Chelsea have Champions League qualification in their own hands and Aston Villa moved into the top five as both teams won in the Premier League on Friday. The Blues looked as if they were going to drop to sixth before Marc Cucurella’s 71st-minute header earned a 1-0 win over Manchester United. Aston Villa, who would...
Speaking to the Football News Show, former Chelsea and Scotland winger Pat Nevin believes that Nottingham Forest might not have a better chance to make the Champions League after this season, and has some advice for Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis following his outburst at manager Nuno Espirito Santo against Leicester. Watch The Football News Show...
“You put that club into any sentence or any issue and invariably they all come out and try to diminish it as much as they can. “It’s Spurs mate, they love it. “It’s competition rules. Why wasn’t it an issue before and is it an issue now? What’s the difference? Last year fifth [in the...
There are some ‘gains’. Without European football, most players would find themselves on lower wages, potentially by as much as 25%, so expenses should go down. The club’s 2023-24 accounts showed wages fell £22m (12%) from £185m to £163m, mainly due to lower performance bonuses – and that was a season ending in an eighth-placed...
Villa are desperate for more more big European nights under the floodlights after memorable wins over the likes of Bayern Munich, Bologna and Celtic. Having lost 5-4 on aggregate to Paris St-Germain in the quarter-finals, Unai Emery’s side must finish in the top five to play in next season’s Champions League. They currently lie seventh,...
Anthony Elanga raised his arms in an almost apologetic manner. The winger had just fired Nottingham Forest into the lead against former side Manchester United after a dazzling 70-yard run. But the Swede elected not to celebrate out of respect for the team he joined at the age of 12. That is despite Elanga’s left-footed...
The Premiership splits in half after 33 games, on the weekend of 12-13 April – with each club playing the others in their ‘half’ for a fourth and final time. Celtic, Rangers, Hibernian, Aberdeen and Dundee United will all be in the top half, with St Johnstone, Dundee, Kilmarnock and Ross County guaranteed to be...