9 h. ago Football Daily | Danish villain sent packing in Swedish football’s attempt at Nordic noir

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Something is rotten in the state of Sweden, though it’s a Dane taking the blame. Jon Dahl Tomasson, one-time Newcastle flop turned elite Feyenoord and Milan forward and former Blackburn manager, has just been sent packing after presiding over historic failure as manager of his neighbouring country. “Resign JDT” read one banner in Stockholm’s national stadium after Sweden lost 2-0 to Switzerland on Friday, while another read “danskjävel”, roughly translated as JDT’s nationality within a portmanteau questioning his parentage. Yes, that’s Sweden, the country that boasts Alexander Isak, the Premier League’s most expensive striker, and Viktor Gyökeres, last year’s European Golden Boot winner who hardly came cheap to Arsenal. The midfield trio of Daniel Svensson, of Borussia Dortmund, Lucas Bergvall of Tottenham and Brighton’s Yasin Asari reeks of talent and promise. Monday night, again at home, and the calls for Tomasson’s head continued...

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3 d. ago Daily Star launches 'Balls to Walls' campaign after death of ex

Daily Star Sunday has launched a 'balls to walls' campaign after the tragic death of ex-Arsenal Billy Vigar after the 21-year-old collided with a brick wall at pitchside

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4 d. ago Sweden v Switzerland, France v Azerbaijan: World Cup qualifying clockwatch – live

⚽ All the latest from Friday’s World Cup qualifiers⚽ Sign up for Football Daily | Mail Billy with any thoughtsDjed Spence is at it again. The England defender has a history of boasting on social media about “locking up wingers” after good performances and following England’s win, the full-back has done Spurs teammate and Wales winger Brennan Johnson dirty in his latest post. Scroll to the fifth image to see.“YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE INEVITABLE LETS TAKE A WALK TO THE PENITENTIARY BROTHER”, writes Spence in the caption. Brutal.I actually broke my hand, I don’t even know how I did it, I think I went to grab someone and then I felt a crack,” Burn told Chronicle Live. “It was early in the second half, so I went for the scan and I have seen a specialist. I’ve been told I can play with it. I am ready for Latvia, I am ready for Newcastle and I’d have been ready to play tonight. I will not be missing any time for a broken hand! This is nothing, I have had worse injuries than this. I am ready...

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4 d. ago Rangers condemn ‘shameful’ attack on Smith statue; fans respond to Tuchel criticism: football – live

⚽ All the latest going into weekend’s internationals⚽ Sign up for Football Daily | Mail Michael with any thoughtsDjed Spence is at it again. The England defender has a history of boasting on social media about “locking up wingers” after good performances and following England’s win, the full-back has done Spurs teammate and Wales winger Brennan Johnson dirty in his latest post. Scroll to the fifth image to see.“YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE INEVITABLE LETS TAKE A WALK TO THE PENITENTIARY BROTHER”, writes Spence in the caption. Brutal.I actually broke my hand, I don’t even know how I did it, I think I went to grab someone and then I felt a crack,” Burn told Chronicle Live. “It was early in the second half, so I went for the scan and I have seen a specialist. I’ve been told I can play with it. I am ready for Latvia, I am ready for Newcastle and I’d have been ready to play tonight. I will not be missing any time for a broken hand! This is nothing, I have had worse injuries than this. I am re...

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4 d. ago Rangers condemn ‘shameful’ attack on Smith statue; Tuchel criticises England fans: football – live

⚽ All the latest going into weekend’s internationals⚽ Sign up for Football Daily | Mail Barry with any thoughtsDjed Spence is at it again. The England defender has a history of boasting on social media about “locking up wingers” after good performances and following England’s win, the full-back has done Spurs teammate and Wales winger Brennan Johnson dirty in his latest post. Scroll to the fifth image to see.“YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE INEVITABLE LETS TAKE A WALK TO THE PENITENTIARY BROTHER”, writes Spence in the caption. Brutal.I actually broke my hand, I don’t even know how I did it, I think I went to grab someone and then I felt a crack,” Burn told Chronicle Live. “It was early in the second half, so I went for the scan and I have seen a specialist. I’ve been told I can play with it. I am ready for Latvia, I am ready for Newcastle and I’d have been ready to play tonight. I will not be missing any time for a broken hand! This is nothing, I have had worse injuries than this. I am read...

