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Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City moves training equipment during the training session at Manchester City Football Academy on June 06, 2020 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Matt McNulty – Manchester City/Manchester City FC via Getty Images)
ARSENAL
Video

Football will define its own destiny as it returns to a strange world

The superstars of the Premier League are back and how they do will determine whether they remain relevant – on and off the pitch

  • Luke Feltham
7 min read
On Tuesday, Danny Rose (L) told the Lockdown Tactics podcast: “I’m dying to get back to football but with the things that are happening, people are going through the coronavirus pandemic a lot worse than me.”
BUNDESLIGA
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Rose says Premier League players treated like ‘lab rats’

The Premier League conducted 748 tests on players and staff on Sunday and Monday as part of their bid to restart matches in June

  • Agency
2 min read
Having won four English Premier League titles in the last eight seasons, Manchester City were given a two-year European ban on Friday. (Shaun Botterill/Getty)
ABU DHABI

What now for Abu Dhabi’s Man City project?

After being banned by Uefa from European competitions for two years, will the side return to their old, mediocre standards?

  • Kieran Canning
4 min read
Raheem Sterling celebrates his goal against Montenegro earlier this year, where a number of English players were the subject of racial abuse. (Getty Images)
AGENCY

Bulgaria fan arrested for racially abusing Sterling

Sterling, who has been a campaigner in the fight against racism, was the subject of discriminatory language during the first half of the match

  • Agency
2 min read
The traditional curtain-raiser to the European season may not be taken entirely seriously by everyone, but neither club will turn their noses up at the chance of lifting more silverware. (Gallo)
AJAX AMSTERDAM

Political football: Is sport today a new form of colonialism?

The English are celebrating England’s recent domination of the European league competitions, but how ‘English’ are their top clubs?

  • Telford Vice
9 min read
Virgil Van Dijk. (Getty Images)
LIVERPOOL

Liverpool’s Van Dijk wins PFA player of year award

The 27-year-old Dutchman has been an ever-present for Liverpool in their bid to dethrone Man City as Premier League champions this season

  • Agency
2 min read
Raheem Sterling celebrates his goal against Montenegro earlier this year, where a number of English players were the subject of racial abuse. (Getty Images)
CALLUM HUDSON ODOI

Montenegro ordered to play behind closed doors over England racism

The Uefa ruling means Montenegro will play their match against Kosovo on June 7 in an empty stadium

  • Agency
2 min read
Touré is painfully aware of how football authorities get excited when racism hits the headlines then drop it. (Reuters/Andrew Boyers)
AGENCY

Touré blasts football chiefs over racism

Toure was speaking on Sunday after receiving an award from Football Against Racism in Europe

  • Agency
2 min read
Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero looks on after scoring his hat trick goal despite the efforts of Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno and Laurent Koscielny. (Stu Forster/Getty Images)
ARSENAL FC

Aguero hat-trick sinks Arsenal, City close gap on Liverpool

Manchester City closed to within two points of Premier League leaders Liverpool thanks to Sergio Aguero’s hat-trick in a 3-1 win over Arsenal

  • Ian Whittell
3 min read
Sterling received a barrage of abuse from home supporters as he retrieved the ball from behind the goal during the first half of the Premier League match at Stamford Bridge, which City lost 2-0. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)
BRITIAN

Raheem Sterling accuses newspapers of fuelling racism

Sterling has accused British newspapers of helping to ‘fuel racism’ with the way they portray young black footballers

  • Agency
3 min read
(John Sibley/Reuters)
AGENCY

Chelsea launch investigation into racist abuse aimed at Sterling

Twitter users highlighted a first-half incident when a supporter appeared to abuse Sterling as he retrieved the ball near Chelsea supporters

  • Agency
1 min read
David Silva celebrates a goal with Bernardo Silva, but Ci†y’s conversions are few. (Verwendung Weltweit/ firo Sportphoto)
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

City get slack up front

The league favourites are not yet at a comfortable level to deliver consistent, convincing wins

  • Luke Feltham
3 min read
Worldly: Harry Maguire represents a modern England team shorn of any delusions of British superiority.
DAMIEN HIRST

Old England is just so yesterday

The worldly Instagram generation of players are everything that the Brexiteers are not

  • Carlos Amato
3 min read