David Moyes has not spoken to the Everton owner and chair, Dan Friedkin, in the 20 months since he returned to the club as manager. Moyes also issued a defiant response yesterday to Everton’s calamitous end to the transfer window, claiming...
At half-time on 30 June 1998, Kim Milton Nielsen stepped into the changing room at the Geoffroy-guichard Stadium in Saint-étienne. The air reeked of wet towels. He hugged his assistants. They’d just taken charge of the best half of football...
‘You can imagine it: he’s a centreback, I’m a striker,” says Liam Delap, Nottingham Forest’s £45m clubrecord signing, smiling as he sets the scene. He is reliving taking on his younger brother, Finn, in the garden. These days, they are each...
Roberto De Zerbi insisted he had no choice but to leave Richarlison out of Tottenham’s Premier League squad after the Brazilian declined the offer of a contract extension and repeatedly insisted he wanted to leave the club. Richarlison was...
Enzo Maresca has insisted Enzo Fernández should not be judged by the British record-equalling £125m fee Manchester City paid Chelsea for the midfielder. “Don’t judge players based on how much the club pays for them,” said Maresca. “Not just for...
After review, Dean ‘always respected’ game … Former referee Mike Dean, who said on a podcast this week that he used to “joke about” in matches, seeing how long he could go without blowing his whistle, has issued a clarification saying he...
