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Spurs were left furious during Wednesday’s Champions League fixture with Sporting Lisbon when Harry Kane was denied a stoppage-time winner after he was adjudged to be marginally ahead of the ball and therefore offside.
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Conte lambasted the technology and accused it of being dishonest against his team following the draw with Sporting, which means Tottenham still need a point in Marseille on Tuesday to qualify for the Champions League last 16.
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He remained unhappy when he spoke at a press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Bournemouth and said: “What happened in the last game was incredible, incredible. You score, you are already qualified for the next round, you are celebrating and then you have to stay for five minutes to look at the situation with VAR and you take the decision and you don’t know if its right or wrong.
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“This is not football in this way also because you cut the emotion, the emotion of everybody and especially the players because you don’t know.
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“You score a goal and you don’t know what happens later. Did someone commit a foul one minute before? Or discover a foul one minute before and then they go to disallow this? It happened this. It happened but it only happened when they want (it) to happen. This is the difference.
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“But when I stay at home and I see the image, I am watching another game and I see the image, the VAR, then for me it is easy to take the best decision. Instead then you see for example they take the opposite decision. Oh, I don’t know football or maybe who stays in the VAR, they are seeing another image.”
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The Italian reiterated in his mind it was “impossible” for VAR to make mistakes given the time and extra images the official gets to view. (PA Media)
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But what of Erling Haaland’s fitness after the striker came off at half-time against Borussia Dortmund?
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said after the 0-0 draw in Germany that the striker had a slight problem with his foot and a fever, making him a doubt for the weekend trip to Leicester.
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Here’s the very latest from Pep: “He feels better, but we train this afternoon, and we will assess in these few hours. We will see how he feels. After we will decide – I will know it in two hours if he can play.”
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Guardiola has also offered updates on England duo Kyle Walker and Kalvin Phillips. “They are not ready for Leicester,” said Guardiola. “They are better, Kalvin especially. Apparently, when he came to Dortmund, he said he feels really well. He started to train with contact with the ball – he has not trained with his team-mates yet, but he feels really well, and we are surprised.
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“If he is fit and can play [at the World Cup] he can play, but right now, we don’t know. They [Walker and Phillips] are optimistic. They are in touch with Gareth [Southgate]. Hopefully they can be ready and get selected.”
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Important story from Paul Macinnes.
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Results from the second year of the FA’s leadership diversity code show a step change in representation has not been achieved, despite an increased focus on equality by players and organising bodies. Roughly a third of men’s clubs in the top four divisions are yet to sign up to the charter.
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Jesse Marsch is not a happy man. Oh no. Quite the rant here ahead of Leeds’ visit to Liverpool on Saturday night.
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If we go game to game and you look at the fact we haven’t won in eight games based on how we’ve performed over the eight games, it’s almost impossible to believe that two points is all that we’ve earned.
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But that’s our reality right, in those eight games and all the phases in those games? What if Luis (Sinisterra) scores at Brighton on the two-inch line and it doesn’t go wide?
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What if we score the penalty against Arsenal? What if – you can go through what ifs, but it doesn’t matter, right? You could still look at the metrics and you could look at different things and you could say, we’re actually doing OK, which I believe. But in the end again, right now, if we continue losing matches, then everything in the entire project is in jeopardy. We’ve got to figure out a way to stop that.
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I’m a little angry right now. I’m tired of playing matches where we’re in the match and in many cases we’re better than the opponent and walking away with nothing. I’m tired of not capitalising on moments when we’re the better team and I’m tired of giving away goals too cheaply, tired of not getting results we should be getting.
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Fourteen years as a player, 13 years a coach and I’ve never lost this much in my career. I’m sick of it. So I’m trying to figure out which guys can be counted on at the highest level right now, what kind of decisions need to be made in terms of match plans. I need to help find the group confidence and find the guys who are ready to fight for everything right now in these next matches, to do everything we can to get the points we need.
