Arsenal midfielder Jorginho is “recovering well” from a lung injury and manager Mikel Arteta has indicated his vice-captain might play again this season. The 33-year-old’s last appearance came on 12 April when he was withdrawn in the final few minutes of the 1-1 draw against Brentford with a suspected chest injury. Speaking before Saturday’s game...
“The timing’s right. I made the decision, got to 100% about a month ago. I wasn’t sure how the last few weeks would go, how I’d find things, but it’s actually been a good spell really. I’ve enjoyed it.” The Swans host Oxford United in their final match of the Championship season, which will also...
Teenage Plymouth Argyle midfielder Caleb Roberts has signed a new three-year deal at Home Park. Roberts, 19, is now tied to the relegation-threatened Championship club until the summer of 2028. “I’m buzzing to get the deal done. It gives me time to learn a lot more,” he said. “Since I’ve been training with the first...
Former Rochdale midfielder Joe Thompson has died at the age of 36. He was diagnosed with cancer for a third time in April last year, five years after he retired from playing. Thompson was found to have stage four lymphoma – a type of blood cancer – which had spread to his lungs after twice...
Arsenal midfielder Jorginho has been ruled out of their Champions League quarter-final second-leg match with Real Madrid on Wednesday with an injury. The Italy midfielder, 33, was withdrawn in the final few minutes of Saturday’s 1-1 Premier League draw with Brentford with a suspected rib injury, meaning the Gunners finished the game with 10 men....
Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure opens up about the racist abuse he suffered after February’s Merseyside derby, as he takes part in the Premier League’s No Room For Racism scheme. Watch Football Focus on Saturday 12 April at 11:00 BST on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Get all the latest Everton...
Paris St-Germain are enjoying a season to remember – but know one of the biggest dangers to fulfilling their ultimate dream could be a player currently on their books. Fresh from retaining the Ligue 1 title, the French side host Aston Villa in the Champions League quarter-finals on Wednesday, facing the unusual prospect of coming...
Arsenal are a team that have become renowned for their threat at set-pieces, but direct free-kicks are something different. Arteta said after the game they hadn’t scored one since September 2021, so to score two in 13 minutes against Real Madrid “showed the beauty of whoever invented this sport”. Arsenal’s free-kicks are usually taken by...
Defender Rachel Dugdale, who started Friday night’s 1-1 draw with Romania in Bucharest, has also withdrawn from the squad and has been replaced by Cliftonville centre-back Kelsie Burrows. “We have been managing illness in the camp, and we have done really well to contain it but unfortunately Duggie and Megan were casualties of that,” Oxtoby...
When Wharton was selected for England’s Euro 2024 squad, manager Gareth Southgate said the midfielder was the type of player the Three Lions had missed “for seven or eight years”, and praised his forward-thinking game. “[It’s] just the way I play football,” says Wharton. “When I was younger I used to play as more of...
An emotional Jack Grealish dedicated his first Premier League goal in almost 16 months to his younger brother Keelan in the 25th anniversary of his death. On his first league start since December, the Manchester City midfielder scored a second-minute opener in the 2-0 win against Leicester at Etihad Stadium. As he celebrated, it seemed...
Dundee midfielder Lyall Cameron may miss out against future employers Rangers on Saturday evening, Dens Park manager Tony Docherty has revealed. Cameron, 22, has signed a pre-contract to move to Ibrox this summer and has scored 10 goals in 36 games for the Dark Blues so far this season. “Lyall picked up a wee injury...
Everton forward Rikke Madsen had a comeback to remember as her boyfriend proposed after her first appearance in more than a year. The Denmark international made her return to action in Saturday’s 3-0 Women’s Super League victory over Crystal Palace. Madsen was named in Brian Sorensen’s matchday squad for the first time since giving birth...
Tuesday marked exactly 12 months since Nottingham Forest were deducted four points for a breach of the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules (PSR). That dropped them into the relegation zone, but they ultimately finished 17th, one place and six points above the bottom three. Now they are just four points behind second-placed Arsenal and...
Christian Eriksen expects to leave Manchester United this summer and does not anticipate signing for another Premier League club. The 33-year-old Denmark midfielder joined on a free transfer in July 2022. He had previously had a short spell at Brentford after resuming his football career following a cardiac arrest during Euro 2020. Eriksen has played...