This week's financial results at Chelsea, on the back of Saturday's thumping by Manchester City, point…
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How a 16-year-old Brazilian who has never played a senior game became the hottest prospect in world football with a £43m price tag – as Man City and Newcastle battle Barcelona and PSG to sign him
JOSUE SEIXAS: How can a player who has never appeared in a senior match be worth…
‘I asked Scottie if he was trying to kill us all’: The secrets of the Masters champions dinner – ‘brutal’ menu choices, schoolyard pacts and risque jokes, all spilled by the chosen few who got sport’s most exclusive invite to RIATH AL-SAMARRAI
That table. It might just be the most sanctified in all of sport. If you win…
Southampton’s FA Cup heroes on the ‘Spirit of 76’, sand dunes, Brett Ormerod’s ‘shepherd’ suit and making Thierry Henry run scared
MATT BARLOW: The spirit of 1976 is alive by the Solent as Tonda Eckert's team seek…
The downfall of Arsenal Fan TV: How ‘corrupted’ kingmaker Robbie Lyle is fighting to keep control of his £6.8m empire run alongside a ‘Mad Dwarf’ amid toxic fallouts, why viewing figures aren’t spiking anymore and the truth about star names’ exits
As Arsenal's Quadruple chances were slipping away in the dying minutes of the Carabao Cup final,…
JAMES MILNER INTERVIEW: I had the chance to sign for Man United but I turned them down… my dad would never have spoken to me again
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY OLIVER HOLT: Work never stops. If there is a phrase to sum Milner…
It’s time to show Mikel Arteta the respect he is due. The Arsenal manager’s gamble to throw on 16-year-old Max Dowman paid off handsomely and shows he is not a leader hamstrung by caution, writes OLIVER HOLT
I've not always been a fan of Mikel Arteta, the manager. In earlier years his touchline…
‘He never stops… I love it’: How ‘control freak’ Tonda Eckert ‘breathed life’ back into Southampton – neuroscience, the World Cup winners that shaped win at all costs mentality and the ‘one per cents’ that dragged Saints back into promotion race
One of the first things Tonda Eckert wanted after arriving at Southampton was for every member…
‘Fulham can achieve great things – we can push for Europe, I want to be an important part of that’: OSCAR BOBB on Marco Silva’s persuasive pull, leaving Man City, and his ‘random’ Pep Guardiola meeting at 15 after FIFA stopped his career for three years
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: The academy awards will go to Manchester City as the succession…
Revealed: Wrexham’s ‘extraordinary’ masterplan to be ready for the Premier League – the new stands, pitch and training ground facilities, Inter Milan bosses, the global transfer committee, and a helping hand from a £5bn investment fund
A member of staff this week found an email sent to all employees before the club…
I know the real reasons for the bizarre witch hunt against Arsenal: Here’s why losing teams and a biased pundit class cannot stand seeing them win the ‘wrong’ way – and the pathetic schemes they’re trying to stop Mikel Arteta’s side, writes OLIVER HOLT
A strange kind of rage is consuming English football, an impotent fury simmering around the fact…
‘I’ve met Mikel Arteta once… his team beat us 9-0!’: NIGEL CLOUGH on his Mansfield side’s FA Cup clash with Arsenal, living in his dad’s shadow and how his dog Bobbie motivates the team
Nigel Clough has no interest in social media but nevertheless takes his phone to bed with…
This is the depressing truth: The Premier League will be won by the country’s ugliest team… or the most boring, writes JEFF POWELL
Just listening to the ballyhoo, we could be forgiven for believing we are approaching the climax of one…