Saturday, March 24, 2018
Police arrest 100 England supporters in Amsterdam before Netherlands friendly
Friday, March 23, 2018
Sports quiz of the week: England v Netherlands, Gareth Bale and meat
Who hit the heights in London? Who scored at Wembley? And who collapsed?
Related: José Mourinho or Donald Trump: who said it?
Ronald Koeman begins his tenure as the Netherlands manager against England at Wembley this weekend. In which year did Koeman score the winning goal in a European Cup final at Wembley?
1988
1990
1992
1994
What was the score the last time England played the Netherlands in a competitive fixture?
England 0-1 Netherlands
England 4-1 Netherlands
England 2-3 Netherlands
England 1-3 Netherlands
What happened for only the third time in rugby union history?
England lost a three games in a row
Ireland won a grand slam
Romania qualified for a Rugby World Cup
Italy beat Scotland
Which team finished second in the Six Nations?
England
France
Ireland
Italy
Scotland
Wales
Which player scored the most points in the tournament?
Jacob Stockdale
Maxime Machenaud
Owen Farrell
Johnny Sexton
Gareth Bale scored his 27th, 28th and 29th goals for Wales against China this week to become his country’s all-time leading goalscorer. Whose record did he break?
Ryan Giggs
John Charles
Mark Hughes
Ian Rush
Complete this sequence: 6, 6, 16, 18, 18, 18, 23, 23, 27 …
29
58
74
99
Who wants his opponent to take a lie detector test to prove he is telling the truth about Mexican meat?
Gennady Golovkin
Lewis Hamilton
Conor McGregor
Anthony Joshua
Southampton have only won the FA Cup once, in 1976. Which of this season’s semi-finalists did they overcome in the final?
Chelsea
Manchester United
Tottenham Hotspur
The F1 season begins this weekend. Which race is returning to the calendar for the first time in a decade?
French Grand Prix
Hungarian Grand Prix
Spanish Grand Prix
Russian Grand Prix
1 and above.
A disastrous score
2 and above.
An embarrassing score
3 and above.
A dire score
4 and above.
Sorry but it's not a great score
6 and above.
Decent. That's not a great score but it's acceptable
5 and above.
Meh. Must try harder
7 and above.
That's pretty good. You deserve to have a happy weekend
8 and above.
You have excelled. Well done
9 and above.
A wonderful score. Well done
0 and above.
A total and absolute failure
10 and above.
Perfection. You are incredible
Continue reading...Thursday, March 22, 2018
Guardiola's Man City rivals stunning €400M Real Madrid plans for Neymar
Pep Guardiola's Manchester City are ready to challenge Real Madrid in a world record battle to land PSG star Neymar.
It's been reported in Madrid that Real officials met with Neymar's father earlier this month, where it was relayed they were willing to bid 400m this summer to bring the Brazil captain back to Spain.
Read more on Tribal FootballWednesday, March 21, 2018
Jaap Stam: Reading sack manager with club 20th in Championship
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Dino Maamria: Stevenage appoint Nuneaton Town boss as manager
Monday, March 19, 2018
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.”
Continue reading...Sunday, March 18, 2018
Wigan Athletic v Southampton: FA Cup quarter-final – live!
11.34am GMT
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.