Cristian Romero, Tottenham Cristian Romero’s time at Tottenham seemed to be drawing to a close. The Argentinian criticised the club earlier this season, blaming the board for a lack of progress. “Manchester City competes every year,” he said. “You see how Liverpool strengthens its squad. Chelsea strengthens their squad, doesn’t do well, strengthens again, and … Read more
Jonny Mansour made light work of Christian Avalos in the main event of “Championing Mental Health: A Night of Boxing” at Avalon Hollywood. It was a pure six-round clinic. Avalos had no answers for Mansour’s foot control, lead hand discipline, or bodywork. Mansour won 60-54 across the board — and honestly, Avalos barely touched him. … Read more
After another memorable season of Premier League football, the Sky Sports football writers have got together to pick their end-of-season gongs covering everything from the best game, to the most outstanding save and young player. Sunday 25th May 3:00pm Kick off 4:00pm Best player: Mohamed Salah Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Jacob Steinberg You’d have thought that Harry Maguire would be the kind of defender Tuchel would want in his squad. But the Manchester United defender is again left out. He probably can’t complain after United’s dreadful season. It’s just that he’s … Read more
For more stories like this, click here to follow The Athletic’s sports betting section and have them added to your feed. It’s here. You’ve made it through all the plot twists and turmoil to the final weekend of the 2024/25 Premier League season. The title race has been decided, and we know who’s going down. … Read more
There was some wonder whether or not Manchester United would field as strong of a lineup as possible considering they were expected to be in full preparation for the Europa League final against Tottenham, but Ruben Amorim did in fact pick a strong team. Chelsea went with basically what we can assume is their preferred … Read more
Trainer Abel Sanchez says Terence Crawford must knock out Canelo Alvarez to win. He doesn’t see it happening because Canelo’s punch resistance will be too good. Sanchez notes that Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs) has fought bigger guys with power and dominated them. Crawford is coming into this fight with no experience at super middleweight, which … Read more
I’ve never felt as low about Manchester United in all my life following Wednesday night’s Europa League final defeat. This is statistically the worst United team I’ve seen, one which will finish just above the Premier League relegation places. I was born in the relegation season, 1973-74, and was only six months old when the … Read more
Tottenham have won seven of their last eight home league games against Brighton, with the exception being a 1-0 loss in April 2022. Brighton came from 2-0 down to win 3-2 in the reverse fixture against Tottenham in October – they’ve never won consecutive league games against Spurs before. Tottenham Hotspur have lost 21 league … Read more
David Benavidez says he’ll be fighting Callum Smith or Anthony Yarde next. He’s leaning toward facing Smith because he holds the WBO interim light heavyweight title. Benavidez (30, 24 KOs) feels that he needs that belt to help box in the winner of the Dmitry Bivol vs. Artur Beterbiev 3 trilogy to face him. David … Read more