19 h. ago El Clásico, Liverpool v Arsenal and FA Trophy final buildup – as it happened

Previewing the day’s Premier League action and beyond as the season draws to a climax1983: Aberdeen beat Real Madrid in the Cup Winners’ Cup final1986: Peter Reid goes awol after FA Cup final misery1996: Eric Cantona wins the FA Cup final against Liverpool’s Spice Boys1999: Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbaink tilts an epic title race Man Utd’s way2001: Internazionale 0-6 Milan (NFT)2003: Jesper Gronkjaer changes the face of football history2013: Wigan stun Man City in the FA Cup finalArne Slot is planning to turn Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Anfield departure into a positive for Liverpool, the head coach has said. The right-back will leave Merseyside this summer for Real Madrid on a free transfer, meaning the Dutchman will need to find a way of replacing him. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago El Clásico, Liverpool v Arsenal and FA Trophy final buildup – matchday live

Follow all the latest news and buildup to Sunday’s gamesNewcastle v Chelsea live | Mail matchday live or post BTL1983: Aberdeen beat Real Madrid in the Cup Winners’ Cup final1986: Peter Reid goes awol after FA Cup final misery1996: Eric Cantona wins the FA Cup final against Liverpool’s Spice Boys1999: Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbaink tilts an epic title race Man Utd’s way2001: Internazionale 0-6 Milan (NFT)2003: Jesper Gronkjaer changes the face of football history2013: Wigan stun Man City in the FA Cup finalArne Slot is planning to turn Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Anfield departure into a positive for Liverpool, the head coach has said. The right-back will leave Merseyside this summer for Real Madrid on a free transfer, meaning the Dutchman will need to find a way of replacing him. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Newcastle v Chelsea and El Clásico headline crucial set of games – matchday live

Follow all the latest news and buildup to Sunday’s gamesLive scores | Tables | And mail matchday live or post BTL1983: Aberdeen beat Real Madrid in the Cup Winners’ Cup final1986: Peter Reid goes awol after FA Cup final misery1996: Eric Cantona wins the FA Cup final against Liverpool’s Spice Boys1999: Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbaink tilts an epic title race Man Utd’s way2001: Internazionale 0-6 Milan (NFT)2003: Jesper Gronkjaer changes the face of football history2013: Wigan stun Man City in the FA Cup finalArne Slot is planning to turn Trent Alexander-Arnold’s Anfield departure into a positive for Liverpool, the head coach has said. The right-back will leave Merseyside this summer for Real Madrid on a free transfer, meaning the Dutchman will need to find a way of replacing him. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago WSL season reaches finish, Premier League, playoffs and more – matchday live

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekendShare your thoughts with matchday live or post BTLAnd on this day in 1986, Liverpool did the Double by beating Everton in the FA Cup final. Thanks to the wonders of technology, Scott Murray was able to cover it on the information superhighway.On this day in 1978 Liverpool retain the European Cup. Here’s David Lacey’s report from that night at Wembley. And if you don’t want to click on anything – anything – written by David Lacey, I’m afraid I can’t help you. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Football League heads for dramatic finale, Reading sale agreed and more – matchday live

Writer Q&A, fan views, plus the latest news and previewsToday’s fixtures | Latest tables | And email matchday liveThe best dead rubbers in the worldThe 2000-01 season is another contender for this dubious award. The biggest thing at stake on the last day of the season was whether Liverpool would qualify for the Champions League ahead of Leeds (they did). Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Football League heads for dramatic finale, Bayern chase title and more – matchday live

Writer Q&A, fan views, plus the latest news and previewsToday’s fixtures | Latest tables | And email matchday liveBarney’s regular Saturday column is about a young man who, on Wednesday night, came agonisingly close to breaking the internetLamine Yamal was the buildup, the takeaway and also the TV commentary to this game, which for long periods was just Rio Ferdinand saying “OH MY GOD” a lot. In the second half you kept having to check the score to make sure it wasn’t actually 6-1 to Barcelona (Lamine Yamal 6), as opposed to a 3-3 draw and a good away result for Inter.The pandemic had a start date. But the closest we got to a national throwing-off of the shackles, our own VV day, was July 2021 and the sight of a lone England football supporter placing a flare between his buttock cheeks before releasing it into the air of central London. This was our healing moment, our iconography of closure, our own white cliffs and union flags. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Liverpool’s 20th league title awaits, WCL and FA Cup semis, and more – matchday live

All the latest news and build-up before Sunday kick-offsToday’s fixtures | Latest tables | And you can also mail usWhere to begin? Well, Liverpool will dominate today’s blog for sure, but it’s worth recapping everything that happened yesterday on a sizzling Saturday of football. There were ups and downs galore.Crystal Palace stormed into the FA Cup final with a dash of Ebere Eze genius and two Ismaïla Sarr goals, Barcelona lifted Spain’s Copa del Rey after a thrilling extra-time victory over Real Madrid, there were Premier League wins for Newcastle, Chelsea, Brighton, Fulham and Wolves, Celtic claimed a 55th (yes, really) Scottish league title and there was an almighty changing of the guard in Welsh football as Wrexham sealed promotion to the Championship – a third successive promotion for them – and Cardiff dropped into League One. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago FA Cup semis, Celtic’s title chase, Copa del Rey final and more – matchday live

Premier League and FA Cup: 10 things to look out forToday’s fixtures | Latest tables | And mail us or post BTLA headline that certainly grabbed my attention this morning was David Moyes’s analogy of what it is like to manage Everton under new owners TFG.We’ve got a new lover coming in and we have to make sure we like them and it all goes well. People have been brought in to do it before and it didn’t work [with Farhad Moshiri]. We need to hope that we can say: ‘This is how it should be going, this is what Everton are required to do and this is how we need to do it.’”I love the frenzy around finishing fifth this year they’re all brilliant, aren’t they? We finished fifth last year. Why is it such a disaster that we finished fifth? Around this time last year, I was asked to lose a game [against City]. And I was wrong for wanting to win it. We finished fifth but it’s not a good story. A better story is my tenure has been a disaster and it continues to be. I just think that the kind of h...

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