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“It’s good publicity for me to be linked with Real Madrid but it is not true. I am happy to stay. My target is to make Everton better.” Oh, Everton. Oh, mates. Two weeks ago, Carlo Ancelotti said that. May 18. A different time. A simpler time. Now he’s back in the warm embrace of […]
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Trent Alexander-Arnold snuck into the England squad and now we can focus on the football. But not before we take a moment to remember the snubbed. Here’s a full 26-man squad of players who were available for selection, but will be watching from home/not giving two sh*ts about football for a while… Goalkeepers Marc-Andre […]
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Jack Grealish and Jude Bellingham were among those to stake their England claims against Austria. But some let the opportunity pass them by. JORDAN PICKFORD Played like someone who thinks his club manager is still Carlo Ancelotti. The recent quiet resurgence of Pickford has been fun as his emotional excesses have been replaced by […]
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There is approximately no need for press conferences as they are in the modern age. They serve absolutely no-one but unimaginative journalists. The response from much of the sports media to Naomi Osaka’s refusal to do press conferences was predictably pathetic. Will Swanton of The Australian offered a sentiment sadly shared by many. “The […]
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League One will be full of ex-Premier League teams next year. Morecambe, never relegated as a Football League team, will not look out of place. When, in February 2021, Morecambe’s board put out a statement stating they wanted to forget the oft-heard phrase in local and divisional circles, ‘Goodbye Little Old Morecambe,’ many could […]
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Gareth Southgate has named an exciting Euro 2020 England squad. Thoughts on Trent Alexander-Arnold, Bukayo Saka and Jesse Lingard are within. The 26 men tasked with ending 427 years of hurt are here. 1) Gareth Southgate is owed many a grovelling apology, with reserves of humble pie most desperately needed on Merseyside. It was […]
A great deal of time, effort and thought will be wasted today on coverage of Gareth Southgate’s England squad announcement. A great deal of it can be found on these pages, and in this piece. Sorry about that. But the key point is this: it doesn’t matter. When England’s quarter-final/semi-final heartbreak or group-stage humiliation comes […]
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The Liverpool media are furious at the prospect of Trent Alexander-Arnold missing out for England. And Pep Guardiola never gets criticism. Harrowing headline of this or any other day ‘GARETH GETS HIS CHOPPER OUT’ – Daily Star. Golden shower ‘Gary Lineker believes England have got a new Golden Generation thanks to the emergence […]
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Blackpool took a huge punt on appointing Liverpool youth-team coach Neil Critchley despite his lack of experience at senior level. It worked. At first glance, you would be hard-pressed to find similarities between Blackpool’s managerial situation and that of Champions League winner Thomas Tuchel, but following the Tangerines’ promotion back to the Championship, the […]
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We have a Premier League XI – with two Villa and two Leeds representatives – without a single international cap between them. But one of them at least is likely to break that duck this week… Goalkeeper: Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa, not Argentina) Called up but never yet capped is a Villa keeper picked […]
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