Just when you thought Declan Rice couldn’t hit a free-kick any sweeter, he went and did it again 12 minutes later. Rice had gone over 400 career games without scoring a single free-kick before thumping two past Thibaut Courtois to propel Arsenal to a...
Belgium Women 3-2 England (Wullaert 4’, 29’, Vanhaevermaet 16’ | Mead pen 35’, Agyemang 81′) LEUVEN — How had it all gone so horribly wrong? With less than half an hour on the clock, Millie Bright and Leah Williamson led an impromptu huddle around th...
It was an explosive end to a historic match, the last Merseyside derby at Goodison Park settled with a 98th minute James Tarkowski equaliser that prompted chaotic scenes. In the bedlam that followed the final whistle, Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Dou...
Arsenal 3-0 Real Madrid (Rice 58′, 70′, Merino 75′ | Camavinga 90+3′ red card) EMIRATES — There are free-kicks, and then there are free-kicks. The sort of free-kicks that come along once in a thousand games, that are dissected for decades to come, im...
Leicester‘s doomed campaign took another desperate turn on Monday after they slipped to a disappointing 3-0 home defeat to Newcastle. Any faint hopes the Foxes had about staying in the Premier League are now all but extinguished with 17th-placed Wolv...
“Where’s the freedom in that football match?” spits Gary Neville, Sky Sports version, after a predictable anaesthetic of a Manchester derby. “There’s none, and I can’t accept that. I’m getting really angry with it. They’re frightened to death to move...
Doing the 92 is Daniel Storey’s odyssey to every English football league club in a single season. This is club 76/92. The best way to follow his journey and read all of the previous pieces is by subscribing here In February, Chelsea’s minority shareh...
In the immediate aftermath of Aston Villa’s progression to the Champions League quarter-final, Unai Emery insisted he had watched Liverpool’s second leg with Paris Saint-Germain the night before merely as a football fan. But anyone aware of Emery’s m...