92 minutes ago ‘We have Kane, you have Tuchel’: Germans on the appointment of England’s new manager

At Oktoberfest in London, revellers welcomed last week’s news about their countrymanThe announcement that Thomas Tuchel had been named the new manager of the England national team on Wednesday led to a vast array of responses from football fans across the country.To many, the appointment of a Champions League, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 winning coach who was named the Fifa Coach of the Year little over 24 months ago was a clear indication of ambition. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Sir Chris Hoy's wife Sarra is battling MS, Olympic cycling champion reveals

Sir Chris Hoy's has revealed his wife Sarra is battling 'very active and aggressive' MS in the wake of his terminal cancer diagnosis. 

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10 hours ago Thomas Tuchel’s arrival highlights English football’s failure to produce top managers | Jonathan Wilson

Junior-level success cannot mask the fact that the Premier League stifles the development of home-grown coachesThe good news for the battered pride of English coaching is that, even leaving Lee Carsley and his complicated status aside, England still provides the manager for 11 national teams. Although France and Italy also supply 11, only Spain, with 14, offer more. The less positive news is that, according to the Fifa world rankings, the best of those sides are Jamaica (61st), New Zealand (95th) and Puerto Rico (154th).It’s not to demean the work of Steve McClaren, Darren Bazeley or Charlie Trout to suggest that that does not sound like the record of a major football nation. It’s true that Spain’s tally includes the coaches of Brunei and Belize, but Spaniards also manage Portugal and, ...

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12 hours ago Tom Jones on 'ultimate humiliation' as financial woes left him considering desperate act

The Voice UK coach Sir Tom Jones has revealed he was struggling to provide for his wife Linda Trenchard and son Mark when he started out as a singer, feeling as though he was "failing" the pair.

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13 hours ago Montell Douglas' serious health condition and real reason for staying single after split from ex

Montell Douglas has impressed on this year's Strictly Come Dancing, but there is plenty you may not know about the former Olympic sprinter and bobsledder

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15 hours ago Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks shares real reason he's single after dating pal's ex

Strictly Come Dancing star Pete Wicks has candidly shared why he believes he is currently single, before confessing to some brutal dating faux pas

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17 hours ago The real reason for Rory Wilson's Aston Villa standoff and how much Rangers could lose out on if he doesn't sign

Rangers are due a 10 per cent cut but stand to miss out if his contract runs down

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20 hours ago Meet Thomas Tuchel's biggest supporters: The people of his German hometown who remember him as a young Abba fan (and don't even mind if he wins the World Cup for England)

Proud residents of Thomas Tuchel 's home town of Krumbach, Germany are delighted at his new job as England manager and in no doubt that he can win the World Cup for England.

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21 hours ago Gary Lineker left howling at German reaction to Thomas Tuchel's England appointment

Gary Lineker was joined by German journalist Raphael Honigstein on Thursday's edition of The Rest Is Football, with the pair discussing Thomas Tuchel's appointment as the new England manager

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