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Alan Shearer: ‘An incredible battle’ – why Premier League top-five race is ‘impossible to call’
21 April 2025 Off

Alan Shearer: ‘An incredible battle’ – why Premier League top-five race is ‘impossible to call’

By Total Football News

It is hard enough to predict results in the Premier League anyway, but at this stage of the season it is even more difficult.

Looking at each club’s remaining games now doesn’t really help in deciding what might happen, because some of the teams they face may have different priorities, or nothing to play for full-stop.

Chelsea’s game against Liverpool on 4 May is a good example of that. Liverpool

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Alan Sheehan: Interim Swansea City boss to stay in charge until end of season as new staff arrive
26 March 2025 Off

Alan Sheehan: Interim Swansea City boss to stay in charge until end of season as new staff arrive

By Total Football News

Sheehan has got his wish, to an extent, after expressing concern that Swansea had staff “filling in” after Williams left the club alongside coaches Ryan Harley and George Lawtey.

While Sheehan had spoken of the need for “permanent roles for permanent people with a permanent plan”, he has at least got help in the shape of Fotheringham and Stearman.

Former midfielder Fotheringham played for a host of clubs including Dundee,

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Alan Sheehan: Swansea City caretaker ‘interested in conversation’ over job
3 March 2025 Off

Alan Sheehan: Swansea City caretaker ‘interested in conversation’ over job

By Total Football News

Having been relegated from the Premier League in 2018, Swansea made the Championship play-offs in 2020 and 2021.

Since then, they have had finishes of 15th, 10th and 14th in the second tier.

Sheehan believes Swansea’s next managerial appointment must be part of a rebuilding process if the club are to re-establish themselves as promotion contenders.

“Get it right, that’s all I would say,” the former Luton and Southampton coach

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Swansea City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: Flying start for interim boss Alan Sheehan
22 February 2025 Off

Swansea City 3-0 Blackburn Rovers: Flying start for interim boss Alan Sheehan

By Total Football News

In this meeting of two managerless teams at opposite ends of the Championship table, the visitors started the game as favourites and created a couple of decent early chances for Andreas Weimann, both of which drew saves from Lawrence Vigouroux.

Once Swansea took the lead, however, they were the only side that looked like winning.

There had been bright moments under Williams, whose team had even threatened to join the

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Swansea City players and staff must ‘look in the mirror’ after Luke Williams exit – Alan Sheehan
21 February 2025 Off

Swansea City players and staff must ‘look in the mirror’ after Luke Williams exit – Alan Sheehan

By Total Football News

“There’s been no celebration or anything.

“We are in this position now and we have to get out of it, it’s very simple, and we know we are the only ones who can put it right.

“We all have to look in the mirror and have that self-reflection and put it right.”

Sheehan is in his second spell as Swansea’s caretaker boss, having led the club for seven games last

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Erling Haaland: Could Manchester City striker beat Alan Shearer’s Premier League record?
17 January 2025 Off

Erling Haaland: Could Manchester City striker beat Alan Shearer’s Premier League record?

By Total Football News

Haaland scored a goal every 79 minutes in his first season as City won the Treble – the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup – in 2022-23.

That rate decelerated to one every 98 minutes last season and stands at one every 118 this campaign, with City enduring a difficult spell of just one win in 13 games between 30 October and 26 December.

Despite those declining numbers, Shearer

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Alan Shearer: ‘Liverpool were flustered and rattled – but still weren’t beaten’
6 January 2025 Off

Alan Shearer: ‘Liverpool were flustered and rattled – but still weren’t beaten’

By Total Football News

Most of United’s good work came down that side, so maybe they had targeted Trent as being a weakness. He struggled defensively, but Dalot and Fernandes also stopped him from being as effective as usual going forward too.

That was another part of the game where Liverpool struggled to impose themselves in the way they normally would.

Their firepower has been unequalled this season – they are the top scorers

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Alan Knight: Ex-Portsmouth goalkeeper has prostate cancer
10 October 2024 Off

Alan Knight: Ex-Portsmouth goalkeeper has prostate cancer

By Total Football News

About one in eight men in the UK will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, with a particular risk for those aged 50 or over.

“I was having to get up a few times in the middle of the night to use the toilet and had a weak stream,” Knight added.

“So when I was getting a blood test for something unrelated, I spoke with the nurse about

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Man Utd: Erik ten Hag criticises Alan Shearer’s ‘stupid’ analysis of Marcus Rashford
30 August 2024 Off

Man Utd: Erik ten Hag criticises Alan Shearer’s ‘stupid’ analysis of Marcus Rashford

By Total Football News

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has criticised Alan Shearer’s analysis of Marcus Rashford’s performances so far this season, calling it “stupid”.

Rashford, 26, is yet to score this term and was substituted after 65 minutes of the 2-1 defeat at Brighton on 24 August.

Analysing Rashford’s form on Match of the Day following the loss on the south coast, Shearer said: “He’s had two games this season Marcus Rashford

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Alan Browne: Sunderland sign ex-Preston captain on three-year deal
11 July 2024 Off

Alan Browne: Sunderland sign ex-Preston captain on three-year deal

By Total Football News

He joined Preston from Cork City as a teenager in 2014, helping them win promotion from League One a year later and he has remained in the Championship ever since.

Last season, he played 41 league games and scored four goals as he was named Preston’s Player of the Year.

But, after four seasons as skipper at Deepdale, he will now be part of the Black Cats’ squad under new

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