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• 'I fought him every day' - how Mourinho handled Eto'o

  16-04-2025 07:09 via bbc.com
  
  Two-time Champions League winner Jose Mourinho discusses the psychology he used to get the best out of striker Samuel Eto'o while the pair were at Inter Milan.
  
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• Sergio Agüero: ‘Dad never said I played well. He didn’t want me to become cocky’

  06-05-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Now the subject of a documentary, the former striker opens up on his strict upbringing in Argentina, the heart troubles that ended his career and that Manchester City goalDuring a visit to Madrid in 2007, Anatoliy Byshovets, the then head coach of Lokomotiv Moscow, said watching Sergio Agüero was like visiting the Prado. Pep Guardiola said he was a legend. Jorge Valdano said he could invent anything, anywhere, a unique footballer who had lost all fear, although he was wrong on that. Lionel
  
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• Ex-French interior minister apologises to Liverpool fans for making them a ‘scapegoat’

  06-05-2025 00:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Gérald Darmanin, now justice minister, called night of 2022 Champions League final ‘biggest failure’ of his careerThe former French interior minister has apologised to Liverpool fans for using them as a “scapegoat” for the chaos surrounding the 2022 Champions League final in Paris, where supporters of the club, including children, were teargassed by police amid false claims they had caused a riot.Gérald Darmanin, who is now France’s justice minister, c
  
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• Murillo earns Nottingham Forest vital point at Crystal Palace in race for Europe

  05-05-2025 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Nottingham Forest aren’t finished just yet. A typically wholehearted performance from Nuno Espírito Santo’s side capped by an ­instinctive equaliser from Murillo rescued a point that could eventually prove priceless for their hopes of reaching the promised land of the Champions League.It is to their immense credit that with three matches still to play, a team that ended last season in 17th place is still in contention to dine at Europe’s top table. Having fallen behi
  
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• Barcelona boosted by Lewandowski return for semi-final clash with Inter

  05-05-2025 20:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Polish striker back from hamstring injury for second legInter have fitness doubts for Champions League tieThe Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has been declared fit to return from a hamstring injury but is set to start on the bench in their Champions League semi-final second leg at Inter on Tuesday, the Barça manager, Hansi Flick, confirmed.The 36-year-old Polish international, who has scored 40 goals for Barcelona in all competitions this season, had been sidelined for his club&rsquo
  
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• FA chief Bullingham insists transgender ban ‘not an ideological judgment’

  05-05-2025 20:51 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Difficult decision’ on trans women based on legal adviceGoal Diggers FC march 12 miles to deliver protest letterMark Bullingham, the chief executive of the Football Association, has written to London grassroots football club Goal Diggers FC explaining the governing body’s decision to ban transgender women from women’s football “was not an ideological judgment, but a difficult decision” based on legal advice that a “change in policy was necessary”
  
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• Carli Lloyd apologizes to former USWNT teammates for being ‘emotionless machine’

  05-05-2025 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  In her Hall of Fame induction speech, the World Cup winner opened up about the new perspective she has gained from retirement and motherhoodIt’s been almost four years since Carli Lloyd announced her retirement as a player, and it appears to have been a transformative time for the two-time World Cup champion.In a speech at her induction to the US Soccer Hall of Fame on Sunday, Lloyd struck a different tone than the one she used so often throughout her playing career, apologizing to her tea
  
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• Trent Alexander-Arnold bids Liverpool farewell with ticker tape still in Anfield air | Andy Hunter

  05-05-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Full-back did it all for his boyhood club and is off to a new reality where his game will face increased scrutinyBefore basking in the acclaim and adulation of the Kop when No 20 was sealed two Sundays ago, Trent Alexander-Arnold headed for the suits. There was a warm embrace between the Liverpool star and Michael Edwards, chief executive of football at Fenway Sports Group, and another with Richard Hughes, the man who initiated contract talks with Alexander-Arnold’s brother and agent prior
  
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• Police investigate ‘unacceptable’ Rangers banner shown during draw with Celtic

  05-05-2025 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Tifo display featured Graeme Souness holding a shotgunPolice check footage of Celtic fan mocking Ibrox disasterScotland’s first minister, John Swinney, condemned an “unacceptable” banner displayed by Rangers fans after police launched an investigation into a giant image of Graeme Souness holding a shotgun.A tifo display in the Copland Stand before Sunday’s Premiership match against Celtic depicted former Rangers manager Souness holding a double-barreled shotgun, with the
  
