Liverpool fans may breathe a little sigh of relief as it seems there’s no truth to the recent Mohamed Salah to Paris Saint-Germain transfer stories that have been doing the rounds.The Egypt internat... ... Read full Story
Former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann has picked out two players who’ve been like new signings for the Reds this season.It seems Hamann is a big fan of both Ryan Gravenberch and Curtis Jones in... ... Read full Story
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has refused to commit to playing Aurelien Tchouameni in one position or another when he returns from injury. Los Blancos return to action against Athletic Club at S... ... Read full Story
Pep Guardiola has stated that he and Manchester City’s relevant officials will talk in the coming weeks about the club’s approach towards the January transfer window.Much has been made in recent w... ... Read full Story
Heading into their Premier League fixture against Nottingham Forest tomorrow evening there has been both good and bad news on the injury front for Manchester City. Pep Guardiola provided an update on ... ... Read full Story
Real Madrid will be looking for their fourth consecutive win in La Liga when they lock horns with Athletic Club at San Mames on Wednesday night.Ahead of the game against the Basque club, manager Carlo... ... Read full Story
Riccardo Calafiori is ‘honoured’ to be part of the Serie A Team of the Year after an ‘extraordinary’ season at Bologna: ‘I’ll never forget you.’Former Bologna star Calafiori was named t... ... Read full Story
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has provided a significant update on two of his most important first-team players during a new media conference this week.The Premier League champions are despera... ... Read full Story
Having reduced the gap to the top of the table to just one point, Real Madrid will be gunning for another win when they take on Athletic Club on Wednesday in La Liga.Despite losing to Liverpool in the... ... Read full Story
Arsenal's track record of buying players from Chelsea has always been hit and miss. Petr Cech was never the same goalkeeper at Arsenal as he was at Chelsea. The same criticisms cannot be levelled at Jorginho, who was a somewhat surprise arrival in January 2023. ... Read full Story
Giovanni Ghini, President of the team that treated Edoardo Bove on Sunday, explains how doctors saved the midfielder’s life, taking him to the hospital in just 13 minutes.Bove is currently at the Ca... ... Read full Story
Are Paris Saint-Germain really any better than they were a year ago? It’s a question which has been posed by many of late, with the club’s ‘transitional’ project attracting increasing levels o... ... Read full Story
If it wasn’t clear before the 24/25 began it is now. The Manchester City squad needs a rebuild. It is clear now that age and the legacy of climbing the top of the football mountain several times ove... ... Read full Story
Before launching into a bitter, emotional tirade about the integrity of decision-making in Scottish football and VAR as a philosophical concept, I think it's best that I'm up front about Saturday's result at Tannadice. Outstanding performances from Declan Gallagher, Kevin Holt and Will Ferry (among others) restricted the Saints to not much at all, and for the third time this season the United attack compounded that clean sheet with enough to secure the win. In a tight middle section of the Scottish Premiership, they are inarguably the standard setter as we enter December and there is no point in arguing with any of that. ... Read full Story
Ruud van Nistelrooy’s Departure from Manchester United: Pain, Respect, and a New Challenge at Leicester CityRuud van Nistelrooy’s managerial journey has taken another significant turn, with the Du... ... Read full Story
Let us know your predictions in the comments!Last week, we pitted our special guest - The Horrors frontman Faris Badwan - against an AI to see who could most accurately predict the results of Premier... ... Read full Story
In today’s market you would find it a challenge to recruit a player who regularly delivers offensive numbers for less than £10m, but it looks as if Bournemouth have. At just £9m, Justin Kluivert is a vital part of Andoni Iraola's Cherries, delivering exactly what the coach wants from his number 10 position and backing it up with impressive numbers. History was made at the weekend when he became the first player to score a hat-trick of penalties in a Premier League fixture, a treble that he took with ease from the spot. ... Read full Story
"Brighton could be in title contention by the end of December". More than one supporter of other football clubs I know proclaimed this in the lead up to Southampton visiting Amex Stadium, having looked at the next six games for the Albion. All are against opponents outside the top eight in the current Premier League table. ... Read full Story
Heading into Saturday's game, nine league places and 10 points separated Crystal Palace and visitors Newcastle United. Daniel Munoz was central to that rollercoaster experience. An unfortunate own goal aside, the team held Newcastle to a single shot over 100 minutes, including added time. ... Read full Story
“Scheduled work shifts [at Burning Man] were delayed and continually rearranged, causing confusion among campers as to how and when to contribute.... While some of us found ways to help, others took it as an opportunity to eschew their responsibilities. However, those of us who showed up united, and handled business, did so with aplomb...” — Morena Duwe, The Los Angeles Times, 9 Sept. 2024
Did you know?
Something to chew on: there’s no etymological relationship between the verbs chew and eschew. While the former comes from the Old English word cēowan, eschew comes instead from the Anglo-French verb eschiver and shares roots with the Old High German verb sciuhen, meaning “to frighten off.” In his famous dictionary of 1755, Samuel Johnson characterized eschew as “almost obsolete.” History has proven that the great lexicographer was wrong on that call, however. Today, following a boom in the word’s usage during the 19th and 20th centuries, English speakers and writers use eschew when something is avoided less for temperamental reasons than for moral or practical ones, even if misguidedly so, as when Barry Lopez wrote in his 2019 book Horizon of ill-fated Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, “with an attitude of cultural superiority, eschewing sled dogs for Manchurian ponies....”