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Alan Green

Pool of despair gets deeper for Benitez

It wasn’t my intention to write about Liverpool for the second week in succession.
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Alan Green: Owen must regret move to Manchester United

Monday, 2 November 2009

Looking at Sir Alex Ferguson’s ‘B team’ at Barnsley, I kept a close watch on Michael Owen.
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Alan Green: Big Sam means bigger ego

Monday, 2 November 2009

Like broadcasters, football managers probably need to have an ego. It goes with the territory: if you don’t believe in yourself, who will?
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Alan Green: Hold the back page... I admit I was wrong

Monday, 26 October 2009

You'll know I’m, in general, not a fan of the tinkering made to the Champions League by UEFA President Michel Platini but I have to admit some of this week’s results have made me sit up and pay attention.
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Alan Green: Southgate simply had to leave

Monday, 26 October 2009

Much has been made about the timing of Gareth Southgate’s dismissal as Middlesbrough manager given that it came after a home victory which, then, left them only a point off the top of the Championship table.
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Alan Green: Rafa is back from the dead for now

Monday, 26 October 2009

Most sports’ desks on English newspapers will have been in turmoil last night.
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Alan Green: FIFA sow the seeds of own misfortune

Monday, 19 October 2009

The thought first entered my head last weekend when I was asked to give out a scoreline during commentary. It was the Asia/Oceania play-off, first leg: Bahrain 0 New Zealand 0.
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Alan Green: Get your facts right

Monday, 19 October 2009

I’m the first to admit I get more cynical by the day and I’m certainly increasingly reluctant to broadcast ‘facts’ even if a producer shoves a piece of paper in front of me determined that I read it out.
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Alan Green: Rafa’s losing plot at Liverpool

Monday, 19 October 2009

It’s hardly worth debating whether or not the goal scored against Liverpool on Saturday should have been allowed to stand: it did and Sunderland should sign up that beach ball before anyone else does as soon as the January transfer window opens!
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Alan Green: Pompey’s madness will only end in tears

Monday, 5 October 2009

It's only eight years ago that I was commentating on Leeds United in the Champions League semi-finals. Yes, the Yorkshire club currently leads the table, but, we’re talking about League One, their third season in that division.
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Alan Green: Doubts remain over new touchline officials

Monday, 5 October 2009

I’ve waited until after the second round of matches in the Europa League before passing comment on the experimental use of the new touchline officials. I felt it only fair not to rush in.
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Alan Green: Rafa only has himself to blame

Monday, 5 October 2009

Lucas is a Liverpool liability. Discuss.
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Alan Green: Diouf is a disgrace to anti-race hate cause

Monday, 28 September 2009

I understand why he did so - ALL managers defend their players even on the flimsiest of terms - but I do wish the Blackburn Rovers manager Sam Allardyce hadn’t offered his support to El Hadji Diouf. The Senegalese striker deserves none.
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Alan Green: The cup of whoa

Monday, 28 September 2009

I went abroad for a few days last week after the Manchester derby. Why not? What was I going to miss? The Carling Cup?
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Alan Green: Neville worry about FA

Monday, 28 September 2009

First UEFA, now the Football Association. I despair that authorities utterly fail to do their duty regarding misbehaviour on the field.
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Alan Green: Platini steering ship in wrong direction

Monday, 21 September 2009

I love the Champions League. It’s the most glamourous competition in the world of football and, in my view, has a quality on a match-to-match basis that is higher than what we’ll see in South Africa next summer.
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Alan Green: Kenyon in his own league

Monday, 21 September 2009

I felt like donning a black tie. No, I lie. One of the best bits of news this last week is that Peter Kenyon is leaving his role as chief executive at Chelsea.
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Alan Green: Manchester City slickers more than happy to continue flashing the cash

Monday, 21 September 2009

Whether it’s the rules of UEFA or the Premier League - why do we need both? - regarding financial well-being, I’m at a loss to understand how they’ll deal with a case such as Manchester City.
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Alan Green: Manchester City let down by appalling incidents

Monday, 14 September 2009

I’ll know better this time next week, after they’ve played at Old Trafford, but there’s no question Manchester City are giving me cause to think I might have to revise my opinion that it’ll be the same old ‘Top Four’. At least, it could become the ‘Top Five’.
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Alan Green: They’re at his Beck and call

Monday, 14 September 2009

Sometimes I feel as if I’m completely out of touch. The aging ‘has-been’ — some of us would argue ‘never quite was’ — David Beckham rises from his seat, trots along the touch-line and much of the crowd goes berserk.
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