Tag: decline

15 April 2026 Off

Preston North End’s Heckingbottom shocked by West Brom’s decline

By Total Football News

Preston North End manager Paul Heckingbottom claims no-one expected to see West Brom fighting for Championship survival.

The Baggies are just two points above the drop zone after a chastening campaign, which has seen them dispense with Ryan Mason and Eric Ramsay.

Heckingbottom says West Brom will be fighting for their lives when they come to Deepdale on Saturday – and that is just what he wants.

He feels this

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27 January 2026 Off

Leicester City: Owner Khun Top takes blame for Foxes’ decline

By Total Football News

The club’s finances have been top of the repair list.

Khun Top insists wages, which were outstripping the club’s turnover in recent years, have been “reduced a lot” and that he expects the club to comply with spending rules in future.

As for charges the club faces for alleged PSR breaches relating to the 2023-24 season when Leicester were promoted as Championship title winners, Khun Top was hesitant to go

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22 November 2025 Off

Premier League: The decline of the open-play goal

By Total Football News

The 301 goals scored in 110 games so far averages out at 2.74 goals per game, which if it continued for the whole season would be the lowest for five years, since 2020-21 (2.69).

But just 196 goals scored in open play averages out at 1.78 per game and is on course to be the lowest for 16 years, since 2009-10 (1.76).

2009-10 is also the only Premier League campaign

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5 May 2024 0

Ange Postecoglou: Tottenham ‘dramatic decline’ comes at crucial stage of season

By Total Football News

Richarlison and Heung-min Son struck to raise some anxiety inside Anfield, but Postecoglou cannot be kidded by another display with brutally exposed the flaws in his approach – one the Australian seemingly has no intention of changing.

It is a high-risk strategy in all respects but his defiant stance on his ideology makes it look like a chance he is prepared to take. Best of luck to him.

Postecoglou’s upbeat

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