Sport News 24/7 By Matthew Biggin @MatthewBiggin @TLE_Sport I had to smirk when I awoke on Monday morning to news that Massimo Cellino, the eccentric (I’m being polite) owner of Leeds United A.F.C. had been disqualified from the Yorkshire club and asked to resign by the Football League. I guess ...
Sport News 24/7 By Ronan George Seven days from today Britain could have a new world champion. Someone acclaimed in their field and demonstrably better than their rivals. But beyond fans of the minority though wealthy sport, the nation will probably shrug and carry on. Barring human error or technological ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport Over two-thirds of Arsenal fans have run out of patience with manager Arsene Wenger, Ladbrokes has claimed. After Sunday’s calamitous defeat to Swansea City it seems that the tide is turning against the Premier League’s longest serving manager. ...
Sport News 24/7 By Matthew Biggin @MatthewBiggin @TLE_Sport Liverpool have seemed to be the much talked about ‘club in crisis’ in recent months, but there is certainly a feeling that the winters of discontent are beginning to blow around the corridors of The Etihad, as Manchester City seem to be ...
Sport News 24/7 By Ronan George This week promises to be a big one for Rooneys and football. England captain, Wayne, will win his 100th cap as the national team take on Slovenia in a European Championship qualifier at Wembley on Saturday. While at the House of Commons, a little ...
By Nathan Lee, Politics Correspondent What happened to the days when the Premier League was just Manchester United and Chelsea, Mourinho versus Ferguson, red versus blue? The title would slide one way and then the other, the status quo occasionally disrupted by a surprising league or FA cup run but by ...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter @TLE_Sport @rgdewinter The football fan is a fickle beast. Their opinions on players fluctuate from one extreme to another, often during the same game. It is perfectly acceptable to call for a player’s substitution and immediate expulsion from the first-team picture and praise ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter – Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport When Mauricio Pochettino was poached from Southampton to become the new manager of Tottenham Hotspur, there were coos of appreciation from all sides. After guiding a very talented and aesthetically pleasing Saints side to 8th in the Premier ...
Sport News 24/7 By Jim Mackney @JimMackney @TLE_Sport It was the 18th of October 2014. There was a bubbling sense of excitement, the smell of hotdogs and flat Carlsberg filled the air along with the sound of a few thousand shuffling feet; the customary swell of noise as the players ...