Liverpool eye two replacements as Arne Slot pays price for £450m of mistakes
If you watch one thing this week, make it John Gibbons’ eloquent summary of Liverpool’s identity crisis on the always excellent Anfield Wrap podcast.Bemoaning...
The cost of Tottenham relegation: 75% pay cuts, four key sales and £200m lost
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Tottenham Hotspur have been warned about a £200m loss in revenue and the prospect of losing...
‘Go f**k yourself’: FA launch probe after non-league chief leaked outburst
Mark Harris, chairman of the Northern Premier League (NPL), was involved in the spat after FC United of Manchester – the breakaway club formed...
How Southampton accidentally stumbled on a golden ticket
After Southampton had scored their third goal at Wrexham on Tuesday evening, when the celebrations died down to give way to jubilant chanting, the...
Something frightening is happening in English football
It is tempting to see the Championship as the epicentre of the storm: far less of the gold plating that the Premier League enjoys...
My weekend with English fooball’s biggest overachievers
READING — Lincoln City’s entire promotion has presented itself as one gloriously unlikely, extended dream sequence and the denouement was perfection. Pegged back in...
The unstoppable rise of Estevao Willian
Belo Horizonte was always a long way from home for Estevao Willian. Born a day’s travel away in Franca, Sao Paulo, the dusty journey...
Mikel Arteta cannot escape Arsenal’s eternal cycle of misery
The mad panic is inescapable now. Whether it starts with Arsenal wobbling to provoke external pressure, or external pressure that provoked an Arsenal wobble,...
Virgil van Dijk is not good enough for Liverpool any more
At times Virgil van Dijk has been “too good for the highest level,” as Jamie Carragher eulogised last year.Sometimes, however, you have to leave...
Trump’s World Cup will be more hostile for fans than Qatar and Russia
In Dallas Fort Worth airport, a group of Iraq supporters celebrate as they transit for a flight home after attending a glorious World Cup...
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