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Alan Green

Alan Green: The best Bar none

You remember how I derided the arrogance of Barcelona and those that salivated over how they’d beaten Chelsea in the Champions League semi final? I take it all back.
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Alan Green: King Alex will reign in Europe yet again

Monday, 25 May 2009

Have you noticed all this snobbery about Barcelona? Even respected media colleagues were publicly as well as privately delighted that Chelsea were beaten in the semi-final.
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Alan Green: Catalan complaints are a pain in Barca

Monday, 4 May 2009

Personally, I don’t care which of the three remaining English clubs wins the Champions League as long as one of them does.
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Alan Green: Old Firm move just ridiculous

Monday, 27 April 2009

It’ll be June before the Premier League properly debates Phil Gartside’s proposals re a new two-tier structure. I only hope the delay doesn’t dissuade anyone from dumping his ideas in the bin.
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Alan Green: Time for a rethink

Monday, 20 April 2009

I suppose I'm as elitist as anyone, spending my working life dealing with the upper reaches of the Premier League and, of course, the ever so precious Champions League.
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Alan Green: Shear will can keep Newcastle up

Monday, 6 April 2009

The ‘Alan Shearer bubble' didn't burst on Saturday afternoon on Tyneside nor were Newcastle's hopes of avoiding relegation extinguished.
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Alan Green: It’s going to be all red in Rome

Saturday, 21 March 2009

They say familiarity breeds contempt. That's too strong a word to describe relations between Chelsea and Liverpool, even between their respective groups of supporters — each holds Manchester United in higher ‘disregard' — but both would have preferred to have avoided one another in the Champions League draw.
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Alan Green: Hammer them, Neil

Saturday, 21 March 2009

He's by no means everybody's favourite cup of tea but people should think before rushing in to condemn Neil Warnock and his intention to sue West Ham over the Carlos Tevez affair.
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Alan Green: Gabby is not the Villa villain

Saturday, 21 March 2009

Is it right for fans to boo their own team, their own players?
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Alan Green: Platini silenced by gang of four

Saturday, 14 March 2009

There is little I like more than seeing Michel Platini squirm.
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Alan Green: Beware the sides of March

Saturday, 7 March 2009

I have a close friend who is a Manchester United fanatic. Yes, really, I do. He will not accept that a 'Quintuple' is possible and neither did I until very recently.
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Alan Green: Benitez decisions are still a puzzle

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Since Liverpool aren't involved in the FA Cup this weekend I'll have to satisfy my current fixation with brain puzzles by tackling Sudoku and Polygon in my daily paper — there's no Rafa Benitez selection to frazzle my thought process.
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Alan Green: Refs on charm offensive

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Many years ago I did a game at Southampton's old ground - The Dell.
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Alan Green: Liverpool power struggle has to end

Saturday, 28 February 2009

Handed the team-sheet in Madrid on Wednesday night a bad few days for Liverpool looked like they could be getting a whole lot worse: no Steven Gerrard.
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Alan Green: No thrill in Villa surge

Saturday, 21 February 2009

Two-thirds of the way through the season there have been signs that it's bye-bye to the 'Big Four' but after lunchtime's clash at Villa Park we will know if there's substance to their promise.
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Boyce blast at the Glens

Saturday, 14 February 2009

Darren Boyce will arrive at the Oval today with a point to prove and an eye on the JJB Sports Irish Cup quarter-finals.
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Alan Green: Fab can take heart in loss

Saturday, 14 February 2009

Xavi Alonso was outstanding in Seville yet if Cesc Fabregas wasn't injured he'd most likely have been playing alongside Senna, Iniesta and Xavi - the Barcelona version - with the Liverpool player only on the bench.
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Alan Green: Van’s not the key man

Saturday, 14 February 2009

I'm not for a second questioning the merits of this fantastic run of games for Manchester United without them conceding a goal - Samir Nasri's strike at the Emirates is a fast fading memory - but am I alone in thinking there's been an excess of praise for Edwin van der Sar?
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Alan Green: How long will Hiddink stay?

Saturday, 14 February 2009

You'll know I expected the axe to fall on Tony Adams but I never thought Scolari was at risk, not before the summer at the earliest.
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Alan Green: Derby is Gunner be a real battle

Saturday, 7 February 2009

Unless I absolutely HAVE to be there, I prefer to observe North London derbies from afar.
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Alan Green: Adams won’t last too long

Saturday, 31 January 2009

I take no pleasure whatsoever in saying that I think Tony Adams will not be a Premier League manager for much longer.
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Lawton: Wimbledon still not home for Andy

It might be different if Andy Murray had been born in Bromley or Tunbridge Wells, or his great grandmother was an innovative over-arm server in Victorian Wimbledon, like Tim Henman, or he had renounced his Scottish blood the first time he crossed Hadrian's Wall.

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Joe Kernan: Antrim now the most popular team in Ireland

When Antrim met Cavan in the Ulster football championship semi-final last weekend, the other seven counties in the province were on their side.

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The Punter: We just didn’t get to Sea

The victory by Fame And Glory in the Irish Derby poses the question as to whether or not he would have taken his revenge on his Epsom conqueror Sea The Stars?

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