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Tudor informed of news following 3-0 Forest defeatCristian Romero promises ‘200%’ in remaining gamesTottenham’s interim manager Igor Tudor is mourning the death of his father Mario.Tudor was unable to fulfil his media commitments after Spurs’ damaging 3-0 Premier League home defeat to relegation rivals Nottingham Forest due to a bereavement to an immediate family member. Continue reading...

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Hands up who had Jorginho v Chappell Roan on their bingo cards this weekend? Ah, who’s Chappell Roan, you ask? It’s a fair question if you’re a reader as long in the tooth as this tea-timely email. Pink Pony Club anyone? Ah. Well, Football Daily hasn’t had to do any research at all, nope, to tell you that she’s a flamboyant 28-year-old synth pop singer-songwriter from the USA USA USA who is so popular with the kids that she has eight gazillion followers on Instachat and fans including the former Chelsea and current Flamengo star’s stepdaughter. Those followers may number 7,999,997 after the weekend, mind, when Jorginho took to his social media disgrace of choice to lash out at Roan, claiming one of her security guards made his stepdaughter cry after speaking “in an extremely aggressive manner” to her and his wife at a São Paulo hotel.Is there a better walk home from a Premier League ground, I wonder? After watching Brighton beat Liverpool, I walked back from the Amex to Lewes: up the Downs, along the top of the South Downs Way, down into historic Southover past the Anne of Cleves House, through beautiful Grange Gardens, up past Lewes Castle, the Pells Pools, and over the River Ouse, to South Malling. Countryside and then Historic England. About two hours of bliss. Followed by a good walk” – Peter Harris (and no other ramblers).I’ve been reading and hearing Thibaut Courtois’s name for almost 15 years now and it only just struck me that it might be a derivative of ‘Tybalt’. Did we ever get Lukaku rounding Courtois and finishing in an open net to prompt a ‘Romelo slew Thibaut’ line from a pundit or writer? Or perhaps there are some other Pro Evo-style Shakespeare quotes I missed?” – Kristian Karamfiles.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...

PSG do not run as much as their opponents and they are not as big or powerful, but they keep winningBy Get French Football NewsLuis Enrique said his side’s 4-0 win over Nice “showed the kind of team that PSG are”. With Nuno Mendes at left-wing, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia playing as a No 9 and Lucas Beraldo coming on in midfield, it was unlike anything we have seen before. Yet, remarkably, it all felt so familiar.The dynamics within the game were nothing new. PSG continued to test the limits of positional fluidity, while Nice pushed the limits of their own rigidity by deploying what Nice centre-back Dante called a “team block”. PSG’s waspish front three of Mendes, Kvaratskhelia and Désiré Doué outmanoeuvred a Nice back three who are all over six-feet tall. While the rest of Ligue 1 have trended towards physicality, PSG have trended towards technicality, and there was only one winner at the Allianz Riviera. Continue reading...

First-team All Pro expected to get $120m guaranteedPLayer was NFL Offensive Player of the Year for 2025Seattle Seahawks star Jaxon Smith-Njigba recently said he expects to become the highest-paid wide receiver in NFL history. He got his wish with a four-year, $168.6m contract extension that includes $120m guaranteed, according to multiple reports on Monday.Smith-Njigba’s $42.15m annual salary surpasses Cincinnati Bengals star Ja’Marr Chase, who averages $40.25m a season on his four-year, $161m deal. Continue reading...

Manchester City won the Carabao Cup. Two goals for Nico O’Reilly as Pep Guardiola danced with anyone and everyone. He played a reserve keeper who was good. Mikel Arteta played a reserve keeper who wasn’t, but the rest of the team also didn’t really turn up. What does that mean for the rest of the season? Could Arsenal really come second in everything? Tottenham Hotspur fans took to the streets in their thousands to try and motivate Igor Tudor’s men on Sunday. This would be the turning point … Narrator: 'It wasn’t the turning point.' It was a massive win for Nottingham Forest. Fortunately for Spurs, West Ham got battered by Aston Villa and Leeds drew a blank at home to Brentford. In the race for the top five … should we include include Everton, who dispatched Chelsea 3-0? Arne Slot is under more pressure after defeat at Brighton, and Manchester United’s progress was halted at Bournemouth. And where will Sunderland put Brian Brobbey Brobbey Brobbey’s statue? A last-minute winner at Newcastle helped the Black Cats do the double over their neighbours. Continue reading...

