England players have only four more international games in which to impress Gareth Southgate before the manager names his squad for Euro 2024. Southgate’s team qualified for the tournament, which will be hosted by Germany next summer, with a stylish 3-1 win over reigning champions Italy at Wembley Stadium, the venue for that agonising shootout defeat by […]
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How Sean Dyche turned Everton into a better attacking team than Liverpool
The Merseyside derby features the side second only to Tottenham in the table. Not Liverpool, and not the standings that matter most. But in the shot charts, Everton, with 133, are behind only the actual league leaders. They have a higher expected goals in league football this season than Manchester City. They […]
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Argentina’s World Cup hopes crushed beneath frightening display of New Zealand’s strength
Rugby beauty comes in many forms – as New Zealand showed against Argentina. Perhaps it is Will Jordan that takes your fancy, his 31 tries in 30 Tests rugby’s equivalent of the golden ratio. Perhaps you are entranced by Mark Tele’a, sinewy and sinuous, gliding in and out of contact like an electric […]
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Imposing, effortless and unflappable: Who are the Premier League’s true Rolls-Royces?
On August 23, after a seemingly relentless social media marketing campaign in which shouting/cooking ace Gordon Ramsay trumpeted the “Rolls-Royce of pans”, premium cookware manufacturers HexClad were hit with a lawsuit by… Rolls-Royce. Ramsay — who is not a defendant in the trademark case in federal court in the U.S. […]