Genoa director Marco Ottolini claimed Genoa have players who are ‘better suited’ to their football style than Mario Balotelli, which is why the striker is not getting any playing time under coach ... ... Read full Story
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"Energy and directness" that's what Scotland interim manager Michael McArdle is expecting from first time call up Emma Lawton. Lawton signed for Celtic in September, making the step up from part-time Partick Thistle to the professional Scottish champions. Fast forward two weeks and the defender started, and scored, in the Glasgow side's final Champions League qualifier. ... Read full Story
PSV Eindhoven star Noa Lang admits he wanted to join Napoli in January: ‘These were turbulent weeks for me.’The versatile Dutch striker was one of the Partenopei targets to replace Khvicha Kvarats... ... Read full Story
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Christian Pulisic has hit back at claims that he has asked to leave Milan.Reports in Italian media on Thursday suggested the USMNT international requested a summer exit from San Siro as part of a disp... ... Read full Story
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The last-16 beckons, and there were plenty of storylines to digest. We hand out honours and dishonours from the latest round of action ... Read full Story
There were a lot of question marks around Fabian Hurzeler and his age when he first came in and how he would manage the group. You look at players like Danny Welbeck and his contributions, Kaoru Mitoma on the left and Yankuba Minteh on the right - when they are all fit and firing, they look really good. When you look at Brighton, in terms of how the whole club is run from top to bottom, they have always had that consistency. ... Read full Story
As a former Everton player, I was there when David Moyes was in charge the first time and it is nice that he has gone full circle and come back. Is it just minor tweaks that Moyes has made? Maybe they just needed someone that was going to go in and put an arm around them and Moyes looks like he gets that right with players. ... Read full Story
Isak Hien is set to make his return from injury for Atalanta in Serie A matches against Juventus and Inter Milan next month.This according to today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta ... ... Read full Story
Cesc Fabregas says Antonio Conte is an ‘incredible’ coach for ‘struggling’ teams: ‘He puts everything in order.’Serie A leaders Napoli visit Como in the next Serie A Round, offering a seco... ... Read full Story
West Ham boss Graham Potter has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game away against Arsenal (15:00 GMT). Potter said Lucas Paqueta "had a bit of a collision" in training and will miss Saturday's trip to North London and "probably" the visit of Leicester on Thursday. ... Read full Story
Aurelien Tchouameni is one of the few Real Madrid players who has been under tremendous pressure this season, and rightfully so given his inconsistency on the field.Indeed, the Frenchman has served as... ... Read full Story
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 20, 2025 is:
flounder \FLOUN-der\ verb
To flounder is to struggle, whether that struggle is about moving or obtaining footing (as in “horses floundering through deep snow”) or about knowing what to do or say.
// Caught off-guard by the reporter’s question, the mayor floundered for a few moments before remembering the talking points he had rehearsed.
“In those early days we floundered in a city we didn’t know. Tottenham in 1992 wasn’t the London we’d imagined. There were no top hats, no smog, no Holmes, no Watson, no ladies, no gents, and no afternoon tea. Not for us. We lived in a different London. In our London, people swore and spat, drank, quarreled, and laughed in fretful bursts. They spoke strange words in accents we couldn’t parse.” — Leo Vardiashvili, Hard By a Great Forest, 2024
Did you know?
There’s nothing fishy about flounder... the verb, that is. While the noun referring to a common food fish is of Scandinavian origin, the verb flounder, which dates to the late 16th century, is likely an alteration of an older verb, founder. The two verbs have been confused ever since. Today, founder is most often used as a synonym of fail, or, in contexts involving a waterborne vessel, as a word meaning “to fill with water and sink.” Formerly, it was also frequently applied when a horse stumbled badly and was unable to keep walking. It’s likely this sense of founder led to the original and now-obsolete meaning of flounder: “to stumble.” In modern use, flounder typically means “to struggle” or “to act clumsily”; the word lacks the finality of founder, which usually suggests complete collapse or failure, as that of a sinking ship.