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The Premier League trains churns on, now not far from reaching its World Cup destination. A very full Saturday awaits, getting underway when improved Leicester take on Manchester City. Will Erling Haaland be fit? Find out here. Possibly.
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Tottenham’s slump to conținue at Bournemouth? Gary O’Neil’s team are in a slump, too, and the two managers can compare VAR notes. Has Antonio Conte calmed down yet?
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Liverpool, having lost last week at Nottingham Forest, take on Leeds on Saturday night and a win could place Jesse Marsch in real jeopardy. Meanwhile, Unai Emery will be in the stands, awaiting work permit, as his new club, Aston Villa, who he takes over on 1 November, visit Newcastle, the club he turned down last year.
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Brighton v Chelsea is a quick return for Graham Potter, he is still unbeaten at his new club while his old club have not won a game since he left. Brentford are in mid-table, but coming off a defeat to Villa last week. Can Wolves, still managed by Steve “Interesting he’s still in charge” Davis, score a goal?
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Frank Lampard’s Everton travel to Fulham off the back of last week’s defeat of Crystal Palace, whose match with Southampton is a meeting of the Premier League’s great enigmas.
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And the Europa League candidates both play on Sunday, with Manchester United welcoming West Ham while Arsenal, poor against PSV last night, welcome Nottingham Forest, fresh off that Liverpool win.
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A look ahead to all that, with press conferences and teams to come, too, plus the very latest from the world of soccer. Join me. Join us.
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Spurs were left furious during Wednesday’s Champions League fixture with Sporting Lisbon when Harry Kane was denied a stoppage-time winner after he was adjudged to be marginally ahead of the ball and therefore offside.
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Conte lambasted the technology and accused it of being dishonest against his team following the draw with Sporting, which means Tottenham still need a point in Marseille on Tuesday to qualify for the Champions League last 16.
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He remained unhappy when he spoke at a press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Bournemouth and said: “What happened in the last game was incredible, incredible. You score, you are already qualified for the next round, you are celebrating and then you have to stay for five minutes to look at the situation with VAR and you take the decision and you don’t know if its right or wrong.
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“This is not football in this way also because you cut the emotion, the emotion of everybody and especially the players because you don’t know.
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“You score a goal and you don’t know what happens later. Did someone commit a foul one minute before? Or discover a foul one minute before and then they go to disallow this? It happened this. It happened but it only happened when they want (it) to happen. This is the difference.
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“But when I stay at home and I see the image, I am watching another game and I see the image, the VAR, then for me it is easy to take the best decision. Instead then you see for example they take the opposite decision. Oh, I don’t know football or maybe who stays in the VAR, they are seeing another image.”
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The Italian reiterated in his mind it was “impossible” for VAR to make mistakes given the time and extra images the official gets to view. (PA Media)
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But what of Erling Haaland’s fitness after the striker came off at half-time against Borussia Dortmund?
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said after the 0-0 draw in Germany that the striker had a slight problem with his foot and a fever, making him a doubt for the weekend trip to Leicester.
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Here’s the very latest from Pep: “He feels better, but we train this afternoon, and we will assess in these few hours. We will see how he feels. After we will decide – I will know it in two hours if he can play.”
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Guardiola has also offered updates on England duo Kyle Walker and Kalvin Phillips. “They are not ready for Leicester,” said Guardiola. “They are better, Kalvin especially. Apparently, when he came to Dortmund, he said he feels really well. He started to train with contact with the ball – he has not trained with his team-mates yet, but he feels really well, and we are surprised.
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“If he is fit and can play [at the World Cup] he can play, but right now, we don’t know. They [Walker and Phillips] are optimistic. They are in touch with Gareth [Southgate]. Hopefully they can be ready and get selected.”
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Important story from Paul Macinnes.
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Results from the second year of the FA’s leadership diversity code show a step change in representation has not been achieved, despite an increased focus on equality by players and organising bodies. Roughly a third of men’s clubs in the top four divisions are yet to sign up to the charter.
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Jesse Marsch is not a happy man. Oh no. Quite the rant here ahead of Leeds’ visit to Liverpool on Saturday night.
