The club’s Academy of Light has had some notable graduates down the years, including former Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson and current England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. This year, Rigg, still not 18 until next month, was named best young player in the Championship along with team-mate Jobe Bellingham, still only 19. The younger brother of England...
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There has been a divergence in approach. For a start, when they played their last match before the final within 45 minutes of each other on Friday, the respective managers opted for very different strategies. Postecoglou played a completely different team at Aston Villa compared with the one that beat Bodo/Glimt in the second leg...
“She’s a total footballer. She’s got everything,” Arsenal manager Renee Slegers said of Caldentey earlier this season. Her impact was instant and transformative. Arsenal went from a struggling side at the start of the season to a team marching up the table, sealing second spot in the WSL and competing with Europe’s elite. Caldentey’s role...
With GCSE exams coming up whilst she is away in camp, the teenager says she will have to continue studying during downtime in NI’s preparations for games against unbeaten group leaders Poland at Seaview and third-placed Bosnia-Herzegovina in Zenica. “I’ve already had two exams and I have three over the camp, but I’ll get it...
BBC Sport senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel and chief football news reporter Simon Stone, who will both be at San Mames for the final, have had their say on whose season has been worse. Mokbel on Spurs: “Underperformed, underachieved, unacceptable. Domestically, at least. “While Tottenham will cling on to hope of somehow turning a catastrophic...
It was Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes who stepped in to tell Ruben Amorim he was under pressure heading into the Europa League final. The reality is different – even if Amorim can’t explain why. But he does feel his team may be looked at “in a different way” if they can beat Tottenham in...
An emotional Ange Postecoglou angrily dismissed the suggestion he is a “clown” in a combative news conference on the eve of Tottenham’s Europa League final against Manchester United. Referencing a report in the Standard, external which said he was “teetering between hero and clown” depending on the result in Bilbao, Spurs boss Postecoglou defended his...
BBC Sport speak to Manchester United and Tottenham fans who have taken a 33-hour ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao to watch the Europa League final. Read full article at source...
The Europa League final with Tottenham will be followed by the final Premier League game of the campaign against Champions League-chasing Aston Villa, with United nowhere near that race this season. But there will be no immediate rest for United’s players, who have more work ahead of them. As soon as the Villa game is...
Analysis – BBC Radio Cumbria sports editor Paul Newton He may not have been able to keep Carlisle United up – and there are some in the fanbase who feel he had enough time to do so – however, the retention of Mark Hughes has been roundly welcomed in the city. Carlisle were a mess...
Burnley have released Nathan Redmond and Jonjo Shelvey following promotion to the Premier League – but have also completed the permanent signings of four on-loan players. Redmond, 31, had an injury-hit spell with the Clarets, missing most of 2024 with a hamstring injury along with another period out due to a calf issue. In total,...
Final Score presenter Jason Mohammad and pundits Chris Sutton, Stephen Warnock and Anita Asante discuss whether – win or lose in the Europa League final on Wednesday – Ange Postecoglou will be at Tottenham next season. READ MORE: How Spence went from serial outcast to unlikely Spurs stalwart Read full article at source...
The wait to break the Premier League’s goal involvement record goes on for Mohamed Salah. But on his 400th Liverpool appearance, he really should have been celebrating equalling the tally. Quite how the Egyptian side-footed Cody Gakpo’s low cross wide of an empty net from just yards out in Monday’s defeat at Brighton, no-one really...
Northern Ireland manager Tanya Oxtoby says she is “really excited” by the inclusion of 16-year-old goalkeeper Abbie Smith in her squad for the forthcoming Nations League games against Poland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Smith has been named in the senior squad for the first time after joining Manchester City on a two-year scholarship from Crusaders Strikers in...