Category: Football

After setting a new single-season Premier League goals record (36 goals) en route to the Golden Boot award in 2022/23, Manchester City star Erling Haaland came out of the gates strong once again. After 15 appearances, Haaland was comfortably the leader in the 2023/24 Golden Boot race, with 14 goals. However, after suffering a foot injury...

Lucy Clark has become the first trans manager in English football, after taking over the reins of her childhood club Sutton United Women.  Clark’s first match with the fifth-tier side was on Sunday, and though it ended in defeat, her track record on the touchline is enough to fill Sutton United supporters with hope. She...

Arsenal opened up a three-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a 5-0 thrashing of Chelsea at Emirates Stadium. Leandro Trossard scored in the fourth minute before defender Ben White and former Chelsea forward Kai Havertz each scored twice in a second-half rout. That result looked even better 24 hours later when...

The top stories and transfer rumours from Thursday’s newspapers… THE TIMES Mauricio Pochettino’s Chelsea future is hanging in the balance after Tuesday’s 5-0 defeat by Arsenal, with European qualification believed to be a key factor in whether he will keep his job for next season. Formula 1 is likely to increase the number of drivers...

‘Luton are a very physical team’published at 15:21 8 March 15:21 8 March Crystal Palace v Luton (Sat, 15:00 GMT) Crystal Palace Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner on Luton: “They are a very physical team and play man-to-man defence, [win] many duels, and they play very fast into your box. “I think [they have made]...

When Manchester City walked out of the tunnel at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul for the 2023 UEFA Champions League final against Inter Milan, it meant that English clubs will have made the final of the competition 26 times throughout its history.  It was the club’s second appearance in the showpiece final after Pep...

Celtic, Southampton and PSV Eindhoven are plotting moves to sign Austrian goalkeeper Patrick Pentz, who is currently on loan at Danish side Brondby from newly-crowned Bundesliga champions Bayer Leverkusen. (Football Insider)external-link Cameron Carter-Vickers plays down Celtic’s three-point lead over Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premiership and the defender is targeting six wins out...

Manchester United are in desperate need of Premier League points to ensure their season does not end in bitter disappointment. Erik ten Hag’s side were in sixth place in the table and eight points outside the top four with 10 games to go in 2023/24. With a title bid out of the question, UEFA Champions...

A children’s football club has launched an urgent investigation that could lead to a player expulsion after one of its members refused to take part in a match against a Jewish team. North London based Panthera FC boys under-14s team took the field with only nine players on Sunday for a game against Maccabi Lions...

In June 2021, UEFA abolished the away goals tiebreaker starting with the 2021/22 season, and it proved to be a massive change that has altered the way coaches and players approach European competitions played over two legs. Instead of away goals as a tiebreaker if teams are level on goals after 180 minutes (two legs of...

The Premier League says regulation would put English football’s success ‘at risk’ The Premier League has warned of the “unintended consequences” of football regulation in an advert taken out on a major politics news website. The Football Governance Bill was introduced by Parliament last month. A second reading will take place shortly after the Easter...