THE inside story behind Manchester City’s march to an historic domestic Treble. From a pre-season swagger to the chairman’s rallying cry, PAUL HIRST reveals how the club’s dominance has been achieved. IT IS 8.30am on the day after Manchester City had retained the Premier League title. Boss Pep Guardiola is having breakfast with two close […]
Fernando Llorente is set to leave Tottenham Hotspur at the end of the current season after the club missed the deadline to extend his contract, according to the Daily Mail. The striker has endured limited game time since joining Spurs from Swansea City in the summer of 2017. However, he has been instrumental in this […]
ENGLISH football has rarely been stronger. Four Premier League clubs will contest the two major European finals. A fifth — Manchester City — have won the mother of all title races in free-wheeling fashion. The world is watching, the football is pulsating, the money is off the scale and most of the world’s greatest managers […]
IT’S a moral maze tougher to negotiate than Manchester city centre’s eternal roadworks. And while Pep Guardiola’s Treble winners paraded their trophies on an open-top bus in yesterday’s evening rush hour, the gnashing of teeth continued. Here was quite possibly the most beautiful team ever to grace English football — the sort of team Arsene […]
ARSENAL are ready to sell any player who goes into the last two years of his Emirates contract. And that means a huge round of summer negotiations with stars including Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Mesut Ozil, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and skipper Laurent Koscielny. The North London giants are tired of being held hostage by players who deliberately run […]
MAURIZIO SARRI wants a quick decision on his Chelsea future — with Juventus ready to pounce. Sarri is the Italian giants’ No 1 target after cooling their interest in ex-Blues boss Antonio Conte. Stamford Bridge chief Sarri, 60, is preparing his team for next Wednesday’s Europa League final against Arsenal but his future is uncertain after […]
RELEASED by Ipswich at 16, goalkeeper Will Fuller thought his dreams of playing in the big time were over. But after his penalty shootout heroics last Sunday, he and Cardiff Met Uni FC have achieved the seemingly impossible and qualified for next season’s Europa League. A team made up of the University’s students and alumni, […]
CUPSADAISY! Sergio Aguero spearheaded a smashing prank from Manchester City’s Treble-winning superstars as they revelled in their victory parade. City’s record scorer looking shocked after apparently shattering the Premier League trophy by dropping it from a great height at Etihad. But the clip proved City’s superstars are almost as good at acting as they are […]
ARSENAL look set to kick off their coaching staff revamp by replacing Steve Bould with Freddie Ljungberg, according to reports. The Gunners legend has been a huge hit at the Emirates since he returned to take charge of the club’s Under 23 side last summer. According to Football.London, Ljungberg is “ready” to replace Bould, 56, […]
PEP GUARDIOLA sent Twitter into delight after he sported a blue tartan flat cap during Manchester City’s open-top-bus title parade. The hat was a nod to Man City life president Bernard Halford who sadly passed away in March at the age of 77. Halford was a regular wearer of a flat cap and was recently […]