Seb Stafford-Bloor
Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.
Latest articles by Seb Stafford-Bloor
Premier League preview: What will and won't happen this weekend
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Premier League Eyes fall on Stamford Bridge as Chelsea host Arsenal on Sunday. Our preview of that and all the other Premier League fixtures this weekend
Why Everton's flushed new owner won’t be following the stereotypical sugar daddy mould
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Everton Farhad Moshiri won't pump money into the transfer market for the sake of it, writes Seb Stafford-Bloor. Instead, Ronald Koeman and Steve Walsh will aim to combine successful structures from their previous clubs on Merseyside
Mauricio Pochettino has left a great legacy at Tottenham. Spurs now have two options to build on it
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Tottenham Hotspur Daniel Levy shouldn't waste the opportunity that he now has to move Pochettino's project forward. But there's a good chance he will, writes Seb Stafford-Bloor
How Son Heung-min became destroyer from decorator – and grew up for good at Tottenham
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Tottenham Hotspur The Spurs star hasn't changed his playing style since arriving from the Bundesliga, so just how did he evolve into one of the Premier League's best players? Seb Stafford-Bloor investigates...
Premier League final-day preview: What (definitely) will and won't happen
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Premier League Arsene Wenger waves goodbye for the final time at Arsenal, while Swansea need a miracle and Chelsea a huge favour from Brighton
How Mikel Arteta's blank slate is helping every Arsenal player to thrive
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Arsenal No one knows what the future holds for Arteta's team - and right now, that's the best thing possible for the club
Premier League preview: What will and won't happen this weekend
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Premier League A huge Premier League weekend awaits: one derby in London on Saturday, followed by two more on Sunday in Manchester and on Merseyside
Sweden 0 England 2: five big talking points from Samara
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FIFA World Cup England have produced their best performance of the tournament to advance to the World Cup semi-final.
Watch: Fulham's Aboubakar Kamara booked for horrendous dive
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In Other News... Some acts of simulation are more obvious than others...
Even now, appointing Mikel Arteta as manager would be a major risk for Arsenal
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Arsenal The Manchester City coach has none of the flaws of Unai Emery or Carlo Ancelotti. But just because his downsides aren't known doesn't mean they don't exist
In short, more bookings – four steps to tackle time-wasting in football
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Premier League In football's hiatus, we have the time to fix problems the game has. Ironically, time-wasting is one of them
Huddersfield Town promoted to the Premier League after beating Reading on penalties
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Premier League David Wagner's Huddersfield have been promoted to the Premier League after beating Jaap Stam's Reading 4-3 on penalties at Wembley.
Why modern football's heroes could be desperately short of soul for future generations to find
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Premier League A lack of access and tight controls from guarded reps threaten to suck the life from today's protagonists – and that's a great shame, writes Seb Stafford-Bloor
This Premier League winter break isn't about player welfare. So why do we have it?
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Premier League The Premier League winter break isn't so much a chance for clubs to recharge, but another opportunity to fill television schedules
Premier League preview: What will and won't happen this weekend
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Premier League Put away the sunscreen and stop pretending to like cricket, the Premier League is back – as is FourFourTwo's weekly preview
Best of the Premier League weekend: FFT's top performance, player and gripe
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Chelsea Chelsea's ominous recent form took yet another step forward, while Mousa Dembele and Paul Pogba proved key to their respective teams in FourFourTwo's latest 'Best of the Premier League weekend'...
Where Are They Now? Tottenham's 2007/08 League Cup-winning squad
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FFTWATN Seb Stafford-Bloor casts an eye back to Spurs' last trophy-winning crop of nine seasons ago
12 bold predictions for 2018: Wenger moving out, Hazard moving on and England at the World Cup
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Premier League It's spoiler season: Seb Stafford-Bloor has peered into his crystal ball and is happy to share the 12 major stories that we will see in the coming year
Premier League preview: What (definitely) will and won't happen this weekend
By Seb Stafford-Bloor published
Premier League Manchester City head to Wembley aiming to avoid another nasty surprise, while West Brom face having their relegation confirmed
Premier League preview: What definitely will and won't happen this weekend
By Seb Stafford-Bloor published
Premier League FourFourTwo's look ahead to the Premier League weekend, starting with a north London derby at Wembley.
Adding another round of Champions League games is yet another pressure players can't manage
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UEFA Champions League More football is a great thing for television – but it will run our already tired stars further into the ground
Could this weekend's game against Manchester City be the making of Frank Lampard's Chelsea?
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Chelsea A defeat – even a humiliation – would not be a big setback for Chelsea. But that doesn't mean Saturday won't be a good measure of how far they've come
Premier League preview: What will and won't happen this weekend
By Seb Stafford-Bloor published
Premier League FourFourTwo's preview of the Premier League weekend, as Tottenham continue their chase of Chelsea and Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger face each other for potentially the final time