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Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, left, could not escape the attentions of Ander Herrera, right, at Old Trafford, while Michael Carrick also came off the bench to help Manchester United close out the game. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA
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The referee Keith Stroud, with ball in hand, has a lot of explaining to do to Newcastle’s captain Jamaal Lascelles over the penalty fiasco. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Reuters
Referees are Damned by their Errors, Ignorance of the Laws is No Defence
The fact that the referee Martin Atkinson sounds even more like the comedian Bob Mortimer than he looks was not the most interesting revelation to emerge from Sky’s recent effort to show the human side of match officials on The Referees – Onside with Carragher and...Caption:
Neymar is presented as a Barcelona player in June 2013 – the legal fallout from the deal continues to this day. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
Race for Neymar: the Inside Story of How Barcelona Sealed the Controversial Deal
On a July evening in 2011 the football world’s focus was on the Vila Belmiro Stadium in Santos, which appears little changed from the days when a teenage Pelé lived in a dormitory under one of the stands. National-team coaches had arrived in Brazil before the World...Caption:
Gareth Bale has scored in Champions League and Copa del Rey finals but his language skills are still critiqued. Photograph: Alex Caparros/Getty Images
La Liga’s Foreign Players are Easy Targets until They Master the Spanish Language
n Spain, football is played in Spanish. There is a necessity to find both your feet and tongue in La Liga. In December, sports newspaper AS posted a video of Gareth Bale speaking about his recovery from injury under the tag: “Progress with Spanish, watch how he...Caption:
From left to right: Kasper Dolberg of Ajax, RB Leipzig’s Naby Keïta, Kylian Mbappé of Monaco and Celtic’s Moussa Dembelé. Composite: Getty Images