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Sport News 24/7 By Alex Dinsdale  @dinsadelic  @TLE_Sport Vicarage Road has been a busy place this summer.  New players, a new manager and even hundreds more new seats have all arrived in a flurry of activity to prepare Watford for their first season in the Premier League in eight years, and only their third of all time.  With the long awaited Elton John Stand finally completed after what seems like decades and the club restored to the top flight, there...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport Rewind just six months and English cricket was in a very different state to the victorious euphoria it currently finds itself in.  England had just suffered a disastrous World Cup, topped off by a humiliating defeat to Bangladesh in their final group match and they were being led by an uber-intense coach, in his second spell, with a ropey record at international level.  All sounds a far cry...

By Sharon Jones, Senior Tutor at Bolton Sixth Form College and Club Poet at Bacup Borough Fc.  Sharon runs a Football Poetry Workshops in schools, libraries, community centres, and you can find me @BBFCClubPoet and www.barbfc.co.uk Arsenal The Professor Resplendent in FA Cup glory Yet Gunners salivate for the source Of Premier Silverware To crown new princes of the park Create new artists Bergkamp Henry and Brady The Wright Wright Wright stuff of dreams Where football paves its pathway From the summits of...

Sport News 24/7 By Simon White  @SimonWhite14  @TLE_Sport Crystal Palace: A club perennially facing the drop until the ever reliable Tony Pulis turned them into a solid unit, Alan Pardew promises to take his old club on to the next level.  A manager who has shown how astute he is in the transfer market by adding Yoann Cabaye, bringing in young talent in the form of Jordan Mutch and providing a home for old favourites like Wilfried Zaha, the ex-Newcastle...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport As England’s cricketers gloriously maul their Australian counterparts and head towards regaining the Ashes urn, the nation’s footballers are busying themselves for a new season.  I know what you’re thinking: ‘What?  So soon?  But we’re only just into August!’  In fact the season is starting so early that even this wonderfully well-researched journalist was caught out.  Whether you think the season should start two weeks later (I do)...

Sport News 24/7 The London Economic’s Noy Shani brings you a selection of the week’s oddest, most promising and uplifting sports stories from around the globe. @TLE_sport @NoyShani A new Brazilian Holiday Remember Brazil's highly embarrassing loss to Germany in the Semi Final of the World Cup just over a year ago? Of course you do. This week a Brazilian council official has proposed a new kind of ‘holiday’, called ‘A Goal To Germany Day’ intending to remembering that dreadful...

Sport News 24/7 By Ian Carroll On May 24th 2015, Newcastle United limped, some would say un-deservedly past one of the least bothered Premier League (Best League in the World, AND IT’S LIVE etc etc) sides ever, to stay in the English First Division and avoid oblivion. Their owner (the NUFC owner, not the dildo seller from the Olympic Stadium), a man that appears to be the only overweight man that can find a way to sell crap sportswear to...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter Hands up who saw that coming. Anyone who says they predicted the Edgbaston whitewash is either clairvoyant, an incurable optimist, or a liar. This Ashes series is predictable in its unpredictability; the teams are consistent in their inconsistency; cue many other paradoxes.  What will happen at Trent Bridge on Thursday is anybody’s guess. So, how did England go from a crushing defeat at Lord’s to a comprehensive victory at Edgbaston? Obviously the answer is...

Sport News 24/7 By Matt Allen There are few players that move to the Premier League that are genuinely considered in the top six or seven players in world football when British clubs signs them. The EPL is seen as the place where you make your name before the big transfer to one of Europe’s elite. Luis Suarez, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale et al are just some that have established themselves, with the possible exception of Sergio Aguero. For various reasons, be...