The Premier League season is right around the corner, with the action kicking off on Friday. Reigning champions Liverpool will host a Bournemouth side that will break in a new defense under Andoni Iraola. After an active summer that has brought in five new players to the squad, will Liverpool be able to repeat as…
Getty Images One of the biggest questions for the new Premier League season may surround whether Liverpool can win the league for a second consecutive season, but when looking at the entire league, who stacks up well? Newcastle’s summer has been nothing short of a disaster with Alexander Isak pushing for a transfer.Meanwhile, Arsenal are…
A European league match being played in the United States looks closer than ever. On Sunday, The Athletic reported that La Liga held preliminary discussions to relocate December’s La Liga fixture between Villarreal and Barcelona to Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. A day later, the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) approved the move and said it would…
LONDON — Liverpool began their new season as you, the neutral, would hope they’ll go on. Full-throated in attack, perfectly prepared to leave gaps behind them, they’ve set the stage for a season where they might score three or four on any occasion. They might need to, too. That much was apparent as the Community…
Trophies may be forever, but the same cannot be said for the teams that win them, especially the ones that punch above their weight to collect winners’ medals. Those are the teams that usually get picked apart by sides that rank higher than them in the proverbial food chain, accentuating the gulf between the superclubs…
“We don’t want to celebritise referees, but we want to humanise them,” says Howard Webb, chief refereeing officer for Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), while sitting pitchside in Spain at a pre-season training camp for England’s elite officials. “One of our key performance characteristics is around physical ability and being able to comfortably meet…
By ISAAN KHAN, REPORTER Published: 20:43 BST, 9 August 2025 | Updated: 02:04 BST, 10 August 2025 Mikel Arteta warned rivals that Viktor Gyokeres can ‘destroy’ defences after he scored his first Arsenal goal in their final pre-season fixture. The Gunners signed the £64million striker from Sporting Lisbon last month, ending a long wait of…
Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United are among the Premier League clubs who have spent big money in the summer transfer window ahead of the new 2025-26 season Joe Cole is expecting big things from one Premier League new boy(Image: Newcastle United via Getty Image) Joe Cole feels that Florian Wirtz is the signing of the…
When you think of a typical fan of English football, it would be fair to assume that the glamorous faces seen at the most exclusive events in Hollywood do not come to mind – but these women are proving that football fever doesn’t discriminate and can grip anybody. For some supporters, they’re bound to a…
Christer Nordvik, the CEO of FotMob, launched the app in 2004. Over two decades, the platform has notched more than 100 million downloads. FotMob Golden rays of sunlight warmed his face as he lounged in a beachside shack in Thailand. Christer Nordvik was on his honeymoon with his wife, Linda. It was the perfect tropical…