6 h. 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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26 h. 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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29 h. 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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51 h. 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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5 d. ago NFL DFS, Week 4: DraftKings, FanDuel daily Fantasy football picks include Christian McCaffrey, Drake London

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

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

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7 d. ago Football Daily | Aston Villa finally win but remain a shadow of their former selves

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Seven games into the season and Aston Villa finally have a win on the board. And while it may have come in Bigger Vase, a competition they probably resent having to play in after being robbed of a lucrative Bigger Cup place by some overzealous refereeing in their final match of last season, it at least gives Unai Emery a platform on which to build, even if his players have yet to produce a performance even remotely fit to lace the steel-toed boots of all those geriatric rockers who joined Ozzy Osbourne at Villa Park for his summer farewell. Despite last night’s win, Emery’s side continue to look a pale facsimile of the one that pushed the tournament’s eventual winners, PSG, all the way over two legs in their Bigger Cup quarter-final last season. Something is definitely not quite right at Villa Park, a state of affairs perhaps best illustrated by the fact the assist for their winner came in the form of a comedy air-shot by the desper...

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7 d. ago Haaland fit for City, Liverpool’s Leoni out for season, Palmer out for three weeks – live

News and comment heading into the weekend’s actionRead Football Daily | Mail BarryThat Leoni injury can only heighten speculation that Marc Guehi will be joining Liverpool in January. The Crystal Palace manager, Oliver Glasner, has been talking about his captain:“It is credit to Marc that he never threatened to strike. He is a very honest person. That is why I was never worried about this situation. He will be our captain as long as he’s here, because he’s just such a great player and such a great personality. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Liverpool’s Leoni out for season with ACL injury, Palmer faces three

News and comment heading into the weekend’s actionRead Football Daily | Mail DominicThat Leoni injury can only heighten speculation that Marc Guehi will be joining Liverpool in January. The Crystal Palace manager, Oliver Glasner, has been talking about his captain:“It is credit to Marc that he never threatened to strike. He is a very honest person. That is why I was never worried about this situation. He will be our captain as long as he’s here, because he’s just such a great player and such a great personality. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Liverpool’s Leoni out for season with ACL injury: Premier League and WSL news – live

News and comment heading into the weekend’s actionRead Football Daily | Mail JohnThat Leoni injury means Federico Chiesa will take the place of his compatriot in the Champions League squad.Per PA Media Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Aston Villa v Bologna, Rangers v Genk, and more: Europa League – live

⚽ Europa League updates, from the 8pm BST kick-offs⚽ Live scores | Read Football Daily | And email DanielBologna have a player called Heggem, more than enough excuse to remember this forgotten banger, scored for Liverpool by his namesake on Boxing Day 1998.Back to our teams, Emery leaves out Martinez, Mings, Digne and Watkins; in come Bizot, Pau Torres, Maatsen and Malen. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Football Daily | Marko Arnautovic makes good on his solemn vow to an old friend

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!As regular readers will be aware, Football Daily is normally in the business of peddling cheap and often unfunny yuks, and certainly didn’t get where it is today (specifically: unread and ignored in tens of thousands of spam folders) coming over all mawkish and maudlin. But occasionally, we stumble upon a heartwarming yarn we’re surprised we hadn’t already heard and feel compelled to share it with a wider audience. This tearjerker has its origins in Wednesday’s Bigger Vase opener between Red Star (AKA Crvena Zvezda) and Celtic, two fallen giants of European football, who pulled off the ignominious feat of losing their respective Bigger Cup playoffs to minnows so obscure even the most seasoned of football hipsters had barely heard of them. And so it came to pass that, with Pafos and Kairat Almaty currently lounging it up in the top tier of European competition, the storied champions of both Serbia and Scotland have been left to slum ...

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8 d. ago Brendan Rodgers reveals why he took Daizen Maeda off at half

BRENDAN RODGERS insisted Kelechi Iheanacho’s fine finish got Celtic’s Europa League glory bid off to a good start. Supersub Iheanacho was thrown on for Daizen Maeda at the break and fired the Hoops ahead against Red Star in Belgrade. Veteran Marko Arnautovic rescued a point for the Serbs in the opening league phase game -...

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8 d. ago Arsenal, Spurs, Man City and Newcastle through to Carabao Cup fourth round – follow the draw live

⚽ League Cup third round updates, from 7.45pm BST⚽ Live scores | Read Football Daily | And email ScottThere are over two emails in our bulging pre-match postbag. In fact, we’re three from three with Arsenal fans not 100 percent pleasured by Mikel Arteta’s selection tonight. Look!“That Arsenal XI is strong. Worryingly strong. I hope to God Eze doesn’t pick up an injury from this one. Also, since Gyokeres hasn’t been pulling down trees against City, I thought he’d start this one and grab some goals to boost confidence. Very strange” – Kieran McKintosh Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Red Star Belgrade 1 Celtic 1: Iheanacho comes on to spark Celtic into life as Maeda hooked at half

BALKANS hitman Kelechi Iheanacho threatened to take down Red Star at the Marakana. But his second goal in just three games wasn’t enough to deliver a deadly blow. Marko Arnautovic struck back not long after in the second half. And so Brendan Rodgers had to settle for the same outcome and score-line as Jock Stein’s...

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9 d. ago Port Vale v Arsenal, Huddersfield v Manchester City, and more: Carabao Cup – live

⚽ League Cup third round updates, from 7.45pm BST⚽ Live scores | Read Football Daily | And email ScottThe fourth round of the League Cup has already served up some marvellous entertainment. Diego Gomez’s long-drive-heavy four-goal haul; two fine assists for Federico Chiesa and the daftest of red cards for Hugo Ekitiké; a first win of the season for Wolves; Lincoln forcing Chelsea to dig deep; third-tier Cardiff’s win at Burnley. It’s all been happening, with the promise of more fun to come. Tonight’s card is short but sweet Huddersfield Town v Manchester City (7.45pm)Newcastle United v Bradford City (7.45pm)Port Vale v Arsenal (8pm)Tottenham Hotspur v Doncaster Rovers (7.45pm) Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Football Daily | Ekitiké joins another red family: prematurely disrobing before an early bath

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!If you’re going to plagiarise you might as well copy from the best, but when Hugo Ekitiké decided to pay homage to Lionel Messi by replicating one of the Argentinian’s more iconic celebrations, his tribute came at a cost to Liverpool. While Messi famously wheeled away in celebration, removed his shirt and pointedly held it up in front of the Bernabéu crowd after scoring a late, late winner for Barcelona in a five-goal thriller at Real Madrid in 2017, Ekitiké has now rather more infamously done the same thing after scoring a tap-in from an excellent Federico Chiesa assist against Championship opposition in the third round of Fizzy Cup. And while both players were routinely shown yellow cards for what has now been a bookable offence for more than 20 years, at least the one brandished in the direction of Messi was only his first of the match, so he wasn’t sent off. Continue reading...

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