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Twenty stadiums stand still.
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quiet you can hear the winds of summer echoing all around
them. Homes to some of the most recognizable football
clubs on this earth lie empty, waiting for their time to
shine. For 31 days, their stadium cousins in Brazil
captured the eyes of the world while they slept. Fans
still visit to buy the new strip inside the club shop and
as July nears an end, more and more people arrive home
from their holidays and come to pay a visit. Some buy a
ticket for a match, others buy one for 19. Inside,
groundskeepers are the summer conductors of the
orchestra, bellowing out the sounds while thousands of
empty seats sit still and wait. Those who pay good money
to sit on them read the newspapers every day, hoping each
one might be the day their team signs a player that will
excite them. It is a fresh dawn, one that may yet prove
to be a false one but the beauty of summer in England for
a football fan is that as they read about their teams,
while watching cricket, their minds allow for positive
thoughts. It is not a normal emotion for a fan. Gone are
the scars of recent heartache suffered at the most recent
match. It seems like forever since their team played a
competitive game. May feels like it was in 2013 and as
the sun shines, along with it comes a ray of hope that
somehow this season will be better than last. August
arrives. Twenty stadiums stand ready to burst. The grass
has never looked more pristine and the excitement starts
to build and build as pre-season games are completed.
Dress rehearsals are fun but nothing prepares you for the
real thing. Needed improvements are completed, fresh
advertising signs are up and more and more employees
enter as the season gets closer and closer. Twenty
stadiums stand ready. For the next 10 months, they will
be the theatres grand stages, seen around the globe by
close to five billion people in approximately 650 million
homes. Games will be played out in the sun, hail, rain,
and thats sometimes all in one day. Theyll play at night
under floodlights and points will be won and lost, as a
10-month gruelling marathon will take place. Only one
stadium will crown a true champion, three others will see
more tears than most and wont be back for the party next
year. For now, though, they stand together, ready to open
up to over 13 million fans to watch 380 matches between
now and May 24, 2015. International Visitors Many fresh
new faces on the field will also enter their gates for
the first time. Seen as one of Englands greatest exports,
the Barclays Premier League has once again opened its
doors to some wonderful overseas talent. As George Orwell
so poetically put it over seven decades ago, England is a
country fascinated by all things foreign and the Premier
League clubs who have spent considerable funds on non-
English talent this summer have certainly brought smiles
to the faces of their anxious fans. Less than a year
after stunning the football world with Mesut Ozil,
Arsenal continued shopping at a level they require with
the purchase of the wonderfully gifted Alexis Sanchez.
The Chilean gives Arsene Wenger something he didnt have,
a player who can make their attack more flexible, a
legitimate difference maker who brings pace and guile
whether he plays out wide or on the back of the defenders
shoulders in a central spot. The 2014 FA Cup winners
retained Wenger, called a specialist in failure by Jose
Mourinho, who will know he must win the league this
season to avoid such a description being turned back on
him. The additions of Spaniards Cesc Fabregas and Diego
Costa represent a fantastic summer for the Blues as they
continue to build a spine necessary for them to get back
to winning ways. Chelsea lacked the power that winners
Man City had in key areas on the field last season and
they have gone a long way to rectify that with Fabregas
joining an outstanding, revamped central midfield
alongside the impressive Nemanja Matic and Marco Van
Ginkel. Ander Herrera, Felipe Luis, Lazar Markovic,
Eliaquim Mangala, Fernando, Remy Cabella, Jefferson
Montero, Enner Valencia, Dusan Tadic and Didier Drogba
(again) have all arrived for a collective 150 million
pounds and many others have joined them but the biggest
name of all to arrive on English shores is in Manchester
where a wounded former giant badly needs a new leader.
Louis Van Gaal arrives at Manchester United where it was
no longer just belonging to Sir Alex. The failure of
David Moyes means the bridge between the old boss and the
new boss is considerably longer than it was in April.
That is the first thing he has going for him. It is not
the last. Van Gaal has arrived at Old Trafford where
there is finally a feeling of a badly needed fresh start.
Gone are Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra
and if the 63-year-old is to complete a successful
overhaul, players such as Anderson, Nani, Ashley Young,
Tom Cleverley, Rafael and Javier Hernandez will likely
follow over time. Van Gaal has already stamped an
identity on United in his short time, something badly
missing under Moyes. The team looks set to play a 3-4-1-2
system against many opponents, one backed by senior
members of the club who have been more than happy so far
in pre-season. All indications show that an improvement
is coming but for a team that finished last season
seventh on 64 points after eight successive years in the
top two, just how much they need to improve could well be
the biggest burning question in the entire league. Van
Gaal, unlike Moyes, is not inheriting a champion. Moyes
inherited a flawed team but, when they under performed,
the fingers pointed at the Scotsman. This season, the
players have no such excuse and little expectations.
