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Watching the US Masters as an occasional break from my constant diet of football, it became clear that no matter how much people knock him and all his personal problems you just cannot keep Tiger Woods down.

Woods hasn’t won the tournament by a long stretch but only three shots off the lead has left many of his detractors dumbfounded. The sports biggest star being written off and criticised for personal problems only to put it all behind him and show the world he’s still one of the best.

Sound familiar? The correlation between the recent career or Woods and a certain Scouse Striker cannot be ignored. This got me thinking which other Masters contenders are the most like certain United strikers here’s a brief list which you may or may not agree with.

Tiger Woods/Wayne Rooney

The similarities are obvious. Prodigious talents, that at one point seemed almost freakish in their excellence at such an early age. Won every major honour there is to win and still hungry for more. A fondness for the ladies which has caused a little bit of embarrassment but regardless of the press crucifixion who would bet against this year being another massively successful one?

Phil Mickelson/Michael Owen

One of the most gifted golfers of the modern era and one of the best footballers, yet for all their successes there’s still a small feeling that they haven’t quite achieved what they could have. With four major championship wins and almost 40 event wins, you can hardly call Mickelson’s career anything other than a triumph. Owen on the other hand has won every domestic trophy there is bar the league, has won the UEFA cup and been named European footballer of the year.

Yet for both men, there ‘great’ could have been ‘greatest’ Mickelson at one point looked like the man who was actually going to usurp the all powerful Woods as the world’s best golfer but never quite managed to become the world’s number one, despite some amazing victories. Owen was once the most talked about striker in the world but has never quite reached the success of a Rooney or a Thierry Henry despite his obvious abilities.

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Lee Westwood/Dimitar Berbatov

People may have knocked both Westwood and Berbatov over the years and claimed they hadn’t achieved all they could, yet both of them are still proving critics wrong and who’s to say there isn’t more to come this year. Berbatov may have been found wanting at times last year when United needed someone to step into Wayne Rooney’s boots- although almost every Red denies ever saying that now, yet he’s shown this season he’s one of the world’s best.

Westwood may still be searching for that elusive major but how many players out there can say they’ve been world number one? Both are a tad unappreciated

Rory McIlroy/Chicharito

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A year or so ago you could be forgiven for not knowing who McIlroy was yet following his successes in 2010 and this year he’s now established as one the world’s top golfers at the age of just 21. Chicharito is the same, having come from seemingly nowhere to now be regarded as one of the most exciting attackers in the world.

What’s the betting that the United striker goes on to become one of the world’s top strikers- he’s on his way already- as for McIlroy, call me optimistic but there’s every chance we could be seeing the dawn of a new era in golf- much may depend on how The Masters pans out to see whether now is truly the Northern Irishman’s time.

Why not have a flutter on The Masters before it’s too late?

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Newcastle United boss Chris Hughton has urged injury-hit defender Steven Taylor not to be too downhearted at missing the start of the new season.

The 24-year-old centre-back faces around three months on the sidelines due to a shoulder problem, but Hughton is confident that Taylor will return to be a key player later on in the campaign.

He told The Gazette:“It’s something everybody experiences. What you want to do is come back fitter and mentally stronger from it.

“Steven’s got absolutely everything in front of him – he’ll miss the first period of the season, but there’s plenty more football to play.

“It’s a hurdle to overcome. It’s part and parcel of a footballer’s life.

“What he has to do is take out of his mind the games that he’ll miss and very much put into his mind the games he’ll be available for.

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“It’s a big blow for us because it’s an important position, but there’s a massive chunk of the season he’ll be available for. He’s got to get his mindset now on getting back from this injury.”

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It was 50 years ago last week that I signed for Tottenham Hotspur from AC Milan. Most Spurs fans will be able to tell you how many titles the club have won since Danny Blanchflower’s heroes in April 1961 – and pretty much every Arsenal fan has the answer too. A big fat zero. In half a century. Nowhere near good enough.

Not for the first time, people have recently started whispering that Tottenham could finally be genuine title challengers again this term. The jury is very much out for me, especially with Manchester City – who won 5-1 at White Hart Lane in August – having set such a blistering pace.

