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‘It’s not football any more’: Guardiola joins condemnation of VAR calling it a ‘big mess’

By Andrew Warshaw

December 30 – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola declared the VAR system a “big mess” on Sunday after a weekend that witnessed a plethora of ever more baffling rulings being judged on a series of screens often hundreds of miles away from the action.

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Performance

New-ish faces, old problems: Arsenal, Everton, Watford and West Ham make changes

By Andrew Warshaw

December 30 – Four English top-flight teams go into 2020 with new men at the helm after the managerial merry-go-round moved into full swing over Christmas.

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Match-fixing

Life ban for penalty pointing Moroccan referee

December 30 – A Moroccan referee has been banned for life for awarding four highly questionable penalties, three of them for the same team, in a domestic league match.

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FIFA

Belgium ends year top of FIFA rankings, Qatar is 2019’s fastest climber

December 21 – Belgium will finish 2019 as the world’s top ranked team, ahead of France and Brazil – the same positions they held in December 2018 in the FIFA/Coca-Cola men’s World Rankings.

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Performance

Klopp tries to keep the talk to football and off human rights issues

December 18 – Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, in Qatar for the Club World Cup, says he’s not the right person to talk about human rights in the country and whether it fit to host global tournaments.

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Performance

Liverpool miss chance of tilt at Wembley as they are thrashed 5-0 in Carabao Cup by Villa

By Paul Nicholson

December 17 – The Liverpool bubble was dramatically burst last night as Aston Villa spanked a young team 5-0 in the quarter finals of the EFL League Cup and in front of 30,000+ fans at Villa Park, 4,000 of them travelling Liverpool fans.

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Performance

De Bruyne, Van Dijk, Rashford and Son head MVP club rankings, Messi leads in Spain

December 18 – A data analysis of MVPs in clubs in Europe’s Big 5 leagues for the season to date shows Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi as again being their clubs key players so far. But the lists also throw up some less well known names.

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Performance

Arsenal and Everton head into Christmas clash with managers at top of wish list

December 17 – Arsenal and Everton are both hoping for new managers for Christmas with Mikel Arteta and Carlo Ancelotti respectively emerging as frontrunners. 

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Performance

Time for VAR to chill-out. Ceferin meets Brits to lobby for protocol changes

December 13 – The use of video assistant referees for marginal offside decisions, which has caused so much consternation throughout Europe, could be amended next season if a joint bid by UEFA and the British football associations succeeds.

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Performance

Ancelotti departs Naples despite ending drought with a 4-0 Champions League win

December 11 – No sooner had he guided Napoli into the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday than  Carlo Ancelotti, one of Europe’s most successful coaches, was sacked .

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Performance

Messi still leads way in European performance ranking, Mbappe ranks 3rd and Mahrez 4th

December 10 – He may starting to look towards his retirement but Lionel Messi still tops a ranking of the best performing players across 35 European leagues.

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Performance

Clearer, faster, less invasive. UEFA’s Ceferin demands shake-up of VAR ‘disaster’

December 6 – Amid growing criticism across Europe over the inconsistent way VAR is being interpreted, UEFA are to ask football’s lawmakers for greater clarification according to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin.

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Performance

Ever present Messi played 83.4% of Barca minutes in 2010s

December 3 – Lionel Messi heads a table of outfield players who have played the highest percentage of domestic league minutes in the big-5 league team in the 2010s.

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Performance

Arsenal unload Emery with Poch or Ancelotti rumoured to be incoming

By Andrew Warshaw

Just 10 days after north London rivals Tottenham sacked their much-admired manager Maurico Pochettino after five years in charge, Arsenal followed suit today by dismissing Unai Emery – though not quite with the same surprise or fanfare.

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Africa

Exclusive: Nigeria’s Rohr considers coaching future as he chases outstanding pay

By Osasu Obayiuwana

November 26 – With just seven months left on his contract with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Gernot Rohr, the German coach of the Super Eagles, is making it clear that he is looking at his options.

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