Jose Mourinho ‘tried to comfort’ a ‘furious’ Vinicius Jr by blaming him for suffering alleged racist abuse. But Cole Palmer holidaying is a bigger story. The Sun website handles the Benfica v Real Madrid controversy hilariously and predictably terribly. Marcus Rashford is also on a collision course with a future Manchester United teammate. Comfort zone … Read more
When thinking of sites most likely to deploy ragebait headline tactics, your thoughts wouldn’t necessarily turn immediately to The Times, but sometimes it really should. Take, for instance, this one. ‘Thomas Frank should be the most in-demand manager in football’ Now that is a spicy take, and a quick glance at the replies and quotes … Read more
Florian Wirtz was going to get the ‘perfect gift’ of an ‘iconic’ Liverpool shirt and then his ‘dream’ was ‘blocked’. It’s a journey. Getting Wirtz and WirtzIt looks very much like Florian Wirtz is joining Liverpool; it’s a pretty big deal. But do you know what is an even bigger deal: What shirt number … Read more
Man Utd lost to Spurs and you might have thought that was interesting enough without inventing BRUTAL digs and ‘sack decisions’. No, you’re an embarrassmentThe last old guard of newspaper columnists still believe that ‘English football’ is still a thing that can be collectively shamed by one set of players or one set of … Read more
Liverpool have won the Premier League title, but there is a desperation to make this all rather more dramatic than it is… Person of interestLiverpool beat Everton on Wednesday night and James Tarkowski should have been sent off. He knows it. The Liverpool fans know it. Even Mike Dean knows it. Even the PGMOL … Read more
If you didn’t instantly whip your top off when Newcastle won the Carabao then you just don’t get it. And this was absolutely ‘not’ a triumph for the owners. Howe low can you go?Newcastle won the Carabao Cup on Sunday. You might have heard; they don’t do quiet. But they are also increasingly incapable … Read more
Arsenal are about to AXE seven players and that should fund a ‘huge’ spending spree. Will it be William Saliba? Not quite… The not-so-magnificent SEVEN‘Mikel Arteta to offload seven Arsenal players to fund huge summer spending spree – Paper Talk’ was a Sky Sports headline that made Mediawatch sit up in its chair this … Read more
Manchester United are going to ram through 13 deals in the next 13 days and this is a A Very Good Thing – a dream, even – rather than a sign of mass panic. Mediawatch wishes it could just be February already. To sleep, perchance to dreamThere has been a marked increase in ‘dream … Read more
Man City boss Pep Guardiola has split with his wife so we go ‘inside’ both his flat and his marriage. Did she cripple Rodri? Liverpool face Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night in a genuine title race clash and Arsenal are preparing for a north London derby that could see Mikel Arteta sack talk reach … Read more
Daily Star writers continue their bafflingly self-defeating journey towards oblivion with their latest dystopian AI wheeze about Elon Musk buying Liverpool, while the Mirror just make up some quotes and the Sun take liberties with the word ‘star’. Pretty standard Mediawatch all round, then. Grok of sh*tThere’s little doubt that the increasing prevalence of … Read more