Michail Antonio fired a broadside at the Spanish officials after West Ham’s bid for a third successive European semi-final was thwarted by a second-half Bayer Leverkusen revival.
There are ways of losing, and Pep Guardiola made clear that this one, in a game his team dominated, in a shootout they threw away, was acceptable and that he had made his peace with it.
It had to be Kylian Mbappé. Of course it did. He had been quiet; he had been jeered; he had been questioned; even accused of having ‘given up’ as he is joining Real Madrid at the end of the season when his contract runs out.
Rafael Nadal enjoyed a straightforward homecoming at the Barcelona Open after 102 days on the sidelines, but questions about his physical state remain. Before Tuesday, 22-time major champion Nadal had not played a competitive tennis match…
Pep Guardiola used to call Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur side the ‘Harry Kane team’ and the Argentine now has the ‘Cole Palmer team’ at Chelsea.
They say that the Masters does not start until the back nine on a Sunday. Not for Scottie Scheffler, it doesn’t. For the second time in three years, this is exactly when he ended it, clinically pulling clear towards the Butler Cabin as all…
Suddenly it feels like this has been the pivotal weekend in the Premier League title race. Just after Liverpool threw away their chance to resume the leadership, Arsenal choked.
The old cliché says you can only beat what is in front of you. Well Northampton Saints did just that, with Phil Dowson’s side marching into the semi-finals of the Investec Champions Cup for the first time since reaching the final in 2011.
If Manchester City do pull off a miraculous “Double Treble” this season then Pep Guardiola may look back on this weekend as one of those significant staging posts in the march to history.
This might have been much worse for Erik ten Hag as the game ticked past a total of 100 minutes, although escaping from Bournemouth with two equalisers and a single point will have told him that the fall continues to be steep.
On the day that I Am Maximus won the Grand National, Harlequins borrowed the gladiatorial mantra of death or glory to deliver potentially the best performance in their history in a 12-try thriller against Bordeaux. And they might just have…
Another day, another emphatic victory for England, who overcame Amy Cokayne’s second-half red card to make it three wins from three in the Women’s Six Nations with an eight-try dismantling of Scotland.
It was 13th time lucky for Paul Townend as he steered I Am Maximus home with an exemplary ride to put his and trainer Willie Mullins’ mark on Grand National history.
It was just as well the protesting supporters brought no flags to Anfield. They may have been at half-mast at full-time to signal the likely end of Jürgen Klopp’s final European adventure as Liverpool coach.
After 83 minutes of resistance, West Ham were finally broken down by Germany’s “Invincibles”, who have still not lost a game this season and took a huge stride towards the Europa League semi-finals after late strikes from Jonas Hofmann and…
Kylian Mbappe was outshone by Raphinha, the former Leeds United winger, as Paris Saint-Germain were defeated 3-2 by Barcelona in a thrilling first leg of their heavyweight Champions League quarter-final.
Sarina Wiegman praised England’s fighting spirit after the Lionesses got their bid to qualify for next year’s European Championship back on track with a valuable victory in Dublin.
Fortune favours the brave. And the lucky. Or so Arsenal will hope. With the first leg of this Champions League quarter-final and maybe the tie itself drifting away – and with Harry Kane coming back to haunt them as they feared he would –…
The grip of Real Madrid upon the modern Champions League will not easily be shifted, and once again Pep Guardiola’s team heads towards the second leg of an epic knockout tie with enough doubts to make it interesting.
The Premier League relegation fight has been thrown into chaos as an ongoing investigation threatening a further Everton points deduction will extend beyond this season.
Sometimes titles turn on the freakish and the fantastic. Somehow Liverpool did not beat Manchester United and that somehow owed so much to their own wastefulness and, unfortunately, a mistake by their otherwise outstanding young defender…