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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Liew
Champions League final features opposing tactical approaches and two radically different ownership models
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Liew
The levels of content are, quite frankly, off the charts. Content-wise, Arsenal have come to Lisbon, eaten and left no crumbs. Katie McCabe sliding on her belly along the dressing room floor through a pool of champagne. Alex Scott and Jess Glynne in their retro tops. Managing to drop the F-bomb on live teatime television, not once but twice. McCabe recreating the moment she threw a ball at Chloe Kelly’s head during a Women’s Super League game, only this time with the Champions League trophy.
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1 week ago | 
msn.com | Jonathan Liew
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Liew
There is always a little more time than you think. A red number 7 blinks across the pitch from the fourth official’s board. Seven minutes of injury time: it’s a lot. Against Barcelona, it’s an age. Against this Barcelona, in this heat, in this game, it may as well be all of eternity. But you push through. You pace yourself. Beth Mead goes down under a challenge; there’s 30 seconds right there. Kim Little rolls the ball up the left touchline to no one: eight seconds.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Liew
Jack Grealish is prowling. The wind tousling his hair, the ball at his feet, the way it was always meant to be. In front of him a wall of Bournemouth defenders jumpily stands guard, eyes wide like stags ready to bolt. Grealish shuffles inside, body feinting, hips dancing. You want to know what happens next. What happens next is that the referee blows for full time. It’s the 97th minute; Grealish came on in the 91st. In that time Bournemouth somehow managed to score a goal.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Liew
There are the nights when the 10-minute walk to the tube station takes half an hour. There are the crossbow bolts of knee pain at 3am. There are the evenings when you convince yourself the recycling doesn’t actually need to be taken out tonight. We can wait a couple of days, squash it down a bit, crush that box flat. And secretly, it’s because you can’t handle the stairs.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Liew |Barney Ronay |Gwilym Mumford |Niall McVeigh |David Hytner |Jamie Jackson
1The other pass against StokeThe great passers play passes only they can see. Very occasionally Kevin De Bruyne would go one step further: playing passes even he couldn’t see. Take his little slip-and-slide against Stoke at home in October 2017. It wasn’t even his most celebrated pass against Stoke at home in October 2017. But for me it’s the ultimate De Bruyne pass. Leroy Sané is on the left wing, facing towards his own goal. He lays the ball back to De Bruyne on the corner of the penalty area.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Liew
Your name is Sonia Bompastor. Your Chelsea team are winning 3-0 in the FA Cup final and about to cap a 30-game unbeaten domestic season with a league, cup and league cup treble. Wembley is a sea of triumphant blue flags. Manchester United, shuffling and straggling around the pitch, look like the victims of some macabre reality television endurance challenge that will later be censured by Ofcom. What is your next move?
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Liew
Chat over. Will Hughes strolls across the car park to get some photographs taken. As it happens, the man emerging from the gym at that very moment is the Crystal Palace midfield-partner whose praises Hughes has just been lavishly exalting. “Just added about £20m to your fee in that interview,” Hughes shouts at Adam Wharton as they pass. “You can have half,” Wharton retorts.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Jonathan Liew
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