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Polished as a politician and a devotee of the arts, he became the public face of the Indy Racing League after quitting the cockpit.

Not exact matches

Arsenal secured what could be a decisive win in the Premier League title race after claiming a 2 - 1 victory over Leicester City on Sunday.

Not long ago it appeared that the Arsenal and England international midfield star would be going on loan to Premier League club AFC Bournemouth, after another EPL club Crystal Palace were previously thought to be winning the race for him.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has already started discussing next season's Premier League title race after Manchester City were confirmed as champions yesterday.

Arsenal appear to be leading the race to sign Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin, after the player has revealed that he would only leave St Mary's for a side playing in the Champions League.

After losing their FA Cup semi final with Aston Villa on Sunday and looking off the pace in the race for Champions League qualification, current boss Brendan Rodgers is under pressure.

Arsenal may have shot themselves in the foot once again where the title race is concerned, going down to ten men against Chelsea after less than 20 minutes, and consequently losing the game 1 - 0 and dropping to third place in the Premier League.

As the Premier League season gets going, CaughtOffside looks at how things are shaping up in the managerial sack race, with these seven Premier League bosses already looking like fighting for their futures after bad starts to the season...

Arsenal went into the game top of the league and in good form, but Liverpool came racing out of the blocks, two up inside 10 minutes and four to the good after just 20.

There was no thought of looking for excuses or blaming the fact that Arsenal are well and truly out of the Premier League title race after losing to Chelsea, well not from the acting Arsenal captain anyway.

In contrast, Arsenal, exhausted after their victory against Leicester had to compete on 3 fronts — and immediately lost 3 consecutive games beginning with the crushing defeat to Barcelona, and in so doing went out of both the FA and European Cups and collected only 9 league points to effectively drop out of, then lose, the title race!

The Italian tactician is under growing pressure at Chelsea this season after a hugely disappointing second half of the season that has seen them lose the Carabao Cup semi-final, fall five points behind Tottenham in the race for fourth, and facing a mountain to climb to get past Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League.

After consistent failure to win the league, put up a sustainable challenge in the race for the title, get past the round of 16 in the champions league and disappoint in big games, Arsenal fans are realising that this feat isn't surprising.

The race to the finishing tape for the Premier League title is really heating up now and although there is a long way to go for Arsenal, it is really important that we keep our noses in front after the round of games this weekend.

Apart from these two positions the Gunners line up is pretty predictable these days and looks to have plenty of quality and the right balance to get the Premier League title race up and running after the disappointment of defeat to West Brom last time out.

Arsene Wenger has had since Tuesday night to pick up his Arsenal players after they went a fourth Premier League match without a win and three in a row without scoring a goal, so I can understand why the manager would want to instill some confidence in his squad and try to regain some belief that the Gunners are still right in the title race.

The race to be top goalscorer of the Premier League is hotting up, and after looking at some of the best bookmakers odds, it now looks a great time to lay some money down on our main man Alexis Sanchez to land the prize.

I have just seen the post match comments from Arsene Wenger after Arsenal let a two goal lead slip away to West Ham and needed a third goal just to get a point from a game that we surely had to win to stay in the Premier League title race.

Because we will need our star man on top form after that, with the Champions League and a hugely important race for the top four.

He is ready to leave this summer and hopes to have a similar experience to the one Milito had with Racing — Milito went back to Argentina in 2014 after playing in Europe for over 10 years, and was a key player as Racing Club won the league title.

At one stage, after his pitstop, Leclerc was a staggering three seconds faster than his rivals and was in a completely different league to the rest of the pack all race.

After Arsenal struggled through the end of 2015 and the start of the new year with a pretty heavy injury lost, we all got excited when players started to come back to match fitness and one player in particular was seen as the possible saviour of the season and the man to spark a strong sprint for the line in the race to win the Premier League.

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United are 16 points behind rivals Manchester City in the Premier League title race, with their hopes of finally winning the trophy again after a long wait surely already over before the end of February.

