54 h. ago Liverpool fans urged to party without pyro ahead of victory parade

The football club is due to celebrate its Premier League win with an open-top bus parade next week.

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5 d. ago Premier League and FA Cup final: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Eberechi Eze is too good for Palace, Morgan Gibbs-White is pushing for a call-up and is 2025 the year of the underdog?Why would your fan-favourite player, scorer of That Historic Wembley Goal, in peak form under an excellent manager want to leave? Why would anyone be OK with it? How is this logical? Crystal Palace are now good enough to have Eberechi Eze in the team. Eberechi Eze is also too good to stay at Crystal Palace. Both of these things seem to be true. Oliver Glasner-era Palace are a seriously potent, organised and attractive team. But Eze’s progress is something else. At times during his early Palace career there was a sense of a slightly loose late-developer. His skill level was always exceptional. His use of it now is next-level, his finishing cold and his physique buffed up. Eze does not really have a ceiling. He could play for any team in Europe. But he is also 26 years old with two years left on his contract, and Palace have a model based on development with the likes ...

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6 d. ago Women’s FA Cup final, Premier League, La Liga and more – matchday live

All the buildup to Sunday’s live football actionWomen’s FA Cup final | Everton v SouthamptonShare your thoughts with matchday live or post BTLJamie Vardy will be having a goodbye party when he bids farewell to Leicester this afternoon. The 39-year-old wanted to end his Foxes career on 500 appearances and at the King Power Stadium, meaning he will not feature on the final day of the Premier League season next weekend. Today also happens to be the 13th anniversary of Vardy’s move to Leicester, marking what is set to be a full-circle occasion.Be sure to also message me with any thoughts, feelings or score predictions for any of today’s games. I want to know what you’re up to, where you’re off to and what you’ll be watching this afternoon. Also, let me know if you have any stand-out memories of Goodison or any favourite Jamie Vardy moments. I want to hear from you! Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Women’s FA Cup final, last Premier League game at Goodison Park and more – matchday live

All the buildup to the Women’s FA Cup final, 1.30pm KOShare your thoughts with matchday live or post BTLJamie Vardy will be having a goodbye party when he bids farewell to Leicester this afternoon. The 39-year-old wanted to end his Foxes career on 500 appearances and at the King Power Stadium, meaning he will not feature on the final day of the Premier League season next weekend. Today also happens to be the 13th anniversary of Vardy’s move to Leicester, marking what is set to be a full-circle occasion.Be sure to also message me with any thoughts, feelings or score predictions for any of today’s games. I want to know what you’re up to, where you’re off to and what you’ll be watching this afternoon. Also, let me know if you have any stand-out memories of Goodison or any favourite Jamie Vardy moments. I want to hear from you! Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Crystal Palace's FA Cup triumph was the perfect antidote to uninspiring Premier League

Crystal Palace claimed their first ever major trophy after beating Manchester City in the FA Cup final and their victory should be celebrated beyond the realms of Selhurst Park

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6 d. ago Eddie Howe: Carabao Cup win may be better than coming second in Premier League

The Magpies are battling the Gunners for the runners-up spot.

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6 d. ago How Crystal Palace’s FA Cup win impacts the race for Europe in the Premier League

The Eagles’ win against Man City in the FA Cup final sees Oliver Glasner’s side take a Europa League place, but more places are still to be decided

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7 d. ago Why are no Premier League matches being played today? FA Cup agreement explained

Manchester City and Crystal Palace will face off at Wembley in the 2025 FA Cup final and the day will not feature any Premier League football before or after the game

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7 d. ago Pep Guardiola rails at Premier League over game scheduled 72 hours after FA Cup final

The Manchester City manager criticised the league’s scheduling and said fans were ‘tired’ of watching his side

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7 d. ago How FA Cup final result will impact Premier League's European places

Oliver Glasner can guide Crystal Palace into the Europa League with a win over Manchester City today - and deny a host of Premier League rivals hoping to finish eighth

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7 d. ago Pep Guardiola fumes after Premier League deny Man City FA Cup request

Pep Guardiola is concerned that Manchester City's bid to finish in the top five will be damaged by their fixture schedule

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8 d. ago Manchester United vs Chelsea rearranged Premier League clash breaks FA promise to cup final

Manchester United news as United's Premier League clash with Chelsea tonight breaks a vow made by the FA

