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Tributes are being paid to the former West Ham and Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder, who has died at the age of 65. Roeder, who also coached Gillingham, Watford and Norwich, had been battling a brain tumour. Howard Wilkinson, chairman of the League Man...

Jonathan Van-Tam warned last week that racing into a lead can be a dangerous strategy. Not so, when Gareth Bale is playing close to his potential. The sight of the Welshman playing alongside Harry Kane and Son Heung-min was one of the main appeals o...

Cancel culture? Yes if we are talking penalties. But not in a way that drained the spectacle of life. VAR clobbered Manchester United with the denial of a stout penalty claim and gave the contest its talking point. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer cried foul. Th...

Luke Shaw has claimed referee Stuart Attwell told his Manchester United teammate Harry Maguire he declined to award a penalty against Chelsea for an apparent handball because “it’s going to cause a lot of talk about it afterwards”. Video replays appe...

If there was one thing we learned from the last time Chelsea and Manchester United played each other – back in October when the teams shared just five shots on target between them – it was that we were likely to be low on goals on Sunday af...

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM– Jose Mourinho insisted “there is not one single manager in the world who does not play Gareth Bale if he is in good condition” after his two goals and an assist in Tottenham’s 4-0 win over Burnley. Bale opened the scoring a...

Manchester United were denied what appeared to be a sure penalty in their clash with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge after a bit of ball-juggling between Mason Greenwood and Callum Hudson-Odoi. In a first half bereft of chances, the biggest talking point ...

Harvey Barnes suffered what looked like a concerning knee injury in Leicester’s Premier League defeat to Arsenal on Sunday that throws into question his availability for upcoming England matches as well as this summer’s European Championships. Barnes...

When I read about the abuse of footballers today it makes me think that nothing’s changed fundamentally – it’s simply a case of social media taking over from the old voice on the terrace or the anonymous letters that players used to get. It has alway...

Ryan Sparks made the call with a little trepidation. “Mark, we have just parted company with Stuart. Will you take caretaker charge?” And so, from there, on a bleak Sunday morning in December, the seeds were sown for the latest chapter in Bradford Ci...

The shortest long season ever, said Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Or maybe he meant the longest short season. Or perhaps he was just trying to make conclusions about Manchester United’s visit to Chelsea impossible to draw. After all, why add voltage to the h...

Jurgen Klopp already has one eye on making what he describes  as “re-adjustments” for next season while trying to salvage a top-four place out of Liverpool’s current traumatic campaign. The Merseyside club’s seemingly never-ending list of woes c...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will face his former club Manchester United in the last-16 of the Europa League after Milan were drawn against the Red Devils in Friday’s draw. Ibrahimovic won the Europa League with United back in 2017 and the veteran is still goi...