Frank hails ‘incredible’ Brentford stars after play-off win

Thomas Frank has heaped praise on his Brentford squad following their promotion to the Premier League. The Bees will play in the competition for the first time next season after beating Swansea 2-0 in the play-off final. Ivan Toney and Emiliano Marcondes scored to give them a comfortable victory in front of 12,000 fans at […]

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Brentford 2-0 Swansea: Bees secure promotion to the Prem

Brentford made it 10th time lucky as they beat Swansea 2-0 in the Championship play-off final to reach the Premier League for the first time. Goals from Ivan Toney and Emiliano Marcondes saw the Bees finally break their play-off hoodoo after all nine of their previous attempts had ended in failure. It was swift redemption […]

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Chelsea, The Bertrand Solution and a dream destroyed at F365

Chelsea being in the Champions League final brings back a horrible personal memory for me. It was the day my childhood dream died. And the day a friendship was lost forever. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was still in my first few months as a football writer, learning the ropes at Football365 […]

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Five issues for Solskjaer to address after Europa failure

Manchester United’s season may be over but the hard work is just starting for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Here are five things shunted up his to-do list by their miserable Europa League final defeat…   1) Pick a keeper. Any keeper… Solskjaer’s goalkeeping situation was already complicated before every Villarreal player scored past David de Gea […]

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Liverpool have managed ‘clusterf**k of circumstances well’

Keep your mails coming to theeditor@football365.com…   “Bad Champions” Is there a reason you have decided the measurement of a bad champion is how many points they themselves got compared to their title winning season? Isn’t this utterly ridiculous? So if City had finished two points above us this year, we’d still have been the […]

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Every squad heading to the European Championships…

Some nations have gone early in naming their final squads. Every coach must make their decisions by June 1…   The squads for the European Championships are trickling in. Coaches have until June 1 to submit their final 26-man squad. Once squads have been finalised, unlimited replacements are allowed prior to the first match to cover […]

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Mark Noble: I’ll play grassroots when I retire, I’m looking forward to it

Mark Noble has achieved more as a footballer than he ever dreamed was possible, but the West Ham skipper is already looking forward to a kickabout with his mates when he retires from the professional game at the end of next season. “At the end of the day, it’s a game of football that we love,” he […]

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Let’s not pretend that Harry Kane isn’t f***ing brilliant…

Keep your mails coming to theeditor@football365.com…   Harry Kane is magic It’s been asked before but.. Why is Harry Kane derided so much? Is it because he plays for Spurs? Is it because he’s English and talks a bit funny with a bit of a lisp? LOLZ. Nothing like mocking people with a speech disorder […]

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Where Liverpool really rank among the ‘bad champions’…

Is it fair to still call Liverpool ‘bad champions’? Here’s how their title defence compares to those of the other dethroned Premier League kings…   Roy Keane called it early when he declared Liverpool as ‘bad champions’ in February. Things got even worse for the Reds after that – but then they got better again. Here’s […]

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Kane confusion, Maguire inclusion, Mbappe infusion

Harry Kane hints point in two different directions, Harry Maguire makes a team of the season for being a ‘tough cookie’ and Kylian Mbappe is joining Liverpool again…   The Crooks of the tatter Not for Garth Crooks the difficult choice between Kyle Walker and Joao Cancelo at right-back or the hear-wrenching toss-up between Luke […]

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