Barcelona midfielder Xavi is in a race to be fit for the Champions league tie against Arsenal after suffering a calf strain.

Leicester have been made favourites to sign Nigeria and Man City striker Kelechi Iheanacho, after fellow Premier League club West Ham dropped out of the race to sign the forward, according to Sky Sports.

Wins over Chelsea and Newcastle repaired some of the damage in the league, and they even won at Old Trafford, though a late Aguero goal against rivals United did not look like making a difference in the title race, as Sir Alex Ferguson's side were still 12 points ahead even after this morale - lifting derby result.

The latest of which came after United's win over Southampton on Friday night, as he took to Twitter and had this to say about the Premier League title race.

Arsenal are still fighting to stay in the race for the Premiership title after being eliminated from both the FA Cup and the Champions League in one cruel week, but Arsene Wenger firmly believes that this top quality Arsenal team is now fully primed and ready to aim for the top spot by the end of the season.

Knowing that the Series Overall would be decided at this race was extra motivation as well and I was so excited to come away with it after being last in points all season.It's a team effort at every race so I want to thank my family, friends, sponsors, and of coarse everyone behind the SoCal League who make it happen!

The FA Cup remains the two clubs» any chance of claiming silverware this season after falling out of the Premier League title race and the Champions League.

Roma came within centimetres of striking a huge blow in the race for the Champions League after bashing the woodwork twice in Sunday night's Rome derby, with Edin Dzeko cursing his luck as his injury - time header thumped off the bar just as the Curva Sud was preparing itself for another night of wild celebrations following Tuesday night's Barca battering.

Eden Hazard appears to have ruled Arsenal out of the title race after claiming Chelsea will win the Premier League if they finish above Manchester City and Liverpool.

With Barca unbeaten after 18 league games and already nine points clear of Atletico Madrid at the top of the table, Simeone fears Coutinho's arrival could prove to be a decisive blow in the title race.

After all, the 19 - year - old had just helped the Reds pick up three important points in the race for the Premier League title, scoring two goals and creating the other.

«I'm over the moon,» she told Diamond League organisers after the race.

After Leicester City's 4 - 1 defeat at Sunderland on Sunday, the Premier League 2 title race has now swung in our favour.

French league leaders Nice have only the title race to focus on for the rest of the season after going out of the Coupe de France on Sunday, losing 2 - 1 away to Lorient.

Sitting with a nine point lead at the top of the table, the Catalans are eyeing a second successive treble while Real have their sight firmly fixed on the Champions League trophy after dropping out of the title race.

So after the results of this weekend's Premier league action, the entire landscape of the top 4 race looks like it's finally been decided.

While Jose Mourinho said the title race is «probably over» after that derby defeat, Gundogan and City will not be taking their eyes off the prize with 22 league matches remaining.

After finding out the name of the club with which Barca will play in the semi-finals of the Champions league, Bayern Munich, Enrique most likely will send the best to the pitch this Saturday to avoid complicating the race for the league title, before the Champions league encounter with the Bavarian giant.

The extra spice was provided by both Manchester clubs dropping points at the weekend, handing Liverpool back the initiative in the Champions League race after losing to Crystal Palace last weekend.

Roma suffered a major disappointment in the Italian Serie A title race after managing only a 1 - 1 draw with Hellas Verona in the latest league match.

Manchester United had a bad day at Anfield back in 2011 after losing 3 - 1 with Dirk Kuyt scoring a hat - trick, which ensured that the Premier League title race was still wide open.

Manchester City, as the reigning Premier League champions, were expected to be in the race for the title after 10 matches.

However, Juventus are now ready to enter the race for Tosun after being impressed by the player's displays in the Champions League.

The 26 year - old wants to play Champions League football next year after a fine season with Torino and Roma have him down as priority number one after Milan and Juventus muscled the Giallorossi out of the race for Juan Iturbe.

The Premier League title race got a little bit closer after Manchester City drew 1 - 1 at Burnley last week, but they still hold a comfortable 13 - point lead at the top