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Martin Zubimendi scored twice and Viktor Gyokeres grabbed another as Arsenal cruised past Forest at the Emirates
6 min Arsenal are starting to find some rhythm. Madueke cuts inside from the right and teases a dangerous inswinging cross that is headed away well by Murillo.
4 min Ndoye is down and in pai- oh forget it, he’s trying it on.
Continue reading...Pompey midfielder considers playing in first South Coast derby league meeting in 13 years bucket-list worthy
Inside a blue and white dugout at Portsmouth’s training ground John Swift is reliving the childhood he spent a few miles away, across the harbour in Gosport. He maps out the view he had from his front door on Dukes Road and the Forton park sports court that was his playground. It was while enjoying a kickabout there with friends, approaching his 11th birthday, that his mother, Pauline, called him in to advise he was being released by Pompey. “I remember, quite vividly, sitting on the sofa as my mum read me the letter,” he says. “And then I was almost just like: ‘Can I go back out and play?’”
At that age it was hard to comprehend what it really meant and a couple of weeks later he was representing Pace Youth, a team in Totton, the other side of Southampton. As Portsmouth prepare to face Southampton in the Championship on Sunday, the first league match between fierce rivals in 13 and a half years, the rivalry is not lost on Swift. The last meeting came in the Carabao Cup third round in 2019, when Saints ran out 4-0 winners. Then, Southampton were in the Premier League, 51 places above third-tier Pompey. Now they are equals in the Championship.
Continue reading...Jaden Philogene scored a hat-trick as Ipswich thrashed the Championship’s bottom side Sheffield United 5-0. The heavy defeat heaps pressure on to Blades head coach, Rubén Sellés, who has now lost all five matches since taking over at Bramall Lane in the summer.
George Hirst and Jack Clarke were also on the scoresheet as Ipswich chalked up their first win of the season and their first at Portman Road since beating Chelsea in the Premier League in December.
Continue reading...Arsenal host Ange Postecoglou’s Nottingham Forest on Saturday before the Manchester derby on Sunday
Saturday 12.30pm TNT Sports 1 Venue Emirates Stadium
Continue reading...Ange Postecoglou makes his Forest bow, a new-look forward line at Newcastle and a Manchester derby to forget
Ange Postecoglou never won a north London derby while in charge at Tottenham, drawing one and losing three, so starting life in the Nottingham Forest dugout away to Arsenal might not be the ideal situation. It has been a whirlwind week for the 60-year-old who has replaced Nuno Espírito Santo and it will be fascinating to see what changes are made to the team’s style. Nuno is a cautious coach and would have plotted a counterattacking approach at the Emirates Stadium, but there are no guarantees with Postecoglou. Pragmatism is a word rarely associated with the Australian but he needs to get his players onside quickly after the unfortunate departure of his predecessor, who was not dismissed for footballing reasons. It might make more sense to tweak what has already been constructed on strong foundations, especially considering he will have little time with the squad after international duty and before a Saturday lunchtime kick-off. Being able to adapt is a sign of strength in a coach and Postecoglou needs to show he has learned from errors made at Tottenham when he refused to change. Will Unwin
Arsenal v Nottingham Forest, Saturday 12.30pm (all times BST)
Bournemouth v Brighton, Saturday 3pm
Crystal Palace v Sunderland, Saturday 3pm
Everton v Aston Villa, Saturday 3pm
Continue reading...It was fitting that Jamie Vardy was given an audience at the Violin Museum in Cremona, because at least they had access to a very small one to play for the striker about having to finish his career in picturesque Lombardy rather than the East Midlands. He is also a classical showman but, aged 38, some suspect that the former England international is a spent force. Vardy has been doubted from Stocksbridge Park Steels to the Champions League, though, and has always delivered. “It is up to me to disprove the predictions,” he chirped. “Age is just a number. I always listen to my legs. At the moment I still feel great. During my whole career I have been underestimated and I worked to prove everyone wrong, and I have succeeded in doing that.”
Continue reading...EFL wants to add National League-style eliminator
Plan could be expanded to Leagues One and Two
The English Football League is in talks over adding an eliminator round to the Championship playoffs and increasing the number of participants from four to six.
The proposal is a similar format to the one used by the National League. In the Championship the team that finish fifth would play the eighth-placed team and sixth would meet seventh in one-off ties at the higher-ranked team’s home stadium.
Continue reading...Sergio Busquets escapes punishment despite punch
Post-final brawl involved Miami and Seattle players
Major League Soccer has suspended striker Luis Suárez three league games for his role in the mass brawl between his Inter Miami side and the Seattle Sounders after the Leagues Cup final. Suárez was at the center of the confrontation, first putting Sounders midfielder Obed Vargas in a headlock before being dragged away. Later, TV cameras caught Suárez yelling at, and spitting on, Sounders security director Gene Ramirez.
Sounders team psychologist Steven Lenhart, himself a former MLS player who was known for confrontations and physical play, has also had his credential revoked for the remainder of the 2025 season. Lenhart was among a large group of Sounders players and staff who joined the melee along with Inter Miami players and staff.
Continue reading...Sounders assistant Steven Lenhart was also penalized by the league, while Miami's Sergio Busquets and Tomás Avilés escaped additional punishment.
Uncertainty over viability of the club leads to one-year pause
Current playing group allowed to seek alternative employment
Troubled A-Leagues club Western United has been temporarily barred from the competition and will sit out the upcoming 2025-26 season after being placed in “conditional hibernation” by administrator the Australian Professional Leagues.
Uncertainty over the ongoing viability of the club has cast a shadow over the new season, with the league, other clubs and players unable to prepare with “necessary clarity”, according to the APL.
Continue reading...Miami's Tomás Avilés and Sergio Busquets, and Sounders staff member Steven Lenhart were also penalized.
Things got heated in the minutes after the Sounders defeated Inter Miami 3-0 in the Leagues Cup final.
Kulusevski, Dragusin and Bissouma also omitted
Uefa requires squads to have eight ‘homegrown’ players
Thomas Frank has left Mathys Tel out of his Tottenham squad for the league phase of the Champions League while he has been unable to find room in it for Dejan Kulusevski and Radu Dragusin – even though they could return from long-term injuries while there are still ties to play.
Frank has been in an impossible position because of how the profile of his players has jarred with Uefa’s regulations. Put simply, the head coach has too few homegrown squad members and too many who have come from elsewhere. He was always going to have to exclude six players from his 25-man “A” list.
Continue reading...An unusual streaming deal sees the German league going where its fans are, instead of asking the fans to come to them
In a change to his regularly scheduled programming, Mark Goldbridge took a break from blowing steam out his ears at another Andre Onana howler and venting his shouty exasperation at Manchester United’s latest calamity to talk – and watch – all things Gegenpressing and Ballbesitzfußball with his audience of over one million YouTube subscribers.
This was after the Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL) struck an agreement with Goldbridge to broadcast 20 live Bundesliga matches on his That’s Football YouTube channel this season. Bayern Munich’s opening weekend win over RB Leipzig raised the curtain on the new deal, with nearly 500,000 viewers watching along with Goldbridge.
Continue reading...Guidance not followed after Josh King scored, Webb says
Goal chalked off after Muniz stepped on Chalobah’s foot
Howard Webb, England’s chief refereeing officer, has described the decision to disallow Josh King’s goal against Chelsea as a “misjudgment” by the match officials.
King appeared to have scored a first league goal for Fulham in Saturday’s derby at Stamford Bridge but his effort was ruled out after the referee, Robert Jones, was asked to go to the pitchside monitor after a check by the video assistant referee.
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