Being so close to the action also posed other occupational hazards. “Trabzonspor versus Aston Villa, I was suddenly knocked out because of the supporters throwing rocks,” said Haroun. Rocks were not the only danger, it was footballing legends taking shots on goal, too. “Wayne Rooney, [while] practising, knocked me out one day,” she added. “Denis […]

Analysing Nancy’s attacking tactics should give hope to Celtic fans – even if examples of them working as he would hope have not been common in his early days in Glasgow. Celtic have improved in their past two games – creating a huge number of clear goalscoring chances in the defeat at Dundee United and […]

Former SWPL title-winning manager Elena Sadiku has left Celtic and has been replaced by Hibernian boss Grant Scott. Sadiku, 32, was appointed in January 2024 following Fran Alonso’s exit and guided Celtic to their first-ever SWPL title in her opening six months. However, Scott, who took Hibs to the title last season, will now takeover […]

Content warning: This article contains discussion around suicide and mental health. Rhys Bennett comes bounding into the media room at Manchester United‘s Carrington training ground bristling with energy, as you would expect of a 22-year-old professional footballer. Tall and confident, lean and physically fit – apart from a knee injury he is trying to recover […]

The Premier League has produced many controversial incidents in recent seasons which this technology could have helped resolve. Two seasons ago Arsenal were furious when VAR ruled Joe Willock had kept the ball in play before Anthony Gordon scored the only goal of the game for Newcastle. The VAR did not have the necessary camera […]

Available for 26 days Ben Haines, Ellen White, Jen Beattie and Emma Sanders host a Christmas special! The team do a mid season review and revisit predictions made at the start of the season and whether they expect much to change. Emma gives an insight into what recruitment we could see in the January transfer […]

David Raya, Arsenal, keeper, £6m – Brighton (h) Arsenal‘s defence had a bit of a stumble following Gabriel’s injury, but they have two clean sheets in their past four and nine already with less than half the season played. The Gunners have clean sheets in all but three home games this season as well. Those […]

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Despite missing two months of action through injury, only four players have scored more Championship goals than McBurnie (nine) this term. Factor in his three assists and only three players have bettered his combined goals contribution tally of 12. But what do the striker’s underlying numbers tell us about his season so far? Eight of […]

Liverpool manager Arne Slot says he expects to lose Alexander Isak for “a couple of months” after the striker was injured in a tackle by Tottenham’s Micky van de Ven – a challenge that Slot has called “reckless”. READ MORE: Isak facing two months out after ‘reckless’ tackle – Slot Source link