🔴 The importance of ‘good height’ & same side overloads
🔴 His 'on one knee' tackling technique & cutting down diagonals
🔴 Does he contribute more as a No 6 or No 8?
🔴 'The Arsenal project seemed more exciting than Man City'

Declan Rice analyses his game with Stuart James

For the last eight days, a London trial has exposed football’s transfer murkiness.

It involves a furious letter, mysterious former #CFC director Marina Granovskaia, and an incident involving Kia Joorabchian’s watch.

Eventually, Saif Rubie was cleared.

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It's 20 years ago today since San Marino managed a 1-0 victory against Liechtenstein.

Never again, though, have they experienced what it is like to beat an opponent.

In June 2023, Daniel Taylor spent a week with the worst international football team in the world.

Has anyone ever gone in for a hug quicker than this?

Watching Jobe Bellingham on a weekend when his brother scores a winner in El Clasico highlights a contrast. Jobe has done well in his first season at Sunderland but been overplayed. He was only 17 when it began, a more significant detail than his name. theathletic.com/5435209/2024/0…

English football fans have probably never read an #OlympiacosFC 500 word press release after a poor reffing performance.

This right here is light work. Welcome to show time! #NFFC

In 2005, Brentford were in League One and had £7m debt.

They got Premier League Southampton at home in the FA Cup and got a replay.

That run earned the club over £500k.

Yet Premier League managers, like Brentford’s Thomas Frank, complained about replays and now they’re gone.

The best thing about football now and forever is laughing at other people.

The Athletic | Football

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The other day someone on here asked after the #NFFC fan who was at Hillsborough, who had also lost his brother, father, grandfather and uncle in the Bradford fire.

His brother Andrew would've been 50 today.

We send our love and thoughts to Martin and his family 💔

Amazing how football clubs treat ‘bomb squad’ players - and that it’s allowed to happen. Banned from dressing rooms, from canteens, treated like outcasts, yet somehow it’s just accepted 🤯