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The agent of Gareth Bale has hit out at former Real Madrid GM Jorge Valdano.
Valdano slammed Bale for his performance in Real's thrashing at Barcelona on Sunday, accusing the Welshman of believing he is a bigger player than he is.
Read more on Tribal FootballPremier League match kicks off 30 hours after NFL game and Wembley can call no time outs in bid to have perfect surface
If Wembley’s ground staff are feeling sorry for themselves at the prospect of turning a pitch prepared for the NFL match between Jacksonville Jaguars and Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday into a surface perfect for the Premier League match between Tottenham and Manchester City on Monday night in less than a day, they can seek some solace in the fact that some of their predecessors had it very much worse.
Related: Carson Wentz aggravates Jacksonville headaches as Philadelphia flourish
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Saturday's Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates is crying out for a hero as the teams seek inspiration to claim what would be a massive victory for either side.
With the match an 82 000 sell-out at FNB Stadium and millions more watching on television, it is the perfect platform for reputations to be forged as the Soweto duo try to mount a league title challenge after a number of barren seasons.
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Jorginho says it is impossible not to love playing for Chelsea.
The Italian has fitted in seamlessly at Stamford Bridge since joining from Napoli alongside manager Maurizio Sarri.
Read more on Tribal FootballEden Hazard, Gylfi Sigurdsson, James Milner and Callum Wilson have stepped it up this season
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Étienne Capoue can be a frustrating player at times. He has real quality, which he showed occasionally in his unsuccessful spell at Tottenham, but this is his longest run of consistently strong performances in the Premier League. He has forged a solid midfield partnership with Abdoulaye Doucouré at Watford and has even overshadowed his fellow Frenchman, the club’s player of last season. Capoue’s total of 53 tackles and interceptions is second only to Idrissa Gueye (54) in the league this season and, having fallen out of favour under Marco Silva, he is now among the first names on Javi Gracia’s teamsheet. Rating: 7.13, up 0.38 on last season.
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Marcos Alonso believes Chelsea teammate Ross Barkley can fill England's creative void in midfield.
Alonso was on the field for Spain in Monday night's loss to the Three Lions, in which Barkley was instrumental for the visitors third goal.
Read more on Tribal FootballThe former England winger discusses the racism he faced when he joined Rangers and why having ‘all the badges and every award going’ never landed him a top coaching job
Mark Walters cannot help smiling about the time Mo Johnston, his then teammate, received a bullet in the post. “I said: ‘Mo, you’ve taken the pressure right off me!” he recalls of the death threat sent to Johnston after the striker, a Catholic and former Celtic hero, joined Rangers in 1989. “We had a good laugh about it,” says Walters. “I had all sorts thrown at me – bananas, darts, a pig’s leg – and I had letters from the Ku Klux Klan telling me where I should go and what I should be doing with myself. But I never got a bullet! Unless you’ve been in a professionals’ dressing room, it’s hard to explain the humour.”
Laughing off or blocking out hatred had been Walters’ modus operandi since long before he joined Rangers in 1987, when he became the only black player in the Scottish Premier League. He encountered abuse that may seem almost unbelievable today but says it was, in one respect only, easy to ignore because racism is boring and paying attention to it would not have helped him to fulfil his ambition of becoming a successful footballer. He achieved that, playing for his hometown club Aston Villa before winning three Scottish titles with Rangers, a cap for England and the FA Cup with Liverpool.
Continue reading...Chelsea’s defender, on loan at Vitesse Arnhem, draws comfort from Sergio Ramos after three red cards in his fledging career
As the referee reached for his back pocket less than half an hour into Vitesse Arnhem’s Europa League qualifier against Basel in August, it was easy to imagine what was going through Jake Clarke-Salter’s mind. The Chelsea defender’s previous loan, at Sunderland last season, was overshadowed by back-to-back dismissals and now another red card – and a harsh one, too – was about to be shown in his direction. Holding his head in his hands, Clarke-Salter had only one thought: “Not again.”
Pulling up a chair at St George’s Park ahead of England’s Under-21 game against Scotland on Tuesday, Clarke-Salter talks about “a massive learning curve” as he reflects on those red cards and his loan experiences, starting two years ago at Bristol Rovers, where he ended up having a metal plate inserted in an arm after a painful fracture-dislocation of his elbow.
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This time about a year ago, before Mohamed Salah at Liverpool began to push his way to the front of the queue for the nation’s attention, a debate was taking place over whether the increasingly reliable Harry Kane was good enough to be regarded as genuinely world class. Now the same thing is happening in reverse to Alexis Sánchez. By the time the Chilean left Barcelona for Arsenal his credentials as one of the world’s elite were impeccable. Last month a journalist in Santiago made contact asking for information on why Sánchez was failing so badly at Manchester United.
Genuinely world class. The first word ought to be superfluous, though in football discussions it never is. No one quite knows the parameters here. Some would argue you have to be good enough to hold down a place in a notional World XI, to take part in a pan-galactic match against Planet Zog. Others think that might be a bit harsh, and suggest that any pan-galactic contest would surely be organised along World Cup lines and would therefore require a squad of 23 players, perhaps even a couple more. So you could envisage the criterion as being enough players to form a trial match between the best two sides in the world.
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The ESPN FC crew answer your tweets on Kylian Mbappe's links to Real Madrid, Philippe Countinho's woes at the Camp Nou and much more.
Arturo Vidal's disgruntled social media posts showed a lack of respect towards his Barcelona teammates, the Catalan club's general manager has told Mundo Deportivo.
Vidal posted an angry face emoji on his Instagram story following Barca's Champions League win over Tottenham last Wednesday, when he only came on for the final few minutes.
The Chile international then sparked a fresh controversy after Sunday's draw at Valencia, when he was an unused substitute, after posting and then deleting...
This week we review the CONCACAF Gold Cup/Women's World Cup Qualifying Rosters and the first set of matches in the competition.
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43 min: So, naturally, as soon as I press “go” on that last update Holding plays a near-disastrous ball straight to Schurrle, who surges into the box but blasts off target from a decent angle.
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42 min: Rob Holding has had a good first half. I thought he did very well against Watford last week too. He’s only just turned 23: could he be about to really blossom?
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ESPN FC's Ross Dyer and Craig Burley break down Manchester City's gritty 2-1 win over Hoffenheim in the Champions League.
Despite Manchester City's 2-1 win over Hoffenheim, ESPN FC's Steve Nicol thinks the defensive shortcomings could be Man City's undoing.
Manchester City's Leroy Sane has said he is unfazed by recent criticism and is focused on improving his game.
Sane was not included in Germany's World Cup squad and played only 30 minutes in the first three Premier League games of the season by City boss Pep Guardiola.
Last month, Germany teammate Toni Kroos criticised Sane's body language, while Guardiola said he would help him to "grow up."
"I love challenges, especially with Pep Guardiola," Sane told Sport 1 following Tuesday's 2-1 Champions...• Alexander-Arnold and Foden lead English nominees
• Award for best young player announced in December
Kylian Mbappé is the hot favourite to become the first player to win two Golden Boy awards after the France forward was named on the 40-strong shortlist to decide Europe’s best young player.
Organised by the Italian newspaper Tuttosport and awarded to Europe’s most impressive footballer under the age of 21, the Golden Boy award was founded in 2003 and relates to performances across a calendar year not a season, with the winner decided by a panel of 30 journalists. Mbappé, who beat France teammate Ousmane Dembélé and Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford to win the prize last year, was also crowned Best Young Player at the 2018 World Cup and is expected to see off competition from the likes of Christian Pulisic of Borussia Dortmund, Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt and Roma’s Justin Kluivert.
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