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Not exact matches

That's not exactly NASCAR money or Formula 1 prestige, but for ESPN the deal offers an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a growing new competitive sport — as well as to influence which emerging drone racing league becomes the sport's preeminent global organization.

If the track magnate who hosts five of the Indy Racing League's 11 events gets his way, Indy cars could be sporting fenders as early as next year.

The Gunners were in fine form on Merseyside, securing a 5 - 2 victory to bounce back from their previous defeat to Watford and get back on track in the race to at least make the top four in the Premier League.

It looks to me like Arsenal will be the only team from the current top three of the Premier League that will have anything but the Premier League title race to worry about by next week, always assuming that the Gunners manage to get past Watford at the Emirates stadium on Sunday, but how will that affect things?

The criticism seems to increase year on year, and you can bet your life that the first time Arsenal drop points this season, the verbal attacks will resume once again, but the fact is that every single team in the Premiership is investing in players in that race for the title, and it is not getting any easier to win the League.

If he was held to task would he really be able to justify his skill set as he still hasn't got spuds to a major trophy even though he could and should have — LCFC won the league on his watch and he came third in that race......

The second wild card race in the American League has been a procession of different teams getting their lips stuck in the escalator, and it's been unfathomably ugly.

The Gunners have always got through those play - off games even though it was sometimes a close call, but for the first time in two decades the Gunners will not be involved with the elite of Europe and Arsene Wenger has admitted that this is not good, in a report by The Mirror, but he also played it down a little bit by claiming that the English Premier League and the title race is now more important and more of interest to fans than the UCL and maybe the fact that Arsenal have not looked remotely like winning it since we lost to Barcelona in the final makes that true.

Having got the ball rolling with excellent spells at Espanyol and Southampton, the Argentine tactician has taken himself and Spurs to the next level since arriving at White Hart Lane as the club are in the midst of a Premier League title race for the second consecutive season.

Playing in the competition has been blamed for making them come up short in the race to get in to the Champions League in recent years.

But Mederer sees no real future for rotary engines in major league racing until a factory gets involved.

However, they may find it difficult to get Benteke if Arsenal join the race, with Arsene Wenger able to offer the forward Champions League football at the Emirates.

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

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...

Although much was made of Arsenal's zonal marking system in the aftermath of a goal conceded from a set piece against Manchester City, the reality is that both Premier League goals against the North London club this season have been the result of goalkeeping errors; Wojciech Szcz?sny fumbled a cross against Southampton and against City, Vito Mannone raced off his line only to get nowhere near David Silva's corner, allowing Lescott to head home.

In fact, we're so bad under Wenger, that we can't get any near winning the league, even when all of the big teams are removed from the title race.

But both sides, or the managers of them at least, probably see this as the second priority, with the race to get one of the Champions League spots being the real goal for the season.

But it now looks like Arsenal could be out of the race for Alexandre Lacazette unless we can still pull off a miracle and somehow get back into the Top Four to reach the Champions League for the 21st season in a row.

There are various theories about why the Gunners keep falling short in the race for the Premier League title and our various and numerous injury problems certainly do not help, but it is the way that the team fails to turn up at times in crucial games, such as the EPL defeat by Wartford recently or the Champions League hammering at the hands of Bayern Munich that many will point to as evidence that the boss is not getting the best from his squad anymore.

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.

For the last few months Arsenal fans have been desperately hoping that Chelsea would falter and the seemingly unstoppable momentum that Antonio Conte's team had would fade away and give the Gunners a chance to get back into the Premier League title race.

It's only slightly less troubling when the quarterback doing the kicking is one of the league's best offensive generals, capable of putting a middling roster on his back when the race for the playoffs gets tight.

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.

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.

We are now on a 5 - game unbeaten run again, and if we can get all 3 points against Watford in 8 days time, then we will be in good heart to face the League leaders on the following weekend in which could be our big throw of the dice in the title race....

