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OLIVER HOLT: UEL final is glory or bust for the two sides’ Prem League’s damned

On the ground floor of the Guggenheim Museum, a mile or so from the stadium where the Europa League final takes place on Wednesday evening, they show a contemporary film and video exhibition, a collaboration between Basque and Italian artists. Crowds or visitors enter the exhibition space in the dark, strangers bump into each other […]

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Crystal Palace 4-2 Wolves: Oliver Glasner’s FA Cup heroes rock Selhurst as Eddie Nketiah double downs Wolves

The FA Cup party was resumed in Selhurst Park and it was in the midst of these SE25 knees written even more history, with Crystal Palace striker Eddie Nketiah packing a brace to help the club with their largest Premier League points in total ever. Never before had the Palace broken the 50-point barrier, but

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Tinkering Pep Guardiola was outthought by Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner

There have been many occasions about the nine years of Pep Guardiola in England, which time with him ran away by one of the corridors along the tunnel of the Etihad Stadium. The Manchester City manager has held a few long debriefs with the opposition, against the walls with white bricks. Oliver Glasner's was not

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Oliver Glasner’s Crystal Palace turned season around and reached FA Cup final with 3-4-3 formation

Crystal Palace is not only in the FA Cup final, but they are also among the most tactically interesting teams of the Premier League. Manchester United tries to make it work 3-4-3, but they can do worse than the Oliver Glasner team as a template. The praise was not so appearing at the end of

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Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner issues FA Cup Final BAN to players

Oliver Glasner has told his Eagles to concentrate on achieving a Premier League point record before the Big Wembley confrontation on 17 May when they are confronted with Pep Guardiola's Manchester City Oliver Glasner has all talked about the FA Cup final when he challenged his Crystal Palace side to establish a new Premier League

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OLIVER HOLT: Ratcliffe’s latest cash-grab shows how little loyalty matters to MU

A few weeks ago, Steve Lamb, a seasonal card holder at Old Trafford for 32 years, received a 'renewal communication' from Manchester United. In the emotionless language of the Apparatchik it sounded a bit like the prelude for an invitation for a stay in Siberia. And in a sense it was. Steve is from stockport.

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Arsenal 2-2 Crystal Palace: Oliver Glasner reveals Eagles targeted David Raya’s high positioning as Jamie Carragher criticises Gunners goalkeeper

Oliver Glasner revealed that Crystal Palace was aiming for the high positioning of David Raya from his line when his team took a 2-2 draw with Arsenal – with Jamie Carragher of Sky Sports critically about Gunners' goalkeeper in the draw. The Eagles took a point to the emirates thanks to the beautiful late lob

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MARTIN KEOWN TALKS TACTICS: Oliver Glasner needs a plan to shackle Fulham’s flying wide boys

With an external chance of an unlikely FA Cup and Champions League, Fulham is located. A Blockbuster Stropdas against Crystal Palace gives them the opportunity to reach their first FA Cup-Halve final since 2002 and to get a step closer to their first FA Cup final since Bobby Moore and Co played in 1975. The

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Roy Keane is wrong – here’s why Mikel Arteta CAN lead Arsenal to the title next season, writes OLIVER HOLT

This is not a hagiography of Mikel Arteta. I am not all-in on the Arsenal boss. To begin with, who gets a dog to help the team binding and calls it 'victory'? It feels like something from a leadership manual David Brent. That poor chocolate Labrador, stuck with such a name for the rest of

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