Club fall to 19th in Championship, four points above drop zoneReported £41m wage bill in 2018-19 equated to 194% of turnoverReading are to be deducted six points for breaking the English Football League’s financial regulations. The Championship club ag…
Armstrong blasts Southampton to victory to increase Aston Villa’s woes
There were a couple of times in this game when a fidgeting Dean Smith took a hurried glance at his watch and, after a fifth successive Premier League defeat, the Aston Villa hierarchy must decide whether to stick or twist. Smith had spoken of a determi…
Sorba Thomas’s spectacular rise from Boreham Wood to playing for Wales | Ben Fisher
The fast-improving Huddersfield winger has become a cult hero overnight after making his international debutOn Friday night Sorba Thomas charted another memorable moment in his spectacular rise, coming off the bench in Prague to make his Wales debut in…
Forest Green Rovers flash up climate emergency warnings during match
‘Pitchside intervention’ on hoardings at Swindon gameSky Sports broadcasting League Two game to 120 countriesForest Green Rovers have brought the climate and ecological crisis into sharp focus by taking the unprecedented step of using their pitchside a…
How Forest Green Rovers are doing things differently – and thriving
League Two leaders’ head coach, Rob Edwards, sang before team’s win last week and a groundbreaking coach trip beckonsIt is a sunny Tuesday afternoon and Forest Green Rovers’ scholars, in a striking zebra-pattern strip partly made from bamboo, are in ac…
AFC Wimbledon: set-piece kings aim to make Arsenal dance to their tune
League One club head into Carabao Cup tie with specialist coaches in restarts, performance mindset and substitutionsIt is Monday morning at AFC Wimbledon’s training base and as the squad filter up the clubhouse stairs to the sound of the 80s before a t…
Wayne Rooney found out on TV that Derby were set for administration
Championship club facing potential deduction of 21 pointsRooney says he and his players not informed by club hierarchyWayne Rooney has said he and his Derby County players only discovered the Championship club were set to enter administration after wat…
Barrow hope to blow Aston Villa off course in Carabao Cup | Ben Fisher
Mark Cooper’s side host Premier League opposition for the first time in their history in Tuesday’s second-round tie“We’ve been described as the last outpost of the British Empire. It is a 40-mile cul-de-sac,” the Barrow chairman, Paul Hornby, says of t…
Hasenhüttl sees Ward-Prowse deal as statement of Southampton’s ambition
Manager believes the captain’s new five-year contract sends a message after a tricky close season when Saints lost key playersSouthampton supporters received some welcome good news this week: the captain and heartbeat of the team, James Ward-Prowse, wh…
Harry Kane must be mentally right to play for Tottenham, says Nuno
England captain misses Europa Conference play-off‘Harry has our support. His fitness is getting better’Nuno Espírito Santo said he must consider whether Harry Kane is in the right frame of mind before deciding whether to select him, with Manchester Cit…