The four Manchester United fans at the train station inside Vienna airport on Friday afternoon cut less cheerful figures than a day earlier. On Thursday, they’d received texts saying they’d receive £350 compensation from Manchester United for their trip to a game which would be played behind closed doors.On Friday, they found out that football was being suspended and that Austria had closed its border with Slovakia – and with that their flights back to Manchester from Bratislava had gone. The fans scrambled to get home as flights were cut around Europe and they were about to take a train four hours north to Munich in the hope of getting back. It’ll be a good story to tell to a...
Six minutes on the clock, 24 clubsto guess - and we've used their current standings in the table, just in case that helps. It doesn't? Oh well.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends!NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every current Bundesliga club? In years to come, this weekend just been will become a trivia question in pubs across the land.Coronavirus might be wreaking havoc with the Premier League, but it's yet to completely filter down to the non-league.With no football whatsoever, the National League became the top tier of English football, before it inevitably follows the Premier League and EFL, of course, in suspending until further notice.Today, we want you to name all the clubs in England's top tier...
Five minutes on the clock, 20 playersto try and guess - and we've even given you the Premier League clubs they played for.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends!NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every club to reach a Europa League or UEFA Cup final? Darren Bent was a prolific striker in the Premier League. A rare combination of pace, strength and the accuracy of a marksman in the penalty area. On quiz shows? Not so much.The former Tottenham Hotspur striker appeared on Celebrity Mastermind over the weekend, competing against the likes of Bez from the Happy Mondays and picking the James Bond franchise as his specialist subject.But though he scored 217 goals in his career, Bent only got...
“I think it’s probably the second tier of English football this weekend,” says David, Dulwich Hamlet’s programme seller and a regular at the London club’s Champion Hill ground.The London club sit towards the bottom of the National LeagueSouth and – like all National League fixtures this weekend – their home game against Hemel Hempstead Town survived the mass postponements which swept the country in the light of the coronavirus pandemic.Faced with unclear advice, and not expressly forbidden from attending live events, supporters have been coming through the gates at a steady pace, even if a few have opted to play it safe and keep their distance.“It was a league decision, backed up by government advice,” Dulwich Hamlet comms and media...
Time is running out to build form and momentum but the FA have little choice than to stick with under-fire England manager Phil Neville.Since touching down empty-handed in the UK on Thursday, there have been calls for Neville to be sacked. The Lionesses failed in their attempts to retain the SheBelieves Cup trophy and returned home with just three points from three games after losing to the USA and Spain and narrowly beating Japan.That’s now seven defeats in the last 11 games for the Lionesses and worryingly, five of those defeats have come against lower-ranked opposition. Even by his own admission, Neville’s record leaves a lot to be desired.The FA will hold a de-brief meeting with Neville on Tuesday –...