We’re all team David Moyes as West Ham’s poor season could become a great one
West Ham United manager David Moyes hasn’t had a career festooned with silverware, but the Europa Conference League offers a chance to rectify that.
West Ham United manager David Moyes hasn’t had a career festooned with silverware, but the Europa Conference League offers a chance to rectify that.
Kalvin Phillips is about to get his hands on a Premier League winner’s medal – but he won’t take top spot in our list of unworthy medal holders.
Newcastle don’t need the Neymar ‘circus’ but it could work spectacularly at Chelsea under Todd Boehly, who’s changing things whether the fans like it or not.
Jude Bellingham will be high on this list once he leaves Borussia Dortmund for Real Madrid, who have bought very, very big before.
The current 20 Premier League managers appear pretty certain to survive the remaining weeks of the season now. Even Frank Lampard.
Spurs and Chelsea inevitably figure pretty prominently in a team made up of last year’s signings who might already be heading for the exit.
Lionel Messi will soon be on the market but no Premier League club should touch him with a money-soaked bargepole. Todd Boehly really must resist his urges.
Few other clubs have had such a miserable time for such a long time as Birmingham City, but new ownership may finally be signalling a brighter future.
Inter came out flying for their Champions League semi-final against Milan, but the evening was really a reminder of Italian club football’s recent revival.
West Ham had the talent. Forest had Brian Clough. Leeds had recently been in the Champions League. They all still went down.
It’s almost certainly Southampton plus two from Forest, Leeds, Leicester and Everton as a relegation battle for the ages hits the home straight.
There’s enough blame at Manchester United again for the manager to take some of it. But Erik ten Hag ought to be absolved until he can say his squad is ...
It’s the end of an era as four renowned yo-yo clubs – Fulham, Norwich City, Watford and Rotherham United – have all binned their scripts this season.
This has been a remarkable season for transfer waste, with even the champions very much at it. One weird Liverpool stop-gap only made the problem worse.
Predictions shouldn’t be about expected outcome, but about funniest outcome. Here’s our effort at working out how the Premier League top eight pans out.
Manchester City have a healthy lead atop the Premier League with time running out, but the fixture list does offer Arsenal a boost with far kinder games.
Man City v Real Madrid lived up to the hype with a couple of ludicrous goals in a 1-1 Bernabeu draw which sets up the second leg rather wonderfully.
It’s been a busy season for revolving doors in the Premier League but at the bottom many of these managerial changes have made little difference.
There were two keepers worse than David De Gea this weekend, while Brighton, Leicester and Leeds are all represented by three players each in this mad weekend’s worst XI…
Sam Allardyce and Dean Smith are up against it with the fixtures as Leeds and Leicester fight not to join Southampton. West Ham could be the unlikely key.
One of the five Champions League contenders can probably be ignored but Man Utd should stamp out any hope Liverpool might have of catching the top four.
Man City are the best side in Europe right now – but they’ve f***ed it before. Real have the finest pedigree – but this isn’t a vintage Real side. Then ...
Arsenal are not quite as young as Southampton after their January signings but they are still much younger than their rivals.
Nottingham Forest kept giving Southampton ways back into this crucial Premier League match, but Saints couldn’t take them and relegation now seems likely.
Liverpool fans are not big on deference to anyone but Shankly, Paisley, Dalglish, Benitez or Klopp, so the coronation boos were to be expected and applauded
Liverpool may yet join Arsenal in next season’s Champions League, particularly if Newcastle continue playing like that and Erik ten Hag keeps making errors.
Everton have transformed their chances of avoiding relegation with a five-star, five-goal performance away to a shell-shocked Brighton & Hove Albion.
Jorg Schmadtke is in talks to become the new sporting director at Liverpool, who can expect to sign a few Man Utd flops if his record is anything to go ...
Arsenal cannot slip up again but it doesn’t get much tougher than a trip to Newcastle. No matter what happens, they dominate this combined XI.
David De Gea’s horror mistake gifted West Ham their goal, but more worrying for Manchester United will be the lack of response in a tame 1-0 defeat…
Newcastle didn’t do much wrong in a 2-0 defeat against Arsenal but it’s results that matter in May and that top-four spot looks far more precarious now…
Mikel Arteta knows a Premier League title challenge will be “even harder” next season and beyond, but this Arsenal team proved their long-term credentials.
With players and staff still going unpaid and yet another winding up petition issued, there are growing doubts about the ongoing viability of Southend.