World champions France started their Euro 2020 campaign with a win over Germany thanks to a Mats Hummels’ own goal in a high-quality heavyweight Group F match. Hummels – recalled for this tournament after being told by coach Joachim Low in 2019 that his international career was over – diverted Lucas Hernandez’s cross into his…
BBC Sport football expert Mark Lawrenson is taking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s pundits, presenters and commentators to predict the outcome of every game at the 2020 European Championship. Vicki Sparks was top after the first round of group games were completed on Tuesday and tops the leaderboard again after getting one perfect result on…
Home All The News Mings has no words for Priti Patel over taking the knee discord Date published: Tuesday 15th June 2021 4:56 – News Desk Tyrone Mings has called on the largely positive response to England players taking the knee not to be overshadowed by jeers, after Priti Patel said she did not support…
Denmark boss Kasper Hjulmand has criticised the UEFA protocols which allow a match to be postponed for 48 hours due to coronavirus but not when his player Christian Eriksen had a cardiac arrest on the pitch. Eriksen, who took to Instagram on Tuesday to insist he was “fine, under the circumstances”, collapsed shortly before half-time…
Liverpool are to trial temporary rail seating at Anfield next season as part of a continuing review over safety. The subject has been a difficult one for the club to approach over the years because they are sensitive to the families of the 96 people who died after the terrace crush at Hillsborough in 1989.…
Gareth Southgate says England cannot afford to be “football snobs” this summer as the variety of short passes and long balls can disrupt Europe’s best. The Three Lions produced a solid, composed display against Croatia on Sunday as they kicked off Euro 2020 with a 1-0 win in Group D. The performance was not perfect…
Espargaro endured another tough qualifying in the second Qatar outing which left him down in 15th for the start, though he was able to make his way to the lead group having had pace good enough to fight for victory. But the Honda rider made “two huge mistakes” in the closing stages when he ran…
After being teammates in karting, Hamilton and Rosberg raced at Mercedes between 2013 and 2016, going head-to-head for the Formula 1 world championship in their final three years together. The title battles featured a number of tense moments between the two drivers, including on-track collisions at the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix and the 2016 Spanish…
Zarco was signed to KTM from Tech 3 Yamaha in 2019 in a move that was expected to see him fight for race wins and the title with the Austrian marque. But he endured a miserable part-campaign with the marque, terminating his two-year contract following the Austrian GP before KTM dropped him with immediate effect…