Soccer

Marseille 1-1 Montpellier: Hosts miss the chance to cut PSG’s lead to just four points in Ligue 1 after ex-Arsenal star wins a point for Igor Tudor’s side following Arnaud Nordin’s opener for the visitors A draw for Marseille sees them stuck on 60 points, six behind leaders PSG  There was a lengthy stoppage as … Read more

Jürgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool’s inconsistency means he does not know which “face” his team will show at Manchester City on Saturday. Liverpool play City, Chelsea and Arsenal in their next three games in what Klopp has described as a defining period for their prospects of a top-four finish. Klopp believes Pep Guardiola will rightly … Read more

The Premier League returns this weekend, which means the enthralling title race between Arsenal and Manchester City is approaching the home straight.  League leaders Arsenal sit eight points clear with 10 games to go but champions City have a game in hand and still must welcome Mikel Arteta’s side to the Etihad next month.  Pep … Read more

Tottenham managing director of football Fabio Paratici has agreed to take an immediate leave of absence. Spurs’ season was thrown into further chaos on Wednesday when it was revealed Paratici’s ban in Italy had been extended worldwide. Paratici was handed a two-and-a-half-year ban from the game in January after his former club Juventus, where he … Read more

Everton return loss for FIFTH successive year with club reporting £44.7m deficit for last season as points deduction fears grow with the Toffees having lost more than £400m over the period Everton have posted loss for the fifth straight year amid financial dismay at club They reported deficit of £44.7m for last season – an … Read more

Everton’s ability to continue as a going concern would be plunged into doubt in the event of relegation from the Premier League, the club’s latest set of accounts have revealed. The bleak assessment, contained in the Everton directors’ report and from auditors Crowe UK LLP, came on Friday when the club announced losses of £44.7m … Read more

Fabio Paratici agrees to STEP DOWN as Tottenham’s sporting director in light of his FIFA worldwide ban from the sport – as Italian and Spurs mutually come to decision pending his appeal FIFA decided to extend Fabio Paratici’s football ban worldwide on Wednesday  Sputs are without both managing director and coach after Antonio Conte’s exit  … Read more

It has been a Premier League season of distractions, pop-up windows and one vast and disorientating hiatus. Exactly 34 weeks have passed since Arsenal kicked things off with a Friday night trip to Crystal Palace, a week before temperatures in London hit 34 degrees, four months before Lionel Messi was draped in a propaganda cape … Read more

Julen Lopetegui claimed he could write a book on refereeing howlers that have cost Wolves but has decided to begin a fresh chapter… the Spaniard knows his players must focus on what they can control ahead of a crunch Nottingham Forest clash Wolves boss Julen Lopetegui plans to put a raft of refereeing errors behind … Read more

LESS BRIMSTONE, MORE TREACLE Following Lord Ferg and Cardinal Wenger’s canonisation earlier this week, the regrettable phrase “future Hall of Famer” will soon become Premier League parlance. (Todd Boehly likes this). Saturday’s lunchtime game is a crunch meeting of two managers who will eventually join those forebears within what is presumably a commemorative house of … Read more