The Gunners have managed to put their aptitude together and have weathered through the rough terrain and are coming home getting better and better as they gradually arriving to the homestraight for the final heat race to lift the Prestigious Barclays Premier League Platinum Big Trophy this season.

As Arsenal get set to welcome Liverpool to the Emirates in a game that is a certain six - pointer in the race for Champions League football next season, an outrageous statement has been made by the former Manchester United and Everton player Phil Neville, who has claimed that he expects to see both Liverpool and Manchester United to pip Arsenal to the top four.

The oddest pennant race in National League history is always exciting but sometimes it gets just a little sloppy

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.

The 20 - year - old has been in fine form in recent weeks as he has taken his goalscoring tally to 11 for the season and is playing a pivotal role in getting Spurs back into the Premier League title race.

Executive Director for the NorCal League Vanessa Hauswald elaborated, «We are really excited to get back to Granite Bay for our annual high school mountain bike race; the community here is incredibly supportive of youth cycling and in so many ways it feels like we are coming home when we are at Granite Bay for our event.

Most damning for Wenger — Arsenal is getting beaten convincingly in the league race not by an oil / oligarch sugar daddy team but by grafters whose top two players were recently PURCHASED for TEN WEEKS of Walcott's WEEKLY wage!!!

The Gunners currently sit fourth whilst Spurs are just two points behind their hated rivals — both will see this as an opportunity to get a leg up in the race for Champions League qualification.

«Being a part of the Socal league allowed me to grow as an athlete and now I get to travel the world to race my bike and meet so many amazing people along the way.

Nevertheless, it's Monaco who now look likely to win the race to sign Tielemans, while Premier League supporters will get a chance to see what they're missing out on when his Anderlecht side take on Manchester United in the Europa League on Thursday.

These two have been literally within spitting distance of each other for every League race this season and, on her last NorCal run of 2016, Keegan finally got the lead dog's view.

Pretty cool when you win your race then get congratulated by a coach from a different league who happens to be in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.

So at last the international break is finally over and we can get back to the serious stuff of Arsenal's race to the Premier League table.

As the 2017/18 season is gearing towards its first Manchester derby - the fixture this whole title race is almost entirely pivoted on, I decided to speak to Manchester City fan and freelance football writer Stephen Tudor to get his thoughts on how the game is viewed among the blues of Manchester and what Sunday's 175th encounter between the two clubs could mean to the Northern Powerhouse of Manchester and the Premier League in general.

Even though Arsenal have failed to get results against the better sides in the league, it doesn't put them out of the race.

Arsenal have fallen behind in the race for the Premier League title and in order to get their pursuit of the English crown back in order, the Gunners are expected to strengthen their squad during the current January transfer window with a couple of signings.

Bale uses his quick bursts of pace to race past defenders, so Jenkinson will have to be wary not to get caught out by rashly diving in on the Premier leagues in form player.

Marouane Fellaini's header gave Manchester United a 2 - 1 win against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park and got Louis Van Gaal's side back on track in the race for a Champions League spot.

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

Liverpool, Tottenham and former club Napoli join Inter in the race to sign Lavezzi and if Roberto Mancini can convince the player that the Nerazzuri can finish in the top three and qualify for the Champions League, Inter may get their man.

English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur are facing a race against time to get their new stadium ready, according to reports.

Blackburn were poor on that occasion, simply not at the races, and if they turn up in the same lethargic manner on Saturday, they'll get hammered by a Chelsea side whom, while they may not be firing on all cylinders in the league, were out scoring goals for fun at the weekend and will no doubt have a sudden taste for goals.

With a need for a positive result after his side were brought back to Earth in Stoke, Liverpool offers a chance to not only get back to winning ways for his team, but also to do so with a signal of intent that Arsenal are able to challenge against the top teams in this year's race for the Premier League title.

It was the sort of performance which made you feel that if United could kick on in the League, they had a real chance of getting themselves in the promotion race.