Category: Football

It is Sunday afternoon in the Cowbridge Suite of the Vale Resort on the outskirts of Cardiff, base camp for Wales, and the pre‑Montenegro press [more…]

Motorists stuck in the slow traffic crawling towards central Sunderland from the A19 on Sunday lunchtime were confronted by flashing electronic roadside signage. It conveyed [more…]

Ian Alexander is scouring the signatures on a 34-year-old Bristol Rovers shirt, searching for clues over the identity of teammates with whom he shared the [more…]

Scotland are still looking for their first point in Group A1, after a third game in which they’ve matched superior opponents for the most part, [more…]

Jonas Eidevall said he “fully understands” the disappointment of Arsenal fans after two goals in 12 minutes did the damage in a loss against Chelsea [more…]

When Craig Bellamy talks, you ­listen. He can command a ­touchline, a ­dressing room, the deepest of ­auditoriums, a gaggle of ­journalists in a ­bunker [more…]

There is perhaps a certain bitter comic timing in the fact that England’s next opponent is the country serially ranked as the happiest on earth. [more…]

10) Noussair Mazraoui (Manchester United) – 6.89 rating Right-back was an area Erik ten Hag sought to improve upon over the summer, and Noussair Mazraoui [more…]

England job by making people like him and think he’s a new thing. But this was also the most shapeless, weirdly arrogant attempt to reinvent [more…]

Mauricio Pochettino arrived in the US men’s national team job with as sterling a résumé as anyone to take charge of the program, and boasted [more…]