Renaming White Hart Lane station as Tottenham Hotspur is a blow to loyal fans and the neighbourhood’s historyWhat’s in a name? Everything, if you’re a football fan. The sport has always been driven by finance, but the post-1992 fetish for name-changing…
Tottenham, Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea can all still win a European trophy but, if they don’t, have just eight games each to try to secure a Champions League placeIt is hard to place the exact moment when “bottle” became such an overused par…
Ross Barkley’s difficult return, VAR inconsistency in the FA Cup, Nuno Espírito Santo impresses and James Maddison’s classRoss Barkley would have known what kind of reception awaited him at Goodison Park: the type rained down on previous Everton escape…
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Everton have at last beaten a side in the top six to ease the pressure on Marco SilvaAbove the Bullens Road Stand a tear appeared in the clouds and behind there shone, well, not a sun-kissed future exactly but at least a bluer shade of grey. Everton ha…
Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri has blamed ‘a mental block’ for his side’s 2-0 loss at Everton following a fine first-half display. The defeat has dented the Blues hopes of finishing in the top four, but Sarri has insisted that ‘it is not impossible’ to ac…
• Manager highlights top-four concern without team consistency• ‘At the moment this is our limit, I think,’ says ItalianMaurizio Sarri accused his side of switching off mentally as Chelsea provided Everton’s first top-six scalp in more than two years, …
• Manager says: ‘We had a very intense week’• After Fulham equaliser, ‘I didn’t see us panic’Jürgen Klopp praised his players’ reaction to shipping an unlikely equaliser at Fulham and welcomed a “sensational result” as Liverpool rallied late to move tw…
Jûrgen Klopp has said Liverpool’s 2-1 victory at Fulham was ‘an average game, sensational result.’ The Reds needed a James Milner penalty to beat the London club, who remain in 19th place in the table.Klopp’s side lead the Premier League table heading …
Chelsea will never find their way into the top four at this rate. They dominated for much of the game without being able to come up with an end product, and eventually conceded from the almost inevitable set-piece to send Everton on the way to their fi…
There was a brief period here where doubt might have crept into Liverpool’s challenge, just as hope simultaneously flared in distant Manchester. Jürgen Klopp’s team had been so utterly dominant, albeit without ever threatening to run away with this con…
Live updates from Goodison Park, kick-off 4.30pm (GMT)Silva looks for more ‘emotional balance’ from PickfordFeel free to email Ben or tweet @benfisherj to get in touch 4.03pm GMT Another talking point has been Jordan Pickford’s erratic form. But Marco …
Live updates from Goodison Park, kick-off 4.30pm (GMT)Silva looks for more ‘emotional balance’ from PickfordFeel free to email Ben or tweet @benfisherj to get in touch 4.03pm GMT Another talking point has been Jordan Pickford’s erratic form. But Marco …
Live updates from Craven Cottage, kick-off 2.15pm (GMT)Millwall v Brighton: FA Cup – live!Klopp loves it too much at Liverpool to be swayed by the KaiserFeel free to email Rob your thoughts 1.45pm GMT Pre-match clickbait Related: Jürgen Klopp loves it …
Javier Hernández scored twice as West Ham came back from the brink of a humiliating defeat to beat Huddersfield 4-3. Huddersfield, rock-bottom of the Premier League and all but doomed to relegation, were heading towards only their fourth win of the sea…
Newcastle winger Matt Ritchie returned to haunt former club Bournemouth by smashing home a sensational stoppage-time equaliser to rescue a point. The Scotland international, who left the Vitality Stadium to join the Magpies in 2016, lashed home on the …
It is not often a substitute scores 84 minutes after coming on. If this was a rarity, it represented rather more than that. Summoned in the sixth minute, after Harry Maguire got the division’s earliest red card since 2015, Wes Morgan capped his contrib…
Also: Burnley v Leicester and West Ham v HuddersfieldLive scoreboard! Follow all of the day’s goals and gamesAnd feel free to email Gregg or tweet him @GreggBakowski 2.28pm GMT Pontus Jansson has just legged it from goal up to the Sheffield United pena…
Liverpool are looking for a return to the top with a ninth successive Premier League win against a promoted side. Jürgen Klopp will be confident after the Champions League victory over Bayern Munich. He may have one eye on the quarter-final against Por…
Confidence should outweigh fatigue for Chelsea on their return from a 5-0 victory at Dynamo Kyiv as they look to close the gap on the Champions League places with victory at Everton. Chelsea have reacted impressively to defeat in the Carabao Cup final,…
