Into the Valley… Curbs on CAFC’s greatest era & Chelsea 🎸 The Who gig 🏖️ The beach row 🪶 Signing Mendonca 🥷 Selling Parker 👋 The day he left ➕ in-jokes, shades, mothballs & half and half scarves with Minto, Brown & Lisbie mol.im/a/15445501

Javier Zanetti interview 🇦🇷 Messi, Maradona, World Cup 26 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Beckham, Owen, St Etienne 😕 Sir Alex & Man United 💥 Mourinho & Inter 🌎 a project 10 years in the making to pitch kids from around the world against those from elite clubs ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Jamie Cureton on 😬 rejecting Class of 92 📞 the Fergie phone call 🍻 wasting his talent 🎯 a striker’s instinct 🍷 improving with age And becoming the first to score in the top 10 tiers of English football ⚽️⚽️⚽️⬇️ mol.im/a/15308843

McClaren & his Reggae Boyz on brink of the World Cup 🇯🇲 🔍 recruitment 🧱 team building 🧐 problem solving ❤️‍🔥 Caribbean passion 🏝️ inspiring an island With Isaac Hayden & Amari’i Bell and many more familiar names Redemption Songs all round ⬇️ mol.im/a/15283561

How Grant McCann transformed Doncaster Rovers into the best team in England ⏱️ escape at Sutton 🔟 in a row 🏆 a title ✍️ recruiting 🐓 Spurs next Donny be good ⬇️ mol.im/a/15125645

Owls of despair: Sheffield Wednesday and a deepening summer crisis 🦉 🔵 Rohl over ⚪️ Late wages 🔵 Unpaid tax bill ⚪️ Transfer bans 🔵 More trouble ahead A decade under Chansiri lurching to its unseemly end ⬇️ mol.im/a/14855305

Thomas Frank, the making of a very modern coach 🇩🇰 🧐 an academic curiosity 🗂️ The Oscar files 🪞 Motivation in the mirror 3️⃣ priorities to keep Bees up Olsen, Rud, Andersen, O’Kelly ⬇️ mol.im/a/14802465

Sunderland, the return to the Premier League and the challenge of staying there ✍️ the art of recruitment 🤔 flexible thinking 💪 preparing to scrap Not doing what Saints did 😇 ➕ Man United, Spurs, Watkins, Wembley & long throws Monday column ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Spurs will soon forget this PL season of misery & mockery if they win in Bilbao 🏆 Europa success trumps finishing 4th or 5th… same goes for Man United to a lesser degree ➕ PSG, Sterling, Wolves, Rohl, Taylor Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14700181

Bukayo Saka, darling of the North Bank… is he even better than we think? 🤕 3 months out 🏆 a title race lost 🇳🇴 Odegaard connection 💥 back with a bang 🇫🇷 bring on PSG ➕ Palace patience, ex Hammer time etc Monday column ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Nuno, Forest, Spurs, Ange… 📈One on the best season decades & the other the worst 📉One facing sack & the other manager of year 🏆One closing in on Champions Lge & the other drifting ➕ Mbeumo, Bowen, Dibling, Cheek, ET, etc Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14630201

Oliver Glasner in demand after a good year at Crystal Palace… and an FA Cup semi final to come ❓why would he stay ❓why would Spurs swoop ➕ Cunha, Campbell, Pearce, etc Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14604297

Respect for Burnley seems grudging at best but I like Parker’s mean machine 1️⃣2️⃣ conceded in 4️⃣0️⃣ 🍷 a good year for the Clarets ➕ Villa’s smart trading, Norwich not, Caicedo/Sarr revisited, Cov nostalgia fix Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14576963

Tyler Dibling, the £100m clamour, Lord Sugar & the price of lobster 🦞 👹 Man United & Wilcox ⚪️ Spurs collecting teens 🔴 Saints to Liverpool link 🇩🇪 Bundesliga interest ➕ football’s T20 revolution, Brighton goalies, etc Monday column ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

From Ozil & Brooking to the technical wizardry of Foden, Saka & Co but no centre halves… 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English football’s new conundrum ➕ Biereth 🇩🇰 Karetsas 🇬🇷 Iron rising 🔴 classic Currie 50 years on Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14528251

🇧🇷 How Raphinha conjured his finest season under Flick rather than accept his Barcelona exit 🌍 Bournemouth & Luton cast into different orbits one year on ➕ Pep’s yellow subs, last 10 drama, top speed Haaland, Barnet’s lucky 5 Monday column ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Ian Cathro on stepping out of Nuno’s shadow 🇵🇹 back to Portugal after Valencia, Newcastle, Hearts, Wolves, Spurs & Saudi Forging success at Estoril and why it is the start of his career as a head coach ➕ Dowman, Dembele, etc Monday column ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Harry Kane at Bayern - a perfect home for a 30-something goal machine 🏆 trophies incoming ⚽️ Gerd Muller & Lewandowski 🇩🇪 nothing to do with your Vorsprung durch Technik you know ➕ Merino, Chelsea, Luton, Noonan, Ellison, etc Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14403877

