Tags: john nicholson
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Johnny NicChelsea, Everton can get their hands off our hero of the week
Let's hope Ciro Immobile isn't the latest expensive cut of meat to be ground up by the Premier League mincer.
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Johnny NicNigel Pearson shows the PFM lives on…and it can work
There absolutely is a place for a hard man Nigel Pearson is being brilliantly simple at Watford.
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Johnny NicSergio Aguero (and his powerful, meaty buttocks) is a legend
You can question the hair but not the brilliance. Aguero is wonderfully simple and simply wonderful.
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Johnny NicFootball and the sounds of the ‘old school’…
What does old school mean to you? Are you old school? How would you know?
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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 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 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 NicThe United Way? Arsenal DNA? It’s all nonsense…
Why not invent a new way to play instead of holding onto the past as a sucky blanket?
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Johnny NicA Winner with A Winning Mentality? That’s just nonsense…
Mauricio Pochettino is not A Winner but Jose Mourinho is A Winner. What a load of tosh...
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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 NicThis modern England is an antidote to hate and division…
Perhaps we need this England more than we usually acknowledge or even really appreciate...
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Johnny NicLiverpool v Man City: Not a 90-minute sporting orgasm
It was great but it wasn't everything Sky Sports told you it would be. John Nicholson talks hype...
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Johnny NicFootball needs to take a stand against those poppy c*cks
Is McClean really the only person in football who has an issue with wearing a poppy? Those fascists have worn us down.
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Johnny NicAge is just a number? In football and society, it’s an insult
Ageism is one of the last bigotries that can be indulged in today without fear of opprobrium. Football is complicit.
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Johnny Nic‘Rebuilding’ is a myth spun from candy floss and farts…
Football is chaos and all anyone can do is ride the tiger and hang on. Don't pretend you have a plan...
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Johnny NicSouthgate is England’s perfect leader – on and off the pitch
Gareth Southgate is a better coach than he is given credit for. But his strength lies in managing all aspects of England.
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Johnny NicThe England TwatArmy are yesterday’s men…
While Extinction Rebellion are worried about the world's future, others are on the streets in Nowhere Land...
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Johnny NicHere’s to investigative journalism’s anonymous genius
You probably don't know what Danny Taylor sounds like. But his voice is loud and clear when it comes to journalism.
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Johnny NicChelsea should make you ask questions of YOUR club
Chelsea's hand was forced but they emerged with brilliant kids. Does your club have similarly brilliant youngsters?
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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 NicThe Premier League’s ‘second-class’ citizens are on the rise
Sam Allardyce was hindering rather than helping his English coaching brethren. Thankfully, times have changed.
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Johnny NicSnobbery against 4-4-2 and long balls is PC gone mad…
Football can only be played one way - and it's all about the press. Anything else is frowned upon...