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• Peter McParland obituary

  05-05-2025 18:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Northern Ireland and Aston Villa footballer hailed for his heroic goal-scoring performances during the 1958 World CupThe footballer Peter McParland, who has died aged 91, will best be remembered for the five goals he scored in the 1958 World Cup finals for Northern Ireland as they made progress to the quarter-finals.He averaged a goal a game during the tournament in Sweden, including two against West Germany in a 2-2 group stage draw and another brace in a 2-1 play-off victory against Czechoslov
  
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• Antony’s Real Betis transformation has Isco threatening a United heist | Sid Lowe

  05-05-2025 17:56 via theguardian.com
  From flop in Manchester to prince of Seville, flying winger is rivalling his new best friend for title of La Liga’s finest playerAntony Matheus dos Santos has played football with some bad men. Raised in Inferninho (Little Hell), a favela outside São Paulo, the way the Real Betis winger tells it, he grew up without shoes to play in or a bed of his own to sleep in, surrounded by drugs and guns. Some days he wouldn’t eat and one day, when he was six or seven, he had to jump over
  
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• Leeds chair vows club will be ‘one of the best in all of Europe’ at open-top bus parade

  05-05-2025 17:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Supporters gather in city centre to celebrate promotion Paraag Marathe: ‘I hope I can never forget this moment’Leeds United’s chair, Paraag Marathe, has outlined his desire to see the club become “one of the best in all of Europe” as fans enjoyed the open-top bus parade to celebrate promotion to the Premier League.Leeds city centre came to a standstill on Monday as Daniel Farke’s side took to the streets to celebrate with more than 150,000 of their supporters.
  
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• PSG are in safe hands in Champions League with Gianluigi Donnarumma

  05-05-2025 17:08 via theguardian.com
  The goalkeeper has been PSG’s most important player in knockout games against Liverpool, Aston Villa and ArsenalBy Get French Football NewsIf man-of-the-match trophies were chosen by the PSG squad, Gianluigi Donnarumma would have picked three of them from his last three performances in England. The Italian goalkeeper has had the biggest hand – or glove – in taking the club to the brink of the Champions League final and his contributions against Liverpool, Aston Villa and Arsena
  
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• Why Premier League position is a focus for only eight teams right now

  05-05-2025 17:06 via theguardian.com
  
  In a freakish season at the top and bottom of the league, competing incentives for the rest are unusually fracturedSign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereAs Eddie Howe delivered his post-match press conference after Newcastle’s draw against Brighton on Sunday, Chelsea, his club’s rivals for Champions League qualification, took an early lead against Liverpool at Stamford Bridge. Howe gave a wry smile and was immediately asked whether it annoyed him that Liverpool had made six cha
  
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• Women’s Super League and Championship: talking points from the weekend’s action

  05-05-2025 14:49 via theguardian.com
  Marc Skinner needs a deeper squad for Manchester United’s European project and Chelsea’s unbeaten season continues Liverpool’s interim manager, Amber Whiteley, said last month that it was important the club held on to fifth place in the Women’s Super League. They are now sixth after a 2-0 loss to Everton in Sunday’s Merseyside derby at Anfield, which also means they have still only ever won once at the stadium. Liverpool’s position in the table could get worse
  
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• Bayern Munich v Leverkusen has been a great rivalry. But is it over? | Andy Brassell

  05-05-2025 14:08 via theguardian.com
  Clubs’ tussle for supremacy in Germany may be at its end as the futures of Alonso and Wirtz remain uncertainEarly on Sunday evening Bayern Munich’s players arrived a few at a time in a swish restaurant that had been opened just for them, as they prepared to commemorate a 33rd Bundesliga title (34 if you include the pre-Bundesliga crown of 1932) not quite as they had hoped, in their street clothes rather than their football strips. Bild even claimed that as Freiburg took the lead late
  
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• Trent Alexander-Arnold announces Liverpool exit – video

  05-05-2025 14:07 via theguardian.com
  The 26-year-old is set to join Real Madrid as a free agent after Liverpool were unable to convince the homegrown talent to extend his career at Anfield. Liverpool, who sealed their 20th league title last month, are understood to have offered Alexander-Arnold a new contract that would have made him the best paid full-back in the Premier League and one of the highest paid in the world. Continue reading...
  
