Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Jaap Stam: Reading sack manager with club 20th in Championship

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Jaap Stam: Reading sack manager with club 20th in Championship
Jaap Stam: Reading sack manager with club 20th in Championship
Championship club Reading sack manager Jaap Stam following a run of just one win in 19 league games.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Dino Maamria: Stevenage appoint Nuneaton Town boss as manager

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Dino Maamria: Stevenage appoint Nuneaton Town boss as manager
Dino Maamria: Stevenage appoint Nuneaton Town boss as manager
Former Stevenage player and assistant boss Dino Maamria is appointed as the new manager of the League Two club.

Monday, March 19, 2018

Spirited Spal frustrate Juventus and shake up the bottom – and top – of Serie A | Paolo Bandini

Football | The Guardian
Spirited Spal frustrate Juventus and shake up the bottom – and top – of Serie A | Paolo Bandini

Leonardo Semplici’s minnows have a fighting chance of survival after halting the champions’ charge with a battling display that also boosted Napoli’s title hopes

Leonardo Semplici could have encouraged his players not to worry before their game against Juventus. Nobody expected Spal to get a result against opponents 15 places and 50 points ahead of them. As such, the manager might have told them to stay loose, to enjoy themselves, to go out and take a swing knowing that they had nothing to lose.

Instead he told them the truth. “We have lots to lose,” said Semplici on the eve of Saturday’s game. “We’re running out of games and we need to try to pick up points. We are facing the best team in Italy, and one of the strongest in Europe, but we still need to try to take a positive result.”

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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Wigan Athletic v Southampton: FA Cup quarter-final – live!

Football | The Guardian
Wigan Athletic v Southampton: FA Cup quarter-final – live!
Live updates from the FA Cup tie at the DW StadiumLive scores: keep up with all today’s games as the goals go inDrop Daniel an email | Tweet @DanielHarris

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Football is a simple game and football is a beautiful game – sentiments that announced themselves with clarion call when Wigan met Manchester City in the last round of this competition. City, the best side in the country, wove lovely patterns in dominating the ball and dictating the play, but Wigan, the 46th best side in the country, defended aggressively, attacked bravely, and took their chance brilliantly. Add to that a late tackle, exhibition rag-losing, unbridled ecstasy, silliness, schadenfreude and general chaos, and you have a decent answer to the question: “why are you so pitifully obsessed with something so painfully ridiculous?”

And Wigan will fancy themselves this afternoon, for Southampton are a mess. It’s possible that, after being mercilessly plundered, they’ve finally run out of players, except looking down their squad, they still have plenty of them. They might be struggling for a scorer, but they’ve no business being where they are on as bad a run as they are, so it’s far more likely that they simply compounded the error of sacking Claude Puel with the mistake of appointing Mauricio Pellegrino.

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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Son replaces Kane up front for Spurs

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Son replaces Kane up front for Spurs
Son Heung-Min is preferred to former Swansea striker Fernando Llorente. The South Korea international moves into attack in place of the injured Harry Kane as Tottenham make the trip to Wales in the FA Cup. GameCast LIVE

Friday, March 16, 2018