Sport News 24/7 By Simon White @SimonWhite14 @TLE_Sport A shadow looms over Old Trafford. The greatest manager in the history of the club, perhaps even the world, has become an unrealistic yardstick for any manager who dares take the job. While David Moyes has already found this out, Louis Van ...
Sport News 24/7 By Chris Brown @VivaBrownie @TLE_Sport When Aston Villa announced they had hired ‘one of English football’s most highly sought after managers’ the footballing nation was bemused with speculation. ‘Mourinho? Can’t be, why would he leave Chelsea to go to Aston? Maybe he’s a secret Black Sabbath fan. ...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter @rgdewinter @TLE_Sport It’s been quite an eventful couple of weeks for us QPR fans. First of there was the underwhelming transfer-deadline day, which promised little and delivered even less, then our opinion-splitter of a manager resigned on the flimsiest of excuses; we’ve been ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport Yaya Touré may have won the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday night but his club, Manchester City, will be cursing their luck that their star player made it that far. It means that in ...
Sport News 24/7 By Simon White @SimonWhite14 @TLE_Sport From ‘that’ picture in an Arsenal shirt, to ‘one of our own’, Tottenham’s Harry Kane is really making a name for himself during his breakthrough season. With 22 goals to his name already this term, it is small wonder that Tottenham appear ...
Sport News 24/7 By Simon White @TLE_Sport They say it's lonely at the top, but clubs at the bottom of the Premier League will attest to being a world away from anyone else. Both Hull City and Queens Park Rangers have fallen upon hard times this season, sitting 18th and ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport Continuing TLE’s recent focus on non-league football, Sports Editor David de Winter and Deputy Editor Joe Mellor went to Dulwich Hamlet FC to see a club very much on the up. A freezing late January Saturday afternoon – ...
Sport News 24/7 By Matthew Biggin @MatthewBiggin @TLE_Sport So despite saying they’d sign no players in the January window Manchester City have made probably the biggest signing of the transfer window. Manuel Pellegrini paid Swansea City £28 million for coveted striker Wilfried Bony to strengthen his forward line, and I ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter Non-league football: a world away from the glitz and glamour of the Barclays Premier League. Ramshackle stadiums in which you can only stand (for me, a plus), pitches that look like agricultural fields, facilities that are, putting it ...