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PREMIER REPORT

Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 10, 2017
Liverpool out of title chase after recent run of poor form
Given Liverpool's dreadful league form this year — three draws and two defeats — it is remarkable that victory over second-place Tottenham at Anfield on Saturday will see Jürgen Klopp's team only one point behind the visitors.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 3, 2017
Victory over Arsenal virtually guarantees Chelsea title
If Chelsea beats Arsenal on Saturday, the fat lady can begin gargling.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 27, 2017
Constant blaming of referees is becoming farcical
Lunch with a former Premier League referee was going well until the chat about his forthcoming holiday was interrupted by another customer. "You didn't give Arsenal a penalty in 2011 against Manchester United. It was nailed on. You cost us three points," he told my lunch companion.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 20, 2017
Guardiola looking for right formula after Everton rout
As Manchester City was being taught a football lesson by Everton last Sunday, the television cameras panned to Pep Guardiola in the visitors' dugout. For the most decorated manager over the past 10 years Guardiola cut a strangely sad figure, sitting motionless, a man alone with his thoughts as Everton's fourth goal went past Claudio Bravo.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 13, 2017
Man United takes momentum into Liverpool match
According to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, the Premier League title will be decided by how the top six teams fare against each other.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 6, 2017
Winning F.A. Cup not high on priority list for many
It is F.A. Cup third-round weekend or, as English Premier League clubs call it, a chance to rest the top stars.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 30, 2016
Premier League champion Leicester's rapid descent easy to see coming
One of the attractions of football is the inability to understand how the near impossible happens. The best coaches, the leading pundits, the most experienced observers and the club's fans could not really explain how or why Leicester City won the Premier League last season. You still think you should check before writing "Champion Leicester."
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 23, 2016
Arsenal up to old tricks as season nears midway point
Arsenal FC — An Apology.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 16, 2016
Teams with best goalkeepers likely to decide title race
The Premier League title race is becoming a little like an Agatha Christie play. Initially there are six suspects, then one by one they disappear for whatever reason.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 9, 2016
Bradley set to be made scapegoat for Swansea's woes
Even by the madcap standards of a sport in which too many lunatics have taken over their respective asylums, the news that Swansea City manager Bob Bradley could be facing the sack after just seven matches beggars belief.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 2, 2016
Guardiola, Conte set to match wits in tactical battle
Pep Guardiola kept up with the progress of a penalty shootout with a difference this week. It was in the World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the reigning champion, and Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 25, 2016
Spurs hope to ease sting of CL failure by solving Stamford Bridge riddle
Harry Kane, the Tottenham striker, said Chelsea celebrated like it had won the title. In fact, the 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge in April meant Leicester City was champion and Spurs' hopes of a first English crown since John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as president of the United States had disappeared after a bitter game that saw it squander a two-goal lead and collect a Premier League record 11 yellow cards.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 18, 2016
Outrage over Rooney's drunken antics just media hypocrisy
Footballers are often accused of being too aloof. They don't interact with fans. It's almost a them-and-us scenario. They are protected by agents, press officers and security. The nearest most supporters get to players is when they watch them arrive at stadiums — from behind barriers, of course.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 10, 2016
Southgate all but confirmed as new England manager
The English Football Association is desperate for England to beat Scotland on Friday in a 2018 World Cup qualifying game at Wembley. Not just for the three points that would be another step along the road to Russia, but it would also mean the F.A. could rubber stamp Gareth Southgate's position as the permanent England manager.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 4, 2016
Arsenal looks to extend impressive run against Spurs
One defeat in 25 games is a powerful argument that Arsenal is ready to make a serious Premier League title statement when it plays Tottenham at Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 28, 2016
Premier League teams remain behind rest of Europe
The Premier League is awash with money. Middle-class clubs can afford to pay fees of £30 million. Never has the top flight been so prosperous.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 21, 2016
Mourinho's match tactics not the most entertaining
If Jose Mourinho sets up Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Sunday as he did against Liverpool on Monday, his return to Chelsea should carry a government health warning: "Watching Manchester United can severely damage your health."
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 14, 2016
Man United needs win over Liverpool for title hopes
Jürgen Klopp would have been the perfect fit for Manchester United.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 7, 2016
England's Southgate begins trial period against easiest of foes, Malta
If the Football Association was worried that Saturday's England vs. Malta 2018 World Cup qualifier at Wembley might struggle to capture the country's interest, the departure of Sam Allardyce has guaranteed a disproportionate focus on a match featuring the side which is 157th in the FIFA rankings. The game is a 90,000 sell-out crowd.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 30, 2016
Allardyce's actions unwise, but not exactly crime of the century
The after-dinner drinks and conversation were in full flow. Sam Allardyce, then manager of Sunderland, was holding court and half a dozen football correspondents hung on his every word.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili, who goes by Yoriyas, turned to photography, shooting motion while in motion himself, after an injury forced him to give up his career as a professional breakdancer.

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