Exeter boss Gary Caldwell on… 🏆 Wigan’s glorious Cup run 2013 😩 pain of relegation 🏟️ pen miss on Wembley return 🤕 hip ops & early retirement 💰 Exeter, management, Man United & lost replays Plotting another Devonian FA Cup upset ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

🤔What next for Jack Grealish? 🚂 Orient back on track 1️⃣2️⃣ Slot’s dirty dozen ➕ PNE pen fest, ups, downs, worldies & thinking of Will Still Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14378773

The new Euro format - any good or just an incoherent ramble of exhibition games… ⚽️🏀 Barcelona, Benfica, Harlem Globetrotters, Celtic 🧮 Tottenham’s squad size ➕ City in-form teen, Bolton love in, Ndiaye spreading wings, etc Monday column ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Big Ange, injuries & the Tottenham teens 6️⃣ in Europe for teenage kicks ⭐️ meet the youngest star 1️⃣6️⃣ and on the bench 8️⃣ times 🇩🇪 kids needed at Hoffenheim ❔ can it keep the boss in a job❔ ⬇️ more here… www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

On Tony Mowbray’s return to football 🪃 comeback story of the year 🎄 Xmas Eve vibes #WBA ❤️ love, life & death ⬆️ target Premier League ⚽️ Diallo, Wharton, lovely soft feet ➕ Law, Trent, Sir Les, Lowe, Sheffield Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14302415

🚨Exclusive interview: Les Ferdinand on... ⚽️ the trouble with his beloved Spurs ⚽️ Keegan's Entertainers ⚽️ leaving QPR & what next ⚽️ the making of Eze, Kane, Townsend, etc ⚽️ impact of prostate cancer on his family and his campaign @ProstateUK www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

What next for Louie Barry? ✍️ new deal at #AVFC 😍 admirers line up ⚽️ goals galore at Stockport ☀️ Barcelona at 16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jude & England Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14252017

Inside the wonderful world of walking football 🚀 soaring popularity 🧘‍♂️ healing bodies & minds 🤝 forging friendships 👕 Busst, Bennett & the Sky Blues Uplifting tales from one of my favourite assignments of 2024 Monday column ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Bournemouth are kings of the subs 7️⃣ goals by 7️⃣ different subs 6️⃣ in last 8️⃣ games 7️⃣2️⃣ used out of 7️⃣5️⃣ 5️⃣ subs should suit the big clubs ❔what’s going on Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14194985

Arsenal set pieces & the Crazy Gang 🗝️ delivery, desire, variation ⚽️ a goal every 13 corners 🏆 Liverpool in 88 🤨 solving the puzzle 🐟 codswallop ➕ Ox, Zabarnyi, Reading, Posh Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14170567

The extraordinary rise of Richard Kone 🌍 Africa to Homeless World Cup ⚽️ goals galore @ Athletic Newham 📆 pro deal in Jan 24 🏔️ fired Wycombe top L1 🕵️‍♀️ PL scouts tuned in ➕ GK goals, Fabio Silva, Kluivert pens, Tom Davies & CAFC Monday column ⬇️ mol.im/a/14145753

Paul Elliott is back at Charlton as vice chair, still breaking down barriers at 60 & launching a new project to transform crowds in the EFL 🗣️This will modernise the club, make it fit for purpose, take it and all of English football forward #CAFC ⬇️ www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba...

Kulusevski in full bloom for club and country 📈 top of the creativity charts 😘 high praise from Pep 💪 stronger & more robust 😋 hungry & ready to eat ➕ Walker v Werner, Palmer, Riza, Wycombe soaring, Sandro ⬇️ Monday column mol.im/a/14120463

Football Fans who like their football heritage. Give me a follow. I'll follow back too. I'm happy to help anyone who needs assistance recognising their heroes and heroines. Forget all that insular only 'my' club matters nonsense. Unite ⚽

⚽️ Son Heung-min & Spurs ⚽️ 👌a decade of goals slowing 🤕demands of modern game 🏃quick as ever ✍️ contract dilemma ❔what next… Black Friday sale - Mail+ for just 99p per month for a year mol.im/a/14106105

Heralding post Carsley England (the Afterlee) with a new platform and here’s my Monday column ⚽️⚽️⚽️ It’s on Joey Beauchamp and how Oxford United are turning a tragedy into a force for good 💛 And some other things too… hello everybody ⬇️ mol.im/a/14092985