by Louise Taylor | Sep 9, 2017 | Sports
Rafael Benítez has lost virtually all trust in Mike Ashley’s regime at Newcastle United and, no longer regarding his job as a long-term project, would be receptive to alternative offers of employment at similarly sized Premier League clubs. Although Newcastle’s...
by Louise Taylor | Jul 6, 2017 | Sports
Shortly after 8am on Monday the security barrier at a deceptively nondescript‑looking suburban football training facility was raised and Rafael Benítez’s car entered the sometimes parallel universe known as Newcastle United. A couple of minutes later the club’s...
by Louise Taylor | Jun 23, 2017 | Sports
Sunderland- During an often proud history, featuring the collection of six English league titles, Sunderland have variously been dubbed “the team of all the talents” and the “Bank of England club”. These days the latter – attached in the 1950s – seems something of a...
by Louise Taylor | May 22, 2017 | Sports
London – Steve Gibson is frequently, and usually quite rightly, presented as exhibit A when it comes to listing the properties required to run a football club properly. There are valid, enduring reasons why Middlesbrough’s owner and chairman is regarded as a...
by Louise Taylor | May 2, 2017 | Sports
London – Within hours of becoming Sunderland’s manager last July David Moyes boarded a privately chartered plane. He and the team were bound for a French training camp but an ominous grinding noise from the engines and slightly tense looks exchanged among the...
