Category: Football

Your second wildcard bullet is in the chamber, Fantasy Premier League fans. Do you a) exercise patience and wait until your squad is ravaged with injury? Or b) recklessly pull the panic trigger and re-haul your squad in a desperate – and likely hopeless – attempt to make up ground up on your mini-league rivals? You've chosen the latter, haven't you? Well, make the…

Manchester United to go unbeaten for the rest of the season? Just 12-1. Whether you like the odds or not they reflect the steep improvement brought about by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and perhaps a little of that more intangible quality: optimism. The victory over Tottenham at Wembley was United’s sixth on the spin since Solskjaer replaced the old malcontent Jose Mourinho, a run already…

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! Wow, can you believe it’s week 23 in the Premier League? Yes, another jam-packed few days of top-flight English football to take in with all 20 sides in action. We get going on Saturday lunchtime with Wolves hosting Leicester in the 12:30pm offering – a clash that the…

Luis Suarez to Liverpool (2011) Liverpool’s signing of Suarez for £22.8m in January 2011 was overshadowed by the sale of Fernando Torres and arrival of Andy Carroll on the same day. Yet while Carroll was a major flop at Anfield, Suarez went on to become one of the club’s most successful players of the Premier League era. The Uruguay international scored four goals in…

LONDON STADIUM — As soon as he strikes the ball, he knows he has scored. This might be Declan Rice’s first senior goal, but he knows well enough that nothing can stop the path of his curled shot. He runs to the corner flag with both arms raised, followed by a hoard of teammates desperate to congratulate the young man. In the stands around…

Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani has apologised to his Derby counterpart Mel Morris for the “spygate” row which overshadowed the two clubs' Championship match on Friday night. Marcelo Bielsa admitted before the game that he had sent a member of his coaching staff to watch a closed training session at Derby's Morley Road training ground on Thursday after the Rams reported a suspicious looking…

There was a clip doing the rounds on social media over the weekend of a boy of around 10 years old witnessing a Premier League football ground for the first time. The wonder and incredulity on his face as he clapped eyes on the yawning expanse of the stadium where his heroes would soon be running around (Stamford Bridge, as it happens) was touching.…

History is full of famous liberators. The self-styled Liberatores (“et tu, Brute?”) who murdered Julius Caesar, not to know that he would be resurrected just over two millennia later as a Brazilian goalkeeper and would win the treble with Inter Milan. Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin and the fantastically named Bernardo O’Higgins, who led the liberation of South America from the Spanish Empire…

[ad_1] Image copyright Google Image caption The victims were at the Littlerock cafe on the busy Princess Road The brothers of England footballers Marcus Rashford and Trent Alexander-Arnold were attacked during an armed robbery at a restaurant. Dane Rashford and Tyler Alexander-Arnold were at the Littlerock cafe in the Moss Side area of Manchester when it was raided on Saturday. Three men wielded a…

“Back in Business.. 2019.. Recharged the batteries! First stop Stamford Bridge.” Rio Ferdinand was clearly in a chipper mood ahead of Chelsea‘s match with Newcastle on Saturday evening, but that new year optimism must have faded quite rapidly if he logged onto Twitter not long after. The former Manchester United and England defender was faced with a barrage of online abuse for his comments…

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer faces the first big challenge of his reign as Manchester United manager as his side travel to Wembley to face Tottenham. The Red Devils have won five on the bounce since the Norwegian took charge but are yet to face one their “big six” rivals. With Spurs still very much in the title race, just six points off league leaders Liverpool…

Barcelona would have been a very different football club without Patrick O’Connell. His is a story of persistence, innovation and, by the end, tragedy. For a long time the story of Don Patricio – as he was known in Catalonia – went untold, but he is now recognised as one of the most important figures in Barcelona’s history. Born in 1887 in Dublin, O’Connell…

Richard Keys has questioned Mohamed Salah‘s integrity, accusing the Liverpool forward of “making the most of challenges” in order to con referees. Liverpool maintained their lead at the top of the Premier League thanks to a 1-0 win over Brighton sealed thanks to a second-half Salah penalty. Read more: Fans and pundits accuse Salah of cheating *again* for penalty vs Brighton But Keys, the BeIn…

Liverpool maintained their supremacy at the top of the Premier League with a 1-0 victory over Brighton sealed thanks to a Mohamed Salah penalty. The key incident of the game occurred in the 49th minute as Salah ran into the box, pivoted sharply and turned past Pascal Gross. As Salah bore down on goal again, the Brighton midfielder appeared to grab hold of his shoulder and…

Our tipping action begins in the 5.45pm at Wolverhampton this evening, the fourth race on an action packed card, where a field of thirteen just-turned 3yos line up for a lowly 0-60 handicap. Not the easiest of races to kick off the night, but there is one horse there looking like she could prove to be pretty good value… If she gets home over…