Sunday, December 31, 2017
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Crystal Palace boss Hodgson: These players can test Man City
Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson insists they won't lay down against Manchester City.
Hodgson will not ask his team to sit back when Pep Guardiola's runaway leaders visit Selhurst Park on Sunday in search of a 19th successive Premier League win although he fears it might lead to a heavy beating.
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Sam Allardyce: Everton need a 'front man' in transfer window
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Charlton owner in takeover talks as CEO Katrien Meire steps down
• Charlton have been owned by Belgian since 2014
Charlton owner Roland Duchâtelet has revealed the club are in takeover talks with “various interested parties”.
Duchâtelet made the announcement on the club’s official website when confirming the club’s out-going chief executive officer Katrien Meire will not be replaced.
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton: Premier League – live!
Harry Kane eyeing Alan Shearer’s goals record
Premier League fans’ half-time verdict – part 1: Arsenal to Liverpool
Premier League fans’ half-time verdict - part 2: Man City to West Ham
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12.38pm GMT
8 mins: Now Spurs have the ball in the net, but Eriksen was offside. The home side are massively dominant at the moment.
12.36pm GMT
6 mins: And another! Southampton give the ball away in midfield and Alli runs forward, passes to Eriksen to his right, and the low cross is prodded wide by Kane at the near post.
Continue reading...Monday, December 25, 2017
Messi deals with Madrid yet again as Barcelona look impregnable
Though the season is only at its halfway point, the title looks certain to return to the Nou Camp
Leo Messi ended the clásico in a state of undress again but it was Real Madrid who had been stripped bare. At the very end of the last Madrid-Barça, Messi stood to the left of the goal at the north end of the Santiago Bernabéu, shirt off and held up for all to see; at the very end of the latest Madrid-Barça, exactly eight months later and a little over eight metres away, he lay on the grass to the right of the goal at the north end of the Santiago Bernabéu, boot off and abandoned, unseen at first. Then, as now, Barcelona had just scored the third, only now he had given it instead of getting it: another visit, another victory, and maybe this time a title too. If then there was hope, ultimately unfulfilled, this time there is expectation.
A gigantic banner had welcomed the players on to the pitch dreaming of a “White Christmas” but those celebrating it were mostly wearing red and blue. Messi was wearing red and blue and, it was now revealed, white. In the last minute, he ran at Marcelo. The challenge saw him lose his boot but not his balance and, dashing to the line, sports sock exposed, the Brazilian tumbling behind him, he pulled it back for Vidal, slipping to the floor as he went. As Vidal’s shot squirmed under Keylor Navas and over the line, he got up and ran to the scorer, leaping into his arms. Camera shutters clicked and when their pictures were developed handy circles superimposed over his sock showed everyone what they had missed. Ivan Rakitic arrived with the boot and as they broke Sergio Busquets drew near and, grinning, had a word in his ear.
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