Tags: hero of the week
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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 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 NicWe must not let the Premier League ruin heroic Haaland
Johnny fears for our 14-year-old marauding Viking if the Premier League has its way with him. Love you, Erling.
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Johnny NicThis is just the start for Mauricio Pochettino, our Hero of the Week…
Johnny Nic pays tribute to a man who'll never again have to buy a drink in north London: Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero...
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Johnny NicHero of the week: The criminally-underrated Robert Lewandowski
Most of us appear to have become complacent to the Bayern Munich hitman's brilliance. Not our Johnny...
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Johnny NicAll aboard the John Lundstram for England bandwagon…
Some players just suit the Premier League better than the lower leagues. Step forward John David Lundstram.
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Johnny NicLeicester are ‘welcome sunshine in Premier League darkness’
Johnny's heroes of the week are Leicester City. But really he just wants to pile more love on Jamie Vardy...
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Johnny NicKylian Mbappe has naturalised preternatural brilliance
Kylian Mbappe has the football world at his explosive feet, and doesn't turn 21 for another couple of months. Ooft.
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Johnny NicHeroic Serge Gnabry is proof the Premier League is not king
Serge Gnabry failed in England - and not because of Arsene Wenger or Tony Pulis - but bounced back to prove himself.
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Johnny NicAll hail the Championship, the *real* premier league
Anyone can beat anyone. You can go from nowhere to title winners. The Championship is fun.
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Johnny NicOur hero of the week (every week) is Raheem Sterling
He is a bloody brilliant footballer and a truly inspiring man. What a hero. It's that boy Raheem Sterling.
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Johnny NicOur hero of the week is the inspirational Lucy Bronze
At just 27, England's own Lucy Bronze has pretty much been through - and won - it all.
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Johnny NicOur hero of the week: a Hillsborough crusader & Bury battler
His work ensured he should never have to buy a pint in Bury, Bolton, Liverpool or Leeds ever again. Football owes David Conn.
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Johnny NicTeemu Pukki is a hero who shows we should never give up
Teemu Pukki looks like a builder, is a top fella, bloody well gets it and is smashing it at Norwich.
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Johnny NicHero of the week: Phil Parkinson, captain of Bolton’s sinking ship
With only two senior players available this weekend, Phil Parkinson is leading Bolton's fight for survival...
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Johnny NicAn ode to Jabulani-taming, Liverpool-beating Diego Forlan
Man United fans still love Diego Forlan despite his average record. But what a f***ing player when he left...
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Johnny NicJohnny’s hero of the week: Boro boy Jonathan Woodgate
Boro boy, Boro player, Boro manager....and a bloody brilliant (though broken) defender in between...
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Johnny NicHero of the week: The extraordinary Megan Rapinoe
What a woman. Anybody who winds up Donald Trump and Piers Morgan is alright by us...
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Johnny NicHero of the week: The exceptional, canny Steph Houghton
Steph Houghton missed a penalty but remains a hero in the eyes of many. She is a legend.
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Johnny NicHero of the Week: The Spanish Buddha that is Rafa Benitez
Rafa Benitez has gone from Newcastle and the fans should walk with him, writes John Nicholson...
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Johnny NicHero of the week: Sam Kerr so ‘suck on that one’…
This week's hero is an Australian with a potty mouth.
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Johnny NicOur hero of the week is penalty master Jordan Pickford
It is almost fashionable to criticise him, but Pickford has already reached the top of his profession at 25.
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Johnny NicOur hero of the week: Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson
Jordan Henderson - your brother’s mate, or the lad who comes round to mend your washing machine.
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Johnny NicOur hero of the week is Eden Hazard and his lovely bum
What a bloody player. Eden Hazard is what Joe Cole should have been, only even bloody better.
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Johnny NicOur Hero of the Week is the wonderful Ada Hegerberg
A phenomenal footballer with a phenomenal message. And yet she won't be at the World Cup.
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Johnny NicHero of the week: It’s that man Tammy Abraham
Oh it's the Chelsea player who doesn’t play for Chelsea. Who doesn't like Tammy Abraham?
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Johnny NicHeroes of the week: It can only be Liverpool…
Johnny’s starting a new feature this week. And he starts with those wonderful men of Merseyside...