I certainly fancy Spurs for a Champions League spot. Who would bet against a top-four finish for a midfield that consists of the two reigning Footballers of the Year, Scott Parker and Gareth Bale, as well as Tottenham’s own in-house player of the year, Luka Modric and a wonderful talent in Rafa van der Vaart?

But it is not so much the individual ability that has got people talking so glowingly about this side – it is the fact Tottenham are blessed with an outstanding professionalism, a desire to do the simple stuff right as well as the brilliant things. In the 50 years since I signed for Spurs, six months after they completed the Double, the club have had many great players – but never 11 players with the right attitude.

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After that Double-winning team broke up, we still had a side with enough talent to win further titles. But while we had seven or eight players with extremely professional attitudes, there were also two or three poseurs – great when things were flying but who went missing when the chips were down. And the great teams, the title-winning teams, never carry poseurs.

Danny’s Double-winning side, for instance, did not just possess immense talent, it contained phenomenal character as well.Blanchflower was a great intellect and a towering figure, bigger than the chairman, bigger even than the manager Bill Nicholson or the magnificent Dave Mackay. Characters like Blanchflower turn talented teams into title-winners.

When Harry Redknapp signed Parker and Brad Friedel, it was not rocket science. These were two proven year-in, year-out Premier League performers who were never going to let the manager down. It’s funny to recall that Spurs have made some weird and wonderful managerial appointments down the years – the likes of Christian Gross, Jacques Santini and Juande Ramos – when all the while they had the perfect candidate pretty much on their doorstep in Harry.

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For me, the wonderful thing about Redknapp is that he doesn’t have an ego, at least not in the destructive way in which many managers insist it has always got to be about them. He’s happy to take on a Van der Vaart or an Emmanuel Adebayor and let them take the limelight.

Adebayor seemed like a gamble too far. I didn’t like Harry’s decision to sign him to replace Peter Crouch, but so far I’ve been proved wrong. Adebayor’s work-rate has been exemplary and that’s a credit to Harry because while his talent has never been in doubt, his attitude has been questioned.

It remains to be seen whether Spurs possess enough ruthless professionalism over the course of a season – but the signs are good. They are punching above their weight in a stadium and with a wage bill far smaller than most of their major rivals. But if they want to put the history boys of 1960-61 to bed, winning a cup and making the Champions League won’t be enough. Only the title will do.

Since Norwich have been in and around the top six places in the Championship, the debate has been whether they are really good enough for the Premier League, are they ready for the Premiership and would they survive, if they were to go up?

Well time will tell in the answers to these key questions, but at this stage of the season there is quite simply no place for fear or insecurity, the team has earned the chance to compete for a place in arguably the best league in the world.

There is no doubt that the team would need to be strengthened, but just like this season there will be players who will step up to the challenge. What is not in question is the strong team spirit, excellent manager and ambitious board. Although, Norwich may have progressed quicker than many people expected, Premier League football is a key objective; Norwich already has a stadium that can hold 27,000 fans in addition to impressive youth and training facilities.

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The Championship this season has been tight and there has been no stand out teams, this represents a fantastic opportunity for Norwich to grab a place in the top two. Big teams like West Ham, Wolves and Wigan could be relegated from the Premier League and make the Championship very difficult next season. Not to mention big spenders like Hull and Leicester looking to break into the top six.

Some people forget that Norwich are no strangers to the Premier League and were in fact one of the founder members. Those early days of the Premier League included some inspired performances from the Canaries. The real highlights being an impressive third place finish and a run to Europe that included a now famous victory against Bayern Munich.

Since, then Norwich have enjoyed one further spell in the top flight in the 2004/5 season, and although the team were relegated that season, they would have learned a lot about the Premiership. These experiences should ensure that Norwich City are prepared for the challenges of the Premier League.

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Changes will need to be made, but I’m sure that promotion to the Premier League is crucial for the club to progress. Time will tell if Norwich can maintain their place, but even if they can’t the financial rewards on offer will still be massive and it’s a chance they simply can’t afford to pass up, because who knows when they will get another opportunity.

