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James Lawton
Man who would be Keane
It is a hard and pitiless process and it has beaten down many celebrated
football men. But who could have anticipated the latest victim? Who could
have imagined the taming of Roy Keane?
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James Lawton: Blame for awful England mess lies squarely with Fabio Capello
Friday, 10 February 2012
Unusually for Fabio Capello, a man who owns some highly valued pieces of art
but is not given to too many flights of poetic fancy, he once said that he
had a dream. It was right at the start of his England reign and it was that
he would lead his team into the final of the World Cup in Johannesburg.
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James Lawton: After court case, Harry Redknapp will find England job a pleasure
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Having cleared his name in Southwark Crown Court, Harry Redknapp is now merely
obliged to justify the belief that he may well be the saviour of England's
national team, which is once again in a dock of its own on a charge of
chronic dysfunction and with any number of cases to be taken into
consideration.
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James Lawton: English football is, once again, a laughing stock
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Fabio Capello wouldn't bend and if such a capacity is what you want in the
leader of the national team there is a time and a place when it is best
expressed.
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James Lawton: Dalglish continues to fuel fires of Suarez row
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
It is a simple, healing phrase and, when the Beatles voiced it, much of a generation was touched. But if Kenny Dalglish wasn't listening then, he certainly isn't now. Let it be. They are not the hardest words, certainly not as tough to utter as sorry, but they are plainly beyond the manager of Liverpool.
James Lawton: FA and Capello reaching end game
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Those of us who celebrated so enthusiastically the appointment of Fabio
Capello had one moment of sadly fleeting vindication.
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Chris Ashton needs to grow up
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Chris Ashton says that, along with the rest of new England rugby union, he is
dedicated to creating a new image. His challenge, he says, is giving the
people a more accurate perception of himself.
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Shake hands or simply wave goodbye to decency
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
It may have been a lot easier to take exception to Kenny Dalglish's contempt
for a question about the relentless booing and taunting of Patrice Evra, a
victim of racism, than Mark Hughes' eagerness to kick into touch what he
believes to be the phoney ritual of pre-game handshakes.
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A Jose Mourinho-Arsène Wenger job swap would be perfect for all parties
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Of all the possibilities provoked by Jose Mourinho's latest overture to the
Premier League, the most intriguing by some distance would surely be a
straight job swap with Arsène Wenger.
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James Lawton: Concern for Mario Balotelli's agent
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Even though hardly a day passes now without the phrase "mad as a box of Balotellis" burrowing a little deeper into common usage, the first full public statement by his agent was still a little startling.
James Lawton: Should managers earn sell-on fees?
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
It is no part of the charge against Harry Redknapp that he had an arrangement with his former club Portsmouth granting him percentage payments on any transfer fees received for players he had signed and helped to develop to the point of profit.
James Lawton: Is time finally up for Wenger at Arsenal?
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
No one is any longer unaware of the consequences of drumming up the nerve to
say, however sorrowfully, yes, it is indeed time for Arsène Wenger to go. It
is to be automatically cast among Brutus and his knife-wielding mates.
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James Lawton: Swansea boss Rodgers has to swallow his pride
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
If Swansea City's impressive young manager, Brendan Rodgers, felt obliged to
complain about the relatively low critical acclaim received by his
ball-playing team before their upset of the former masters of the genre,
Arsenal, he may be thinking again.
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James Lawton: Mancini has duty to stamp out Balotelli's behaviour
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Someone should explain to Manchester City that Mario Balotelli could score a thousand extraordinary goals, exceed Mother Teresa in examples of spell-binding charity, and still have lingering shame against his name and his club's for what he did to Scott Parker.
James Lawton: Balotelli is an asset and a problem Manchester City can live with
Monday, 23 January 2012
Maybe only Mario Balotelli could quite so effectively deface a game that he
came to decide in its last moments.
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James Lawton: Can the new Andy Murray land major prizes?
Thursday, 19 January 2012
These may be extremely early days in the remaking of Andy Murray at the rather
advanced age of 24 going on 25, but whatever happens at the Australian Open
his new coach Ivan Lendl deserves applause for one achievement at least.
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James Lawton: Arsene Wenger can't restore belief at Arsenal if he fails to see the truth
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Arsène Wenger has suffered many harsh cuts recently but maybe the cruellest
thus far came when he was caught by TV seething in his box made for one on
the Swansea touchline. The man on the microphone couldn't resist a
comparison with Victor – "I don't believe it" – Meldrew.
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James Lawton: Liverpool beginning to put Suarez row behind them
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Here for the first time in a considerable while we had the acceptable face of
Liverpool Football Club.
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James Lawton: Return of King Henry was right decision for Arsenal
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
There is no more terrible beauty in sport than when one of its great stars
reaches into the past to find again that singular quality which first
dazzled the world.
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James Lawton: Sporadic brilliance not enough to keep Wayne Rooney at Manchester United
Monday, 9 January 2012
No one ever said that Wayne Rooney was likely to leave Manchester United any
time soon because he is no longer a magnificently gifted football player.
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James Lawton: Messy Suarez row will at least help prevent racism in future
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Liverpool still don't get it, not completely, but they have offered a degree of apology – and so has their player Luis Suarez.

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