20 h. ago Southampton sack Will Still after just 13 Championship games

The 33-year-old has been sacked with Southampton in the relegation zone of the Championship

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20 h. ago BREAKING: Championship manager brutally sacked day after player apologises for abusing supporters

Will Still was appointed as Southampton boss in the summer after successful spells in France but has become one of the first shock sackings after 13 games

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20 h. ago Southampton sack manager Will Still after player apologises as replacement is named

Will Still was appointed as Southampton boss in the summer after successful spells in France but has become one of the first shock sackings after 13 games

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4 d. ago From bus driver to top coach: all aboard for Manolo González’s Espanyol adventure

The 46-year-old didn’t fulfil his potential as a player but as manager has climbed from the bottom of the pyramid to fifth in La LigaThe driver of the Tusa bus went from Badalona to Barcelona and regional catalana to primera división, stopping everywhere in between. On Thursday night, Atlètic Lleida host Espanyol in the Copa del Rey first round. Lleida play in Spain’s semi-pro fourth tier, a world away from their opponents, who celebrated their 125th anniversary last Saturday by climbing into a Champions League place, but there will be something familiar about the man sitting on the visitors’ bench, if he ever actually sits. “I know Manolo because we’ve faced each other at our level,” Lleida’s coach, Gabri García says. “We come from the depths.”Depths is right, but Manolo González wouldn’t change a thing, proud to have been in García’s place. A symbol of some day, he reached the top flight via the long route, having coached at every age group and every level in Spain, from the regio...

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4 d. ago Devastated Liverpool starlet Amara Nallo, 18, picks up second red card in just 16 minutes of senior football

LIVERPOOL youngster Amara Nallo was left heartbroken after a devastating red card against Crystal Palace. The Reds suffered their third loss of the season to Palace, who knocked their opponents out of the Carabao Cup with a dominant 3-0 victory at Anfield to add to manager Arne Slot's misery. But perhaps no player was left...

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4 d. ago Scottish roundup: Celtic celebrate O’Neill’s homecoming with 4

Hearts stay top after battling 2-2 draw at St MirrenDanny Röhl’s Rangers win 1-0 against HibernianMartin O’Neill celebrated his Celtic homecoming with a thumping 4-0 win over Falkirk at Parkhead. The 73-year-old former manager was installed along with the former Celtic player Shaun Maloney as the interim management team after the stunning resignation of Brendan Rodgers on Monday night.Celtic fans continued their protest against Dermot Desmond, the club’s major shareholder, and the board outside the stadium before the game due, in part, to a perceived poor summer transfer window. Desmond sat in the directors’ box and watched his fellow Irishman Johnny Kenny fire Celtic into the lead after half an hour and then head in a second 10 minutes later, before goals from Benjamin Nygren and Sebastian Tounekti in the second half increased the fun factor. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Scottish football: Celtic celebrate O’Neill’s homecoming with 4

Hearts stay top after battling 2-2 draw at St MirrenDanny Röhl’s Rangers win 1-0 against HibernianMartin O’Neill celebrated his Celtic homecoming with a thumping 4-0 win over Falkirk at Parkhead. The 73-year-old former manager was installed along with the former Celtic player Shaun Maloney as the interim management team after the stunning resignation of Brendan Rodgers on Monday night.Celtic fans continued their protest against Dermot Desmond, the club’s major shareholder, and the board outside the stadium before the game due, in part, to a perceived poor summer transfer window. Desmond sat in the directors’ box and watched his fellow Irishman Johnny Kenny fire Celtic into the lead after half an hour and then head in a second 10 minutes later, before goals from Benjamin Nygren and Sebastian Tounekti in the second half increased the fun factor. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Kenny Dalglish review – Liverpool’s everyman football hero who took the city’s woes on his shoulders

Asif Kapadia’s film draws an absorbing portrait of the Liverpool legend whose career was blighted by the Heysel stadium and Hillsborough disastersAsif Kapadia has curated an absorbing portrait of footballer Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool’s legendary player and then player-manager, using a quilt of archive clips with voiceovers. It takes us through his childhood in Glasgow and his sparkling career at Celtic, at a time when the stars were hardly financially better off than the fans, before Dalglish arrived at Liverpool, effectively taking over Kevin Keegan’s position. Kapadia makes his central focus the mysterious inner trial, perhaps Dalglish’s hidden ordeal, that took place between 1985 to 1989; from Heysel to Hillsborough.Dalglish was the easygoing, level-headed everyman whose destiny it was to take the city’s woes on his shoulders. He became player-manager just after the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985, when there were 39 deaths as a result of a riot at the dilapidated Belgian ground b...

