“This partnership will allow EA Sports to collaborate even more with the League and the clubs”, said Premier League managing director Richard Masters.
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“Throw some serious Team GB medal hopes into the mix and we’re left with one of the busiest Saturdays of the year”.
Despite earning promotion to the top flight for just the third time in the club’s history, there is doom and gloom around Hull City.
“For the first time, the Premier League leads the football world in all three key revenue categories – commercial, match day and broadcast – and this is driving sustainable profitability”.
But fans have been staking wagers on outsiders Middlesbrough, Hull City, and Burnley who are all available at 1,000-1.
Having spent last season successfully playing down expectations until his team completed one of sport’s most unlikely triumphs, the Italian has adopted a similar trick on the eve of the new campaign. And although Moyes’ sides have conceded more than they have scored against City, the Scotsman boasts an impressive 1.67 points per game against the boys in blue. The Foxes will try to follow up that dream campaign with another strong run in the Premier League this season.
And this season the cost-per-point of success is set to rise to record levels.
Leicester City haven’t conceded a goal in any of their last three league games against Hull City, including in both Premier League meetings in 2014-15. Coverage starts at 2:30pm and is presented by Mark Pougatch, who is joined by a host of BT Sport pundits during the season including Robbie Savage, Jermaine Jenas and Harry Kewell.
Who should start Leicester City’s opening Premier League game of the season? As of now, not enough of the midfielders are able to play his preferred hard-running game, and he still needs more signings.
Not since 2012/13 have City and United been directly involved in a tussle for the title but, judging from the bookmakers’ odds and a litany of publications’ pre-season previews, Manchester could once again be the capital of English football.
All bets feel off after what happened last season and the Chairpersons of West Ham in their new London Stadium, as well as the likes of Everton, Southampton and Stoke will be dreaming they can “do a Leicester”. Of course, it helps that the National Football League has a draft, limited free agency, few in season player trades, and most importantly a salary cap.
“I’ve been in the lower divisions and I’ve been in the higher divisions so I have got the experience and it’s just a case of everything in the background being sorted out as to what they want to do going forward”. Any one of seven teams could realistically win the Premier League title.
Arsenal have signed midfielder Granit Xhaka, however they are still a centre back and a striker shy of posing a real challenge to the big there.
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Premier League chairman Richard Scudamore seems to be a fan of parity. Sergio Aguero bags a brace in a comfortable win.
