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Gary Lineker is the lead presenter for live Champions League coverage on BT Sport, which insists it is happy with current viewing figures. Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

More Money, More Football, but Are We Now Reaching Saturation Point?

by Jacob Steinberg | Mar 16, 2017 | Sports

Before this gets mistaken for a nostalgic lament about the good old days on ITV, it is worth pointing out that BT Sport has done a good job of broadcasting the Champions League since wrenching the rights from Sky in 2013, offering a slick, professional product that...

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Diafra Sakho, centre, is the only West Ham forward to score 10 goals in one Premier League season since the ownership of the club last changed. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

West Ham’s Striking Failure: 32 Signed in Seven Years and Still No Solution

by Jacob Steinberg | Jan 20, 2017 | Sports

Haggling with Brentford over the asking price for Scott Hogan, testing Sunderland’s sense of humour with a £4m offer for Jermain Defoe, steeling themselves for bids for the mutinous Dimitri Payet, waving goodbye to Simone Zaza and preparing to point Jonathan Calleri...

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Tony Carr oversaw the development of a number of West Ham’s golden generation, including Joe Cole. Photograph: Phil Cole/Getty Images

West Ham Leave Part of their Past behind with Tony Carr’s Departure

by Jacob Steinberg | Aug 3, 2016 | Sports

Tony Carr did not hesitate when he was asked about his favourite Upton Park memory. His mind went straight back to the May evening in 1999 when his young team of academy products gave Coventry City the thrashing of a lifetime, beating them 6-0 to wrap up a 9-0...

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Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce Reuters / Russell …

Allardyce’s England: No Grandstanding, No Posturing but a Hint of Mischief

by Jacob Steinberg | Jul 28, 2016 | Sports

The fanfare was conspicuous only by its absence. There was no grandstanding, no hubristic posturing, no overblown roars about football coming home. With the shambolic defeat to Iceland still alive in the memory, how could there be? Almost a month since England...