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8 d. ago 'I cost Arsenal £1m a goal but boss never gave me a chance – he forgot me overnight'

Not many have turned out for both of today's opponents Arsenal and Crystal Palace, but one player managed to spend three years at each club despite failing to deliver as hoped

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1 week ago Man United manager convinced squad that player was his son due to treatment he got

The Manchester United squad were fully convinced that the manager's son was part of the group

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1 week ago Man Utd squad convinced player was manager's son due to the treatment he got

Sir Alex Ferguson light-heartedly recalled his Manchester United stars believing one of their team-mates was his son because of how he was treated by the iconic boss

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1 week ago Kenny Dalglish's bombshell Liverpool phone call and private chat changed football history

Kenny Dalglish had just signed a four-year contract at Liverpool when he received a phone call out of the blue that changed his life and British football history

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1 week ago Chelsea news: Enzo Maresca's promise after talks as Blues make savvy transfer play

A round-up of Chelsea headlines as manager Enzo Maresca stays true to his word about a young player and the Blues hold talks over adding to their recruitment team

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2 w. ago Rangers and Kevin Muscat fail to strike next manager deal as senior player makes big admission on future

Australian had been expected to come in as next Gers boss

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2 w. ago Managerless Rangers salvage point but fans voice anger at players and board

James Tavernier’s late goal earned Rangers a 2-2 draw with Dundee United at Ibrox as the interim manager, Steven Smith, got a taste of the fragility which has dogged the club all season.The under-19s coach was taking the reins for the first time while the Light Blues search for a new manager to replace the sacked Russell Martin, with former Rangers player Kevin Muscat set to take over. Improvement under Smith was immediate and after 25 minutes Thelo Aasgaard scored a terrific first goal since signing from Luton in the summer. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Celebrity Traitors' star makes devastating confession about 'huge regret'

Alan Carr has opened up about his relationship with his father, Graham Carr, who is a former professional football manager and player, and how he wanted a different career for his son

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3 w. ago The peerless A’ja Wilson may already be the WNBA’s greatest ever player | Bryan Armen Graham

After a one-of-one season without precedent in NBA or WNBA history, the unstoppable Aces star has made a credible entry into the GOAT discussion before her 30th birthdayA’ja Wilson’s one-of-one season didn’t end merely with confetti so much as a deeper confirmation. When her Las Vegas Aces finished off a four-game sweep of the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night to become only the second team in WNBA history to win three titles in a four-year span, the final horn felt less like a climax than a verdict: the best team of the era led by the best player of the era. When the dust settled the 29-year-old from Columbia, South Carolina, had achieved a quadrafecta no player in the NBA or WNBA had ever managed: winning the scoring title, the Most Valuable Player award, Defensive Player of the Year honors and MVP of the finals in the same year.Thanks to Wilson, a team who’d looked like the next great American sports dynasty before slipping from their perch a year ago was back at the mountaintop. B...

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3 w. ago Ryan Reynolds told Wrexham should turn to manager who survived just 30 days in last job

Wrexham co-owners Ryan Reynolds have been informed by an old player who they should pick as their next manager if Phil Parkinson leaves his role at the Championship club

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3 w. ago Which footballers defied a manager’s tactics – and what were the results? | The Knowledge

Plus: the original long-throw specialists, an even earlier early-season pitch invasion and moreMail us with your questions and answers“It’s clear that regardless of personnel, Ruben Amorim will not shift from his 3-4-2-1 even if the pope were to force him,” notes Paul Vickers. “This got me thinking: has there ever been a case of players actively defying a manager’s instructions, not by downing tools and giving up, but by taking up self-devised, alternative tactics and positions that they consider better suited to their abilities and the needs of the team? And what was the outcome of any such defiant player self-management in terms of the immediate result and then the subsequent fate of the manager and the players?”A cracking question, to which we’ve received plenty of answers, so let’s proceed directly to The Insubordination Files. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Why Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was at Ipswich vs Norwich as Man United legend hunts for next job

Manchester United's former player and manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was in the crowd at Ipswich Town's Portman Road for the East Anglia Derby against Norwich City

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