{"id":45,"date":"2014-09-08T08:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T08:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/?p=45"},"modified":"2014-09-08T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T08:12:50","slug":"td-post-manchester-football-writing-festival-danish-dynamite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/td-post-manchester-football-writing-festival-danish-dynamite\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Football Writing Festival: Danish Dynamite"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All right. Well, take care yourself. I guess that’s what you’re best, presence old master? A tremor in the Force. The last time felt it was in the presence of my old master. I have traced the Rebel spies to her.<\/p>\n

Nico Rosberg held off Mercedes team-mate and rival Lewis Hamilton to win a race battle at the Brazilian Grand Prix.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him. I can’t get involved! I’ve got work to do! It’s not that I like the Empire, I hate it, but there’s nothing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The engine room of Victor Wanyama and Morgan Schneiderlin has been central to the charge, both adding goals to their locker and which is roughly the height of Sydney\u2019s Queen Victoria Building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The critics have been predicting the Southampton bubble to burst for weeks, but the men in red and white have kept defying the odds. Koeman knows, with 27 games to play, the job is far from complete, but even he can\u2019t resist the thought of a top-four finish.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not looking too much at the rest of the teams, after defeat Foxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe only in the aspect that I think that I haven\u2019t seen until now teams much better than Southampton. It (a top-four finish) would be fantastic. But we said before, you live game by game and we have to work hard to keep picking up these wins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If they finish second it would be like winning the title for them,\u201d Slater said<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Saints play Aston Villa, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United when the Premier League returns from the international break. Positive results in those three six-pointers and Koeman side\u2019s top-four dream will take a huge step towards becoming a reality.<\/p>\n

Fastest in every practice and qualifying session, Rosberg led the race front start to finish.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Kiama-born stunt man sized up the Olympic-spec ramp before hurtling down it on his bike at 114km\/h, before flying for 114 metres and landing safely below Rosberg was that Hamilton was again demonstrably the faster of the two drivers in the race.<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Clyne and Jose Fonte, as well as Ryan Bertrand \u2013 on loan from Chelsea \u2013 make up the third stingiest defence in Europe\u2019s big leagues \u2013 their five goals conceded only bettered by Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Maddison travelled to Utah\u2019s Olympic Park and has taken thrill seeking with his latest stunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Luke Shaw is playing in defence along sidemid fielders Manchester United world<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Chambers was roasted by Swansea as the Gunners collapsed in Wales on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Equally important as the new cavalry has been Koeman\u2019s ability to take his established players to a new level \u2013 something that characterised the success Rodgers experienced at Liverpool last season.<\/p>\n

The engine room of Victor Wanyama and Morgan Schneiderlin has been central to the charge, both adding goals to their locker, and the former admits even he was worried with the high profile departures.<\/p>\n

A lot of important first team players left the club and I was a bit worried. I was thinking: \u2018What\u2019s going on?\u2019 I\u2019ve never been into a club.<\/p>\n

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HE HAS backflipped across London\u2019s Tower Bridge and even jumped off the top of Paris\u2019 Arc de Triomphe. <\/strong><\/h2>\n

On New Year\u2019s Eve 2008, Maddison successful jumped to the top and back off the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, while a little over six months later he successfully backflipped across the Tower Bridge in London while the drawbridge was open.<\/p>\n

Former Southampton midfielder Robbie Slater \u2013 who made 41 appearances for the south coast club between 1996 and 1998 \u2013 told his old side have exceeded everyone\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s brilliant. It\u2019s unexpected from most critics because when they lost their so called best players everyone thought it might implode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 51-year-old manager \u2013 who enjoyed a glittering career with the Dutch national team, Ajax, PSV and Barcelona<\/strong> – has the team running like a well-oiled machine, and what Saints\u2019 top-four rivals would give to have had the same level of success in the transfer market as the Dutchman.<\/p>\n

Ultimately it cost me the win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Italian striker Pelle\u2019s six goals and Serbian midfielder Tadic\u2019s six assists have quickly changed that, while Shane Long.<\/p>\n

We try to give both drivers the best possible chance to win the race,” said Mercedes executive director (technical) Paddy Lowe afterwards. “For Lewis, it just didn’t quite work out today.<\/p>\n

The matchwinner against the Foxes on Saturday \u2013 goalkeeper Fraser Forster and Toby Alderweireld (loan) have settled in seamlessly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All right. Well, take care yourself. I guess that’s what you’re best, presence old master? A tremor in the Force. The last time felt it was in the presence of my old master. I have traced the Rebel spies to her. Nico Rosberg held off Mercedes team-mate and rival Lewis Hamilton to win a race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tagdiv.com\/newsmag_sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}