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After a clinical win on Saturday against Hull City, Nottingham Forest travel to Aston Villa on Wednesday evening in a clash between two historic clubs. This promises to be a cracking fixture with both sides full of confidence, and both sides realistically hopeful of staking a claim for promotion this season. Forest fans may well again be entitled to believe there is some value…

It is a story which refuses to go away. Eden Hazard again cast doubt over his Chelsea future at the weekend, with the Belgian’s heart seemingly set on a move to Real Madrid at the end of the current campaign. “I have one year left [on my contract] in June,” he told Canal Plus following his side’s 3-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur, their first…

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! The Premier League action is coming at us thick and fast at the moment as we head into ‘Week 14’ in the English top-flight. This week we get going on Friday night as Cardiff host Wolves as two of the new Premier League sides lock-horns – did you…

The Catalan, and Spanish, press didn’t have to go too far to find a story to fill the time, and the pages, over the last international break in October. The future of Julen Lopetegui dominated the agenda at that time, with Spain’s surprising defeat to England also a strong enough tale to shift at least a few newspapers. There was no such obvious story…

It was the greatest managerial achievement in the history of English league football. Leicester City had only narrowly avoided relegation to the Championship in 2014/15 and were 500/1 outsiders to win the Premier League title the following year, but Claudio Ranieri masterminded what many have called the biggest sporting upset of all time. The veteran Italian is now back on English soil at the…

Game of the weekend The job that Maurizio Sarri has done at Chelsea so far this season should not be underestimated. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp spoke for many when he said that the transition from Antonio Conte to the former Napoli manager was the “biggest I ever saw in such a short space of time”. When you consider that Conte actually took Chelsea’s first…

After the stalemate against Stoke City at The City Ground before the international break, Nottingham Forest travel to a rejuvenated Hull City on Saturday afternoon. The Reds should be full of confidence having only conceded one goal in their last four Championship matches and sitting only one point outside the play-off positions. Forest fans may well be entitled to believe there is quite a…

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It has been an excellent year for international football. The 2018 World Cup was the most enjoyable edition of the tournament for at least 20 years, and the momentum generated in Russia has – in Europe at least – continued through the inaugural edition of the UEFA Nations League. Scepticism was high before the campaign got under way in September and many were initially…

On the last Saturday before the international break, Juan Foyth’s social media channels would have buzzed with positivity. He scored Tottenham’s winning goal at Selhurst Park and produced a performance to banish the memory of his Premier League debut. Foyth hadn’t been poor at Molineux, his display the week before actually contained many of the same admirable traits, but this time his composure and…

Usually by this time of year, the public is ready for England to disappear into hibernation. International breaks sap the soul and disrupt club football’s momentum, and rarely has the national side managed to provide much compensation. 2018 has changed that. England may not have become an irresistible force over the past twelve months, but a restorative World Cup campaign and a series of…

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! So, that’s another International break over – love them, or hate them – it’s back to normal this weekend with another full set of Premier League fixtures. Yes, we head into ‘WEEK 13′ in the English top-flight with all 20 sides in action from Saturday through to Monday.…

For Aaron Ramsey, Bayern Munich could be the perfect fit. The German champions have had an inauspicious start to the season under new coach Niko Kovac. They are fifth in the Bundesliga, seven points off Borussia Dortmund, and evidently in need of some reinvigoration. So they are in the hunt for new players ahead of the January transfer window. Ramsey, according to a report…

One should always be wary of the comparison of leagues. There are simply too many factors, too many cultural and underlying elements, for any great parallels to be drawn, and yet comparison is sometimes irresistible when leagues like the Premier League proclaim themselves to be the best, the most competitive in the footballing world. Indeed, it’s from this jumping off point that the rest…

Hopefully, by the time Wayne Rooney actually takes the pitch against the United States, cooler heads will have prevailed; Rooney’s inclusion in the current England squad, albeit with an asterisk against his name, is harmless-yet-meaningful gesture, and it should be applauded. At the moment that isn’t the case, but maybe by next week some perspective will have entered the debate. John Cross raised a…