Hasselbaink recalls being spat on by fans after leaving a stadium and nobody helping him. “It makes you feel worthless. It makes you feel like you’re a piece of shit." Decades later, the cycle of racism continues. “We keep on getting dragged back into it... It never ends.”

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink interview for @sport.theguardian.com on the endless cycle of racism in football. ‘Mourinho has black players at Benfica. How the hell must they feel?’

Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink interview for @sport.theguardian.com on the endless cycle of racism in football. ‘Mourinho has black players at Benfica. How the hell must they feel?’

Tom Lockyer has a whole new perspective on football two years after his heart stopped for two minutes and 41 seconds. "You were dead, what in football can bother you any more? You give the ball away – so what? You scored an own goal – it’s not the end of the world."

Lockyer's fiancé, Taylor, followed him in her car when he first went running after the cardiac arrest. She was seven months pregnant with their daughter, Mila, when she watched him collapse on the pitch. "She doesn’t really like coming to games now, which is understandable."

Tom Lockyer has a whole new perspective on football two years after his heart stopped for two minutes and 41 seconds. "You were dead, what in football can bother you any more? You give the ball away – so what? You scored an own goal – it’s not the end of the world."

I think a lot of the criticism comes from jealousy

In the Premier League Arsenal are: 🔝 Joint top for avg goals scored: 2 per game 🔝 Top for touches in the opposition box: 999 🔴 2nd for possession won in final 3rd: 4.9pg 🔴 3rd for shots on target: 4.9pg 🧤 Top for goals conceded: 0.7pg How much better can they play?

This post took some unexpected twists and turns

Yes and still grinding out results

Thanks Pedro 😂

But I don't think they're one of the team with the lowest ball-in-play time... they just score a lot of set-pieces

In the Premier League Arsenal are: 🔝 Joint top for avg goals scored: 2 per game 🔝 Top for touches in the opposition box: 999 🔴 2nd for possession won in final 3rd: 4.9pg 🔴 3rd for shots on target: 4.9pg 🧤 Top for goals conceded: 0.7pg How much better can they play?

Wednesday Wrap for @eng-premierleague.bsky.social 📈 Saka's growing influence 🏅 Semenyo Player of the Year? ⬆️ West Ham briefly out of bottom 3 🇧🇷 Joao Pedro thriving at No9 ⚽️ Fernandes closing in on Beckham

🚨 Tottenham have been fined €30,000 and been banned from selling away tickets for one Uefa match (suspended for a year) "for the racist and/or discriminatory behaviour of its supporters". In relation to the Champions League game v Frankfurt in January.

Sunday wrap for @eng-premierleague.bsky.social 🤼‍♂️ Arsenal and Chelsea's contrasting set-piece fortunes 🔑 Benjamin Sesko the key to Man Utd form 📈 Harry Wilson in the same company as Haaland/Fernandes 🍷 Danny Welbeck getting better with age

Bukayo Saka: From Hale End schoolboy to Arsenal's superstar @arseblog.com: “There’s something very romantic about the idea of a kid joining a football club and then making it through the academy to the first team." For @eng-premierleague.bsky.social

Bukayo Saka: From Hale End schoolboy to Arsenal's superstar @arseblog.com: “There’s something very romantic about the idea of a kid joining a football club and then making it through the academy to the first team." For @eng-premierleague.bsky.social

🚨 Uefa opens investigation into Vinícius Júnior's racism allegations

“Since I started to play football, I did everything to stop goals. Now, people know me because I scored a goal.” An interview with Anatoliy Trubin, the keeper who scored in the 98th minute to put Benfica through to the Champions League playoffs www.nytimes.com/athletic/703...

After he wins @eng-premierleague.bsky.social Manager of the Month, here are the changes Michael Carrick has made to spark Manchester United back on track 👇

🚨 Rodri has been charged with misconduct by the FA for comments made about the officials after the Spurs game. FA say it's alleged his comments "imply bias and/or question the integrity of a match official and/or match officials".

Contract until the summer?

The ideal Sean Dyche replacement has just become available...

