The Tottenham chair, Daniel Levy, has defended the club’s spending in advance of a planned protest by supporters at Sunday’s meeting with Southampton. Spurs announced their financial results for the year to 30 June 2024 on Monday, with losses falling from £86.8m to £26.2m despite a 4% decrease in revenue to £528.2m. Match-day income fell … Read more
DUBLIN DOWN You have to hand it to Dion Dublin. The energy that the former footballer brought to Homes Under the Hammer – a British property show in which the giant striker navigated the innards of (mostly) tiny, decrepit terraced houses – was sensational. You might have thought that Dublin would have lost his zest … Read more
Wrexham’s increasing popularity in the United States helped the club secure record revenue of £26.7m in their latest accounts, up 155% on the previous year. Wrexham, who are co-owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, said they generated more than half (52.1%) of that record turnover from outside Europe – primarily North America – for … Read more
Title race Liverpool’s 12-point lead means they need a maximum of 16 points from their nine games to put themselves out of Arsenal’s reach and secure the title. If Arsenal go on a winning run this could take Liverpool into May even without dropping any points, but if Mikel Arteta’s side lose their next three … Read more
This weekend, 46,731 people came to see Betis and Sevilla but the derby wasn’t until the following night – so 33 hours later they came back and did it all over again, even better. Saturday’s second-biggest attendance in Spain had watched the country’s most passionate rivals train. Sunday’s very biggest crowd saw them play, a … Read more
Five players and two coaches were ejected after a fight broke out in the second quarter of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ victory over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night. Detroit lost head coach JB Bickerstaff, center Isaiah Stewart, forward Ron Holland II and guard Marcus Sasser. Minnesota forward Naz Reid and guard Donte DiVincenzo were tossed, … Read more
And just like that, has the magic gone? After losing four of their last five league matches, the lustre has come off Marseille’s season. Their latest defeat – a 3-1 loss against a Reims side that had not won in the league since early November – may be the worst of all of them. Their … Read more
The father of the Norwegian track and field superstar Jakob Ingebrigtsen has denied kicking the double Olympic gold medallist and whipping his daughter in the face with a sweaty towel. At the start of the second week of the explosive trial that has gripped Norway, Gjert Ingebrigtsen repeatedly broke down in tears as he insisted … Read more
Sporting Kansas City and longtime coach Peter Vermes have mutually parted ways, the team announced on Monday. Vermes, 58, was the longest-tenured skipper in MLS, having originally taken over as interim coach in 2009. He also owned the fourth-longest active managerial tenure in the world before his firing. His 15 year, seven month, 24 day … Read more
A month ago, Leeds United were merrily on top of the Championship. They had just beaten Sunderland with two late goals and Sheffield United with three. They had gone 16 games unbeaten and were playing with authority and conviction. More than that, they seemed to have the deepest squad in the Championship. The Sunderland game … Read more