Football

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 […]

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 […]

[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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Leading lights from sport and politics paid tribute to Andy Murray as one of Britain’s “greatest sportsmen” after he tearfully announced his plan to retire from tennis. At a news conference, an emotional Murray, 31, said that next week’s Australian Open could be his final tournament, owing to pain in his right hip, following surgery […]

Pool One Leinster host Toulouse in the clash of Europe’s only four-time champions, with this group and Pool Three looking certain to produce two of the four teams who will have home ties in the quarter-finals in March – everything will be clear after next weekend’s sixth and final pool round. Johnny Sexton is not […]

Finally the realisation that it’s over. There are few full stops as merciless as those that bring a brilliant sporting career to a close. How it might end, indeed that it ever will, is never part of our thinking when as young men and women bristling with ambition and vigour we set out to conquer. […]

Despite costing just £6.7m on Fantasy Premier League, Callum Wilson has outlined himself as one of the game’s elite strikers, picking up an impressive 105 points so far this season. Unfortunately for FPL managers who own the Englishman, and indeed Cherries fans, Wilson was absent for Bournemouth’s FA Cup tie against Brighton last weekend and […]

Forest put up a tough fight at Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup last weekend, but it wasn’t to be and will now be looking to kick on in the league to make it two wins from two games, in 2019. They travel to Reading, who are one place away from bottom of the league, […]

He was never really the replacement for Neymar, but the signing of Philippe Coutinho at least made Barcelona feel a little better about themselves. It was proof that, after losing the next best player on the planet the summer before, they could still attract superstars to Camp Nou. And Coutinho, as one of the best […]