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Pennant claims home fans are crucial to success
Stoke City’s on-loan winger Jermaine Pennant is dreaming of remaining at the Britannia Stadium and helping the club make the home ground a fortress in the Premier League.
The former Liverpool player is currently on a short-term loan from Spanish club Real Zaragoza until January, but he has impressed at the club as they have recovered from a poor start to sit in the Premier League top ten and the Premier League betting predictions indicate the club can push on.
Pennant has played a vital role in helping Stoke make the Britannia Stadium a tough place for teams to come to his season – with the club winning their last three home games on the trot. Anyone looking to bet on Premier League matches should remember this.
He told the Sentinel he would be “more than happy” to remain at Stoke if the two clubs can come to an agreement about extending the loan deal, and it has been the atmosphere generated by the Stoke fans that has impressed him most during his short time at the club.
Those passionate fans are vital in helping inspire the players at home and making sure they take all three points from tough Britannia Stadium clashes.
“Our home games were always going to be the strongest part of our season,” Pennant said.
“The fans make a massive difference and the big teams seem to struggle when they come here.
Dean Whitehead recently scored his first goal for Stoke City, and manager Tony Pulis has called on the midfielder to find the back of the net more over the rest of the season.
Stoke are a club that need all their midfielders and attackers to chip in with goals if they are to finish in the Premier League top ten, and it is starting to look like Pulis has assembled a strong unit at the club that could have them looking up rather than down.
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Thursday, 21 October 2010
Pietersen claims confidence back ahead of Ashes
Kevin Pietersen is not a man whom you would expect to be brimming with confidence right now; he has seemed out of form, low in spirits, apparently out of love with cricket, and without a test century since way back in March 2009. However, the player has now claimed that his spell in South Africa has given him the opportunity to reclaim the confidence that he will need if he is to show his class in the upcoming Ashes series against an Australian side which is going to be looking to win back the urn that the players let slip in 2008.
With the Australian bowling attack being tipped to be stronger than the English one, the English batsmen such as Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen will need to avoid a top order collapse if the English team is going to stand a chance of allowing its bowlers to get used to wickets that English bowlers have rarely performed well on.
However, with the England team having looked to use a variety of techniques to boost their chances of overcoming the current Ashes betting odds that have them down has underdogs, Pietersen may have been the man to come up with the best solution to his own problems by returning to his homeland for a short while.
If this move has indeed proved successful and the player has found a way to overcome the blues he had been left facing, then the England team may well find itself ending the series with people left scratching their heads and wondering why they came into the Ashes 2010 series with such low expectations of the team, leaving egg on the faces of many experts in the process.
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Delegator Claims Cup for Godolphin
Posted by Leigh on September 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
It was a fairytale return to the track for the Godolphin trained Delegator, with a narrow victory under jockey Ted Durcan, scoring in the Dubai Duty Free Cup at Newbury.