Handed one of the toughest summers of any Premier League manager, Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe is playing a blinder. Football management in 2025 isn’t just coaching, tactics, team selection and managing morale. It increasingly requires elit...
WEMBLEY — Sadly for Liverpool’s rivals, the Premier League won’t go to penalties. For those taking comfort from this outcome, seeing in Liverpool’s unlikely Community Shield defeat a reason for optimism, the cold slap of reality surely awaits. The Re...
Crystal Palace 2-2 (3-2 on pens) Liverpool (Mateta pen 17′, Sarr 77′ | Ekitike 4′, Frimpong 21′) Crystal Palace stunned Liverpool in a penalty shootout to win their first Community Shield on a dramatic Sunday at Wembley. Youngster Justin Devenn...
Jack Grealish is understood to be open to a loan move to Everton, with the club stepping up efforts to bring the England international to Hill Dickinson Stadium. The i Paper reported last month that Grealish was a priority target for the Toffees, wit...
Impatience is everywhere. On social media, even 30-second clips now tease the best bit at the very start before going back, no longer trusting our distracted minds will stick around to watch the video in full. Elsewhere, Londoners shout expletives wh...
Even as he sat out the fifth and final game of a tumultuous pre-season at Newcastle United, Alexander Isak continues to cast a long shadow over the club’s preparations for the new campaign. In the cold war between player and club, nothing dramatic ha...
The future and the past were the focus ahead of Manchester United’s final friendly of pre-season on Saturday. Their past was rewarded with a present, a gift in the form of a framed photo offered to David de Gea by Bruno Fernandes to thank the goalkee...
During Arsenal’s pre-season fixture against Villarreal, the two largest cheers from the Emirates crowd were reserved for two players at very different stages of their careers. The first eruption came before kick-off for a 27-year-old striker who has ...
Looking back, Paul Mitchell’s one and only sit down interview with journalists from his time at Newcastle United makes for even more fascinating reading. If the headline-grabbing quote was that the club’s transfer policy was “not fit for purpose”, th...