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4 d. ago Tuchel criticises England fans, World Cup qualifying news, referee Taylor on abuse: football – live

⚽ All the latest going into weekend’s internationals⚽ Sign up for Football Daily | Mail MichaelEngland’s Dan Burn has revealed he has a broken hand, sustained in Newcastle’s win over Nottingham Forest on Sunday. The big defender did not feature for England against Wales but says he is still available for selection, despite the injury.I actually broke my hand, I don’t even know how I did it, I think I went to grab someone and then I felt a crack,” Burn told Chronicle Live. “It was early in the second half, so I went for the scan and I have seen a specialist. I’ve been told I can play with it. I am ready for Latvia, I am ready for Newcastle and I’d have been ready to play tonight. I will not be missing any time for a broken hand! This is nothing, I have had worse injuries than this. I am ready to go and ready to play.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Tuchel criticises ‘silent’ England fans, World Cup qualifying news and more: football – live

⚽ All the latest going into weekend’s internationals⚽ Sign up for Football Daily | Mail MichaelPerhaps we should start with Scotland. Ewan Murray was our reporter at Hampden and was brutally honest about how fortunate the home side were to take a crucial victory over Greece.If Scotland make it to the promised land of next summer’s World Cup, they will glance back at this as a crucial evening. There must also be laughter to accompany reflection.No sane observer could claim Steve Clarke’s team deserved to prevail here. Lewis Ferguson and Lyndon Dykes sealed the win. Dick Turpin sprang to mind. Someone, somewhere appears to be smiling on Scotland’s bid to play in a World Cup for the first time since 1998. The Scots, who had just 31% possession, are now in an excellent position in Group C. A playoff spot could be secured on Sunday evening, when Belarus visit Glasgow. Greece, who next travel to Denmark, need snookers. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Football Daily | Steven Gerrard and England’s ‘egotistical losers’: a generation revisited

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Whether it was Archimedes’s eureka moment in the bath, Isaac Newton’s in the orchard or Doc Brown’s in the toilet while hanging a clock, many of the world’s most important discoveries have been made in the most unlikely locations. It is a list to which we can now presumably add the recording studio in which Rio Ferdinand presents his what-it-says-on-the-tin Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast. Of course, in discovering the principle of buoyancy, the law of universal gravitation or how best to transform a sports car with gull-wing doors into a time machine, the aforementioned scientists all chanced upon inspired moments of enlightenment that had never previously occurred to anybody else. When the lightbulb lit up over Steven Gerrard’s head while in conversation with Rio, he had clearly just figured out something rival fans have known for the best part of 30 years. Not so much a mic-drop as a penny-drop moment, it finally dawned on the for...

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7 d. ago Nordic Noir review – one severed horse’s head is just not nearly enough noir

British Museum, London While some prints are suitably nasty, these mostly so-so drawings feel more like something you’d see in Ikea. Who thought they were worthy of purchase for the nation?Nordic noir. Wasn’t that a genre that had people abuzz back in the 00s? Its revival by the British Museum’s prints and drawings department as a title for an exhibition of modern and contemporary Scandinavian graphic art seems desperate. Forget our oldies like Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci – we’re all about new stuff by hot young Scandi artists! Maybe it’s understandable; after all the National Gallery is also moving in on modern art. But Nordic Noir shows just how far overeager neophilia can go wrong. A museum that specialises in history has gone fishing in contemporary waters and, like a lonely angler on an Arctic lake, has come up with absolutely nothing.The big surprise is that most of the works here are not on loan. The British Museum owns them. It has “acquired” 400 exampl...

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9 d. ago Newcastle v Nottingham Forest, Everton v Crystal Palace and more: Premier League clockwatch – live

⚽ Goals and updates from around the grounds⚽ Sign up to Football Daily | WSL clockwatch – liveWolves (4-3-3) Johnstone; Tchatchoua, S Bueno, Krejci, H Bueno; Munetsi, Andre Trindade, Joao Gomes; Arias, Larsen, Hwang. Subs: Jose Sa, Wolfe, Agbadou, Arokodare, Mosquera, Rodrigo Gomes, Hoever, Bellegarde, Lopez.Brighton (4-2-3-1) Verbruggen; Ayari, van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu; Baleba, Wieffer; Minteh, Gruda, Gomez; Welbeck. Subs: Steele, Tzimas, Rutter, Watson, Kostoulas, Milner, Boscagli, De Cuyper, Coppola. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Arsenal v West Ham, Manchester United v Sunderland, and more: football – live

⚽ Join us for goals and news updates around the grounds⚽ Live scores | Sign up to Football Daily | And email TomMikel Arteta has decided West Ham are the team to unleash his fun-time midfield aganst. Eberechi Eze, Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice all start. Mikel Merino and Martín Zubimendi are sacrificed in the name of adventure. The high point of Graham Potter’s West Ham tenure came at the Emirates last season, can Nuno exploit this Arsenal team?Amorim has made five changes from the 3-1 defeat at Brentford. The most notable of those is Senne Lammens making his debut in goal. Three games on the bench is enough time to get a grasp of the job between the sticks for this United side, it seems. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Football Daily | ‘He’s behind you!’ Is Postecoglou the real villain in Forest’s panto?

