Nick Harper
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12 of football's ludicrously short managerial reigns
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Paul Scholes Xisco Munoz is out on his ear just a month into the season - but he's got nothing on some of these fellas
El World Cup Diario, Day 15: Some bad news. And the Big Bad Wolf
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper reflects on Luis Suarez's bite ban, Ronaldo's peculiar punishments and some good ol' Ghanaian in-fighting...
Survey suggests two thirds of Hull City fans still don't trust big-spending chairman
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Premier League FourFourTwo and Forza Football have surveyed 200,000 fans of Premier League clubs to gauge their confidence in their team's manager, players and chairman/owner. Here, Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Hull City fans' mood has changed over the season...
Revealed: How Pardew's popularity has changed in two months
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Premier League FourFourTwo and Forza Football have surveyed 200,000 fans of Premier League clubs to gauge their confidence in their team's manager, players and chairman/owner. Here, Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Newcastle United fans' mood has changed over the season...
El World Cup Diario, Day 30: Finals and fugitives
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper's not really feeling the love as the 2014 World Cup rolls on to its penultimate clash in Brasilia...
Adios, Moysie: 10 other British reigns in Spain (ft. Chris Coleman's 'dishwasher')
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David Moyes Senor Moyes has been binned by Real Sociedad, but plenty have gone before him, with varied results. Nick Harper looks back on 10 of the very best, the very worst and the very drunk...
El World Cup Diario, Day 20: And then there were eight
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El World Cup Diario Ink! Gossip! Match-fixing (or not)! Nick Harper brings you up to date with all the news that's fit to, er, print off?
El World Cup Diario, Day 9: Costa Rica do England a huge favour
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper on the ninth day of the 2014 World Cup - the day England were knocked out...
The FourFourTwo Preview: Sunderland vs Everton
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Premier League Premier League | Stadium of Light | Sun 9 Nov | 1:30pm
2002: When dodgy decisions took South Korea to the semis – and infuriated Europe's big guns
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World Cup 2002 Senegal set the tone from the off, but it was South Korea's miraculous run to the final four that really caused a stir, writes Nick Harper
El World Cup Diario Day 7: Not a matter of life or death
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El World Cup Diario Thoughtfully sucking his special Diario pencil, Nick Harper gets his priorities straight...
El World Cup Diario, Day 10: England's 'more-gutted-than-you' world still in motion
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El World Cup Diario Nick Harper on Day 10, when an ageing German did some acrobatics...
Did that really happen this season? The 16 funniest moments you already forgot
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Premier League With the 2013/14 season drawing to a close, Nick Harper looks back at some of the brain-bending, rib-tickling moments that you may have forgotten while laughing at Steven Gerrard...
Report card: Swans grounded as Laudrup leaves an uncertain future
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Swansea City Nick Harper on a season which rather clipped the Swans’ wings...
El World Cup Diario, Day 1: Paps, selfies, ceremonies and finally some football
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El World Cup Diario The World Cup is finally upon us, and so is Nick Harper's diary...
The FourFourTwo Preview: Chelsea vs Southampton
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Premier League Premier League | Stamford Bridge | Sun 15 Mar | 1:30pm
El World Cup Diario, Day 29: A day of rest? Not on your nelly
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El World Cup Diario It was meant to be another day of FIFA-enforced rest and reflection, says Nick Harper, but Day 29 of the World Cup turned into a day of excuses, resignations and foul-mouthed tirades...
Terry Butcher: Perfect XI
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Perfect XI Ex-England great Terry Butcher picks the best players he ever shared a pitch with.
Greatest individual seasons: Thierry Henry makes Arsenal invincible (2003/04)
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Greatest Seasons Our look at the greatest personal seasons in Premier League history continues as Nick Harper recalls 2003/04 – the year Henry made Arsenal immortal
The FourFourTwo Preview: Germany vs Ghana
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World Cup 2014 World Cup Group G | Fortaleza | Sat 21 Jun | 8pm
The FourFourTwo Preview: Stoke vs Newcastle
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Premier League Premier League | Britannia Stadium | Sat 12 Apr | 3:07pm
Glory, goal-fests and goodbyes: The Premier League's most thrilling 'dead rubbers'
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Premier League Games with nothing riding on them can sometimes be the best, as Nick Harper discovers…
Survey: Burnley fans' confidence in their squad has halved since start of season
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Premier League Nick Harper picks through the findings to see how Burnley fans' mood has changed over the season...