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• Brian Sørensen in advanced talks over Everton contract extension

  14-04-2025 19:20 via theguardian.com
  Dane has been in charge of women’s side since 2022Sørensen is second-longest-serving WSL managerEverton are in advanced talks over a new, extended contract with their women’s team head coach, Brian Sørensen. The 44-year-old, whose contract is due to run out in June 2026, has been in charge since 2022 and oversaw sixth and eighth‑place finishes in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 Women’s Super League.His team sit eighth, three points behind fifth-placed Brighton and 1
  
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• Magical Mané secures draw for Wolves before Everton’s Keane and Grealish see red

  08-01-2026 00:56 via theguardian.com
  The game’s gone, part 999. The Wolves recovery continued at Everton yet their impressive resolve under Rob Edwards was overshadowed by the ludicrous red card that should embarrass Professional Match Game Officials and the Premier League.Common sense and elite level referees parted company long ago but the decision to dismiss Michael Keane for violent conduct after he pulled Tolu Arokodare’s dreadlocks while challenging for a header defied belief. João Neves and Jack Stephens o
  
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• Thiago strikes twice for Brentford but Sunderland’s Le Fée fluffs Panenka penalty

  07-01-2026 23:53 via theguardian.com
  In this winter of managerial discontent, Keith Andrews and Régis Le Bris are proving capable frontmen for stable, carefully structured football operations. The Irishman’s exemplary rookie season as a head coach continued with Brentford’s commanding win against Le Bris’s Sunderland. The visitors’ west London trip will undoubtedly be remembered for Enzo Le Fée’s failed attempt to dupe Caoimhín Kelleher from the penalty spot. Within minutes of that
  
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• Slot concedes Liverpool’s approach has grown dull: ‘I would not completely disagree’

  07-01-2026 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Liverpool manager says team struggling to create‘My teams always try to play attacking football’Arne Slot has said it hurts his principles as an attacking coach to hear his Liverpool team described as boring but he could not entirely disagree on current form.Liverpool have stabilised after a damaging sequence of nine defeats in 12 matches, the club’s worst return in 71 years, with a nine-game unbeaten run but are struggling to produce convincing performances. Successive draws a
  
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• Newcastle’s Harvey Barnes hits 102nd-minute winner in 4-3 Leeds thriller

  07-01-2026 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Tactical anarchy reigned supreme on a night of chaotic, bewildering, thrilling drama played out amid freezing conditions.Not that the on-pitch temperature ever seemed to drop below boiling point as a renascent Leeds led three times yet departed with their seven‑match unbeaten run at an end and Yorkshire hearts broken by Harvey Barnes’s stoppage -time winner. Continue reading...
  
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• Arteta backs Gyökeres to come good and be the 20-goal striker Arsenal want

  07-01-2026 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Sweden forward last scored from open play in NovemberNo one has passed 20 league goals since AubameyangMikel Arteta has challenged his strikers to score more than 20 goals in a season and backed Viktor Gyökeres as the Premier League leaders prepare to face Liverpool.The Sweden striker is the club’s joint-top scorer in the league with Leandro Trossard on five. No Arsenal player has passed the 20-goal mark in the league since Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang managed 22 in the 2019-20 season, A
  
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• Darren Fletcher’s Manchester United held by Burnley despite Sesko double

  07-01-2026 23:20 via theguardian.com
  Darren Fletcher failed to produce what Manchester United’s interim manager, fans and chief executive craved: a cathartic victory to move the club on quickly from the recent turbulence.The big plus was Benjamin Sesko, whose two goals doubled his season tally. He said: “It’s been tough but now I finally did it. Now it’s just up to me and up to us to keep going like that.” Continue reading...
  
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• Emery rages at Crystal Palace draw as Glasner extends record against Aston Villa

  07-01-2026 22:53 via theguardian.com
  Even with Aston Villa enjoying their best season for years, Unai Emery cannot get one over Oliver Glasner. The Crystal Palace manager has been struggling with a threadbare squad that still has not recorded a victory for several weeks but stretched his unbeaten record against Emery to seven matches after a game which both sides felt they could have won.A late Victor Lindelöf header that struck a post was the closest anyone came in the end as neither Adam Wharton nor Morgan Rogers could quite
  
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• Fulham’s Harry Wilson piles pain on 10-man Chelsea as Liam Rosenior watches on

  07-01-2026 22:52 via theguardian.com
  Few things in life can be more awkward than sitting next to your new boss while 3,000 malcontents bellow abuse at him. On the bright side, at least this was a crash course in the modern Chelsea for Liam Rosenior.The new head coach saw poor defending undermine flashes of defiance, witnessed his erratic side collect their eighth red card of the season, and heard the away end at Craven Cottage spend much of the second half aim mutinous chants in the direction of Behdad Eghbali, the club’s co-
  
