Chris Dunlavy
Chris Dunlavy: Game is far better with the maverick
Chris Dunlavy reflects on the individuals that shaped his love for football and worries that the modern game is phasing out such characters on the field.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 week agoChris Dunlavy: Why ‘risk’ Robbie Savage could be the right fit for Peterborough United
Chris Dunlavy asks whether Robbie Savage has done enough to merit the Peterborough United job.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 2 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Parachute payments are the real problem with Premier League handout
Chris Dunlavy argues that the Premier League’s proposed £1.8billion funding boost for the EFL will do little to close the competitive gap while parachute payments continue to drive up Championship wages.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 3 weeks agoChris Dunlavy: Hammer time has become fun time! West Ham are loving life again
Chris Dunlavy reflects on West Ham’s brilliant start in the Championship and why, despite promotion being the obvious goal, there is something to be said for enjoying a team that is winning games and scoring...
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 month agoChris Dunlavy: Identity crisis puts Burnley in the mire
Chris Dunlavy examines Burnley’s identity crisis under Nicky Hayen and questions whether the Clarets’ financial pressures are now holding them back on and off the pitch.
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Chris Dunlavy
/ 1 month 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
/ 1 month 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
/ 1 month 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
/ 1 month 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
/ 2 months 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
/ 2 months 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
/ 6 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
/ 6 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
/ 6 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
/ 6 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
/ 6 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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
/ 7 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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