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Newcastle unrest grows as Barry and Everton give Jaissle another headache

Jack Grealish will do well to get back into the Everton starting lineup when he returns to the squad – as David Moyes’s side are doing just fine without him. Newcastle were condemned to a second defeat in five days by Moyes’s young team, with a second-half goal from Thierno Barry giving Everton victory against opponents who ended with 10 men after the substitute Jacob Ramsey’s late red card. Continue reading...

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Revisiting the Superclásico: a story of death, violence, colour and family

Attending Boca v River in the week I turned 60 made me recall a lifetime of experiences at the fixture Ever since the Observer Sport Monthly published a list of 50 sporting things you must do before you die with Watch Boca Juniors Play River Plate in Buenos Aires at No 1 in 2004, the biggest super derby in Argentina has been firmly positioned in the global imagination; its reputation for colour, passion and uncontainable emotion acquiring an almost glamorous sheen. The thump and thud of the coordinated chants, the shiny ticker-tape amid flare smoke matching the teams’ strips, the bounce of the

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