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Everton and Carlo Ancelotti – now the hard work begins

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on January 6, 2020

CARLO ANCELOTTI knew he wasn’t taking over a bulge bracket club when he agreed to join Everton, making him one of the most celebrated managers ever to walk into the Goodison Park hot-seat. At Anfield, in his first Merseyside side, the constantly raised eyebrow told you everything you needed to know: the three-times Champions League winner has a major task on his hands at Everton. Losing to an under-strength and inexperienced Liverpool side in the FA Cup is a significant psychological setback. This came on the back of preliminary news that Everton made record losses for 2018-19, a revelation – which will become much clearer soon – that has made life even for challenging. With Liverpool recently and rightly proclaimed the best team in…

Categories: Premier League

Tagged: Carlo Ancelotti, Everton, FA Cup, Liverpool, Premier League, top slot

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Despite the current era, Sexton’s Chelsea stand the test of time

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Posted on January 5, 2020

IF Chelsea had not got off to a miserable start in 1969-70, they may well have gone much closer to winning the Football League instead of their first FA Cup. Not that the Cup was a consolation, because in 1970, it really meant something and for the Blues, it was their first ever FA Cup triumph. Until 2004-05, the team that overcame Leeds United over two arduous games was widely considered to be the club’s most loved and arguably its most successful line-up. Any Chelsea fan from that year would be able to reel off the classic team from that period: Bonetti, Webb, McCreadie, Hollins, Dempsey, Harris, Cooke, Hudson, Osgood, Hutchinson and Houseman. Ironically, that wasn’t the team that lifted the Cup. Hudson was…

Categories: Teams

Tagged: 1970, Chelsea, FA Cup, great reputations, Peter Osgood, top slot

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The FA Cup: It all started with the Daily Mirror

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Posted on January 4, 2020

THE FA CUP used to be VERY special. The final was listed as part of the social season in Letts diaries, a status that didn’t mean much to the man on the Highbury terrace, because “social calendar” meant the blazered types that turned up at major sporting events such as test matches, Ascot and Wimbledon without having too much interest in the sports themselves. The FA Cup was a “grand day out” for the supporters of the participating clubs as far back as the late 19th century when the final was held at the Crystal Palace. Hordes of fans travelled down to south London – many via special trains – to see the match and often make a weekend of it. This peaked in…

Categories: History

Tagged: FA Cup, top slot, Wembley

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Haringey v Yeovil shows non-league has a racism problem

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on October 21, 2019

FOR YEARS, people have been selling non-league football as a civilised world, “real football for real people”, supported by the theory that this level of the game is one big happy family, a community motivated by the enjoyment of football in a malice-free environment. Just days after England’s players were subjected to racist comments and chanting in Bulgaria, Haringey Borough’s football team walked-off the pitch after racism allegedly reared its ugly head once more. Two men in the Yeovil area were arrested the following day on suspicion of racism. Of course, racism at any game damages reputations and hurts people, but for non-league it is a blow in a different way. It demonstrates that not even a match played in front of a homely,…

Categories: Football Media Watch

Tagged: FA Cup, Haringey Borough, Non-League, racism, top slot, Yeovil Town

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