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• Antoine Semenyo’s parting gift gives Bournemouth victory over shaky Spurs

  07-01-2026 22:48 via theguardian.com
  For the best part of 95 minutes, Antoine Semenyo was almost entirely anonymous. He can do that sometimes; drift in and out of games. When you possess the type of artistry Semenyo does, you can afford such periods of quiet absence.Then came the type of moment that has convinced Manchester City to shell out £65m for his services; the gamechanging ability that can win games and, perhaps, titles for Pep Guardiola’s side. Continue reading...
  
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• Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma punishes Manchester City as title bid falters again

  07-01-2026 22:38 via theguardian.com
  Pep Guardiola believes team spirit will help Manchester City get through a difficult period, but more than camaraderie alone will be required on this evidence. City endured a third consecutive draw to leave the leaders Arsenal, who have a game in hand, five points ahead and currently without a title challenger.An Erling Haaland penalty gave City a platform they were unable to build on, failing to convert a plethora of chances in the second half. City let Brighton come back into the match and des
  
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• Kansas City Current hire Chris Armas as head coach after MLS stints

  07-01-2026 19:46 via theguardian.com
  Former USMNT player last coached women in 2014Armas coached the Colorado Rapids from 2024-2025Former New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC and Colorado Rapids manager Chris Armas has been appointed as the new head coach of the NWSL club Kansas City Current.Armas replaces the former US women’s national team head coach Vlatko Andonovski, who stepped away from his head coach role at the end of the 2025 campaign in order to focus solely on his job as Kansas City’s sporting director. Continue re
  
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• Kevin Keegan, former England and Newcastle manager, diagnosed with cancer

  07-01-2026 19:32 via theguardian.com
  He was admitted to hospital with abdominal symptomsKeegan, 74, ‘grateful for intervention and ongoing care’The former England manager Kevin Keegan has been diagnosed with cancer.Keegan, who also played for England, Scunthorpe, Liverpool, Hamburg, Southampton and Newcastle before later managing Newcastle (twice) as well as Fulham, Manchester City and the national side, was recently admitted to hospital for evaluation of ongoing abdominal symptoms. Continue reading...
  
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• West Ham fan turnout against Nottingham Forest almost half official attendance

  07-01-2026 18:27 via theguardian.com
  Real attendance closer to 34,000 than 62,429 announcedMarketing push fails to attract fans to watch ailing clubWest Ham’s official attendance of 62,429 for their 2-1 defeat by Nottingham Forest was almost twice as high as the number of fans who went through the turnstiles at the London Stadium on Tuesday night.The club have an increasingly apathetic fanbase and were unable to convince a big crowd to turn out for a crucial clash in the battle against relegation from the Premier League. It i
  
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• Martin Chivers, former Tottenham and England striker, dies aged 80

  07-01-2026 18:19 via theguardian.com
  Chivers also had long spell with SouthamptonHe scored 13 times in 24 games for England The former Tottenham, Southampton and England striker Martin Chivers has died at the age of 80. Chivers, a League Cup and Uefa Cup winner with Spurs, won 24 caps from 1971 to 1973, scoring 13 goals.“It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of our legendary former striker Martin Chivers,” Spurs said. “We extend our deepest sympathies to Martin’s family, friends and former
  
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• Cherki has excelled for Manchester City – and made Guardiola adapt

  07-01-2026 17:00 via theguardian.com
  In a bad season for big-money transfers in the Premier League, maverick Frenchman has been a notable exceptionBy WhoScored“There are moments I just want to shout at him and there are moments I want to kiss him.” Such is Pep Guardiola’s relationship with Rayan Cherki: part exasperation, part adoration.​ Guardiola is football’s master of fine-tuning. He has polished footballers until their natural instincts have become dictated by a system of control, structure and re
  
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• Football Daily | West Ham and a cautionary tale of being careful what you wish for

  07-01-2026 16:40 via theguardian.com
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!While precisely nobody else thought to say so at the time, when those West Ham fans who were howling for the head of Tin Pot-winning saviour David Moyes two years ago, Football Daily wondered if – whisper it – they should be careful what they wished for. While the turgid meat-and-potatoes fare served up by Moyes’s Irons was undeniably unpleasant on the eye, arguably the sole benefit of the club’s relocation to the London
  
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• World Cup players to have lifelike ‘AI avatars’ for use in VAR offside decisions

