The votes for the PFA Player of the Year awards have been cast and the odds are stacked on a two-horse race between Kevin De Bruyne and Mohamed Salah. It’s a similar story in the Young Player of the Year category too, with Manchester City wingers Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sané battling it out to be crowned best young player (anyone aged 23 or under when the season started).



Sterling and Sané…

Keep calm,” Levante’s manager, Paco López, said but he knew better than anyone that it was a bit late for that. Maybe tomorrow. For now, Sunday lunchtime in the Valencian sunshine, it was time to enjoy it, like he’d said from the start. His players had thrown shirts into the crowd and turned the pitch into a mosh pit, pushing and pogoing, dancing round a circle, emotion escaping as they embraced and 24,001 red-and-blue flags waved: 24,000 around the ground and one high above them all.…

The life of Ray Wilkins had Demarcus Lawrence Authentic Jersey been celebrated with gusto in this arena prior to kick-off, his death marked with the banners in the stands and flowers and a vintage No 8 shirt placed on the assistant manager’s seat in the home dugout. Both sets of fans had warmed to glimpses of the former Chelsea midfielder turned coach in action, clips that spanned eras…

Every relegated side can tell a story like this. Stoke City left the pitch with applause ringing in their ears, their supporters summoning a mixture of defiance and appreciation after a performance that deserved more. Paul Lambert had cajoled a full-blooded display that mixed an awareness of their own limitations with http://www.officialtigerstore.com/Al_Kaline_Jersey moments of genuine threat but it was not enough here and may…

The eyes of great paintings follow you around a room, but his can’t seem to focus. Emanuel Santos’s bust of Cristiano Ronaldo is an exaggerated, silly depiction of the Portuguese footballing legend. When it was unveiled in 2017 at Madeira airport, it was met with universal derision. http://www.officialbengalsfootballstore.com/YOUTH+KEIVARAE+RUSSELL+JERSEY People mocked Santos’s work, social media exploded…

They are far too good for anyone,” said Sam Allardyce. “Almost unstoppable,” stated Pep Guardiola. The temptation is to assume each was discussing Manchester City after another elegant evisceration, a demonstration of how to ally class with a clinical streak, possession football with penetration.



And, indeed, the beaten Everton manager was bemoaning the excellence of his conquerors.…

What was meant to be a chance for Argentina to consolidate their idea of the game, to try different relationships on the field, to develop connectivity and strengthen the identity they have been seeking, ended in a historic defeat, described in turns as a suicide and a nightmare, compared to boxing for the metaphorical punches involved and tennis for the scoreline.



A 6-1 hammering by Spain left…

After the Socceroos suffered what, on paper at least, looks like a hell of a beating, the good news is that the Norwegian broadcaster declined to catalogue all the political giants in Australian history for whom the 4-1 defeat should be received as a personal insult. The bad news is, well, pretty much everything else.



The atrocious result against 57th ranked Norway does not bode well for…

Theresa May is fond of observing that Britain will not be leaving Europe when it leaves the European Union, which could be a statement of geographical banality or strategic significance. The prime minister’s point, elucidated in a speech at the Mansion House last November, is that the UK sees itself as part of a community of democracies, aligned in their attachment to a world order based on internationally recognised rules.…

Watching Ronald Koeman’s press conference before the Netherlands’ friendly against England on Friday, it almost felt as though someone should have looped David Bowie’s “Ch-ch-ch-changes” in the background.



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