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Bolasie stays, says Warnock November 27, 2014 CRYSTAL Palace manager Neil Warnock has warned top-flight rivals off trying to poach Yannick Bolasie in January after the winger helped to end the club’s five-match winless sequence. Bolasie’s electrifying display on Sunday helped the Eagles come from behind to beat Liverpool 3-1 at Selhurst Park and climb out of the Premier League relegation zone. [...]
Lack of home comforts a worry for ragged Spurs November 27, 2014 HAVING taken 17 points from their opening 10 Premier League games this season, Mauricio Pochettino is under pressure at White Hart Lane. His Tottenham side have been beaten in four of their six home games and Sunday’s visitors Everton have lost just once on the road. Everton are still below the form that saw them [...]
Spurs boss in plea for Monday match move November 26, 2014 TOTTENHAM manager Mauricio Pochettino believes his team’s woeful home record in domestic competition would improve if they were allowed an extra day’s rest following Europa League fixtures. Spurs have lost four Premier League games at White Hart Lane already this term – more than any other team – and all came directly after Thursday night [...]
Wenger Out calls drown out Rodgers protest November 24, 2014 ONE HAS overseen his club’s worst start to a league campaign for 32 years, the other has seen his team slip to 12th in the Premier League having finished second last season. Both have just suffered damaging defeats they’d rather forget. Only by scrolling through Twitter could it have got any more miserable for Arsenal’s [...]
Premier League: We have top-four credentials, says Koeman November 24, 2014 ASTON VILLA 1 SOUTHAMPTON 1 SOUTHAMPTON boss Ronald Koeman remains confident his side can maintain their blistering start to the campaign and push for Champions League qualification despite needing a late goal to salvage a point at struggling Aston Villa last night. Villa skipper Gabriel Agbonlahor punished a mistake from Southampton goalkeeper Fraser Forster to score [...]
Brendan Rodgers or Arsene Wenger out: Are Arsenal or Liverpool Twitter users more angry with their manager? November 24, 2014 One has overseen his club’s worst start to a league campaign for 32 years, the other has seen his team slip to 12th after finishing second last season. Both have just suffered damaging defeats they’d rather forget. Only by scrolling through Twitter could it have got any more miserable for Arsenal's Arsene Wenger or [...]
Premier League: Liverpool relive Palace nightmare as Rodgers suffers fourth defeat November 23, 2014 AT SELHURST PARK CRYSTAL PALACE 3 LIVERPOOL 1 UNDER-FIRE Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers concedes last year’s title charge will not spare him the axe should results fail to improve as the Reds’ season sank to new depths with another Selhurst Park horror show yesterday. Rodgers’ side infamously squandered a three-goal lead in south London in [...]
Premier League: Bruce blasts Vertonghen as Spurs fight back November 23, 2014 HULL CITY 1 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 AGGRIEVED Hull manager Steve Bruce accused Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen of getting Gaston Ramirez sent off after Spurs came from behind to continue their strong away form. Former White Hart Lane midfielder Jake Livermore put the hosts in front but Ramirez’s red card precipitated their collapse, as Harry Kane [...]
Sport Comment: It’s not too late to salvage season November 23, 2014 ANY hopes of resisting Chelsea’s procession to the Premier League title vanished for Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham before the clocks even went back. But so collective is their failure that there is still much to gain for the next out-of-sorts “big” team to settle down and find a winning formula. Chelsea aside, faltering [...]
Wigan in crisis as Whelan joins Mackay in dock November 20, 2014 CONTROVERSY surrounding Wigan Athletic intensified last night after the Championship club’s owner, retail entrepreneur Dave Whelan, was accused of holding anti-semitic views and condoning racism. The row erupted as one of the team’s sponsors cut its ties over the appointment of Malky Mackay, who the Football Association said could still face charges over allegations of [...]