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The Month: 20 Things That Happened In April

The Month: 20 Things That Happened In April

Exactly 22 things happened/were worth talking about in April. One of them was Margaret Thatcher’s death. Another was this picture of George Osborne crying. Here are the other 20. (20: what could possibly be the significance of that number?) 20 things (not quite in chronological order): 1: Take away this Cup from me Manchester United [...]

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The Month: Kagawa hat-trick, Nani red card and 15 points clear

The Month: Kagawa hat-trick, Nani red card and 15 points clear

Ah, March: the weather slowly improves, as does the football. With the title race and the narrative of relegation to consider (SIX POINTERS EVERYWHERE!), it all starts to mean something. Or maybe not. In fact, forget football, what’s the point of life? Webbe (2002) observed that the nature of ‘life’ means it’s liable to “flip [...]

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The Month: Danny Welbeck, Real Madrid and perceptions

The Month: Danny Welbeck, Real Madrid and perceptions

There are a lot of people thankful for the place the world has become; which is mostly great, because it’s nice when people are happy (except when it allows for some to write off the very serious issues: who was responsible for ‘post-racial society’, anyway?) because things are, of course, different now and not like [...]

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The Month: De Gea, Giggs, Van Persie and spot-kicks

The Month: De Gea, Giggs, Van Persie and spot-kicks

January, you’d be happy to hear, was a good month for Manchester United. And it is, on the simple premise that January will nearly always be more important than September, their best of the season yet. United were able to preserve their seven point lead at the top, beat Liverpool and ensure there were no [...]

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