A potentially pivotal Merseyside derby, a chance for Man Utd to make changes and a tricky assignment for Chelsea Ten years to the day after their most recent win over Liverpool, Everton entertain the Premier League champions at Goodison Park in a top-flight fixture that is about as mouthwatering as they get under the current […]
They accept plan rejected but strategic review to take place Combined £50m bailout offer to League One and Two Liverpool and Manchester United have been forced into an embarrassing climbdown over their push to reform English football after a tense meeting of the Premier League’s 20 clubs on Wednesday. Project Big Picture was left dead […]
Offer expected to be £140m, not the £250m EFL wants Anger towards EFL chairman Rick Parry over Project Big Picture The Premier League will attempt to finalise a bailout package for the English Football League on Wednesday but the anger generated by Project Big Picture has left some clubs unwilling to hand over money while […]
Meeting this week set to be dominated by leaked proposals West Ham among top-flight clubs to heavily criticise plans Manchester United’s and Liverpool’s “Project Big Picture” is already under intense pressure after audacious plans for the reform of English football failed to gain support from their Premier League peers. An extraordinary shareholders meeting this week […]
The Swiss welcomed his great rival to the 20-title club shortly after Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic but for the Spaniard it was all about his love for the French Open In his astonishing straight-sets bludgeoning of Novak Djokovic on Sunday, Rafael Nadal unlocked many surreal achievements. He now owns 13 Roland Garros titles, 15 […]
Manager remains realistic when bestowing praise on England’s new arrival, who is unlikely to start against Belgium To Gareth Southgate, the comparison is, frankly, ludicrous. Managers tend to get annoyed when their players are likened to the greats of yesteryear or, at least, they try to downplay them and Southgate spoke with typical honesty about […]
Lakers can win record-tying 17th NBA title with win China state television to air Game 5 after one-year ban Tweet Hunter at @HunterFelt or email him 4.19am BST That’s the thing about NBA games: it doesn’t matter how long you have the lead it only matters when you have the lead. The Miami Heat have […]
Gareth Southgate needed this. England needed this. And after all the focus on the squad’s misbehaving players, on what Southgate had called the off-field “circus”, how gratifying it was to see a cohesive performance and a clutch of dream-come-true moments. There was a debut goal for Dominic Calvert-Lewin, which embossed an assertive display from him, […]