
If you are a newly promoted side to the Premier League, surely your greatest wish would be to eased gently into life in the top flight. Nobody wants to be taking a pasting during the initial bedding in phase. Yet that must be exactly what Fulham will fear following the publication of the first round…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 17
A slightly more focused edition this week with the European Championships still ongoing and the GAA Championships taking off in earnest. But there are a few curve balls hidden as well. Enjoy!
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Two red corners on very different paths
Easter Saturday, 1993. The talented but luckless David Hirst gives Sheffield Wednesday a very early lead at Old Trafford. On a day that, if Manchester United won, they would virtually have one hand on their first League title in over a quarter of a century. Having blown a similarly promising position previously against Leeds United,…
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Champions title defence hopes rocked by Van Dijk blow
Liverpool’s ambitions of retaining the league title they sauntered to for the first time in three decades just a few months ago have been dealt a hammer blow with the news that rearguard general Virgil Van Dijk is facing a lengthy layoff due to a knee injury sustained following a horror tackle by Everton and…