Keeping up with those two was putting enormous financial strain on every club in the league. If you wanted to have any hope at all of challenging for the title, or even the European places, you also ...

According to the various sources of information I use to find past historic results between clubs Arsenal and Lille have not played each other before.    So finally in utter desperation I typed into ...

The current club that is generally known as LOSC has as its full name Lille Olympique Sporting Club, and was founded near the end of the Second World War (September 1944) with the merger of two clubs ...

I am fairly sure a lot of people approached yesterday feeling a bit sorry for ManC fans; after all, it wasn’t them who arranged all the match-fixing that their pay masters engaged in.  And indeed ...

In fact PSG have looked almost normal, using talented players to fill in here and there, and not always with success. Players noted to be “off the pace” are still played whereas in the past they’d be ...

De Zerbi gave an answer which I personally found incoherent but in essence said that he didn’t remember much because, “When you are a player, you don’t think too much and when you are a coach, the ...

T heir recent successes include having won the double in 2011, and their fourth league title in 2021, as well as their first Trophée des Champions the same year. Lille are in fact the fourth-best ...

It is, as I write this, still on, and inevitably it is 0-0 unless someone scored while I was asleep. Some players have just hit each other, though.. The commentators are trying to talk it up a bit, ...

Certainly, the media is treating the PL as a league that has one issue: the long-term fiddling of data so that ManC could buy as many players as they liked through pretending they were getting massive ...

Is it fair to call a radio station a “sprout”? After all, it is not a green vegetable, but listening to Talk Sport this morning in what broadcasters call the “build-up”, I am really starting to wonder ...

A win for Arsenal is unlikely to us back to the top of the league by the end of the weekend’s fixtures unless Manchester City can knock Liverpool about when they play away on Sunday and it will be a ...

Burnham, has championed middle east investment into Manchester for years, and now we see the results – loads of money and endless rule breaking. But perhaps worse, he he seems completely unaware of ...