Jude Bellingham is already England’s most powerful player brand, as totemic off the pitch as he is on it. Were AI to fashion a hero of global appeal it could barely improve on this fella, good-looking, athletic, polite. Crikey, he even thanks journal...
“There’s a lot of heavy lobbying on people to be quiet, so I understand why most people refrain.” The words are Gary Lineker’s and they came during a recent interview with the US-based British broadcaster Medhi Hasan about Israel’s assault on Gaza. I...
There is a reason Turkish football has become a kind of warped pagoda to preserve the memory of once great players and managers, but it is not necessarily the obvious. From a distance, the Turkish Super Lig has become a parody of itself, retirement h...
Last week at St George’s Park, when England manager Gareth Southgate was discussing his squad selection for the European Championship this summer, someone asked him if he had spoken to Jadon Sancho about not being part of the group. It provoked a fli...
As fans celebrated Manchester United’s shock FA Cup final win and resulting Europa League spot, they probably didn’t realise entry to Uefa’s secondary competition was not set in stone. United could still be demoted to the Conference League with Chels...
Graham Potter has emerged as the frontrunner to become the next Brighton head coach, just 20 months after leaving the club for Chelsea. Bookmakers have Potter odds-on for a return to the south coast and the prospect of the move is already dividing Br...
The Manchester United staff reeling from Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s redundancy sledgehammer might want to contact their Scottish counterparts at Grangemouth, where the Ineos boss is also driving devastating change. They might at least squeeze a few quid mor...
Bayern Munich have confirmed Vincent Kompany will be their next head coach following Thomas Tuchel’s departure at the end of the season. Kompany leaves Burnley after two seasons having overseen a record-breaking Championship promotion campaign follow...
In a line which would have been genuinely unimaginable not two weeks ago, it appears Enzo Maresca will become the Chelsea manager before May is out. Maresca has managed just 67 senior games across an underwhelming 14-game stint with Parma in Serie B ...
Newcastle United have confirmed the departures of five first team players as their summer revolution began with a cull of fringe players. Paul Dummett and Matt Ritchie – who have made 428 appearances between them – leave at the end of their contracts...
Wembley is braced for the biggest security operation in the stadium’s history at this weekend’s Champions League final, with organisers determined to avoid a repeat of the scenes that have marred previous Uefa showpieces. Real Madrid and Borussia Dor...