Sir Mo Farah has set his sights on breaking Steve Jones’s 32-year-old British record over 26.2 miles after
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http://www.footballpanthershop.com/Graham_Gano_Jersey_CheapRobertson kicked hard with four miles remaining, Desisa soon fell back and Farah also struggled to stay with him, before kicking clear in sight of the finish to win in 1:00.06, with the New Zealander six seconds back. “Jake almost got rid of me with three miles to go because I was hurting,” Farah said. “I was just hanging on and gritting my teeth. I expected him to push on but it was a great race. “Every part of my muscles is aching now. That was really, really tough. I have never been this sore. It’s been hard to motivate myself after Zurich, after the world championships, and I haven’t done as much trainingThat might be stretching it. Palace had 65% of possession but much of it came under the category of sterile domination. Yet it was conceivable that the centre-back Scott Dann could have had a hat-trick. “They had two fantastic chances, especially Dann’s header at the end,” the Burnley manager, Sean Dyche, said. Advertisement Dann headed wide, though, and he had been denied by twin goal-line clearances from Matthew Lowton and the excellent James Tarkowski. Christian Benteke had other opportunities. His radar was for once awry. When it functioned correctly, he met unexpected obduracy in the shape of Burnley’s reserve goalkeeper Nick Pope. Yet the damning element for Palace was that they rarely troubled a Premier League debutant. “Technically, a fantastic save,” Dyche said after the deputy was summoned when Tom Heaton landed awkwardly catching a cross. The England goalkeeper has a suspected dislocated shoulder. “If it is, it is not weeks [out], more like months,” Dyche said. He had “empathy, not sympathy” with De Boer, seeking out his counterpart for a consoling word. “I thought they were the better side,” he said. “I told him so. They were very good. They played with more freedom.” He attributed that to De Boer’s decision to jettison his favoured 3-4-3 formation for a more familiar 4-3-3. A winner could afford to be magnanimous. While Palace wrestle with an identity crisis, Burnley know who they are and what they have to do. “We had to fight for every
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