by Paul Wilson | Apr 15, 2017 | Sports
Queuing up for some liquid refreshment at one of the country’s overcrowded beauty spots at the weekend, it was impossible not to overhear the excitable football chatter of a couple of Crystal Palace supporters nearing the bar. This was a day before the prodigious...
by Louise Taylor | Feb 24, 2017 | Sports
Sack the manager? Keep the manager? Sell your best player and import seven new ones, five on loan? Go warm‑weather training in Dubai? Cancel the Gulf trip? Switch to a sweeper system? Revert to a flat back four? Play two up front? Keep the faith with a lone striker?...
by Paul Wilson | Dec 25, 2016 | Sports
There will be no need for a public outcry should Sam Allardyce, as is widely anticipated, return to management with Crystal Palace before the year is out. The same year when his long-held ambition of becoming England manager was realised and then curtailed a mere 67...
by Dominic Fifield | Oct 20, 2016 | Sports
Scoring Gareth Southgate was widely described as courageous for demoting Wayne Rooney to a place on the bench against Slovenia. Yet the bolder move would have been to promote Marcus Rashford to the starting line-up. England have managed four goals in their last five...
by Daniel Taylor | Oct 8, 2016 | Sports
Wayne Rooney has accused Sam Allardyce of allowing him to be “battered” and being responsible for what the England captain considers some of the more unjust criticism he can remember during his 13 years with the national team. Rooney, who revealed his dissatisfaction...
