MARTIN SAMUEL: Nobody who loves football can feel for these Super League clubs the same way again

You hate our club.  Sports writers get that a lot. The accusation that we’re biased against a team. Any team. Doesn’t matter what team really. West Brom, once. I don’t even know why anyone would think I cared about, let alone hated, West Brom, but there it was. And it isn’t true. I love football, … Read more

Super NO! Europe’s media united in fury at the ‘crazy’, ‘War of the Rich’ Super League proposals

Twelve of Europe’s leading football clubs have today [Sunday] come together to announce they have agreed to establish a new mid-week competition, the Super League, governed by its Founding Clubs. AC Milan, Arsenal, Atlético Madrid, Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur have all joined as Founding … Read more

European Super League: Start date, format, Premier League and Champions League impact and more

The world of football is reeling after the confirmation that 12 of the biggest clubs, spearheaded by the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’, have signed up for a new European Super League. Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham have joined a host of European giants and in doing so have sparked a civil war … Read more

‘European Super League can absolutely f**k off’: Fans SLAM plot for breakaway competition

‘They do not care about the fans, they see them as customers and they take them for mugs’: Fans SLAM plot for breakaway competition, hitting-out at Premier League Big Six for driving the project Plans for a European Super League are set to be revealed on Sunday night  The Premier League Big Six plus Italian … Read more

Barcelona’s ex-president Josep Maria Bartomeu arrested by Spanish police

Barcelona RAIDED: Police arrest super-club’s ex-president Josep Bartomeu, their CEO, head of legal and search offices for evidence over social media ‘smear campaign’ against Lionel Messi and Co By Luke Augustus for MailOnline Published: 11:00 GMT, 1 March 2021 | Updated: 11:45 GMT, 1 March 2021 Josep Maria Bartomeu has been arrested by Spanish police … Read more

Neymar complains he is being ‘ASSAULTED’ on the pitch after picking up another injury for PSG

Neymar complains he is being ‘ASSAULTED’ on the pitch after picking up another injury for PSG against Caen in extraordinary rant on social media as the Brazilian hits out at critics calling him a ‘crying kid’ and ‘spoiled’ Neymar has let rip on Instagram after a foul left him out of action for four weeks … Read more

Diego Maradona: New footage days before he died surfaces for the first time  

Diego Maradona slurs his words and admits: ‘I’m bruised’ in a shocking last video of the Argentina icon taken just days before he died. The former Naples and Barcelona star, his head still bandaged after an operation on a brain blood clot, appears to struggle to find his words at times as he sends a … Read more

Maradona is laid to rest after thousands of fans lined the streets of Buenos Aires

Diego has been laid to rest after thousands of fans lined the streets of Buenos Aires to pay their respects as his coffin was driven to the cemetery on Thursday.  The 1986 World Cup winner was taken by hearse to the Bella Vista cemetery on the outskirts of the capital – where his parents are buried … Read more

Diego Maradona’s coffin arrives at Argentinian president’s mansion

Diego Maradona’s body arrived at the presidential palace in Argentina today as a grieving country prepares to pay its last respects to the flawed football genius who died of a heart attack on Wednesday at the age of 60.   As a crowd of weeping fans gathered outside, Maradona’s coffin was lifted out of an ambulance … Read more

Diego Maradona dead: Front pages from around the world pay tribute

‘God is dead’: Front pages from around the globe pay moving tributes to Diego Maradona as the world mourns a footballing icon By Jack Bezants for MailOnline Published: 06:33 GMT, 26 November 2020 | Updated: 09:18 GMT, 26 November 2020 The world of football is in mourning after the death of icon Diego Maradona at … Read more