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Sport News 24/7 By Alex Dinsdale  @dinsadelic  @TLE_Sport The managerial instability around Vicarage Road hit the headlines some months ago, with the ridiculous statistic of four head coaches in thirty-seven days making a mockery of Watford’s promising start to the season.  Having lost only twice, Watford were on course for the promotion they had only just missed out on in Gianfranco Zola’s first season. The appointment of ex-Barcelona player and Brighton boss, Oscar Garcia, was met with great optimism but...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Fanatically 'anti' fans are making non-league clubs in London increasingly political. London is no stranger to the inexplicable mix of politics and football. Class warfare, religious differences, industrial disputes; the terraces of London’s football clubs are the people’s benches of Westminster. But of late, the once concealed relationship between football and politics has come to the fore in the shape of left-leaning Ultra fans. Ultras are typically the type of sports fans...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport Dear Steven, It saddens me greatly to hear that you are leaving Liverpool Football Club at the end of the season.  After a beautiful 25 year relationship, you have decided to start a new life over in the United States.  Now I know all good things have to come to an end, but why so soon Steven?  You still have so much to offer Liverpool – we still...

Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara  @Sean_FootyMad  @TLE_Sport As the NFL Wildcard weekend comes to an end, here’s a look back on an instant classic, the Ravens rising and two young quarterbacks making their mark on history. For me, the best game of the weekend was in Dallas.  As I have mentioned before the Dallas Cowboys are known as 'America's Team' and maybe they didn't deserve it before but this year they have certainly lived up to their unofficial nickname....

Sport News 24/7 By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic This weekend Britain's football elite will embark on their FA cup journey after a typically jam-packed Festive schedule. While clubs across Europe manage to get some much-needed rest, the powers that be (BT Sport, BskyB) ensure professional footballers in Britain ply their trade (getting people to watch the telly) to the detriment of long-standing institutions such as the FA Cup, which is left to deal with a Premier League hangover...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport The January sales.  Traditionally a time where one can purchase the best of last season for a knockdown price.  Not so in the world of football.  The January blues cause chairmen to write cheques left, right and centre, and managers to sign players they would never normally even consider at enormously inflated prices.  Most managers and chairmen hate January.  But if one looks hard enough, there are some bargains...

By Matthew Biggin  @MatthewBiggin  @TLE_Sport This festive period most of us will be hanging up our stockings to the opening bars of Fairytale of New York as we guzzle mulled wine by the gallon.  We’ll prepare for days of merriment, gift-giving and curling up in front of the fire to watch Home Alone 2. But for many Premier League managers the Christmas period is greeted with dread.  Indeed the period of the year known as ‘sacking season’ is now upon...

By Richard de Winter  @rgdewinter  @TLE_Sport Dear Santa, First of all, hope that all’s going well for you at this busy time of year, and that you’re not too swamped by the deluge of demands for an iPad from armies of over-privileged 6-year-olds with a worrying sense of entitlement.  Give them all a lump of coal I say, the chances are they’ve been more naughty than nice, and anyway what possible benefit could a 6-year-old gain from owning an iPad?...

Sport News 24/7 By Ian Caroll Newcastle United fans are ungrateful, deluded and fickle. You’ll already know this if you read the work of some of the finest journalistic minds of our age- Paddy Barclay, Rob ‘Shep’ Shepherd et al. Those deluded Geordies have actually dared to criticise Alan Pardew after their eleven brave lions were dumped out of the League Cup at White Hart Lane. How very dare they…What do these Northern Clowns expect? Their team had played half...