Quick bit of advice for the lads who cover Trabzonspor: make sure you have you Süper Lig mixed zone accredition sorted for next season. Could well prove useful.
Sachin Nakrani
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Deputy Football Editor at @theguardian.com I Random thoughts & rubbish jokes
big respect for Wenger dusting off the old "I didn't see the incident" about Infantino's plans www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
“Listen, here in hell we’re as disappointed with Lucifer as you are”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayWenger and Infantino’s No 2 Grafström criticise ‘sad and reproachable’ World Cup plan
Andy Hunter’s wrap of Liverpool’s US tour for @sport.theguardian.com. Some good, some bad, some obvious: this squad needs a lot more footballers. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Worn in the USA: Liverpool’s pre-season tour had highs but exposed glaring gaps in the squad | Andy Hunter
Teenager Nyoni excelled in Andoni Iraola’s first pre-season tour with Liverpool, but the head coach desperately needs transfers
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“I’m not the same player I was in Norwich. Now it’s time to show I’m ready and capable of playing in the Premier League.” Arsenal’s new signing on his unusual route to the top, winning the club’s pre-season fitness tests and his Spartan warrior nickname.
‘It’s my time’: Christos Tzolis fighting fit for Arsenal on return to England
The £34m signing from Club Brugge says he is a more complete player now after an indifferent time at Norwich
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Fascinating interview with Josh Kerr by @seaningle.bsky.social for @sport.theguardian.com. My big takeaway? To be the very best you have to live a very boring life. Fair play to those, like Josh, who can stick to it. Given them all the gold medals in the world. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
Josh Kerr: ‘There are some fantastic 1500m guys. But I feel I’m on a different level’
The Scottish champion tells Sean Ingle about Commonwealth Games glory, the 1500m world record, and why he doesn’t want his rivals to know him too well
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The new Premier League season will be the first without any of the era’s five big beasts: Ferguson, Wenger, Mourinho, Klopp, Guardiola. Who dares roar in their absence? @jonawils.bsky.social asks for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
The five big beasts are gone: who will be the Premier League’s next alpha manager? | Jonathan Wilson
Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta is perhaps best placed to fill the void but the coaching contenders are legion as another season looms
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Tranmere faced Rochdale in the Carabao Cup preliminary round yesterday. Rochdale won but the real story of the game was the penalty shootout, which may be the worst penalty shootout of all time. youtu.be/bow3H7FQ6d0?...
Match Highlights | Tranmere Rovers v Rochdale | 2026/27 (Carabao Cup)
YouTube video by Official Tranmere Rovers
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Just finished watching Ann Droid. A weird, wonderful, beautiful and brilliant love story. And if Diane Morgan doesn’t win a BAFTA off the back of it, there really is no justice in this world.
Great one-mile final at the Commonwealth Games, and that kick by Josh Kerr … bloody hell. The epitome of cruise control.
There can be no let-up now. Infantino must stand down or be removed: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
There can be no letup. Humiliated Infantino must stand down at Fifa or be removed | Nick Ames
Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader
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A new one on Arsenal. The challenge of retaining the title. The heavy legs in the squad. The wage bill implications of Vini Jr. Lots to ponder.
Guardian Sport@sport.theguardian.com · 5d agoArsenal’s next step: title defence may hinge on keeping a drained squad fit
This is an article that’s garnered a lot of attention on @sport.theguardian.com today and no surprise really given the topic … … It’s totally fine to switch your football team, writes Luke McLaughlin. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Have you ever switched allegiance as a football fan? You are not alone | Luke McLaughlin
If professional athletes can represent more than one country, let alone multiple clubs, why shouldn’t fans change teams?
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A week that began with a ridiculous Instagram rant and ended with a grand plan to become even more rich and make global football even more rotten sink to the point of collapse. Well done, Gianni, you’ve had a blinder. Now seriously, go do one. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Fifa scraps proposal to sell off stakes in World Cup after widespread backlash
Gianni Infantino has said Fifa has scrapped plans to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors after widespread backlash
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Tonight at Tannadice: The Men Who Tell You ‘Look, I Know You Miss Your Old Man Living Here, But I Really Like Your Mother And I Think Once You And I Get To Know Each Other We’ll Be Good Pals, Wee Man’ Derby
“The memory of him will always be in the red-and-black shirt, the defining image of Italy’s new era of defending” @jonawils.bsky.social pays tribute to the late, majestic Franco Baresi. For @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Franco Baresi was not only the captain but the moral heart of great Milan team
The centre-back, who has died aged 66, defined an era of hard Italian defending and his collection of honours is eternal proof of his class
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Well, the final whistle on Chelsea FC's financial cheating under Abramovich seems to have blown. The Guardian and our reporting partners practically put it on a plate for the FA and Premier League. They blazed it over the bar. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Chelsea fined £10m and given suspended transfer ban by FA over agent breaches
The club escaped a suspended six-point deduction for the infringements after appealing against the original punishment.
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"The game has started now," says one influential FA chief from Europe. But the new united front has to hold – it is essential Uefa and their allies keep moving at speed. Analysis: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Uefa have formed a rare but fragile united front against Fifa in battle for football’s future | Nick Ames and Matt Hughes
Emerging from this week with unity over Fifa’s World Cup sell off was quite an acheivement but Europe cannot rest on its laurels
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Sepp Blatter was corrupt as fuck but, unless I’m mistaken, his whole thing was making as much money from football as it existed. Gianni Infantino is obsessed with changing it and fundamentally ruining it. Increasingly convinced that he doesn’t, and never has, actually like the sport.
Gianni Infantino’s position is untenable now. But, of course, he’s actually going nowhere.
Any word yet from this standard-bearer for football’s high moral code?
Great piece.
Sachin Nakrani@sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 6d ago“The irony of his Newcastle tenure is that a manager obsessed with off-field control came undone partly by its absence on the pitch” Louise Taylor on how, why and pretty much when it went wrong for Eddie Howe. For @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
“The irony of his Newcastle tenure is that a manager obsessed with off-field control came undone partly by its absence on the pitch” Louise Taylor on how, why and pretty much when it went wrong for Eddie Howe. For @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Not so black and white: how Eddie Howe lost control at Newcastle in one summer
Everything was looking rosy for Howe at St James’ Park until Alexander Isak’s departure led to rushed signings and a messy season
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UEFA go nuclear over Gianni’s big World Cup sell-off. Good. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
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Harvey Elliott is back at Liverpool and has no regrets about his time at Aston Villa. Honest. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Harvey Elliott revels in ‘second chance’ at Liverpool and has no regrets over Aston Villa loan
Harvey Elliott believes he has been given “a second chance” at Liverpool and denied his ill-fated loan to Aston Villa was a lost year in his career
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