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Luton, Burnley, and Sheffield United: How the Premier League New Boys Change the Premier League

The Ripple Effect with James Lawrence Allcott

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The Importance of Cutting and Banging in Football

The importance of having a threat from wide has become massive over the last few years partly as a result of this like narrowing of defensive structures which took place now probably 10 years ago. The top six highest goal scoring teams in the championship last season their top scorers only one of them was an actual number nine so you had like Akpom scoring top goal scorer in the whole league wasn't playing number nine for burrows playing second striker Bernalese top scorers were Tella who played a really fluid role kind of drifting all across the front line and often running in behind making kind of number nine tight runs but very clearly not profiled as a number nine Joel Perot Swansea definitely not an

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