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Arguably the most unpopular Australian to pitch up in Nottinghamshire since villainous hotelier Paul Robinson from Neighbours starred in a Mansfield panto 20 years ago, Ange Postecoglou’s reign at the City Ground could scarcely have got off to a more inauspicious start. While the boos and catcalls that actor Stefan Dennis was subjected to during Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood were largely good-natured, such was the toxicity of the invective aimed at Postecoglou during Nottingham Forest’s Bigger Vase defeat by Midtjylland on Thursday, that it is difficult to imagine the man who has been in charge for just six matches will still be around to hear the festive cat-calls this Christmas. On more than one occasion the 60-year-old’s shouts of “He’s behind you!” went ignored by his hapless players, not least when the Danish side scored their first two goals from atrociously defended set-pieces. Far from the celebratory mood they’d hope...

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1 week ago Nottingham Forest v Midtjylland, Feyenoord v Aston Villa, and more: Europa League – live

⚽ Europa League updates, plus Conference League⚽ Live scores | Read Football Daily | And mail NiallGiven how both teams’ seasons have panned out so far, Palace getting demoted to the Conference League and replaced by Nottingham Forest looks to have actually worked out in the Eagles’ favour.Feyenoord (4-3-3): Wellenreuther; Read, Ahmedhodzic, Watanabe, Smal; Valente, Steijn, Hwang; Hadj Moussa, Ueda, Sauer. Subs: Bijlow, Bossin, Nieuwkoop, Larin, Borges, Bos, Tengstedt, Diarra, Targhaline, Lotomba, Sliti, Plug. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Football Daily | Spin the World Cup’s wheel of fortune: where you go, nobody knows!

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!During a week when Wheel of Fortune made history by paying out its highest ever cash prize to a marketing manager from Connecticut, the first of the 4.5 million fans who have applied for Geopolitics World Cup tickets were selected to buy them through the system Fifa has named after the long-running American gameshow. While Christina Derevjanik walked away with $1,035,155, two different holidays and the best wishes of co-hosts Ryan Seacrest and Vanna White, those who got lucky in the Fifa equivalent will have to pay handsomely for the privilege of getting to watch matches despite not having the foggiest idea who will be playing in them until the draw is made. Although a certain, very small number of tickets for some group games will start at $60 (£44), for anyone who doesn’t mind sitting nearer the Kármán line than the halfway line, the key word is “start” because they could go for a lot more given Fifa’s decision to channel their in...

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1 week ago Barcelona v PSG, Monaco v Manchester City and more: Champions League and Championship – live

Updates from the Champions League and ChampionshipLive scores | Read Football Daily | Mail MichaelHello world!Who says you can’t have a clockwatch that straddles both Europe’s finest club competition and the Champions League. Boom, boom! We’ll be here all night (or around 11pm BST) with that sort of hollow humour. Come on in, the water is lukewarm. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Chelsea v Benfica, Bodø/Glimt v Tottenham, and more: Champions League – live

⚽ Updates from European and Football League games⚽️ Live scores | Read today’s Football Daily | Email YaraHow things stand in the Champions League league phase table after the first games.And here is a refresher on who stood out in matchday one. Hint: Marcus Rashford and PSG. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Football Daily | In the English football zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Eagle

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!At the risk of denouncing the family name, football has become a bit of an emotional vampire. At its worst, modern football is a cesspit of bile, hype, nonsense, hot air and yellow tickers. But every time we think enough’s enough and it’s time to change our name to Tiddlywinks Biennially, something happens to remind us why we wanted to be called Football Daily in the first place. Of late, the thing keeping us away from the deed poll office is a team dressed in a red and blue Macron kit. In the English football zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Eagle. Crystal Palace won the FA Cup, the first major trophy in their history, followed that with the Community Shield and are now, after beating Liverpool thrillingly on Saturday, the only unbeaten team left in the Premier League. On Thursday they will make history when they play Dynamo Kyiv in their first match of Tin Pot’s league stage.Taking ‘favourite shirt sponsors: go’ (last Tuesday’s Foo...

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2 w. ago Trump takes on IKEA as new furniture tariff means a 'bad day' for Sweden

The world's favourite Swedish flat pack provider could be at risk in the US as president Donald Trump has threatened a large tariff penalty to any businesses outside of his country

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2 w. ago NFL DFS, Week 4: DraftKings, FanDuel daily Fantasy football picks include Christian McCaffrey, Drake London

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2 w. ago NFL DFS, Week 4: DraftKings, FanDuel daily Fantasy football picks include Drake London and Christian McCaffrey

NFL DFS, Week 4: DraftKings, FanDuel daily Fantasy football picks include Drake London and Christian McCaffrey  CBS Sports

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