Time wasting. By all accounts, a colossal waste of time…or a means to an end by which a football team can win the game. There have been many high profile examples this season of what seemed like relentlessly excruciating bouts of wasting time. Players fall to the ground one, two, even three at a time in the closing stages of matches, ‘Keepers taking a tooth out with goal kicks… I felt that was very common. Because He is common. Basically this happens in every match – and that’s nothing new.…
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Bristol City’s favorite to sign is set to leave Fulham this summer, Joe Bryan
Joe Bryan is set to leave Fulham when his contract expires this summer, with former club Bristol City a candidate to sign him. The 29-year-old left-back joined Fulham from Bristol City in 2018 and has since gone on to make over 100 appearances for the club, as well as playing a key role in two promotions from the Championship. He is best known for scoring twice in the 2020 Championship Final against Brentford at Wembley Stadium, including an audacious 40-yard free kick. Brian signed a three-year contract extension following this…
Read MoreGraeme Souness is stepping down as analyst for Sky Sports after 15 years
Graeme Souness is stepping down as analyst at Sky Sports. It has been confirmed that the 69-year-old will leave his role on Sky Sports’ Super Sunday show after Liverpool’s 4-3 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield. Souness received an emotional send-off in the studio. He said: “I’m going to miss you guys, guys backstage, I’m going to miss you all. “You know, for me, I decided football management wasn’t for me anymore. I had the wrong mood for that, the wrong personality. “And then I had the opportunity to do…
Read MorePremier League Team News: Latest Injury Updates – Luis Diaz, Lisandro Martinez & More
The 2022-23 Premier League season is drawing to a close as this weekend marks Round 31 of the English Premier League. Arsenal will be looking to maintain their lead at the top of the Premier League when they travel to West Ham, while Frank Lampard will try to steer clear of target as Chelsea’s interim manager with a visit to Brighton and Dean Smith begins his spell at Leicester City with a trip. to Manchester City. the athlete Rounds out the latest injury updates from each club playing the weekend.…
Read MoreOrnstein: Chilwell to sign Chelsea deal, Arsenal’s Balogun dilemma, 6 PL teams in US tournament
It was another weekend for Chelsea to forget after they lost at Wolverhampton Wanderers to stay 11th in the table, with Frank Lampard’s tenure as interim manager getting off to a disappointing start. The west London side are without a victory in four Premier League games and focus now turns to their Champions League quarter-final first leg versus Real Madrid at the Bernabeu on Wednesday. That competition presents Chelsea’s last shot at silverware in an otherwise dismal campaign and, whatever happens in Europe, it is guaranteed to be a summer…
Read MorePremier League team news: Latest injury update ahead of Frank Lampard’s return to Chelsea
The 2022-23 Premier League season is slowly drawing to a close as this weekend marks Matchday 30 in England. With so much on the line in both the top and bottom half of the table, we are poised for an exciting end to what has been an exciting season so far. Frank Lampard returns to the dugout on Saturday after Chelsea appointed the 44-year-old as head coach until the end of the season. The West London club plays Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on Saturday. Meanwhile, Arsenal take on league leaders…
Read MoreAleksandar Mitrovic, Marco Silva and Fulham have been charged with conduct during the FA Cup exit at Man United
Fulham have been charged by the Football Association after several incidents during their 3-1 FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Manchester United on Sunday at Old Trafford. The London club were leading 1-0 when Willian was sent off in the 72nd minute after a deliberate handball on the line prevented Jadon Sancho’s equaliser. Marco Silva and Aleksandar Mitrović were then sent off by referee Chris Kavanagh, with Mitrović appearing to slash Kavanagh’s arm and he had to walk away from the referee after an angry reaction to Willian’s dismissal. The Football…
Read MoreAlfie Mawson: “The surgeon told me my career was over at the age of 18”
When the truth came out, Alfie Mawson didn’t want her covered in sugar. After a career blighted by a meniscus problem in his right knee, he just wanted the facts, and telling them straight. And so he did his surgery. He said, “I could show your knee to 100 other knee surgeons, and they’d all say the same thing: You need to retire,” Mawson recalls. Just like that, Mawson’s career ended, at the age of 29. His final game for Wycombe Wanderers was against Ipswich Town in League One a…
Read MoreMark Bullingham: The FA is ready to ease GBE restrictions – allowing Premier League clubs to sign players early
Chief executive Mark Bullingham says the Football Association is ready to ease Governing Bodies Endorsement (GBE) restrictions to allow more Premier League clubs to recruit players early. But the FA is also concerned that the influx of new players could limit the path to the first team for English footballers. Post-Brexit, the introduction of the GBE in January 2021 has significantly impacted people who can be recruited from outside the UK. Clubs can no longer take talent from Europe under the age of 18 and the points tally now decides…
Read MoreFulham reap the rewards from crucial recruitment – this could be a special season
There may have been something in the water at Motspur Park this week. Fulham practice their long-range shooting, something Joao Balinha made clear after Tuesday night’s FA Cup match with Leeds United. But this week it was actually Louis Bois Morte who took the spotlight before the match. A former Fulham favourite, now Marco Silva’s assistant, dusted off the cobwebs over the weekend with three fantastic long-range efforts which he duly posted on Instagram, shots backing up the ‘you’ll never lose it’ adage. By 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, his efforts were…
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