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8 d. ago Premier League and FA Cup final: 10 things to look out for this weekend

Goodbyes to Goodison and Vardy, Palace and City brace for Wembley and the return of Kai HavertzAston Villa could not conceal their anger after their game at home to Tottenham was brought forward 48 hours. Villa’s director of football operations, Damian Vidagany, said shifting the game from Sunday to Friday was “clear prejudice” against the club and Villa objected to Spurs’s request for it to be moved to aid their preparations for Wednesday’s Europa League final. Villa were also privately perplexed at Bournemouth’s game with Manchester City being rearranged for Tuesday, after Saturday’s FA Cup final, which is guaranteed to have implications on whether eighth place qualifies for the Europa Conference League. The flipside to all of this is Villa can get on the front foot, kicking off 45 minutes before Chelsea entertain Manchester United and two days before Nottingham Forest head to West Ham and Arsenal host Newcastle. Victory for Villa could hoist them as high as fourth before a final-...

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9 d. ago Jamie Vardy handed EARLY EXIT from Leicester City as club make bizarre announcement about his 'last game'

The striker has etched his name into the history books after over a decade of unprecedented success at the Midlands club, with Vardy helping Leicester win their first ever Premier League title and FA Cup.

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9 d. ago Jamie Vardy opting to make Leicester farewell on home soil against Ipswich

38-year-old to miss away finale and bow out at homeTitle-winning teammates expected for Sunday’s gameJamie Vardy is expected to call time on his Leicester career after his 500th appearance for the club this weekend. Vardy, regarded by many as Leicester’s greatest ever player, has spent 13 years at the club and is poised to make his final appearance for themat home to Ipswich on Sunday and then not feature in their final Premier League match, at Bournemouth.The 38-year-old striker, who is poised to captain Leicester for the final time, announced last month, after relegation to the Championship was confirmed, that he would leave the club at the end of the season. He was central to Leicester winning the Premier League against all odds in 2016 and the FA Cup in 2021 but conceded he wanted to exit on a better note, after a desperate season in the top flight, describing his own campaign as a “total embarrassment”. He will hope to score a 200th goal in a Leicester shirt against Ipswich. Co...

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9 d. ago ‘Boring horrific’: Erling Haaland on Manchester City’s season of defeats

Striker puts focus on FA Cup final against Crystal Palace‘We need to finish well and get a trophy,’ he saysErling Haaland has described Manchester City’s season as “horrific” and “boring” owing to the champions losing many games, and said that makes winning Saturday’s FA Cup final against Crystal Palace even more vital.City, the Premier League title winners of the past four years, are fourth, 18 points behind the champions, Liverpool, having lost nine times. They were eliminated by Real Madrid in the Champions League playoff stage and by Tottenham in the Carabao Cup in the last 16. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Pep Guardiola admits Man City season has been toughest of his managerial career

City have relinquished their Premier League crown but could yet win the FA Cup and qualify for the Champions League.

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2 w. ago Premier League bosses forced to postpone tournament one week before first match

The Premier League had been gearing up for the Next Gen Cup - a major youth tournament - but the Mumbai event has been postponed amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan

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2 w. ago Premier League promise over FA Cup final broken due to Man Utd and Tottenham

A promise was made for no Premier League games to be scheduled the night before this season's FA Cup final but that has now been broken owing to Manchester United and Tottenham's European hopes

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3 w. ago Premier League and FA Cup semis: 10 talking points from the weekend

Palace’s best-paid player shows his class, Ipswich meet their fate and Mateo Kovacic sounds a warning In April 1964 a side from north London came to Anfield with Liverpool one good result from winning the league, and conceded five. “Arsenal did little to allay the general suspicion that they were there just to be sacrificed,” Eric Todd wrote in his report for the Guardian. This time it was Tottenham but otherwise, for anyone whose memory stretches back 61 years it was a familiar story. Time and again Spurs meekly surrendered possession in dangerous areas, and while they defended in numbers – which suggests willing – they did so with terrifying inefficiency, which suggests poor organisation. Their focus is now fully on the Europa League, but if Liverpool had been a little more ruthless this would have been truly another real embarrassment in a season full of them. In April 1988 it was Spurs themselves who came to Anfield with Liverpool needing one point to guarantee the title. It had...

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