Tag: Premier League
A glorious gut punch, pig heads on platters and acid jazz: The Euro 2024 anthems – rated
With the Euro 2024 group stage done, we’ve heard all 24 national team anthems three times. It is time to say goodbye to...
It will always be Old Trafford but the feeling around selling naming rights has shifted
“Excited to have our home named after a multi-national conglomerate,” said no football fan, ever. But plenty have accepted it as a norm...
England have the Euros' most effective defence. Should Southgate double down on his tactics?
A striking thing about the reaction to England’s group-stage performance is how many different solutions have been offered.In midfield, it’s possible to find...
Cristiano Ronaldo is raging – at referees, his luck and maybe time itself
It just doesn’t come as easily to Cristiano Ronaldo these days. Over the course of two decades he has so often bent the...
Euro 2024 and the lopsided draw affecting which teams are considered likely finalists
There is a reason, at the very moment Gareth Southgate and his players were having obscenities and plastic cups hurled at them in...
France aren't just boring under Deschamps. Now the fear is they're not particularly good
It was just over two decades ago, 30km down the road here from Dortmund, that Didier Deschamps contested his first major final as...