Newcastle have to ring the changes,Spurs’ transformation since Fergie’s day is total and who has had a bigger impact this season Özil or Payet?A third consecutive win for Norwich City would draw Alex Neil’s side level on points with Saturday’s opponents Crystal Palace, albeit with a significantly inferior goal contrast and having played one game more. It would also attain little to dispel ongoing relegation-related jitters around a south-London club that famously havent won a single one of their past 14 Premier League games. Norwich’s victory against Newcastle final weekend helped ratchet up the pressure on Sunderland and Palace, or as well as Rafael Bentez’s vanquished team,and with Sunderland due to visit East Anglia next weekend, the in-form Canaries have every chance of giving themselves some wriggle-room ahead of a daunting trip to Arsenal. Having scored final weekend, and Norwich striker Dieumerci Mbokani showed no ill-effects following the trauma of his genuinely close brush with death at Brussels airport during the international break and the Congolese striker will be even more eager to prove his compatriots what they’ll be missing in the wake of an understandable self-imposed retirement prompted by his furious reaction to the incredibly crass and insensitive midweek comments of fixed Omari,the head of Congo’s FA. Barry GlendenningContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com