Chris Dunlavy
Identity crisis puts Clarets in the mire
Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL AY what you want about Burnley over the last ten years, but the Clarets always had a clear identity....
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 week agoChris Dunlavy: Slow start has put Preston in great peril
Chris Dunlavy examines Preston North End’s worrying start to the Championship season and asks whether their commitment to sustainability is finally becoming incompatible with life in the second tier.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 weeks agoLIONS SHOW THEY CAN DO IT WITHOUT AZEEZ
Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL TALISMAN: Femi Azeez THE most impressive aspect of Millwall’s flying start to the season isn’t the six points from two games, the away day stroll at Bristol City...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Leicester City still plagued by sinking feeling!
Chris Dunlavy examines why Leicester City continue to hit new lows, with a crisis of confidence compounded by Russell Martin’s tactical approach.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 weeks agoCANNY NORTH END IN SMART MOVE TO CUT TIES
Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL OUT: Milutin Osmajic PRESTON have played an absolute blinder convincing Genoa to pay £2.5m for walking liability Milutin Osmajic. Whether it was biting Blackburn’s Owen Beck, racially abusing...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Why West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo needs to go on the attack
Chris Dunlavy questions whether Nuno Espirito Santo’s cautious approach can deliver the attacking football West Ham United’s Championship title favourites are expected to produce.
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Championship
/ 4 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Championship play-off expansion keeps the promotion dream alive
With Tony Mowbray backing the move, Chris Dunlavy argues that extending the Championship play-offs gives more clubs something meaningful to fight for and supporters a reason to keep dreaming.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Dreadful Leicester City go from bad to worst
Ten years after Jamie Vardy and a team of overachieving grafters went down in history as the greatest Leicester City side of all time, the class of 2025-26 will almost certainly be remembered as the...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Coventry City fans deserve return to heaven
To hell and back. Now, after 25 years of humiliation and despair, Coventry are heading back to the Premier League.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Southampton’s good timing is so vital – just ask Will Still
Will Still could have been forgiven for putting his foot through the TV as he watched Southampton annihilate Wrexham on Tuesday evening.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: EFL must battle to avoid VAR misery
Marcelo Bielsa, who returned to England with Uruguay last weekend, was always a man of the people.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 5 months agoChris Dunlavy: Yousef Salech makes big difference
By Chris Dunlavy Quite how fit Yousef Salech will be after more than two months out with neck injury is open to debate, but there’s no doubt Cardiff have missed him. It is no coincidence...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Stoke City have got to change the culture
Speaking in the aftermath of last weekend’s 3-1 defeat at Preston, Robins criticised his players for making “stupid decisions” and blasted a “totally unacceptable” performance.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Sad all Dover, but now Lincoln City feel on top of the world
Ten years ago last weekend, 743 people watched Lincoln City get annihilated 4-1 by Dover Athletic in a National League game at the Crabble.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Jordan James can hold his head high at Leicester City
Leicester City have been awful this season, and their dressing room must take the lion’s share of the blame.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Sad Blacburn Rovers’ misery is years in making
Next weekend, Michael O’Neill will leave Blackburn’s relegation struggles behind and jet off to oversee Northern Ireland’s World Cup play-off against Italy in Bergamo.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoAT LEAST CHANSIRI WILL BE OUT OF POCKET!
Chris Dunlavy COST: Dejphon Chansiri SHEFFIELD Wednesday’s annus horribilis plumbed new depths this week with news that the Owls are likely to be docked 15 points next season. Arise, a group led by US investors...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Southampton must take care with Ross Stewart
Strange though it may sound, Southampton’s hopes of promotion could hinge on a player who has started just eight Championship games this season.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Neil Warnock could’ve got West Brom bouncing
Neil Warnock shelved the gardening gloves, mothballed the golf clubs and dusted down his tracksuit to take charge of Torquay United this week.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 6 months agoChris Dunlavy: Leo Scienza shines amid the ups and downs at Southampton
Southampton's rollercoaster form means their players are unlikely to feature when the end-of-season awards are doled out next month.
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