Trent Alexander-Arnold is already a Liverpool legend and one of the best creative players in the world… it’s a crying shame English football has never fully appreciated him, writes OLIVER HOLT

And so the fight for Trent Alexander-Arnold has started in earnest. As the first day of the New Year approaches, with the prospect of one of the best players in the game about to be able to sign a pre-contract agreement with a foreign club, it was always going to be that way. It is … Read more

The rise of Nottingham Forest in the English Premier League

For many years, Nottingham Forest fans have suffered through a seemingly never-ending rollercoaster of promotion chances and relegation battles. Now they are a chance in the Premier League title chase. It took 23 years, 1000 league and play-off matches and a total of 20 different managers for Forest to make their much-anticipated return to the … Read more

Why did English football experience its first blank Saturday for more than two years today?

As we stretch into the strange period between Christmas and New Year, there’s still plenty of festive football to gorge on. There were no Premier League matches today (Saturday) but the action resumes on Sunday with six games, followed by three on Monday and one on New Year’s Day (Wednesday). But unlike the last round … Read more

Valencia CF, Once Champions But Now 19th In La Liga, Hire New Manager From English 2nd Tier

File image of Carlos Corberan© X (Twitter) La Liga’s relegation-threatened Valencia have appointed Carlos Corberan as their new manager after prising him from English second-tier side West Bromwich Albion, the clubs announced on Wednesday. The fallen Spanish giants exercised a buyout clause in Corberan’s contract to bring him to Mestalla on a deal … Read more

Inside world’s oldest football stadium which is 164 years old and still hosts matches in ninth tier of English football

THE world’s oldest football stadium isn’t home to one of the nation’s biggest clubs, but rather a side playing in the ninth tier of the English game. Hallam FC, officially the second oldest football club in the world, have been playing their home games at the same ground since 1860! 12 Sandygate Road is the … Read more

Arsenal fear Bukayo Saka could be ruled out until March with a torn hamstring – Paper Talk | Football News

The top stories and transfer rumours from Tuesday’s newspapers… DAILY MAIL Arsenal fear Bukayo Saka could be out until March with a torn hamstring. Manchester United have been hit by a mice infestation at Old Trafford. Manchester City have identified Juventus goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio as a replacement for current No 1 Ederson. David Coote … Read more