England’s final squad for Euro 2024: player-by-player verdict

Phil Foden (left to right), Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham – England’s Euro 2024 squad verdict by player England will be aiming to do one better than the last European Championship, when they reached the final and lost on penalties. Gareth Southgate has trimmed his 33-man training squad ahead of Friday midnight’s deadline and will … Read more

Ineos hint and Pochettino chance

Manchester United head coach Erik ten Hag is still in limbo at the club and has yet to make a decision about his future. It looked like the Dutchman would be sacked towards the end of the season, but the stunning FA Cup final defeat to Manchester City might have spared the former Ajax boss … Read more

England’s final squad for Euro 2024: when will it be named and how many players will be selected?

James Maddison has left the England camp after failing to feature in Gareth Southgate’s reduced 26-man squad for the 2024 European Championship in Germany. Southgate has one match remaining before he has to select his final squad for the summer tournament. After Monday night’s win over Bosnia, the England manager said he has to make … Read more

A brief history of football’s most spectacular penalty kick comebacks

Historic Leverkusen usurps productive Kane: the Bundesliga season overview

Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and the slow decline of football’s star managers

Jose Mourinho received a warm welcome at Fenerbahce (AP) A nickname is twenty years old. The man who coined the phrase often used to describe him is more than three times his age. Jose Mourinho was unveiled at Fenerbahce on the twentieth anniversary of his arrival at Chelsea; the day he called himself special. The … Read more

Themes from this season’s Champions League: Germany’s rise to Man City’s stumbling block

Dortmund plot Champions League final shock after adapting to thrive

Why we’ll never see another Champions League final like Real Madrid versus Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund will look to pull off a shock in Saturday’s Champions League final against Real Madrid (Getty Images) When the two Champions League finalists headed to London, the contrasting moods among the squads said it all. For Real Madrid it is a sense of duty. There is of course excitement about returning to this … Read more