Will Still gone at Reims, a serious development for English clubs who have been interested in the 31 year-old. No compensation now required.

EXCL: Declan Rice interview - My game in my words

🔥 Igniting Arsenal fans
👊 “He got crunched”
❌ Diagonals out
🔗 “Short relationships” in
🔁 Playing “same side”
🎱 Occupy zones
⬆️ Arteta’s pitch “height”
🤫 6 PL goals & 7 assists

Via The Athletic | Football: theathletic.com/5439408/2024/0…

New stadia, old soul and the price of concrete: to stay or leave your football home. theathletic.com/5431170/2024/0…

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…

A statement from the Gateshead Football Club Board of Directors in response to the statements issued by the EFL and National League.

#WorClub ⚪️⚫️

Massive night in the career of Jude Bellingham. But wait to Nottingham Forest see the decisions that went against Barcelona . . .

Donny van de Beek has started just six league games for #MUFC since joining in 2020.

Even his former Ajax head coach Erik ten Hag has failed to rejuvenate his career.

After two loans with little game-time, what’s gone wrong and where does he go from here?

📝 Carl Anka

Sunderland 0-1 Millwall. Championship landfill settled by the returning Duncan Watmore.Two goals in five games for Sunderland.

From the early rounds of last season's FA Cup, a competition far bigger than its Wembley semi-finals and final. theathletic.com/3577483/2022/0…

Club Statement: FA Cup replays

Nacho, Rudiger & Lunin probably not the hat-trick of players you’d expect to get Real Madrid through. But they did. Immense. And scored/saved penalties.

Real Madrid are in Manchester. Forty miles away in Wallasey lies the club's first captain and scorer, Arthur Johnson. No mention of this on his small headstone.

Gateshead 2-1 Chesterfield. Heed into playoffs via 2 pens, 2nd dubious. But top effort and Ed Francis great to watch.

Bayer Leverkusen’s time has finally arrived.

A 5-0 win over Werder Bremen confirmed that German football’s eternal bridesmaids are now the country’s champions.

Alonso's magic, breaking up cliques and clever transfers — this is how they did it ⤵️

📝 @Honigstein Seb Stafford-Bloor

A new series for ⁦Irish Times Sport⁩. The Greatest Irish Olympic Stories Never Told.

First up, How Jack B Yeats won Ireland’s first Olympic medal 100 years ago. For painting.

irishtimes.com/sport/athletic…

Adam Wharton: if you think you’re enthusiastic about him, you should hear Tony Mowbray. Brought him through at Blackburn. Natural talent meets nurturing coach. It shows.

Impressive 2nd half, with great goal from Rutledge, seals uplift under Steve Watson and guarantees safety. Adrift when he came in, Watson may stay longer now. Over 2,200 there in sixth tier, top atmosphere. Darlington too big a club/town to be where they are.

🗣️ 'I'm not bothered who wins, as long as it's not Arsenal'
🗣️ 'The Klopp factor will get Liverpool over the line'
🗣️ 'The big story is Luton'

@MWalker2771 spoke with fans with no runners in the three-horse title race to see if the nation is transfixed.

Luton Town - team of the season? - go to Man City. Luton have faced down so much this season, including condescension, and things have happened in this one before.

Keep getting asked about the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer for Republic of Ireland job story. Spoke to him. He has no idea where it came from. He has complete respect for the country and did speak briefly about the job in Jan, but decided it wouldn't be right for him. Have a good weekend.