Harry Maguire questioned Manchester United’s mental strength after they again sloppily conceded three goals in quick succession to raise further questions over the future of manager Erik ten Hag.
It was last month that Ronald Koeman revealed he substituted Matthijs de Ligt for his own good. At fault for both of Germany’s goals in a 2-2 draw, the Netherlands defender was taken off at half-time to spare him any more humiliation, just days after an unconvincing showing against Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Four teenagers, three points, two goals and one highly satisfactory away day for Ange Postecoglou, who chose this trip to Budapest as the occasion to expose his brightest talents to the challenging realities of a feisty European atmosphere.
They are a giant of European football swimming with the tiddlers in the Uefa Conference League and once again Enzo Maresca trusted his Chelsea shadow XI to navigate a competition that his club are the heavy favourites to win.
Pep Guardiola said the Premier League has rejected Manchester City’s request to delay their start to next season in spite of their Club World Cup defence
Even on a Monday — two days after a thrilling Colorado win on homecoming — things were buzzing at The Buff, a breakfast and brunch place where everybody knows your name and the 99-cent mimosas help wash down the bacon-filled pancakes and huevos rancheros. The arrival of Deion Sanders has raised this eatery's profile in much the same way it has amplified everything around CU these days. Before the celebrity coach arrived in Boulder, places like The Buff were well-established institutions.
A British yacht is back in the America’s Cup finals for the first time in sixty years, and the island nation steeped in nautical heritage is one step away from ending the longest wait in international sports. INEOS Britannia finished off Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli on Friday with a regatta win to clinch the challengers' final series 7-4. “One more to go boys!” skipper Ben Ainslie told his sailors, who shouted with joy as they crossed the finish line within sight of the Barcelona beachfront.
An EU court will on Friday deliver its verdict in the case of former French footballer Lassana Diarra against FIFA, a potentially landmark decision which could shake up the football transfer system."In a way, the Lassana Diarra affair is the Bosman 2.0 affair," said Diarra's Belgian lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont, who was also involved in the 1995 case of footballer Jean-Marc Bosman.
Willy Adames had just finished playing perhaps his final game with the Milwaukee Brewers when he described the most devastating of this franchise’s growing collection of playoff defeats. “Losing that way, when you’re so close, it’s like when you’re a kid and they let you try candy, but they don’t give you the candy,” Adames said after the Brewers’ 4-2 loss to the New York Mets in the decisive Game 3 of their NL Wild Card Series on Thursday night. The Brewers have mastered the art of winning consistently in the regular season while playing in the majors’ smallest market.
The Prince of Wales did not travel to the Olympics in Paris this summer because he feared bringing a Covid infection home to his wife during her chemotherapy, he had said.
At the home of the Dragons, Erik ten Hag felt the fire. At times it threatened to engulf him before substitute Harry Maguire came to his and Manchester United’s rescue with an injury-time header. But will it save the manager? Will it douse the flames? The truth is, it adds a little more fuel.