Last Sunday, amid the gleeful chaos of the 7-0 win over Manchester United, Mohamed Salah became Liverpool’s leading scorer in the Premier League. There is always a slight caution about such statistics – football didn’t begin in 1992, you know – but three decades on the Premier League serves as
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Newcastle being owned by a nation state: how is this accepted and normalised? | Barney Ronay
For women’s football being aligned with the men’s game comes at a price | Suzanne Wrack
The European Super League saga may, for now, be over but fallout from the shambolic breakaway attempt rumbles on. “As soon as practicable after the start of the men’s competition, a corresponding women’s league will also be launched, helping to advance and develop the women’s game,” the ESL launch statement
Chinese Super League side Tianjin Tianhai fold amid Covid-19 uncertainty
The Chinese Super League club Tianjin Tianhai, who once had the World Cup winner Fabio Cannavaro as manager and signed Alexandre Pato and Axel Witsel, have declared bankruptcy and folded. Tianjin, founded in Inner Mongolia as Hohhot Binhai in 2006, have struggled since the arrest and imprisonment of their former owner
Football isn’t quite getting its coronavirus response right but who is? | Max Rushden
There are two parallel worlds right now. The first is those in the heart of this crisis. The prime minister fighting for his life. The heroic out-of-retirement doctors going back and not returning. The underpaid nurses leaving behind families. The care workers, the bus drivers, the victims – those final
Bolton will start next season in League One with a 12-point deduction
Bolton Wanderers will start next season in League One with a 12-point deduction after going into administration, the EFL has announced. The club said they would enter administration last week after the collapse of a proposed takeover by Laurence Bassini, and the adjournment of a winding-up order at a court hearing. Toxic
