Shrewsbury Town: Ex-England goalkeeper Joe Hart joins club as a stand-in coach

Shrewsbury-born Hart came through the Shropshire club’s ranks and featured 58 times for them before being sold to Manchester City as a 19-year-old in 2006, a deal that was eventually worth £1.5m. What convinced him to once again wear the Shrewsbury kit was the chance to help 22-year-old Matthew Cox, who is on loan at […]

Champions League last-16 draw: Dates, schedule & format

The eight winners of the play-offs will meet the top-eight finishers from the league phase. From this point onward the competition adopts a knockout format, with each fixture other than the final contested over two legs. As with the play-offs, teams’ final ranking in the league phase will influence seeding in the last 16, with […]

Scottish gossip: Celtic’s Nygren attracting Premier League clubs

Premier League clubs are interested in Celtic top scorer Benjamin Nygren while Hearts wait for injury updates on five players. Celtic are willing to consider a big offer for Sweden midfielder Benjamin Nygren, 24, in the summer amid increasing interest from Premier League clubs. (Football Insider), external An Old Trafford return for Napoli’s Scotland international […]

Snoop Dogg’s surreal Swansea visit heralds late drama in Preston draw

Preston had only brought around 200 fans for what was a sell-out. With tickets in the away end sold to Swansea supporters, this was a record number of home fans at a game in this stadium. Yet the away fans were loudest during a first half in which their team led to puncture the party […]

FPL Podcast from BBC Sport – Dave Loses the Plot

Available for over a year Alistair Bruce-Ball, Chris Sutton and Statman Dave are joined by The Athletic writer and podcaster Carl Anka. Are Manchester United players fun to use in FPL? Should Bournemouth feature in your team? How should Premier League players take their penalties? Chris Sutton reveals his pre-match warm up routine whilst Carl […]

Eric Ramsay: West Bromwich Albion sack head coach after nine games

Ramsay joined West Brom following a spell in Major League Soccer with Minnesota United, who he led to back-to-back Conference play-off semi-finals. Prior to his move to the United States, the Shrewsbury-born Welshman was a first-team coach at Manchester United under Erik ten Hag and took on an assistant coach role with the Wales men’s […]

‘Bring it on’ – Newcastle’s message to Chelsea and Barcelona

Newcastle are certainly enjoying life back at Europe’s top table. Howe’s side are the top scorers in the Champions League with 26 goals, and have won six games in a single campaign in the competition for the first time. It has been quite a turnaround in the last two-and-a-half weeks. Howe was the first to […]

Italian clubs on brink of historic Champions League embarrassment

Inter signed Ronaldo and Vieri for world-record fees in the late 1990s, when Serie A was the envy of world football, blessed with the game’s most talented stars. AC Milan then beat Juventus to win the Champions League in 2003, losing to Liverpool on penalties in the final two years later, before defeating the Reds […]

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