Ashley: come and get us if you can
Despite the lack of an official announcement regarding Paul Pogba’s new deal, Tuesday’s sport pages run plenty of stories regarding Manchester United. Let’s start with the….. Telegraph, where former Arsenal striker Alan Smith b...
Tearaway Tevez should get the boot
Manchester City fans were left spluttering into their cups of tea on Sunday as revelations that Carlos Tevez wants to leave Eastlands emerged.
'Doing a Rooney', the Argentinian handed in a public transfer request, before then blasting his club's hand...
Pardew the loneliest man in Newcastle
The not-so-shock appointment of Alan Pardew as Newcastle manager was confirmed yesterday and the former West Ham and Charlton boss cut a very lonely figure in his first press conference. Perhaps fearing an in-person backlash from the media, having alre...
No honeymoon for Pardew
Alan Pardew is not likely to get a very warm welcome in the cold north when he is paraded in front of the Newcastle fans and the Times' George Caulkin warns that he won't have a very long honeymoon period in charge either.
Alan Pardew is already facin...
Mike Ashley: A disgrace to football
The press are up in arms about Newcastle's decision to sack Chris Hughton on Monday, and rightly so.
Universally respected by his players, Newcastle supporters and figures from across the world of football, Hughton has been cast aside despite leading ...
Taking back the World Cup
After England's abject showing at the World Cup vote on Thursday, the recriminations continue in the national press.
Writing in The Observer, the ever-excellent Paul Hayward produces an impassioned piece that lambasts FIFA and longs for a more romanti...
Some angry men
It's no surprise that now England does not have the chance to host the World Cup until 2030 at the earliest, attention has turned to FIFA. Daily Mail journo Martin Samuel kicks things off in usual fashion:
The World Cup is a competition that is, essen...
Wenger’s mad, mad world
Love him or hate him, Arsène Wenger has commanded the respect of the Premier League for what he has done at Arsenal. However, the Guardian's Barney Ronay wonders if there is a feeling abroad that the Arsenal manager may have gone – or may be on the ...
Houllier – I felt dead at Liverpool
It's still difficult to get away from the England's post-mortem in Saturday's newspapers but an excellent interview with Aston Villa manager Gerrard Houllier is a worthwhile distraction.
Houllier is now just another onlooker as his former club Liverpo...
Carroll can be an England star
Looking ahead to England’s friendly against France on Wednesday it is clear that the selection of one man in particular has grabbed the newspapers’ attention. Unsurprisingly, given his history of misdemeanors, that man is Andy Carroll.
As Henry Wi...
Roman ruins
The Daily Mail's Martin Samuel picks through the bones of Chelsea's defeat to Sunderland and claims Carlo Ancelotti offers hope amid the Roman Abramovich ruins.
Moral dilemma surrounds Carroll call-up
Andy Carroll's expected call up for England's clash with France next week has prompted Fleet Street's scribes to ponder the moral dilemma that surrounds the troubled striker's probable selection.
Carroll's Newcastle United team-mate Joey Barton claims...
