Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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EPL Matchday 7 Roundup: Sanchez Hits Hat-Trick In A Big Weekend
Kane and Rooney finally scored. Sanchez hit a hat-trick and Newcastle blew it … again. It was a big weekend for in the EPL, with wins for Manchester United, Arsenal, Crystal Palace, Stoke, Southampton and, of course, Liverpool and Spurs. In the latter match, Harry Kane ended weeks of fevered speculation about whether or not…
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Brendan Rodgers: Nice Guys Finish Last?
As this is my first proper opinion piece on this site, I’m gonna clear a few things up about the articles I’m going to publish here. First, when it comes to the Premier League I have no dog in the fight. I’m a Scot and a Celtic fan, but I love football and I write…
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Ligue 1 Review: Montpellier 2-3 Monaco
It’s been a dismal start to the season for Montpellier, who now sit bottom of Ligue 1 with just a single point taken from their opening six games. The result in this game didn’t make things any better …. Monaco’s start, while not exactly meeting expectations, has been better. They sat in 12th on 8…
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Watching Paint Dry – The Most Boring Matches In History
Everyone who watches football remembers at least one game they wish they could erase from memory, one match which was so bad that it made you want to give up watching the sport completely. These are some of those games … games which redefined the word “boring” and put a time and date on it…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Newcastle 1-2 Watford
Steve McClaren said, after this game, that trying to turn around Newcastle’s shocking form was “a little bit like a car crash.” He isn’t kidding. Right now it resembles a motorway pile-up, and one with a high likelihood of casualties. They flirted with relegation last season, and but for Sunderland also dropping three points and…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Bournemouth 2-0 Sunderland
Things are pretty grim up north at the moment, with Sunderland and Newcastle suffering a ghastly start to the season, and one that neither side was able to better at the weekend. In this match, played in front of a Bournemouth support who are much happier with the start they’ve made than the away fans…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Aston Villa 0-1 West Brom
This Midlands derby defeat for Aston Villa, at the hands of West Brom, means that the coming one, against Birmingham in the League Cup, has a significance that it otherwise might not have had. West Brom had come to Villa Park in need of a pick me up and within 60 seconds Rondon had forced…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Manchester City 1-2 West Ham
This result ended a tough week for Manchester City fans. They lost to Juventus in midweek, in another Champions League reversal, and then followed it up with this very poor performance at home to a West Ham team who need no encouragement when it comes to taking on the big guns and getting a result.…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Liverpool 1-1 Norwich
Brendan Rodgers’ team have had a lopsided start to this season, and no mistake, and this was another of those days when he and the Liverpool supporters were left cursing his side’s luck and their lack of a cutting edge. As it stand right now they have taken an anaemic eight points from their first…
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EPL 15/16 Matchday 6: Tottenham 1-0 Crystal Palace
Spurs won the day’s second London derby by a single goal, with Son Heung-min bagging his third in two games to give them a hard fought victory over Crystal Palace at home. The winner came in the 68th minute of an encounter where there were chances at both ends but stout defending had largely succeeded…
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