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If we go game to game and you look at the fact we haven’t won in eight games based on how we’ve performed over the eight games, it’s almost impossible to believe that two points is all that we’ve earned.
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But that’s our reality right, in those eight games and all the phases in those games? What if Luis (Sinisterra) scores at Brighton on the two-inch line and it doesn’t go wide?
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What if we score the penalty against Arsenal? What if – you can go through what ifs, but it doesn’t matter, right? You could still look at the metrics and you could look at different things and you could say, we’re actually doing OK, which I believe. But in the end again, right now, if we continue losing matches, then everything in the entire project is in jeopardy. We’ve got to figure out a way to stop that.
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I’m a little angry right now. I’m tired of playing matches where we’re in the match and in many cases we’re better than the opponent and walking away with nothing. I’m tired of not capitalising on moments when we’re the better team and I’m tired of giving away goals too cheaply, tired of not getting results we should be getting.
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Fourteen years as a player, 13 years a coach and I’ve never lost this much in my career. I’m sick of it. So I’m trying to figure out which guys can be counted on at the highest level right now, what kind of decisions need to be made in terms of match plans. I need to help find the group confidence and find the guys who are ready to fight for everything right now in these next matches, to do everything we can to get the points we need.
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The Premier League trains churns on, now not far from reaching its World Cup destination. A very full Saturday awaits, getting underway when improved Leicester take on Manchester City. Will Erling Haaland be fit? Find out here. Possibly.
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Tottenham’s slump to conținue at Bournemouth? Gary O’Neil’s team are in a slump, too, and the two managers can compare VAR notes. Has Antonio Conte calmed down yet?
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Liverpool, having lost last week at Nottingham Forest, take on Leeds on Saturday night and a win could place Jesse Marsch in real jeopardy. Meanwhile, Unai Emery will be in the stands, awaiting work permit, as his new club, Aston Villa, who he takes over on 1 November, visit Newcastle, the club he turned down last year.
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Brighton v Chelsea is a quick return for Graham Potter, he is still unbeaten at his new club while his old club have not won a game since he left. Brentford are in mid-table, but coming off a defeat to Villa last week. Can Wolves, still managed by Steve “Interesting he’s still in charge” Davis, score a goal?
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Frank Lampard’s Everton travel to Fulham off the back of last week’s defeat of Crystal Palace, whose match with Southampton is a meeting of the Premier League’s great enigmas.
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And the Europa League candidates both play on Sunday, with Manchester United welcoming West Ham while Arsenal, poor against PSV last night, welcome Nottingham Forest, fresh off that Liverpool win.
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A look ahead to all that, with press conferences and teams to come, too, plus the very latest from the world of soccer. Join me. Join us.
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And that’s full-time for today. Time to head off and have a listen to the newly remastered box set of ‘Revolver’. We’ll be here, there and everywhere over the weekend, starting with a live MBM from the King Power where Leicester take on champions Manchester City (12.30pm kick-off). Routine away win? Tomorrow never knows.
Wolves caretaker boss Steve Davis admits that five defeats in the last six Premier League games have knocked his team’s morale, especially the 4-0 home defeat to Leicester last weekend that left the Molineux side second from bottom.
“Results have definitely affected the players, they were very reflective after the game and we are putting huge demands on everyone because we all want to do better,” said Davis ahead of Saturday’s trip to Brentford.
“I haven’t seen a lack of effort or commitment, everyone is pulling together and working hard to turn it around. When you look at the table, back-to-back wins can make such a difference. We know how hard it is to get points in this division but we know if we can get something tomorrow things can change very quickly.”
Erm, 16th time lucky for David Moyes?
Opta stat: Moyes has never won away against Manchester United in the Premier League, drawing four and losing 11 of his 15 visits. His sides have scored just 10 goals across these 15 visits, with 40% of those coming in a single 4-4 draw with Everton in April 2012.