The Gunners have a nine-point lead in the Premier League. But recent run-ins, and their loss to City on Sunday, will keep them warySign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson hereSome day, probably quite soon, Arsenal will win something again. Quite probably something much bigger than the Carabao Cup. But until then, there is only going to be anxiety, and it is going to get worse after Sunday’s second-half freeze against Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final, which City won 2-0. Wembley could have seen the start of the Arsenal era, perhaps even the first leg of an unprecedented Quadruple; instead it was City celebrating, and with a gusto that suggested the past couple of years of dearth have served as a useful reminder that these occasions can never be taken for granted.Claims that victory in this final could be a huge psychological blow in the title race are perhaps a little fanciful. One game is one game. Professional athletes, robust self-belief integral to their existence, recover from defeats. But still, that flatness in the second half, the way Arsenal were pinned back and unable to break forward, has to be a concern. City were able to use the way Arsenal like to control the pace of the game against them, the short passes out from the goalkeeper used as a way of penning them in as they closed down passing lanes, allowing their defenders to have the ball and denying them options. What was that? A tactical triumph for Pep Guardiola? Exhaustion from Arsenal? Or the familiar mental fragility returning? Continue reading...

ECB review concludes sackings not the right route to takeKey: ‘No big bust up’ between Stokes and McCullumBrendon McCullum and Rob Key have been backed to lead England’s response to the winter’s grisly Ashes defeat in Australia, with Richard Gould, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, insisting that while it may not be a popular decision, it is the right one.At Lord’s on Monday, and with Key, the managing director of cricket, sitting next to him, Gould stressed that lessons have been learned from the 4-1 defeat and that the head coach in particular is willing to “adapt” and “evolve” his style. Even with an appetite for change among the public, the status quo holds, as exclusively revealed by the Guardian this month. Continue reading...

Two-goal hero says City are ready to hunt down ArsenalRodri feels Carabao Cup can be springboard in title raceNico O’Reilly says Manchester City “smell blood” as they hunt down Arsenal’s nine-point Premier League advantage after their 2-0 ­Carabao Cup final win on Sunday.Two second-half headers by O’Reilly defeated Arsenal at ­Wembley to give his side the season’s first major trophy. City have a game in hand on the ­leaders and host them on 19 April at the Etihad Stadium. Continue reading...

Max Rushden is joined by Seb Hutchinson, Dan Bardell and John Brewin to review Manchester City’s 2-0 win over Arsenal at Wembley, ending hopes of Arteta’s side winning the quadrupleRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on emailManchester City won the Carabao Cup. Two goals for Nico O’Reilly as Pep Guardiola danced with anyone and everyone. He played a reserve keeper who was good. Mikel Arteta played a reserve keeper who wasn’t, but the rest of the team also didn’t really turn up. What does that mean for the rest of the season? Could Arsenal really come second in everything? Continue reading...

Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, who oversaw gold medal success in Torun for Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell, believe the best is yet to come for the pairIt was the architect of the London 2012 Olympics who said it best, shortly after Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter Bell and Molly Caudery had lit up the world indoor championships with three gold medals in 29 minutes. “That was a towering moment, not just for UK Athletics but for British sport,” said Sebastian Coe, now the World Athletics president. “It was very exciting, hugely inspirational. I really do hope they cause a stampede to local athletics clubs, particularly among young girls.”Soon afterwards, Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, the husband and wife coaching team who have guided Hodgkinson and Hunter Bell to glory, were explaining the secrets behind their success – ranging from cycling to crystals to cutting-edge science – before predicting the best was yet to come. Continue reading...