Steven Gerrard has told Liverpool they must replace Mohamed Salah with a “box office” winger this summer after the Reds legend announced his departure from Anfield at the end of the season. Salah has scored 255 goals and claimed 122 assists in nine seasons for Liverpool and will leave as a club legend after winning … Read more
A proper big weekend, this one. We’re very excited. Arsenal can either take a big step towards the quadruple, or see the whole thing go up in smoke altogether should Pep Guardiola get his hands on another trophy after what has for him been an alarmingly long wait. But the Premier League won’t give up … Read more
Rotel has expanded its Michi line with two new models positioned below the existing Reference Series: the Prestige X430 integrated amplifier and the Prestige Q430 CD player. X430 integrated amplifier The X430 is a Class A/B design rated at 210wpc into 8 Ohms (and 340wpc into 4 Ohms). Its onboard DAC is built around an … Read more
Between the defeatist messaging of Unai Emery and the record-breaking misery of Oliver Glasner, the Man Utd manager race is thinning out. But the story of the weekend was Arsenal taking a gargantuan step towards the Premier League title after a Manchester City slip. And there was movement at the bottom too, even just in … Read more
After Chelsea counted the cost of Liam Rosenior’s tactical “obsession” on Wednesday as Paris Saint-Germain tore through them at the Paris des Princes in the last 20 minutes, Eddie Howe and Newcastle relied on the same fixation at Stamford Bridge to strike a crushing blow in the Blues’ bid for Champions League qualification. “He can … Read more
René Redzepi, the chef behind Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant once crowned the best in the world, is facing allegations of abuse, intimidation, and public humiliation. According to an investigation carried out by the New York Times, employees were punched in the face, slammed into a wall, and threatened with having their family deported. Anyone who … Read more
FA Cup fifth-round weekend gives us all a bit of a breather from the chaos and the tension of the Premier League being sh*t now. What better solution could there be at this time than a little sprinkling of FA Cup magic over the mouldering turd of English football? Isn’t it? Hmm? Marvellous. Some decent-looking … Read more
Everyone knows and accepts that football has become sh*t. Especially and specifically Premier League football. Arne Slot has had a go at it, and is unlikely to have softened in his views after Tuesday night’s hilarity. Pep Guardiola says he doesn’t like it, but he has to go along with it. Mikel Arteta says…well, Legohead … Read more
There are all manner of big stories knocking around in football land this morning, up to and including major international news forcing its way in. Yet in some corners of the football media the biggest stories to be found are some tish-and-fipsy social media ‘backlash’ and a long-retired footballer having some drinks. Sometimes it’s hard … Read more
We’re heading for the finishing straight of the Premier League season and that means predictions, at least 70 per cent of which make us look damn fools in three months’ time. Those are the rules. But the real fun lies in which three turn out to be spot on. We’re supremely confident about the identity … Read more