Virgil van Dijk has returned to Liverpool from the Netherlands camp ‘on medical grounds’ ahead of their clash with Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday night. Both the centre-back and Barcelona’s Frenkie De Jong have been released by manager Ronald Koeman and will not feature in the Nations League contest in Zenica. The Reds defender and the Barca midfielder both started the 4-0 win over Hungary on Saturday, with Van Dijk playing the full match and De Jong…
Nottingham Forest hope to have Ola Aina available for their trip Arsenal after returning from international duty with Nigeria ahead of schedule last week. Aina has been in superb form this season, almost ever-present in Nuno Espirito Santo’s starting XI with Forest riding high in fifth place. The right-back completed the full 90 minutes in the 3-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest prior to the international break and played 83 minutes for Nigeria in their Africa…
Former Premier League manager Ian Holloway claims his new club Swindon Town is ‘haunted’ and has asked his wife to ‘cleanse the area with sage’. After nearly four years away from the dugout, cult-hero Holloway recently made his managerial return to take charge of struggling League Two side Swindon. His arrival has yielded a turnaround in form, with the Robins winning two and drawing one of four games under the new boss. Both victories have…
Thank you Lee Carsley for a first-rate job as England’s interim manager. His six-match stint in charge of the Three Lions has been a colossal success with five victories seeing them return to the Nations League top bracket. Even the solitary defeat at home to Greece proved to be a valuable lesson. His team selection delighted fans who called for Gareth Southgate to shoehorn the incredible wealth of talent into his starting XI during this…
What next for Lee Carsley and England? Lee Carsley’s interim spell as England manager ended with a 5-0 win over the Republic of Ireland to earn Nations League promotion back to League A. Carsley, who was given a six-game brief following the departure of Gareth Southgate, will now hand the keys to Thomas Tuchel, who begins his new role in January. Here, the PA news agency takes a look at the questions surrounding the England team. All the players Lee…
Sir Chris Hoy says the treatment he is receiving for his stage-four prostate cancer is ‘working’ and he is hopeful of living beyond the diagnosis he has been given by doctors. Having first been diagnosed with cancer in September 2023, Hoy, a six-time Olympic champion, announced last month that his condition was terminal. The 48-year-old first confirmed he was undergoing chemotherapy in a heart-wrenching statement in February of this year, revealing how the decision to…
How ref’s cope with the abuse and noise of the Premier league. Darren Cann is the most experienced match official in Premier League history, he overtook Mike Dean’s record of officiating at 562 top-flight games last month and he has a simple strategy for coping with the verbal abuse that comes the way of referress. How ref’s cope with the abuse and noise of the Premier league The 55-year-old from Norfolk, who has refereed and…
French club Lyon will be demoted to Ligue 2 at the end of the season if they do not improve their finances, and will be banned from signing players in January. Lyon owner John Textor is also co-owner of Premier League club Crystal Palace, and the largest shareholder of Brazilian club Botafogo. His Eagle Football Group recently announced debts of £422m. The DNGC, the body which oversees the accounts of French professional football clubs, made…
England’s top-flight women’s league returns. Brighton vs West Ham12:30WSL YouTubeTottenham vs Arsenal13:45 BBC One, BBC iPlayer Chelsea vs Manchester City17:30Sky Sports
Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul is upon us. What is expected to be one of the most watched fights in boxing history has divided opinion since the moment it was announced with 31 years in age separating the heavyweight legend and the YouTuber-turned-fighter. Tyson was once one of the most feared men on the planet, leaving a devastating trail of destruction in his wake as he conquered the sport. Paul, boxing’s disrupter-in-chief, has his own…
Jake Paul’s mum branded Mike Tyson a ‘bitch’ after the 58-year-old slapped her son at the weigh-in ahead of their Netflix fight on Friday. Two-time world heavyweight champion Tyson and Paul, a YouTube star turned boxer, faced off for one last time on Thursday night ahead of their bout, which will be available to watch live on Netflix at around 4am GMT on Saturday morning. Iron Mike, whose last professional fight was a defeat to…
‘I hosted Match of the Day for 24 years – this is my one piece of advice to new presenter’ Gary Lineker has refused to name his ideal candidate to succeed him as Match of the Day presenter but has one key piece of advice for whoever does replace him. Once he has completed 25 years as host of the BBC’s flagship sports programme, Lineker will stand down at the end of the current Premier…
Referee David Coote allegedly attempted to organise a ‘drugs party’ while he was officiating a match between Tottenham and Manchester City last month. On Monday, Coote was suspended from domestic refereeing duty by the PGMOL [Professional Game Match Officials Ltd] after a video emerged of him making derogatory comments about Liverpool and their former manager Jurgen Klopp. The 42-year-old appeared to call Liverpool ‘s**t’ and Klopp a ‘German c**t’ after a match in 2020. Then on Wednesday, another…
Mike Tyson’s strength and conditioning coach has revealed the secrets behind the 58-year-old’s training plan and sheds the details of how Mike Tyson got his incredible physique for his fight with Jake Paul. The two-time world heavyweight champion showed off his incredible physique at Thursday night’s weigh-in and tipped the scales at 228.4 pounds, which is five pounds lighter than the weight he registered for his last professional fight – a defeat to Kevin McBride…
Mark King has been banned from snooker for five years after being found guilty of match fixing. An independent disciplinary committee found the 50-year-old Englishman guilty of one count of match fixing and one count of providing inside information on a match. The former Northern Ireland Open champion was suspended by the sport’s world governing body, the WPBSA, in March 2023 after suspicious betting was reported on his match with Joe Perry in the previous…
Chelsea v Man City showdown between WSL top two. Man City were the only team Chelsea failed to beat last season on the way to their fifth WSL title in a row. The top two teams in the English WSL meet on Saturday evening, with Chelsea having the chance to get one over Manchester City with a win. We look ahead to the clash and the key battles to expect at Kingsmeadow. Women’s Super League:…
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah shared advice he picked up from Arsene Wenger (Picture: Getty)Mohamed Salah has lifted the lid on a simple yet effective piece of advice he once received from Arsene Wenger when he spoke with the ex-Arsenal manager at Liverpool’s training ground. The 32-year-old Egyptian has established himself as one of the most revered attackers in Premier League history since swapping Roma for Liverpool back in 2017. In that time, Salah has only…