However, a squad featuring names such as Wayne Rooney,
Robin Van Persie, Juan Mata, Luke Shaw, Adnan Januzaj,
David De Gea, Michael Carrick and Herrera is clearly a
team that is better than what they showed last season. It
is also the perfect team to illustrate how difficult it
is to judge (or predict for that matter) any team at this
time in the transfer window. Van Gaal knows he needs two
central defenders, a wingback, and a midfielder before
the start of September and he will likely get most of
them. Until we know the names of such players, it is
difficult to know what United will accomplish this season
but what we do know is how they need to be better. It
would be inaccurate for history to tell us a tale of
Uniteds demise the moment Sir Alex walked away from the
job. Yes, they won the Premier League in his final season
but the warning signs were there to see while he was
still in charge, particularly in the true big matches
(against Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man City,
Tottenham and matches in Europe). In the three seasons of
08/09, 09/10 and 10/11, United played 80 of these games,
won 45, drew 18 and lost 17; a 58 per cent win percentage
in big games. In the three seasons following (two under
Ferguson and one under Moyes), United played 70 of these
games, won 28, drew 16 and lost 26; a 40 per cent win
percentage. In Fergusons final season domestically, he
gained 69pts from the 26 matches outside of the top seven
(22W, 3D, 1L). He got 20pts (6W, 2D, 4L) from the 12
matches against the other six. Last season under Moyes
(including the four remaining games under caretaker boss
Ryan Giggs), United got 58pts from the 26 matches outside
of the top seven (18W, 4D, 4L), an 11-point drop over 26
games which is 0.42 points less per game for Moyes than
Ferguson. If they would have secured 0.42 points less per
game in the big games, United should still have come up
with 15pts from the 12 matches against the top six, which
would have put them at 73 at the end of the year; good
enough for Champions League football in every other
season other than last. Instead, they got just six points
in 12 big games (1W, 3D, 8L) all under Moyes. Clearly,
Moyes wasnt good enough against the lower 13 teams (0.42
PPG less than Ferguson) but against the big teams, he was
incredibly poor, 1.16 PPG worse than the year previous.
This is Van Gaals challenge. Whoever he signs, it is
still likely he will be better than Moyes, but not quite
as good as Fergusons settled side, against the 13 other
teams, giving him around 20 wins, three draws and three
losses for an approximate total of 63. How he does in the
other 12 matches will show us whether United can
challenge for the title, the Champions League spots or
face another season out of the sports elite competition.
Uniteds rebuild will take time and we will have to wait
for answers. Van Gaals side are the only team to not play
any side in the top half from last season during the
first two months of the season. Expect United to start
very well, watch the expectations soar but get ready to
see how good they really are when the strong tests come
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- The New York Yankees made it official Saturday,
announcing the completion of a seven-year deal with free-
agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury and a one-year contract
for returning starter Hiroki Kuroda.
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Alex Carpenter also scored for the Americans, who avoided
a repeat of Finlands upset at the Four Nations Cup in
Lake Placid, N.Y., in November. Finnish goalie Noora Raty
made 58 saves in that one, but the three-time Olympian
could stop just 40 of 43 U.
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on the road for the first time this season after dropping
home contests to Montreal and Pittsburgh to begin the
campaign. After losing a one-goal decision to the
Canadiens on Wednesday, they were bested 5-2 on Saturday
by the Penguins.Jeffery Taylor will not be appealing his
24-game suspension. Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski
reports that the Charlotte Hornets forward will not fight
the ban handed down to him by NBA commissioner Adam
Silver for pleading guilty in October to misdemeanor
domestic violence assault and malicious destruction of
hotel property. On Thursday, NBAPA head Michele Roberts
said that the union was prepared to file an appeal if
Taylor chose to move forward with one. Roberts contended
that the suspension went above and beyond the discipline
that could be meted out by the current CBA. The CBA
contemplates a minimum 10-game suspension in any case
involving a conviction for a violent felony, including
domestic violence. In contrast, Jeff Taylor was charged
with a misdemeanor that is likely to be dismissed at the
end of a probationary period, Roberts said in a
statement. Because Taylor has already missed the Hornets
first 11 games, hell be given credit for time already
served and mmiss the next 13.
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protect the interests of the NBA and the publics
confidence in it, Silver said in a statement on
Wednesday. Mr. Taylors conduct violates applicable law
and, in my opinion, does not conform to standards of
morality and is prejudicial and detrimental to the NBA.
While the suspension is significantly longer than prior
suspensions for incidents of domestic violence by NBA
players, it is appropriate in light of Mr. Taylors
conduct, the need to deter similar conduct going forward,
and the evolving social consensus -- with which we fully
concur -- that professional sports leagues like the NBA
must respond to such incidents in a more rigorous way.
Taylor will also not be paid during his suspension,
meaning that the 25-year-old will foreit close to
$200,000 of his $915,000 salary this season. With the
suspension, Taylor will be eligible to return on December
17 when the Hornets host the Phoenix Suns.
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