Siddharth Vishwanathan

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Stamford Bridge drama continues

Roman Abramovich visited Chelsea’s training ground twice last week and the annual Chelsea theatrical performance reached its Third Act with a resounding crescendo. Nothing new, we have all seen this play before.

Stamford Bridge drama continues

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Roman Abramovich visited Chelsea’s training ground twice last week and the annual Chelsea theatrical performance reached its Third Act with a resounding crescendo. Nothing new, we have all seen this p

Sc(hole)s in the middle ?

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It all began in May last year. Within the space of a week, Manchester United got outplayed in midfield by a superb Barcelona side and subsequently, Paul Scholes announced his decision to retire from f

Window shopping

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They used to say that clubs don’t spend big in January. That belief was metaphorically blown out of the water last year, with various Premier League clubs combining to spend over £210 million on trans

The human element in football

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A referee went to heaven. On arriving at the Gates, St Peter asked him if he had done anything wrong in his life.

He replied that he was refereeing a game and with just a few minutes to go, and with

Carling Cup tales

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In a decade or so, Darren Ambrose will retire, buy a house by the sea-side and wait to have a litter of grandchildren so that he can tell them about ‘that’ goal he scored at Old Trafford.

And so he

Top bracket action

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On Sunday, Manchester City travel to Anfield to take on Liverpool in what should be an incredibly interesting affair.

City are at the top of the league and are rampant. Having destroyed Manchester U

Gloryhunters united

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My friend was in London a while back, travelling on the train, when he started talking to a stranger. As it turned out, the guy was a Watford FC supporter. Not a supporter of any club himself, my frie

RVP - The last hope

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30th September 2006. Charlton Athletic (remember them?) played host to Arsenal at The Valley. I may have had to look up the date but there was a goal scored in that match which still lingers in my mem

King of a false dawn

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Rex Non Potest Peccare, or in English, ‘A king can do no wrong’, was a well recognised legal principle till the mid-twentieth Century. It is highly probable that this phrase went through the mind of a

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.