Scoring more goals rather than conceding fewer seems to be the best way to avoid relegation – with one notable exceptionBy Chris Evans for The Set PiecesClub that are seemingly slipping towards relegation love nothing more than a shiny new manager to r…
Premier League fans’ January transfer window wish lists
Dusan Vlahovic to Spurs? Raphinha to Liverpool? Supporters set out their hopes for the monthAfter a surprisingly lavish summer it’s hard to see Silent Stan sliding down the chimney with a bag full of swag for a January blowout. But, unless Gabriel Mart…
Premier League fans’ half-term reports, part two: Liverpool to Wolves
Fans rate the best and worst of the season so far – the stars, the flops and what needs to change in 2022Part one: Arsenal to LeicesterIt’s going pretty much how most Liverpool fans expected: we’re up at the top and we cruised through the Champions Lea…
Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
Manchester United travel to Chelsea under Michael Carrick, Leeds’ impressive young goalkeeper has another tough evening ahead and Newcastle have decisions to make“Why are you playing Fred?” That’s the question Roy Keane wanted to ask while pinning Ole …
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…
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Solskjær pulls off a tactical trick, Potter gives Brighton fans a treat and De Bruyne endures a rare horror showOle Gunnar Solskjær deserves credit for Manchester United’s win over Tottenham. The switch to a back three worked and a front two with a com…
Police find man who lost finger while climbing fence
Severed digit found in Southampton belongs to 28-year-old man who is being treated in hospitalPolice have traced the owner of a severed finger that was found outside a block of flats in Southampton.It was discovered in a parking area in Lower Bannister…
‘Regrettable’ that only two paramedics at fatal cage fight, says coroner
Concerns after Saeideh Aletaha left alone following knockout, as medics returned to ringside in SouthamptonA coroner has raised concerns that only two paramedics were on duty for a cage fight at which a mixed martial arts enthusiast suffered fatal head…
Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
Raphaël Varane’s Manchester United debut and Romelu Lukaku’s desire to show Liverpool what he is made ofRomelu Lukaku’s first eight league games against Liverpool, when he was a much rawer prospect, yielded five goals, with Daniel Agger, Martin Skrtel …
Mason Greenwood earns Manchester United draw at Southampton
If anything encapsulated a trying afternoon for Manchester United, it was the sight of Paul Pogba being booked for a crude challenge as the clock ticked into second-half stoppage time, seconds after the Southampton striker Che Adams made a superb slidi…