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Johnny NicHero of the week Lukaku has made Man Utd look awful silly
Romelu Lukaku has been fighting the good fight his entire life. And scoring goals along the way.
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Johnny NicThe black magic of the FA Cup is slave to the Premier League
The fact that we ask whether the FA Cup has lost its magic shows it has. And the PL is the Scandi noir serial killer.
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Johnny NicThe rock star midfielder with floppy hair and skill to burn…
Johnny's hero of the week can only be Jack Grealish. And Aston Villa fans really do love him so...
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Johnny NicThe 2010s: Lionel Messi, Liverpool, Leicester and *us*
Barcelona's strangling, Leicester's long balls, Liverpool's thrilling high press. It has been quite the decade, hasn't it?
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Johnny NicThe 2010s: Stats, podcasts and the coitus interruptus of VAR
Johnny Nic regains his spot on the soapbox to talk us through the rise of stats and podcasts, as well as VAR...
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Johnny NicThe 2010s: When broadcast quality went up and viewers went down
John Nicholson is here with the first of a three-parter on how football has changed in the 2010s.
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Johnny NicMartin Peters: A player 50 years ahead of his time
He was the England World Cup winner of 1966 that would have thrived in the modern game...
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Johnny NicExpectation is destroying our love of football…
The more money in football, the greater the expectation. But that path only needs to disappointment...
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Johnny NicHero of the week: Peter Drury, the broadcast poet
Peter was voted Commentator of the Year at this week’s FSA awards and he's Johnny Nic's hero of the week...
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Johnny NicWhy do we only see ex-players on football TV?
The old-fashioned dead hand of anti-intellectualism needs to weaken its grasp...
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Johnny NicJohnson, Corbyn and Keys all fear our hero of the week
We cling onto Marina Hyde's work like a rubber ring in the deep end of the swimming pool of existence.
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Johnny NicFootball managers are so rarely either genius or goon…
...so sacking one and appointing another rarely makes any real difference. It's all just about dopamine and boredom...
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Johnny NicMarcus Rashford is football at its most basic and glorious
Marcus Rashford plays fast and direct. It is sensational poetry instead of boring maths.
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Johnny NicAmazon deal is same old PL bullsh*t rather than new frontier
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Amazon are not the new frontier for Premier League broadcasting.
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