Klopp has long been a critic of Saturday’s 12.30 kick-off – CameraSport/Rob Newell Jurgen Klopp has launched a full-on attack on TNT Sports’ meddling with fixtures, calling his side’s recent fixture list a “crime worthy of investigation by Amnesty International”. Klopp has long been a critic of the 12.30 kick-off on Saturdays, especially for teams … Read more
Steph Houghton won three WSL titles during her spells at Arsenal and Manchester City – Getty Images/Visionhaus Former England captain Steph Houghton will retire at the end of the season, the 35-year-old has announced. The Manchester City centre-back, who has been with the Women’s Super League club for a decade and led them to the … Read more
Alejandro Garnacho flanked by his aunt Xxx and cousin Hugo Alonso Garnacho – Hugo Alonso Garnacho At Colegio Arenales, a new school for 1,400 students in the Madrid commuter town of Arroyomolinos, they may have waited years for their first famous alumnus, and yet he was there when they welcomed six-year-olds for the first time … Read more
When Karim Benzema started playing the best football of his life in his thirties – winning the Ballon d’Or at the age of 34 – he attributed part of his success to putting top chef Alberto Mastromatteo in charge of his diet. Now Mastromatteo, through his company Summumm, is advising Jude Bellingham as the England … Read more
Terry Venables will forever be remembered as the manager who oversaw the summer that brought football home. The charismatic boss, who has died aged 80, enjoyed a colorful and controversial career, the undoubted highlight of which was bringing England within a penalty shoot-out of reaching the European Championship final on home soil in 1996 . … Read more