Marcus Rashford needs restoring to centre stage, Victor Moses is shining for Chelsea at last and David Moyes should be allowed to rebuild SunderlandThe splurge of title-winning questions after Liverpool’s breathless victory at Selhurst Park provoked a wonderfully enigmatic response from Jürgen Klopp. Can his team conquer the league playing in this wild fashion? “I’ve no idea,” he said. “It’s my first proper season in the Premier League. I have no idea what to do to win the Premier League. I’m pretty sure it was never decided at the end of October. We feel good in the moment, that’s all.” The notion that an experienced manager with 15 years on the job – who won the Bundesliga twice and has...
Impressive start to the season has been tempered by a run of five without a win but there is enough talent out wide to arrest their run against West HamWayne Rooney heading back to Everton makes a great story but let’s face it, Ronald Koeman was only answering a question. Probably as keen as anyone else to change the subject after five winless games, the Everton manager was not about to turn down the invitation to wax lyrical about a Goodison old boy, though he has enough problems at the front of his own team without importing an extra enigma from Manchester United.Another Everton old boy is on Merseyside on Sunday, and Slaven Bilic returns in charge of a side...
Six areas of contention emerged from events at the London Stadium, ranging from how rival fans could be so close together to how the FA will respondThe headline flashpoint during the EFL Cup tie between West Ham United and Chelsea on Wednesday night kicked off in stoppage time, when some of the visiting supporters made for the exit at the back of the lower tier of the Sir Trevor Brooking stand. A number of West Ham fans from the adjacent space rushed over towards them and it raised the uncomfortable question as to how they were able to do so. The stewards held their line bravely and the response of the police was swift – in under 60 seconds they...
The podders look back on the EFL Cup events on and off the pitch. Plus: Wolves axe Zenga, and Aston Villa prepare for a second-tier Second City derbySubscribe and review: iTunes, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast.Today’s Football Weekly Extra sees AC Jimbo joined by James Horncastle, Barry Glendenning and Jacob Steinberg, who was at the London Stadium to witness the events on and off the pitch following West Ham’s win over Chelsea. Continue reading...
Hammers players are beginning to find their feet in the London Stadium but there were more unsavoury scenes in the stands as they beat Chelsea 2-1It always was wishful thinking that the occasion would pass off without any ugly incidents in the stands. They came so close. But just when it seemed that West Ham United were easing towards a largely peaceful 2-0 victory over Chelsea in the League Cup, fighting broke out between home and away fans behind Darren Randolph’s goal, transforming a magnificent night on the pitch for Slaven Bilic’s resurgent side into a PR disaster.Stewards and police were forced to intervene, coins and bottles flew through the East End air and seats were thrown as rival supporters...