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Depending on who you choose to believe, tomorrow’s play off final between West Ham and Blackpool could be Sam Allardyce’s last game in charge of the Hammers.
The former Blackpool and Bolton head honcho has enjoyed mixed fortunes this season having led the Championship at various points before publicly falling out with fans and then missing out on automatic promotion despite winning a club record 14 away games.
Chelsea’s semi final victory over Barcelona was one born of two Herculean defensive performances where every ounce of energy the team had was expended in repelling the Catalan’s waves of attack.
This game will be a completely different affair due to Bayern’s less dominant hold over possession and Roberto Di Matteo will have to re-think the backs-against-the-wall tactics that Chelsea have mastered better than anyone and got them to this point.
Roberto Mancini, having secured Manchester City’s first title for 44 years, it seems is not resting on his laurels and yesterday declared his desire to spend big in an attempt to mount a serious Champions League charge next year.
Mancini’s squad on paper is amongst the best in the world with perhaps just Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Real Madrid able to boast more world class talent at their disposal. Essentially Manchester City, despite their ultimate success, underachieved this season and should really have strolled to the title at a canter considering the superiority of their squad compared to United’s.
Mancini spoke to BBC Sport yesterday of his desire to emulate Real and Barca, who ‘every year buy two or three players and spend a lot of money’.
So looking at their squad which area needs cash throwing at it?
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Roy Hodgson’s first England squad for Euro 2012 was always going to split opinion due to the ongoing John Terry/Ferdinand issue, the deeply average seasons enjoyed by many players in contention and the split in opinion over whether to discard the Golden Generation veterans all together.
Roy Hodgson today dropped a couple of major hints that he will look to give England’s ‘Golden Generation’ one last chance at Euro 2012 this summer, rather than placing his faith in the younger generation of players that are emerging at the Premier League’s top clubs.
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 10:41AM