January 2024

When Sol Bamba lay in bed for four days straight, his body shattered by a first round of chemotherapy and his mind momentarily beaten, days like this seemed an impossibility. On Saturday afternoon, live on BBC One, the 37-year-old will be part of a Middlesbrough team attempting to make it a hat-trick of Premier League scalps…

Phil Thompson thinks back to the day Graeme Souness had John McGovern by the throat at the City Ground and laughs. ‘What a photograph that is,’ he says. ‘McGovern probably hadn’t done much wrong but he played for Nottingham Forest so that made it different! ‘We couldn’t wait to get there that day. It was…

Phil Thompson thinks back to the day Graeme Souness had John McGovern by the throat at the City Ground and laughs. ‘What a photograph that is,’ he says. ‘McGovern probably hadn’t done much wrong but he played for Nottingham Forest so that made it different! ‘We couldn’t wait to get there that day. It was…

Thomas Tuchel says he is confident Chelsea’s next owners will be serious about winning and not just in it for profit. The deadline set by merchant bank Raine to lodge bids to buy the club from Roman Abramovich passed on Friday night with the asking price about £2.5billion. ‘It is a huge amount of money…

Click:18 watt street light Click:candle container Thomas Tuchel says he is confident Chelsea’s next owners will be serious about winning and not just in it for profit. The deadline set by merchant bank Raine to lodge bids to buy the club from Roman Abramovich passed on Friday night with the asking price about £2.5billion. ‘It…

Patrick Vieira has spoken of the positivity around Crystal Palace ahead of Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final against Frank Lampard’s Everton. The Eagles are in the midst of a five-match unbeaten run in all competitions, having held Premier League leaders Manchester City to a 0-0 draw on Monday. Palace are 11th in the standings with nine…

Patrick Vieira has spoken of the positivity around Crystal Palace ahead of Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final against Frank Lampard’s Everton. The Eagles are in the midst of a five-match unbeaten run in all competitions, having held Premier League leaders Manchester City to a 0-0 draw on Monday. Palace are 11th in the standings with nine…

Those associated with Chelsea have long since known that their club exists on the footballing equivalent of a fault line. There has been nothing as seismic as events of recent weeks, of course, but amid the aftershocks of change silverware has invariably fallen into their cabinet. Chaos off the field usually precipitates consistency on it,…

Click:filter balls for pool production Those associated with Chelsea have long since known that their club exists on the footballing equivalent of a fault line. There has been nothing as seismic as events of recent weeks, of course, but amid the aftershocks of change silverware has invariably fallen into their cabinet. Chaos off the field…

Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount insisted that his side let their football do the talking as they dispatched of Middlesbrough to progress to the semi-finals of the FA Cup. The Blues prevailed with a 2-0 victory at the Riverside Stadium, with Mount setting up the first goal for Romelu Lukaku before Hakim Ziyech doubled the lead…