On the plus side, he could have Jarrod Bowen back in the squad for Sunday’s trip after the forward missed Thursday night’s Europa Conference League win over Silkeborg with an ankle injury.
“He’s done a little bit of running on the grass today, so we will need to see how he is,” said Moyes. “We will need to see if he can do many things, see if he can twist and turn and all of the other parts that come with it.”
Meanwhile, PA Media report that West Ham have been fined 20,000 by the Football Association following the 1-1 draw at Southampton earlier this month. The Hammers’ players were incensed as they felt referee Peter Bankes had impeded Bowen in the build-up to Romain Perraud’s goal for Saints.
Brentford boss Thomas Frank insists he and his team were quick to shake off last week’s humbling 4-0 loss at Aston Villa.
The Bees will look to bounce back when hosting Wolves on Saturday afternoon.
“It was a tough 24 hours,” admitted Frank. “It was something I had never experienced in my career, even as an under-8’s coach, being 3-0 down after 12 minutes. But it’s football, it happens, I know this group of players are a remarkable bunch of guys mentally and they are committed to bouncing back against Wolves.
“I do my very best to be consistent. Winning 4-0 at home to Manchester United or losing 4-0 at Aston Villa, we need to be consistent in the way we do things. We evaluated it, we looked back at the game, which was very quick, the three goals and the fourth goal, boom! That’s it.
“I truly believe we win, or we learn, and last time we definitely learned a lot. Sometimes the learning can be very painful but we will come back from it, no doubt.”
Ready for The Fiver? Antony takes centre stage. Chance for a clever Shakespeare link. Nah, we’ll go with this…
Comin’ atcha!
Some surprising symmetry…
Leicester’s home record: Points 8, Scored 9, Conceded 5
Man City’s away record: Points 8, Scored 9, Conceded 5
After shipping goals left, right, top corner, bottom corner and centre, Leicester are on a run of three straight clean sheets and have moved out of the bottom three.
Defender Timothy Castagne has been speaking to the club’s website ahead of Saturday’s 12.30pm kick-off against Pep Guardiola’s men: “It’s going to be a very tough game, but we’re going in with nothing to lose to be honest. They’re the team to beat. We’re just going to play and we’ll see what happens, but it’ll be a very interesting game.
“We can also have some different tactics, different plans, that can hurt a different style of team. That’s good and we have a lot of quality at the front where we can score. Even when we’re not in a good game, we can turn around and score two goals in 10 minutes.
“If we can just keep the clean sheet, we know we are going to score at the other side. I think we knew that we weren’t supposed to be that low in the table. It’s good to see that, now, the results reflect the qualities that we have. It’s also been much better defensively and that’s been an emphasis point in the last few weeks.”
If Antonio Conte sounds worryingly grumpy and on the brink of jacking this lark in and heading off down the Amalfi Coast on a scooter, he also declared he was happy at Spurs as his first anniversary at the club approaches.
“I’m enjoying my time at Tottenham. I think in one year we had a great path together with the club, the players and the fans. I’m enjoying every single moment with my adventure in Tottenham,” he tooted.
“For sure, I discovered a modern club, a club with fantastic training ground, amazing stadium, the passion of our fans and at the same time also the demands of our fans. Because with our fans the demand is very high! Yeah, I continue to enjoy every day to stay here, to work here for this club.”
Antonio Conte blasts VAR again
Tottenham manager Antonio Conte continued his tirade against VAR on Friday by insisting it is cutting the emotion of the game and joked he could make better decisions from his own home.
Spurs were left furious during Wednesday’s Champions League fixture with Sporting Lisbon when Harry Kane was denied a stoppage-time winner after he was adjudged to be marginally ahead of the ball and therefore offside.
Conte lambasted the technology and accused it of being dishonest against his team following the draw with Sporting, which means Tottenham still need a point in Marseille on Tuesday to qualify for the Champions League last 16.
He remained unhappy when he spoke at a press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Bournemouth and said: “What happened in the last game was incredible, incredible. You score, you are already qualified for the next round, you are celebrating and then you have to stay for five minutes to look at the situation with VAR and you take the decision and you don’t know if its right or wrong.
