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It had to happen sometime. As it turned out, it will have to happen some other time, although now they’re asking: why does it have to happen at all? After all, if it didn’t happen this time … “We want the perfect season,” Ivan Rakitic said afterwards, disbelief in the air, the thought forming that they could even become the first team to go an entire league without losing. As for Sevilla, this was hard to take. “I won’t sleep tonight,” said manager Vincenzo Montella. “If the game had finished five minutes earlier, we would have won.” Half that would have done it. Half decent finishing would have done it, too. “Frustrating,” Muriel called it. Sevilla had ArDarius Stewart Jersey 21 shots, eight of them his. As the game went into the 88th minute, there was time for two more, both of them Barcelona’s and both of them goals. 
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Alan Pardew’s short-lived reign as West Bromwich Albion manager came to an abrupt end on Monday following an eighth successive Premier League defeat that has left the Midlands club in escalating danger of relegation. 
Pardew, who succeeded Tony Pulis at the end of November, left by mutual consent after holding talks with the chief executive, Mark Jenkins, in the aftermath of the 2-1 home defeat by Burnley on Saturday which left West Brom 10 points from safety with six fixtures remaining. It is understood that the former West Ham, Newcastle and Crystal Palace manager felt he had taken the squad as far as he could having overseen just one league victory in 18 attempts, while West Brom were keen to make a change in an attempt to alter the atmosphere around the Hawthorns in recent weeks. Pardew’s side were booed off at half-time against Burnley, having last recorded a victory there on 13 January against Brighton. Aside from away wins over http://www.seahawksshopfooball.com/Tedric_Thompson_JerseyExeter and Liverpool in the FA Cup, that proved his only triumph as the 56-year-old amassed eight league points in total. His spell was notable not only for deteriorating results but also for a squad trip to Barcelona during which four players were alleged to have stolen a taxi. Darren Moore, who made more than 100 appearances for the club between 2001 and 2006 before coaching West Brom’s under-23 side, has been promoted from his role as first-team coach under Pardew and will Womens Denis Potvin Jersey take charge until the end of the season. Michael Appleton, the former West Brom player and coach who is now assistant to Claude Puel at Leicester, is considered a potential replacement along with Nigel Pearson and Brentford’s Dean Smith, although Jenkins and the technical director, Nicky Hammond – who sanctioned the appointment of Pardew having worked with him at Reading – are not expected to rush into an appointment. Instead Moore will be entrusted with the task of lifting the gloom that has descended at a club who have been members of the top flight since 2010. Last week Jenkins, who was appointed in February after the sacking of the chairman, John Williams, and chief executive, Martin Clarence Weatherspoon Womens Jersey Goodman, by the Chinese owner, Guochuan Lai, admitted his surprise at the “unravelling” of West Brom’s finances in the previous 12 months, admitting there was no more money available for player wages. “We have wages, transfer fees and loan fees running at record levels and yet we find ourselves in this position,” he said. “I’ll be honest, I’ve come back and I’m shocked at what I have found in some of the decisions that Paul Stastny Womens Jersey have been made.” Moore’s first match in charge will be against Swansea City on Saturday before West Brom travel to face Manchester United http://www.giantsfootballofficialonline.com/YOUTH+OLIVIER+VERNON+JERSEYat Old Trafford the following weekend. Pardew, whose assistant, John Carver, has also left his position, is the 10th Premier League manager to leave his post this season and the 44th across all four of England’s top divisions. The club said in a statement: “West Bromwich Albion and Alan Pardew have agreed to mutually part company today following discussions between both parties. Assistant head coach John Carver will also be leaving.http://forum.34sunrise.ru/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21305
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It looks like Zlatan Ibrahimovic has arrived in LA then. 
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Chelsea and Tottenham meet in a London derby on Sunday to battle it out for fourth place place and the capital also hosts the big relegation clash of the weekend on Saturday, when Southampton travel to West Ham. The two sides sit either side of the dreaded dotted line, with Saints able to leapfrog their opponents and escape the relegation zone if they pick up all three points. 
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And not just because all England generations must have their irresolvable discussion points. This is an interesting debate in its own right, a question of talent and form but also of the kind of patterns Gareth Southgate wants his team to adopt in and out of possession. 
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Italy’s footballers will not play in Russia this summer but for the man in charge of their national team, visits to the Etihad Stadium and Wembley represent the next best thing. Speaking at the start of this international break, Luigi Di Biagio likened the Azzurri’s friendlies against Argentina and England to a “mini-World Cup”. 
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