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Sunderland boss Steve Bruce is remaining tight-lipped on reports linking him with a move for Manchester City midfielder Stephen Ireland.

Both Ireland and Paraguay World Cup striker Nelson Valdez are reported to be on Bruce's summer shopping list.

However, the Black Cats boss is keeping his transfer cards close to his chest.

Bruce is reported to be on the lookout for a new central midfielder in the mould of City's Ireland following last week's surprise sale of former skipper Lorik Cana to Galatasaray.

"We have got a couple of irons in the fire and we have put a bid in today (Wednesday) for a player," he said.

"I am not going to tell you who, but we hope we can make inroads on it.

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As the Premier League reaches its quarter stage, many players have excelled and impressed in the opening nine games with some high score demolitions and last gasp winners. However, some players have not been up to expectations and this is a chance to name and shame.

The Champions of last year have been embarrassed by their rivals; however they have inflicted similar defeats of their other rivals. Some teams have underachieved so far and some the complete opposite but there is no denying that some players have just been poor. Whether it be missed chances, lack of effort, goalkeeping howlers or defensive mistakes, plenty of performances have raised eyebrows this season for good and bad reasons and here is a list of the top 10 players that have disappointed so far this season.

Click on Roger Johnson to unveil the top 10 players to have disappointed this season

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List compiled by Brad Pinard

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Tottenham desperately need victory tomorrow afternoon in order to keep their top four hopes alive this season. It is the kind of game that Tottenham have a habit of throwing away in the past and the travelling supporters will be hoping that Harry’s men can buck that particular trend on Sunday.

At FFC this week we have seen a mixed bag of Tottenham blogs that includes Greaves offers services to Defoe; Harry to gamble over Woodgate, while Spurs weigh up summer swoop.

We also look at the best Tottenham articles around the web this week.

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David Lammy Strikes Again – Harry Hotspur

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Blaming rightly is as difficult as praising rightly in today’s media. We’re artisans in the field of praising easily and blaming all too swiftly but, invariably, it’s rash, emotional, vitriolic, overzealous, or short sighted. Fabio Capello had a starring role in the English pantomime abroad and I genuinely believe the only thing to surprise him about it all is the bewitching ability our media has to turn hope into hysteria and expectation into burden.

Not too long ago Gary Linekar presented Capello with the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award just for qualifying. And last week, after four terrible outings in South Africa by his players, there were emergency meetings held to decide whether he was even the right man to continue as manager. Several bad performances does not change the past and his past is a proven one: eight domestic titles spread over two countries (one now revoked after the infamous calciopoli scandal in 2006) and a Champions League success. Before we kill something, we should make sure we have something better to replace it with – who could the FA feasibly turn to?

But defeat leads to heightened scrutiny and everything came into question: why does he announce his team two hours before kickoff? Why doesn’t he change the formation? Why is Gerrard out on the left? Why, why, why? Naturally this all meant Gareth Southgate was forced to get philosophical on live TV and quote physicists, ‘Albert Einstein said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’ Whilst I don’t doubt the veracity of such a claim, perhaps its resonance for us – as an expectant public – should be more heavily contemplated; we have consistently failed to deliver anything resembling a crown-winning run at a major tournament over the past 12 years yet in the preamble to South Africa we toted ourselves as third favourites behind only Spain and Brazil. Don’t get me wrong, hope is a good thing. But hysteria isn’t.

The players are another gauge for a manager’s position and it was good to hear Jermain Defoe speak of Capello in a reasoned manner:

“If you speak to the rest of the players they will all say the same thing; he’s a great manager and his CV speaks for itself. He’s got great ideas and he was just a little bit unlucky I think. On record he is one of the best managers in the world and has been for a number of years so I can’t see why we would want to get rid of someone like that – it doesn’t make sense.”

