What actually is Diogo Jota?If the Premier League was schoolboy football and you were the captain of his side, where would you tell him to play and what would you ask him to do? Maybe you'd just let him roam, trusting him to make a difference somehow. Most likely that would be enough.The Premier League isn’t schoolboy football. It’s the summit of professional sport and an environment in which everyone’s place is rigidly defined. Jota manages still to exist between the margins, though, and that helps to make him one of the competition’s most watchable players.Initially he was part of Jorge Mendes’ Gestifute army. Remember those days? Molineux was going to be Mendes’ shop window and somewhere in Wolverhampton -...
Your legend is what you make it. Legacy, however, is usually decided in post-mortem.Liverpool have blustered and battled, swaggered and swept all before them domestically and abroad in the past two years - well, nearly all. Their legend is being written every week. Their name, all but etched onto the trophy they’ve coveted since its inception. But we’ll have to wait to know their legacy. That particular story will only begin after Jordan Henderson inevitably lifts the cold, silver frame of the Premier League trophy this May.For Arsene Wenger’s Invincibles, the legacy has been a strange one. An undefeated season put Arsenal on a permanent podium, for us to compare them to every great side from now until a European...
For the first time ever, England go into a tournament with that trophy already under their arms – though whether they will return home with it is another matter altogether. Beating Brazil, drawing with USA and hammering Japan was enough to see the Lionesses lift the SheBelieves Cup in Tampa last year, having thrived as the underdog among two World Cup-winning sides.Twelve months on from that triumph and Phil Neville’s side are returning to American soil tasked with defending their crown – still their only one to date. With the ‘reigning champions’ title still somewhat of a novelty, questions are being asked about whether the pressure will weigh too heavily on Neville’s young side.Flying out to the USA today to...
Eight minutes on the clock, 22 playersto guess - 11 from Portsmouth's 2008 side, 11 from Arsenal's 2017 team.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends - get the Pompey and Arsenal fans in your life involved in this one.NOW TRYQuiz! Can you name every current Premier League manager? Tonight, Portsmouth host Arsenal in the FA Cup. The two sides have a fair amount in common.For a start, they were both led by Tony Adams - Pompey when they appointed Adams as manager, Arsenal when he was their captain. They've both shared players, though we won't say who as that may give that away. They've also both had glory days at Wembley.Back in 2008, Harry Redknapp took Pompey to...
Harry Wilson wore a throwback shirt on the front of Saturday’s match programme. He didn’t see the pitch during Bournemouth’s 2-2 draw with Chelsea, but that image still caught the local mood.Those green and black stripes belonged to the Football League days, the begging with buckets days, and while Bournemouth aren’t about to return to that kind of poverty, the threat of being relegated back to where they came from is very real.They were better on Saturday. Ultimately not quite good enough to hold on to a winning position and alleviate those fears, but well worth their point.At times, though, Bournemouth were playing as much against themselves as they were Chelsea. Particularly at 2-1, particularly when they had something to...