Manchester United’s Premier League meeting with Newcastle will go ahead on Sunday despite a Covid-19 outbreak forcing members of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s coaching staff to self-isolate. A club statement released on Sunday morning confirmed that the match would go ahead at the scheduled...
The purity of Kylian Mbappe’s crowning goal at Camp Nou should bring clarity to a lot of wider questions. That is the persuasive force of such preternatural finesse. For one, any club thinking about investing fortunes in Lionel Messi should instead be investigating...
It is a mark of how well things are going for Manchester City at the moment that the most pressing issue at the Etihad is which of their winning streaks should be recognised as a record. The FA Cup fifth round victory...
Liverpool now have a mountain to climb in the title race following their 4-1 defeat to Manchester City on Sunday with Ilkay Gundogan once again the star of the show for Pep Guardiola's side. Attention may now need to already turn to next...
The top six beckoned for Arsenal, just as they were performing with such elan that it felt their natural home. Instead, they extended their colossal lead at the summit of another table. David Luiz and Bernd Leno collected the eighth and...
When Thomas Tuchel was asked about the “unique challenges” of preparing for his first match as Chelsea manager, he offered a uniquely Thomas Tuchel quote. “I think the supporters would have liked what they saw,” he said of a 0-0 draw at home to Wolves. “Sixteen...
Kevin De Bruyne will be missing for four to six weeks with a hamstring injury, according to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. De Bruyne was substituted midway through the second half of City's 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday, walking straight down the...
Mohamed Salah has sent a message to Liverpool by reiterating his long-term future lies in the club’s hands. The Egypt international, the Premier League’s top scorer this season with 13 goals, has a contract until the summer of 2023 and...
Early on Monday morning, a false rumour spread around Whitehall that elite sport was about to lose its Covid exemption, which naturally saw a lot of questions put to senior figures in football. The answer from all was the same....
There will be no last hurrah for Mesut Ozil, no shimmying strides or hypnotic passes to offer a reminder of what’s been lost. Few players at their peak have evoked football’s grace quite so vividly, but this tortured goodbye has long...