“This is not football in this way also because you cut the emotion, the emotion of everybody and especially the players because you don’t know.
“You score a goal and you don’t know what happens later. Did someone commit a foul one minute before? Or discover a foul one minute before and then they go to disallow this? It happened this. It happened but it only happened when they want (it) to happen. This is the difference.
“But when I stay at home and I see the image, I am watching another game and I see the image, the VAR, then for me it is easy to take the best decision. Instead then you see for example they take the opposite decision. Oh, I don’t know football or maybe who stays in the VAR, they are seeing another image.”
The Italian reiterated in his mind it was “impossible” for VAR to make mistakes given the time and extra images the official gets to view. (PA Media)
Back to the report on English football clubs failing to meet six of their eight diversity targets.
Crystal Palace boss, Patrick Vieira, the only black manager in the Premier League, hopes Friday’s findings will lead to more concerted action.
“Yeah, I saw the FA communication and what they are trying to do and what is their target,” he said. “I would like them to be a little bit more ambitious on that side because I don’t think that the numbers that they wanted to achieve are high enough.”
Just 10.3 per cent of the candidates hired for senior leadership roles at clubs came from black, Asian or mixed heritage background, well below the 15 per cent target.
All Premier League teams and 32 English Football League clubs have signed up to the code, which was introduced in 2020 to increase equality of opportunity and encourage recruitment of diverse talent across senior leadership teams, team operations and coaching set-ups.
While the FA, Premier League and EFL produced strong results and exceeded in seven of the eight targets for the 2021-22 campaign, the lack of those in top jobs was still glaring.
Vieira has in recent weeks pointed to the absence of people from ethnic backgrounds in those positions, highlighting the imbalance between who is on the pitch and those with decision-making roles.
Asked if he had any plans to help influence more progress, Vieira, now in his second season at Palace, said: “I think the best way is to use the voice I have at the moment and to talk about it.
“The positive aspect about it in this country is that there is a conversation. People are talking about it. So now the next level, I believe, is to be more ambitious than the report that has been put in place by the FA and something has to be done.” (PA Media)
Am I the only person who didn’t know Steve Cooper’s dad was Keith Cooper? Passed me by that one despite a decent knowledge of former refs and where they came from. George Courtney, Spennymoor, etc.
(From PA Media). Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper says his Football Association charge for post-match comments about referee Thomas Bramall is still being processed but admits the pressure of the job sometimes makes it hard to control emotions. Cooper said Bramall was known for being inconsistent after the 1-0 Premier League loss at Molineux where both sides had a penalty awarded after VAR intervention, while there was another incident in the first half.
He was sanctioned by the FA and had until Thursday night to respond. However, he said he was not in a position to talk about it ahead of Sunday’s visit to Arsenal. “I will talk when I can, but at the moment it is still going through the process so I am not thinking too much about it, I am focused on the game,” he said.
Cooper, whose dad Keith is a former Premier League referee, said that the pressure of managing in the Premier League makes it hard to control emotions. “It is difficult for everybody involved, supporters, managers, players. I do my very best to try and stay in control whetever emotions you are feeling and in general I like to think I am OK at that,” he said. “You aim to be the best version of yourself, whatever that might be.
“They are emotional jobs, they take you to places you might not have felt before. You try and stay true to what you believe in and what you feel is right. Sometimes that might mean standing up for your club or for your team or something that you may do or say and that is how it is. Game in, game out you try and be at your best and I will try and do that on Sunday.”
Forest head to the Emirates Stadium on Sunday fresh from the high of beating Liverpool last weekend. “Always when you win a game you hope to back it up with another positive performance and result, that is the intention going into this weekend, a incredibly tough game, especially away from home,” he said. We always prepare for a team to be at their best and having looked at Arsenal in a bit more depth, you can see why they are where they are. It is more than a start now, we are futher down the line than that. They are really good for it, a lot of credit goes to Mikel [Arteta] and the team. Really tough game, as tough as it gets, but one we have to really focus on ourselves.”
