A Fulham fan explains the joys and pain of the season-ticket friendship in an extract from a new book by female writersIt was a reference to Franz Kafka that made me realise my friendship with Dom was pretty special. It was around the time when we had …
The Fiver | Sometimes even the very best penalty-takers in football just miss
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!If The Fiver had to nominate a current Premier League footballer to score a penalty in order to save our miserable life, Mark Noble would be top of the list. Before his late, late introduction at the L…
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Liverpool and Arsenal find defensive solidity, Leon Bailey changes the game for Villa, and Ivan Toney for England?It is true that Thomas Tuchel’s decision to replace Mason Mount with N’Golo Kanté at half-time against Tottenham had a profound impact on …
European roundup: Icardi scores late PSG winner after Messi substituted
Paris Saint-Germain recover to beat Lyon 2-1Juventus 1-1 Milan; Real Madrid defeat ValenciaA late Mauro Icardi strike earned Paris Saint-Germain a last-gasp 2-1 home victory against Lyon, with Lionel Messi making limited impact on his Parc des Princes …
Jimmy Greaves: peerless player whose legacy is etched in football history | Barney Ronay
The relentlessly effective Tottenham and England player remains the highest scorer in English top-flight football historyFarewell, then, Jimmy. Sporting celebrities come and go but Greaves, who has died at the age of 81, was something different, not ju…
Tottenham ‘have a lot of problems’ admits Nuno after Chelsea defeat
Spurs manager says: ‘We need more time to work together’Thomas Tuchel praises N’Golo Kanté and second-half displayNuno Espírito Santo conceded “there were a lot of things that went wrong” as his Tottenham side sustained an ultimately chastening 3-0 hom…
Noble and Moyes share the blame after West Ham throw point away | Jonathan Liew
Hammers went toe to toe with Manchester United and shouldn’t have been relying on a late penalty to earn a drawSomething about it just felt wrong. Brave and heroic and wrong. Suspenseful and theatrical and wrong. This isn’t simply hindsight talking: th…
Brendan Rodgers frustrated by VAR as Brighton hang on to beat Leicester
Brendan Rodgers was in no doubt that one of Leicester’s disallowed equalisers in the 2-1 defeat at Brighton should have stood and he was also unhappy at the penalty with which Albion took the lead.Brighton found themselves on the right side of VAR thro…
Lingard fires Manchester United to win as West Ham sub Noble’s penalty saved
Mark Noble was offered one shot and it was of the kind that, throughout his career, he has dispatched with chilling reliability. A handball from Luke Shaw had offered West Ham the chance to salvage a draw during an extraordinary finale and, in fairness…
Jimmy Greaves redefined perception of what a centre-forward should be | Jonathan Wilson
Like Brian Clough, Greaves was very different from the classic English No 9 and together they changed the game’s tactics• Jimmy Greaves dies aged 81For those of us too young to have caught the end of Jimmy Greaves’s playing career, there was always a s…