Ljungberg discusses his time at Arsenal, his teammates, his coaching career and what he learned from Arsène WengerBy The Coaches’ Voice for the Guardian Sport NetworkI never, ever get nervous. But the day I made my debut for Arsenal, I remember standin…
Foxes’ Wembley success is based on strong management, Alli’s revival and Harrison’s future Of all of the post-match scenes, as the emotion ran wild through the Leicester ranks, was anything more touching than when the club’s chairman, Top Srivaddhanapr…
Foxes’ Wembley success is based on strong management, Alli’s revival and Harrison’s future Of all of the post-match scenes, as the emotion ran wild through the Leicester ranks, was anything more touching than when the club’s chairman, Top Srivaddhanapr…
Tireless FA Cup hero is emblematic of a club that responded to its fabled title triumph by building shrewdly for the futurePick a Leicester player, any Leicester player. Or the manager. Or the owner. Each has a story to tell that could lift the heart, …
Saturday’s FA Cup showpiece may not have been a great game but it was a great final, a celebration of the game’s traditionsFootball is rarely just about the football. Often it’s not really about the football at all, particularly when it comes to finals…
Brendan Rodgers praised his players – and the 21,000 fans in attendance at Wembley Stadium – after Leicester won the FA Cup for the first time in the club’s history Rodgers’ side beat Chelsea 1-0 thanks a to a Youri Tielemans screamer. ‘Just…
Youri Tielemans and Kasper Schmeichel were exceptional for Leicester, while it was a day to forget for Chelsea’s Timo WernerKepa Arrizabalaga The £71.6m Spaniard was preferred in goal to Édouard Mendy but he stood no chance with Leicester’s goal. He ba…
Youri Tielemans and Kasper Schmeichel were exceptional for Leicester, while it was a day to forget for Chelsea’s Timo WernerKepa Arrizabalaga The £71.6m Spaniard was preferred in goal to Édouard Mendy but he stood no chance with Leicester’s goal. He ba…
Youri Tielemans and Kasper Schmeichel were exceptional for Leicester, while it was a day to forget for Chelsea’s Timo WernerKepa Arrizabalaga The £71.6m Spaniard was preferred in goal to Édouard Mendy but he stood no chance with Leicester’s goal. He ba…
Football got something back after a year of digital buzz thanks to this FA Cup final between Leicester and ChelseaWith 63 minutes gone at Wembley Luke Thomas, born in Charnwood, Leicestershire and still only 19, picked up a loose pass and fed it forwar…
Doing a Leicester: to achieve the seemingly impossible, to make light of ridiculous odds. Things have changed somewhat since 2016 and the most outlandish title triumph of all time, with Leicester having levelled the playing field through astute recruit…
FA Cup final updates from the 5.15pm BST game at WembleyThe Fiver: sign up now and get our free football newsletterAnd feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 3.45pm BST Chelsea will sport a mind-bending new shirt today. It’s a homage to Op-Art…
Chelsea’s great survivor and captain has been revitalised under Tuchel and wants to make up for last year’s Wembley disaster“I always had this mentality of being open to new ideas,” César Azpilicueta says. “I never felt that I was fully complete becaus…
Chelsea’s great survivor and captain has been revitalised under Tuchel and wants to make up for last year’s Wembley disaster“I always had this mentality of being open to new ideas,” César Azpilicueta says. “I never felt that I was fully complete becaus…
Leicester’s manager has succumbed to his own hubris before but he now has ample evidence of the success of his methodsA quiz: which of these stories about Brendan Rodgers is true? Story A: when he was a youth-team coach at Chelsea he once tried to chee…
Leicester can strike blow against ‘big six’, will Allardyce halt Liverpool’s top-four charge and what now for Ndombele?The cold, dead-behind-the-eyes pragmatist might assert that Leicester’s most important match against Chelsea comes on Tuesday, in a m…
Leicester can strike blow against ‘big six’, will Allardyce halt Liverpool’s top-four charge and what now for Ndombele?The cold, dead-behind-the-eyes pragmatist might assert that Leicester’s most important match against Chelsea comes on Tuesday, in a m…
Brendan Rodgers to make decision on centre-back on FridayFit Evans will be ‘a huge boost for us’, says managerLeicester will decide on Friday whether their influential centre-back, Jonny Evans, is fit enough to play in the FA Cup final against Chelsea …
No 2 goalkeeper should start at Wembley, where he refused to come off in one final and did not get on in anotherIt was not supposed to turn out this way when Chelsea, under pressure to move quickly once Thibaut Courtois had forced his way to Real Madri…
Ipswich are mid-table in League One this season. In 1981, they nearly won a league, FA Cup and Uefa Cup trebleBy Steven Pye for That 1980s Sports BlogTowards the end of the 1980-81 season, it looked as if Ipswich Town were on course for a joyous treble…