  07-01-2026 16:32 via theguardian.com
  Innovation means every player being digitally scannedInfantino: Move will ensure more accurate decisionsEvery player at the World Cup this summer will have his own physically accurate “AI avatar” that will be used in taking video assistant referee (VAR) decisions.The innovation, which will involve every player being digitally scanned and leaves the possibility of size mattering in offside calls, was part of a package of ­technological ­measures announced by Fifa’s presi
  
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• The West Ham crisis deepens and an EFL roundup | Football Weekly

  07-01-2026 14:29 via theguardian.com
  On the podcast today; a huge win for Nottingham Forest at the bottom of the Premier League. West Ham were a little unlucky, a second goal disallowed just before the equaliser and the agony of Alphonse Areola punching Morgan Gibbs-White’s head after the ball had gone. Does this result mean the bottom three is done a week into the new year? Elsewhere, Liam Rosenior arrives at Chelsea, Martin O’Neill arrives at Celtic (again) and Darren Fletcher says he runs every big decision past Sir
  
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• Spurs head coach Martin Ho: ‘We’re not even 15% of the way to where I want us to be’

  07-01-2026 13:30 via theguardian.com
  Leader of resurgent WSL side on what he demands of players, his relationship with the hierarchy and the change that has surprised himTottenham have as many points in the Women’s Super League this term, at the halfway stage, as they accumulated in the entirety of last season. That sentence will offer some satisfaction to their supporters but the head coach, Martin Ho, demonstrates how serious his intentions are when he says: “We’re not even 15% of the way to where I want us to b
  
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• Their dad's the new interim boss - meet Man Utd teenage twins Tyler and Jack Fletcher

  07-01-2026 13:12 via bbc.com
  BBC Sport profiles twin brothers Tyler and Jack Fletcher, who will hope to get minutes at Manchester United under interim head coach and father Darren
  
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• Carrick and Solskjaer frontrunners for caretaker role

  07-01-2026 12:22 via bbc.com
  Michael Carrick and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer have emerged as the frontrunners to become Manchester United's caretaker manager until the end of the season.
  
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• O'Neil succeeds Rosenior as Strasbourg manager

  07-01-2026 11:59 via bbc.com
  Gary O'Neil is appointed Strasbourg manager after Liam Rosenior left the French Ligue 1 side to join Chelsea earlier this week.
  
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• Morocco and Regragui feel pressure before high-profile Afcon quarter-finals

  07-01-2026 11:37 via theguardian.com
  Seven of the eight nations have won the tournament before while Mali take on the role of stubborn outsidersA comfortable 3-0 victory for the defending champions, Côte d’Ivoire, over Burkina Faso on Tuesday evening completes the highest-powered set of quarter-finalists the Cup of Nations has ever known. Seven of the last eight are former champions; between them they have won 22 Cups of Nations. It is the first time all eight quarter-finalists are in the top 10 African sides in the Fif
  
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• What is Pfannenstiel's next move in Aberdeen rebuild?

  07-01-2026 11:26 via bbc.com
  Lutz Pfannenstiel is already making his presence felt at Aberdeen and now faces the task of appointing a new manager.
  
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• Palace would sell Guehi at right price - Glasner

  07-01-2026 10:59 via bbc.com
  Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner says the club could sell captain Marc Guehi this month if his asking price is met.
  
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• Football transfer rumours: PSG to move for Rashford? Roma eye Zirkzee?

  07-01-2026 10:57 via theguardian.com
  Today’s rumours are staring at bare wallsAnother day, another Jørgen Strand Larsen rumour. The latest speculation concerning the Wolves striker has Tottenham tussling with Newcastle for his services. With Mohammed Kudus sidelined by injury, Thomas Frank needs attacking reinforcements for his ailing side and Strand Larsen could fit the bill. Newcastle’s interest remains solid though, and they had scouts at Molineux last weekend, the Newcastle Chronicle reports.Chelsea being Che
  
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• 'Like basketball' - Soucek criticises 'joke' penalty

  07-01-2026 10:43 via bbc.com
  West Ham's Tomas Soucek says the Premier League has become "like basketball" after a "joke" decision to award Nottingham Forest a penalty.
  
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• Why is the Spanish Super Cup played in Saudi Arabia?

  07-01-2026 10:11 via bbc.com
  Our Ask Me Anything team explore why the Spanish Super Cup is being played in Saudi Arabia.
  
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• No Wales issue for 'best player' Davies - Bellamy

  07-01-2026 10:00 via bbc.com
  Ben Davies' limited game-time at Spurs is no issue for Wales, for whom he remains the "best player", says head coach Craig Bellamy.
  
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