Breaking: Uefa reaches agreement with Real Madrid to resolve "legal disputes related to the European Super League"

Felt inevitable that Thomas Frank would be sacked. Spurs simply can't be in a relegation scrap.

EXPOSED: the rise of illegal and unregulated betting companies in international cricket Brilliant piece by @stevemenary.bsky.social sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/exposed-th...

Another live appearance on the Sky Sports News Back Pages Tonight show. Are Man City getting into Arsenal heads?

Exclusive @theobserveruk.bsky.social interview with Nigel Mansell: his wife's heart surgery, selling a lifetime of memorabilia for Youth Uk & defying time... "I’m ready for the phone to go to step back into one of the cars if someone needs a reserve driver. I’ve even been slimming in case!"

Exclusive @theobserveruk.bsky.social interview with Nigel Mansell: his wife's heart surgery, selling a lifetime of memorabilia for Youth Uk & defying time... "I’m ready for the phone to go to step back into one of the cars if someone needs a reserve driver. I’ve even been slimming in case!"

This is a fun story, involving an Arsenal fan in the 1990s, the Pen Pal section of the club magazine, 22 letters from Arsenal fans around the world, and WKD Blue... can you help finish the story?

This is a fun story, involving an Arsenal fan in the 1990s, the Pen Pal section of the club magazine, 22 letters from Arsenal fans around the world, and WKD Blue... can you help finish the story?

Leicester City docked SIX points! 😮

Sunderland are now on the longest home unbeaten start to a top-flight season by a newly promoted side - with 7 wins and 5 draws - since Forest in 1977-78. Forest went unbeaten at home all that season - 15 wins, 6 draws.

It's so annoying when that happens! I've had a few where I swore I played the previous day

It still pains me that before the start of this run I lost a 50-something streak by forgetting to play one day

BIG day today 🥳

All ends next Wednesday. #LFC

Sunderland are now on the longest home unbeaten start to a top-flight season by a newly promoted side - with 7 wins and 5 draws - since Forest in 1977-78. Forest went unbeaten at home all that season - 15 wins, 6 draws.

Sunderland are the only side unbeaten at home in the Premier League this season. Here's how they turned the Stadium of Light into a fortress. 🎨 A lick of paint 🔴 Club legends 🌉 'Regis Le Bridge' 📢 Cauldron of noise For @premierleague www.premierleague.com/en/news/4574...

Mikel Arteta's tactical masterclass puts Arsenal back on track For @eng-premierleague.bsky.social

Mikel Arteta's tactical masterclass puts Arsenal back on track For @eng-premierleague.bsky.social

Exclusive: The FA has written to Crystal Palace and Macclesfield to stop the Premier League side from handing their share of FA Cup gate receipts to the non-League club. Full story @thetimes.com 👇

Exclusive: The FA has written to Crystal Palace and Macclesfield to stop the Premier League side from handing their share of FA Cup gate receipts to the non-League club. Full story @thetimes.com 👇

Referee Craig Pawson wrote in his report on the incident: "After the final whistle a number of players came together... No misconduct was witnessed by the match officials."

🚨 Aston Villa and Tottenham fined £125,000 each for the mass confrontation after their FA Cup match. Both clubs admitted the FA charge.

🚨 Exclusive 🚨 FA warned Exeter over plea for more money from Man City FA Cup tie. FA told them clubs receive equal gate receipts to maintain the integrity of the competition. Story @thetimes.com

Story for @thetimes.com: The FA wrote to Exeter City to warn them about the request to Manchester City for a greater share of the gate receipts for their FA Cup tie. The FA say gate receipts are shared equally to maintain the integrity of the competition.

Story for @thetimes.com: The FA wrote to Exeter City to warn them about the request to Manchester City for a greater share of the gate receipts for their FA Cup tie. The FA say gate receipts are shared equally to maintain the integrity of the competition.

Exeter had hoped drawing Manchester City away would provide significant income to ease their financial troubles, but made only £180,000. In 2004 Manchester United donated their entire Old Trafford gate receipts to Exeter for their FA Cup tie