Category: Sport

Manchester City became the ninth team to top the Premier League this season but while Pep Guardiola claimed the table is the last thing he will look at, his team appear set to stay significantly involved in this title race. The numbers behind this victory are staggering but barely do justice to how superior Guardiola’s […]

Thomas Tuchel gave a positive review of his opening match as Chelsea manager, declaring: “If this is was our starting point, I am excited about where we will end up,” after watching his team battle to a goalless draw with Wolves. The German was granted only one evening training session to work with his players […]

Perhaps the jarring pace of change made a drab start to life under Thomas Tuchel inevitable. The “In Frank We Trust” banner, lovingly unveiled one day before the latest brutal sacking of the Roman Abramovich era, was still hanging from the Shed End. Debate over the demise of a club legend had yet to die […]

Welcome, then, Thomas. At times such as these it is traditional to say something along the lines of: “If the manager wasn’t aware of the task facing him in the white heat of this, the English Premier League, then he will be now.” These are of course anything but ordinary times. But at the end […]

Organisers of the Olympic Games and Euro 2020 are increasingly bullish the two biggest sporting events of the year will go ahead, although the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, has conceded for the first time that fans might have to miss out on the Tokyo Games to ensure they are safe. There have been […]

This match was little more than a box-ticking exercise. It conformed to expectations in every possible sense and left everyone back where they started: in the thick of a relegation fight that one of these sides, perhaps both, will eventually escape at a snail’s pace. Nobody who predicted a tidy, compact but utterly toothless draw […]

Alfredo Morelos left his mark on Hibernian in more ways than one as the striker fired Rangers another huge step closer to the title after a 1-0 win at Easter Road. The Colombian could easily have been sent off inside 15 minutes after appearing to stamp on Ryan Porteous. But with the full extent of […]