Category: Football
Football Daily | Nottingham Forest and a Premier League rise no one saw coming
RETURN OF THE JEDI Although they enjoyed the luxury of a six-point buffer zone, Nottingham Forest finished just one place above the relegation zone when [more…]
Manchester United fans prefer new stadium to redeveloping Old Trafford
A majority of Manchester United fans favour a new stadium rather than the redevelopment of Old Trafford, a survey has found. Fifty-two per cent of [more…]
Saudi oil and betting firms? Women’s football must not lose its moral compass | Suzanne Wrack
Women’s football, the business, is on the rise. There will be ups and downs, anomalies and backwards steps, but the overall trajectory is upwards. In [more…]
Manchester City’s league title defence will be a struggle, Guardiola admits
Pep Guardiola has said Manchester City must accept that their title defence will be a “struggle and this is fine”. The champions’ 2-1 defeat at [more…]
Weston-super-Mare’s heartbreak, Arsène Wenger and the debate over football governance | Nick Ames
Weston-super-Mare’s ground, the Optima Stadium, holds around 3,500 fans. It was last packed to the rafters when Doncaster Rovers arrived a decade ago, a convincing [more…]
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
1 United need injection of confidence If Ruud van Nistelrooy was supposed to wash the nostalgia out of the Manchester United system then perhaps that [more…]
Guardiola says he will ‘just handle’ heavy NBA-style schedule with less rest
Pep Guardiola has said he has no alternative other than “just to handle it” as his ailing Manchester City squad bears the brunt of a [more…]
WSL roundup: Chelsea thrash Everton to maintain perfect start
Chelsea maintained their 100% winning start to life under Sonia Bompastor as they outclassed Everton with a 5-0 victory. Chelsea were in total control and [more…]
Ennui is The Thing: welcome to the death-football of late-stage capitalism | Barney Ronay
Well, something definitely happened there. But what exactly? There is an affectionate joke about good, punchy Australian sports writing, which basically involves saying Here’s The [more…]
The sports psychologist making a difference with a dog and a bench at Brentford
“Any chance?” asks Michael Caulfield, Brentford’s sports psychologist, and with that Paisley, a lurcher-whippet with a marble-cake coat, hops out of the boot of his [more…]