And whilst the manager is culpable for tactical misjudgements what he cannot legislate for is injuries, individual errors and all-round uninspiring performances; Green’s opening game blunder and at least three indefensible mistakes against Germany were all compounded by Wayne Rooney looking unhappy throughout, Steven Gerrard being subdued, and Frank Lampard not resembling Frank Lampard. The team’s showing at the World Cup can be traced to a multitude of reasons – both short term (media scandal, injury to key players) and long term infrastructure (grassroots, the dearth of young veritable English talent coming through) – that Capello can do little, if anything, to control. Gary Neville shared an interesting point that many have been thinking in recent times:

“We have to question how good we truly are. Better than we performed in this World Cup, for sure, but have we over-estimated our strengths on the basis of our strong record in the Champions League? Possibly. The success of Manchester United and Chelsea cannot be a reliable guide to the merits of the England team, given the number of top-class players from overseas.”

This allows Capello to legitimately drop familiar faces from the ‘golden generation’ without as vociferous a media circus (the circus will always persist so long as there are papers to be sold and profits to be gained). The claim that his methods are too rigid and that he exhibited a lack of adaptability is unfounded because you simply cannot achieve his feats as a manager without being able to combine the players’ strengths (something that changes with every squad he’s ever worked with) with his own ideology – tactical and otherwise – of winning.

I think Neville’s sentiments go a long way in explaining one of the overarching, endemic problems this nation faces. And it is difficult to expect one manager, however good he is, to remedy a cultural failing. What we can judge him more fairly on is how he addresses the inevitable changes in personnel the World Cup exit begets.

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Every season the Arsenal defence is barracked for being diabolical and costing the club every trophy under the sun. Regular comments that come from the terraces at the Emirates single out the need for a world class goalkeeper and central defender to replace the so-called imbeciles currently taking the shirts.

And in some cases it is true. The 2011 League Cup is the most glaring example, when an embarrassing mix-up between Szczesny and Koscielny gifted Birmingham the win and this can be seen as the point that ruined a season where Arsene Wenger’s side were fighting on four different fronts.

But it could also be argued that Arsenal are losing just as many games because of problems much higher up the pitch. Take the same game for instance. In the League Cup final, they had umpteen chances to close out that match, with Ben Foster making some top drawer saves to keep out Bendtner and Arshavin, as well as denying Nasri on three separate occasions. If a third of the chances Arsenal had in the game had gone in then that blunder would have meant nothing to the result.

The same thing has shown itself this season. They wasted far too many goalscoring opportunities on the opening day against Newcastle and failed to score again when Liverpool visited the Emirates, while only scoring one against Swansea who were still finding their Premier League feet at that point and it is just as problematic as the back line for the Gunners.

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Yes, Robin van Persie is fit and on fire recently which means that goals are almost guaranteed. If it wasn’t for him, the win against Stoke on Sunday would have been a draw, the victory over Sunderland a defeat and many more of Arsenal’s 13 points would be relinquished without him. But where do they go when he can’t play? And what can the Dutchman and his fellow strikers do if things start to go wrong? The answer, it seems, is nothing.

When Emmanuel Adebayor left for moneybags Manchester City in 2009, Arsenal lost their plan B attacking style. Not to say that the Togolese striker was only good for an alternative style of play because he had great feet but his height and strength meant that if things weren’t going well there was a target man to aim a long ball to.

Since then there has been no plan B at the Emirates and if Arsenal are going to seriously challenge for titles they need to be able to switch systems when their backs are against the walls in big games.

Take the humiliation they suffered at Old Trafford (the home of hammerings this season) and Arsenal were still trying to play passing, attacking football when they were being torn apart. There was no long ball tactic or striker that could hold the ball up so the waves of red shirts kept coming back at them relentlessly.

The team has been crying out for a no-nonsense centre-forward to come in and make that position their own. Van Persie is a brilliant forward but he is better suited to collecting the ball, having it at his feet and doing something special rather than being confined to an aerial battle and that is the predicament Wenger has with all of his striking options.

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Marouane Chamakh is the person closest to filling that gap but his heading ability is poor. Like Van Persie, deliver the ball into the Moroccan along the floor and his quick feet and pace will cause defenders problems. However, he hasn’t hit the height expected of him when he brought his fantastic Ligue 1 scoring record across the Channel. With players around him showing similar skills but scoring goals while he struggles to adapt he cannot be given a role of leading the line and the rumours of a move back to France may well spell the end of his time at the Emirates.

