Category: Football
Football clubs chase sweet dreams as the latest key to high performance | Will Unwin
When it comes to optimal performance, football clubs analyse diet, physiology and a plethora of minute details to ensure players have the best chance of [more…]
Twenty years of Borussia Dortmund: Watzke on near-bankruptcy, selling players and Klopp
“If you think back to the creditors’ meeting 20 years ago, then it’s a success that we’re even here today at all,” says the Borussia [more…]
Nations League roundup: Trincão and Ronaldo fire Portugal into semi-finals
Francisco Trincão came off the bench to score twice and Cristiano Ronaldo also found the net as Portugal defeated Denmark 5-2 after extra time for [more…]
‘Be ruthless with each other’: Tuchel’s method to get best out of England
Thomas Tuchel loves to talk tactics with an obsessive attention to detail, taking in the tiny tweaks, the dizzying range of possibilities. The England head coach [more…]
Scotland relegated in Nations League as Karetsas leads Greece demolition job
Steve Clarke can do without any more occasions akin to this. Relegation to the second tier of the Nations League is no disaster for Scotland. [more…]
Wales sink Kazakhstan to get World Cup campaign up and running
It was not pitch perfect but Wales made a winning start to their World Cup qualifying campaign, the substitute Rabbi Matondo capping victory in stoppage [more…]
Jordan Henderson: ‘I looked at how far it was to Berlin and I hired a van’
Jordan Henderson wanted to be part of it. He felt he deserved to be part of it. And so, despite the obstacles, he put in [more…]
Lee Carsley returns to under-21s to lay foundations for England’s World Cup tilt | Ed Aarons
Had things turned out differently, Lee Carsley could quite easily be taking charge of the Republic of Ireland’s Nations League playoff against Bulgaria in Dublin [more…]
Rashford could be more important to Tuchel’s England than Palmer or Saka | Jonathan Wilson
One of the problems of international football is that everybody is always asking the wrong question, which to an extent is built into the form. [more…]
WSL roundup: Arsenal thrash Liverpool thanks to Matthews’ damaging double
Arsenal bounced straight back from the disappointment of their midweek defeat away at Real Madrid by comprehensively beating Liverpool 4-0 in the Women’s Super League. [more…]
