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Premier League blogs
Opinion, observations and arguments from the SportsArena365 desk, clearly labelled.
Twenty clubs, thirty-eight matchdays
The Premier League blog: opinion, rankings and arguments from the SportsArena365 desk. Clearly labelled as opinion, and kept separate from anything we report as fact.
Set pieces · 3 min read
Set pieces are almost a different sport
Open play is fluid and improvised; a corner is closer to a scripted play, and treating it that way changes how you should watch it.
Fandom · 3 min read
The away end is its own kind of match day
Watching from the away end changes the emotional shape of a game in ways home support rarely has to reckon with.
Tactics · 3 min read
In praise of the unfashionable holding midfielder
The player who screens the back four rarely gets praised for the pass he stopped happening, and that is exactly the problem.