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• Chelsea trip up the champions in hunt for Europe – Football Weekly

  05-05-2025 13:04 via theguardian.com
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Wilson and Dan Bardell as Chelsea secure a vital win over Liverpool in the race for Champions League football next seasonRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today; Chelsea inflict a third defeat of the season on Liverpool to help them in the race for fifth place, Cole Palmer returning to form and Roméo Lavia ba
  
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• ‘The real Inter’ prepare for Champions League showdown with Barcelona | Nicky Bandini

  05-05-2025 13:03 via theguardian.com
  Simone Inzaghi dreamed of a quadruple but European success is now the Nerazzurri’s best chance of silverwareThe Inter team that lined up to face Verona on Saturday was so heavily rotated it even included a backup manager. OK, their first-choice boss Simone Inzaghi was technically suspended, but seeing his assistant Massimiliano Farris trot out for the pre-game interview only reinforced a feeling that we were not about to watch the real thing.For months, Inter had tried to compete at full f
  
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• London City Lionesses coach Jocelyn Prêcheur admits gap ‘huge’ to WSL after promotion

  05-05-2025 12:34 via theguardian.com
  Head coach says ‘I’m not naive’ on top-tier challengesOwner Michele Kang eyes ‘mid-tier WSL, at a minimum’Jocelyn Prêcheur, the head coach of London City Lionesses, has insisted everyone associated with the club is not naive about the size of the step up to the Women’s Super League after reaching the top flight for the first time following Sunday’s drama-filled final day of the Championship season.Lionesses will become the first club unaffiliated t
  
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• Trent Alexander-Arnold confirms Liverpool exit and set to join Real Madrid

  05-05-2025 11:10 via theguardian.com
  ‘This is the hardest decision I’ve ever made in my life’Believed to have verbally agreed five-year deal with RealTrent Alexander-Arnold has announced he is leaving Liverpool when his contract expires at the end of the season, paving the way for a free transfer to Real Madrid.The 26-year-old confirmed the decision on his social media channels on Monday. He informed the Liverpool head coach, Arne Slot, that he would not be signing a contract extension at the end of March but kept
  
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• Cole Palmer takes aim at ‘idiots and trolls’ as Enzo Maresca lauds star man

  04-05-2025 21:31 via theguardian.com
  ‘If we want top five, we need Cole,’ says Chelsea managerLiverpool’s Arne Slot on defeat: ‘The margins are small’“The kind of player who can do things that no one expects,” Enzo Maresca said of Cole Palmer after this game. Still, pretty much the last thing anyone expected Palmer to do in mid-January was to go 18 games without a goal in all competitions.Now, with the drought finally at an end courtesy of a late penalty against Liverpool in a 3-1 win for C
  
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• Watch: Rangers v Celtic highlights

  04-05-2025 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Extended highlights as Rangers host Celtic in the final Glasgow derby of the season.
  
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• Maddison injury 'doesn't look great' - Postecoglou

  04-05-2025 20:18 via bbc.com
  
  James Maddison's injury "does not look great", says Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou, as they prepare for their Europa League semi-final second leg.
  
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• Bayern's 'James Bond' - how Kane clinched his first trophy

  04-05-2025 20:16 via bbc.com
  
  Harry Kane has spent his whole career fighting to win silverware, this is how he finally did it with Bayern Munich at the age of 31.
  
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• 'We are only going up' - London City in WSL to stay

  04-05-2025 20:11 via bbc.com
  
  London City Lionesses are the first team with no affiliation with a men's club to earn a place in the WSL - with an owner determined to make waves in women's football.
  
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• 'Change needed to solve Rangers riddle that foxed Ferguson'

  04-05-2025 19:20 via bbc.com
  
  For all Rangers' Old Firm success, there's an empty feeling when you sense their next slip is just days away, writes Tom English.
  
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• The boys put in a good shift - Postecoglou

  04-05-2025 18:43 via bbc.com
  
  Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou says his side put in a "good shift" after drawing 1-1 against West Ham.
  
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• Decent performance but West Ham couldn't sustain it - Potter

  04-05-2025 18:43 via bbc.com
  
  West Ham head coach Graham Potter says his hide gave a "decent performance" but was "couldn't sustain it" in the second half, following their 1-1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur.
  
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• Has Celtic's Idah won over his doubters?

  04-05-2025 18:37 via bbc.com
  
  Having endured a barren spell in front of goal, has Adam Idah's Old Firm equaliser changed perceptions of Celtic's £9.5m man?
  
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