
The clash of the Midlands maestros
Gareth Southgate’s preferred 4-3-3 formation brings a certain fluidity to England’s play that’s been there all too infrequently in the national team’s thousand matches.
More…Gareth Southgate’s preferred 4-3-3 formation brings a certain fluidity to England’s play that’s been there all too infrequently in the national team’s thousand matches.
More…Jamie Vardy is unusual. The Leicester City striker is a sort of throwback who’s not a throwback, a player with a story that belongs in the 1970s but a style that suits the modern game to a tee.
More…11th July 2018 started as an ordinary day at the height of the English summer. Close but barely sunlit, morning eased into afternoon and distraction took hold of a nation.
More…Before Italia ’90, the worlds of music and England’s national football team had not so much clashed as gently bumped into each other to the sound of men in blazers struggling to sing a chorus.
More…Aston Villa’s promotion back to the Premier League is the claret and blue touch paper of Jack Grealish’s career.
More…It should be to the enormous shame of UEFA that players of colour are still openly abused under its jurisdiction.
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