Premier League
Players are exhausted by a calendar that is damaging football
Bernardo Silva admitted that he and other footballers were already feeling fatigued by the increasingly intense fixture list – Shutterstock/Ali Haider Bernardo Silva has admitted that he and other leading players in European football are starting to feel exhausted by the punishing fixture list – to which FIFA has just added a new 32-team Summer … Read more
Jose Mourinho taunts Tottenham – ‘club with empty trophy room fired me two days before a final’
Jose Mourinho is filmed returning home after clearing out his Tottenham office following his sacking – Paul Grover for The Telegraph Jose Mourinho has hit out at former club Tottenham for the “ridiculous” decision to sack him less than a week before the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City three seasons ago. Tottenham sacked Mourinho … Read more
Man City winning the Club World Cup in Saudi Arabia would be the ultimate case of one-upmanship
Sheikh Mansour will certainly be watching the action in Jeddah with a keen eye – Reuters/Hamad Al Kaabi Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City side headed to Jeddah just hours after dropping a further two points in a faltering Premier League season that was interrupted by the small matter of an attempt to score for … Read more
Premier League referees continue freelancing abroad despite offside fiasco at Liverpool
Liverpool’s Luis Diaz scores a goal against Tottenham that is later disallowed, sparking the Premier League’s worst Var crisis yet – Reuters/Peter Cziborra Premier League referees have been given the green light to continue freelancing in far-flung countries after it emerged it played no part in Liverpool’s offside goal fiasco. The unprecedented blunder that saw … Read more
We will prove Everton doubters wrong, says 777 sporting director
Johannes Spors, 777’s global sports director, started his career as an analyst at Hoffenheim in Germany – Simone Arveda/Getty Images The man who will take ultimate responsibility for Everton’s football department has insisted potential new owners 777 Partners can prove their critics wrong and has thrown his support behind manager Sean Dyche and sporting director … Read more