As a big-money Manchester United signing, you are always going to be under the utmost scrutiny. Throw in the fact Andre Onana is a goalkeeper, replacing a stalwart who kept United afloat for so long, and the pressure cooker was turned up to its maxim...
There is a new fashion on social media, that when someone young in sport achieves something of note, those of us of a certain age rush to make a reference point linking the sportsperson’s date of birth with a cultural reference that our peers will un...
Arsenal 6-0 Lens (Havertz 13′, Jesus 21′, Saka 23′, Martinelli 27′, Odegaard 45+1, Jorginho pen 86′)) EMIRATES STADIUM — Arsenal booked their place in the Champions League knockout stages for the first time in seven years and did so in style as they ...
Galatasaray 3-3 Manchester United (Ziyech 29′, 62′, Akturkoglu 71′ | Garnacho 11′, Fernandes 18′, McTominay 55′) RAMS PARK — For the neutral, and especially rival supporters, few things bring more pleasure than Manchester United this season. They hav...
It was a draw that felt like a defeat, but late in the night at the Parc des Princes a defiant Kieran Trippier was not in the mood for despair. Newcastle United left Paris on Tuesday night nursing a sense of injustice but having kept themselves in th...
Towards the end of last season, something remarkable happened to Crystal Palace under Roy Hodgson: they started having quite a lot of fun. Patrick Vieira had once been the marker of a bright new future, but his possessional doctrine had given way to ...
Man City 2-2 RB Leipzig (Haaland 54′, Foden 70′, Alvarez 87′ | Openda 13′, 33′) ETIHAD STADIUM — Pep Guardiola’s double substitution of Jeremy Doku and Julian Alvarez turned the tide of a victory that clinched top place in the group for holders Manch...
Alejandro Garnacho will always have Goodison Park. His goal against Everton cast him in a state of permanent suspension, forever frozen upside down. Like George Best weaving through the Sheffield United defence, Bobby Charlton’s howitzer at Anfield, ...
PARIS — Newcastle United fans have been advised to “stick together” after a group of masked Paris Saint-Germain ultras attacked a bar where travelling supporters were drinking the night before the two clubs met in the Champions League. Video circulat...
One minute he’s living in a caravan at the training ground, the next he’s in your ear insisting that changing your bedsheets can be the difference between winning and losing. On other occasions, Sir Dave Brailsford disappears into the shadows or can ...