As former Sevilla and Villarreal boss Unai Emery prepares to take over at Aston Villa (presumably he’s currently sat in his villa in Vilamoura listening to The Villagers), Villa caretaker boss Aaron Danks has heaped praise on the Spaniard.
(Per PA Media): “You just have to look at his pedigree, what he’s done and where he’s worked to know he is a top coach. He is a high performer,” said Danks. “I really enjoyed watching his Villarreal team in the Champions League, like many supporters and coaches did. We’re just really excited to welcome him to the club. There’s been no contact, for me it’s been head down and full focus on preparing the team for the game. I can only go on my own experience and when I moved to Belgium (as assistant to Vincent Kompany at Anderlecht), I had a month to prepare and there was a lot to get through. For someone and their staff to have seven days, I totally understand.”
Lucas Digne has returned to training following a stress fracture but Boubacar Kamara (knee), Diego Carlos (knee) and Ludwig Augustinsson (hamstring) are out. Danks dropped skipper John McGinn for the 4-0 win over Brentford on Sunday after taking over following Steven Gerrard’s dismissal but has been impressed with how the Scot has responded.
He said: “John’s a super professional and he’s a great human being. His reaction has been nothing but positive. He came into the game excellently as we envisaged he would. Training has been fantastic, no issues whatsoever. I knew that with John, that’s why he’s contributed what he’s contributed to this club. That’s why the fans respect him the way they do and why his team-mates respect him so highly.”
More on the shocking story involving Arsenal defender Pablo Marí.
Tottenham Hotspur have been fined £20,000 after their players protested the decision to award Newcastle United the opening goal in the London side’s 2-1 home defeat over the weekend, the FA said on Friday.
Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was involved in a collision with Callum Wilson when attempting to deal with a long ball, with the Newcastle striker chipping the ball into an unguarded net.Spurs players immediatel y surrounded referee Jarred Gillett in protest and the decision to award the goal after a VAR check also found nothing wrong left the home side furious.
“Tottenham Hotspur FC admitted failing to ensure that its players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion during the 31st minute, and also accepted the standard penalty,” the FA said in a statement. (Reuters)
Adama Traore is a man of the people!
Would it be poor to say he then tried to put a supermarket trolley away in the bay but missed? Anyway, good on him. This from Reuters:
A video showing Wolverhampton Wanderers winger Adama Traoré challenging some young fans to a race in supermarket car park has been viewed more than a million times on social media.
The Spanish player, one of the fastest in the Premier League, was spotted by 12-year-old Charlie Smith and his cousins who asked the former Barcelona player for a photo. They then got more than they bargained for as Traoré asked them if any of them could run faster than him, and challenged them to a dash across the car park. Traoré showed no mercy as he sprinted ahead with the chuckling boys trailing in his wake.
“As soon as we went off, I thought ‘I might actually win this’ because he was level with us,” said Charlie Whitehouse, one of the youngsters in the video. “But then he gave it two seconds and was off. It was great. He smoked us.”
Wolves fan and grassroots club chairman Darryl Smith, who posted the video of his son and cousins, said: “Adama actually talks to the fans and I don’t think all players do that. It’s a great connection between the players and the fans. What a down to earth top man!”
Pep Guardiola says Julian Alvarez will be the first option to replace Erling Haaland if the Norwegian striker isn’t fit for Manchester City’s trip to Leicester.
Alvarez has scored only two league goals this season but Guardiola is not concerned given the Argentine striker’s limited playing time.
“Play 90 minutes every game and he will score goals, maybe not like Erling, but he will score goals,” Guardiola said. “I don’t judge. I know how many minutes he plays and how difficult it is when you are not used to playing regularly … since day one, we are really impressed with many things about him.”
If you missed Antony’s double spin showboat against Sheriff, here it is. Beautifully pointless? Pointlessly beautiful? Has Roy Keane passed comment yet?