Another French import is summer signing Gervinho, who has fared better since his move. Although only scoring two goals so far he has fitted into the side quickly and had his best game for the Gunners on Sunday, scoring one and setting up both Van Persie goals in the 3-1 win. He is also a more physical prospect than Chamakh as was proven by him slapping Joey Barton on his Premier League debut. But again he is still a player best suited to football on the ground and has been wasteful of chances which at the highest level can be very expensive.

Fellow new signing Chu Young Park will not be able to fill the glaring hole at Arsenal either. Signed for £3.4 million, the 26-year-old has been dubbed ‘not ready’ for the first team by Arsene Wenger, a worrying admission by a man usually so frugal with money. He averaged one goal every four games for Monaco which is not a bad record, but like many of Wenger’s French imports the pace and brutality of English football see them fall from grace. The player has all the attributes for a top striker but is once again in this mould of player that wants the ball to his feet and will struggle to fight for it.

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And finally there’s the talisman, Robin Van Persie. A prolific goalscorer but all too often injured. He has scored 24 goals in 26 appearances in 2011 and the only player that impressed for the Gunners after the League Cup final debacle. But his injury record speaks for itself. In 2007 Van Persie broke his metatarsal celebrating a goal against Man United, meaning he missed the Carling Cup final which his side subsequently lost 2-1, the following year he was top scorer at the club despite missing most of the season with a knee injury as Arsenal finished just four points off the lead and again last season, missing the first half of the campaign then getting injured again in the infamous final.

While he is on the pitch he is a star, but when he’s injured the cupboard is bare for Arsene Wenger and he needs to change it soon. He has Theo Walcott asking to play up front but his goalscoring record is hardly a shining CV and again he brings nothing to the table that the club doesn’t already have. So who outside the club could they take?

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Although not a likely option, Chelsea’s Didier Drogba fits the bill perfectly. Physical, good in the air and a fantastic finisher, he would be the saviour if he were to arrive at the Emirates. But more realistically, a man such as Roque Santa Cruz, currently not wanted by Manchester City and on loan at Real Betis would be a good addition to lead the line alongside van Persie, or even consistent defender breaker and goal finder Kevin Davies to give Arsenal a dimension so dramatically lacking from their play.

Now for any Gunners fans tearing their hair out at the mention of big bruiser Kevin Davies being the man to save their stylish, sophisticated football club, think of this.

Apart from Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea team, many of the best clubs in the world have had defensive troubles. The famous treble winning Manchester United team weren’t the strongest at the back. They were held together by Peter Schmeichel and maintained the philosophy of scoring one more than their opponents. It is the same with the successful Real Madrid sides at the turn of the century and the Barcelona team of now, there weaknesses are their defence but they score so freely that no-one cares. Even the Newcastle team that nearly made it big had that theory. It’s time Arsene Wenger and Arsenal fans stopped bemoaning their defence and asked the strikers around Robin van Persie to do their job.

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After the heroics of English clubs in the Champions League this week, we reach the FA Cup 5th round weekend with Crawley attempting to pull off the greatest shock of all time at Old Trafford. You do sense that all the games are likely to go in favour of the Premier League sides as the draw has been extremely kind to them.

In the papers this morning there have been a mixed bag of stories that includes fan fury at Champions League prices; Joe Jordan refutes Gattuso claims, while Chelsea hit with fixture pile-up.

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Fans furious at price hike for Champions League final tickets – Guardian

Utd ace will stay for Evra more – Sun

Champions League is my No 1! Lamps would sacrifice title for Euro glory – Daily Mail

Newcastle’s Enrique flattered by Liverpool link – Mirror

FA Cup still tarnished by Premier League – Daily Telegraph

Jordan refutes Gattuso claims – Sky Sports

Fixture chaos hits Blues hopes – Sun

Wilshere sets his sights on Arsenal ending Barcelona’s European dream – Daily Mail

Fifa match-fixing probe – Daily Telegraph

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Adebayor urges Cesc to join him at Real Madrid – Mirror

Tottenham set to pip rivals Arsenal in race to land £15m-rated Wickham – Daily Mail

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