Last night was a special occasion for the women’s game in Northern Ireland and I am proud to manage a group of players who are role models for so many girls, and boys, across the country.
When you leave during a season, I totally respect and understand why people have got a bit of a gripe on that.
They made heavy work of defeating Championship side Hull City in the FA Cup last weekend, but they remain without an away league victory since August.
Along with Liverpool, their 'starting distance' defined by Opta when starting a phase of play from the back is 44.5 metres from goal.
We showed a lot of grit in the opening games, a lot of fight. The second goal is a catalogue of errors.
Villa are set to finalise a deal to appoint the Rangers boss in the next 48 hours, with compensation of between £3.25-4m agreed with the Scottish club for Gerrard and his assistant Gary McAllister.
Not only the players but as a staff and a club, and that's what reinforces me and gives me a reminder of how lucky I am to be here.
We've just got to get back to what we started to look like and what we were for a while. We've got the players to do that.
Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly considering his future at Old Trafford, despite only joining Manchester United at the end of August. The Star reveal that the Portugal international could leave the Premier League club once again this summer if he is unhappy with the club’s appointment of their next permanent manager. Ronaldo is said to be disappointed with United’s form this season and an underwhelming managerial appointment could lead to a swift exit at the end of the season. Mauricio Pochettino, Erik ten Hag and Brendan Rodgers have all been linked with the Manchester United job.
In the summer of 2012, at the age of 24, it appeared Song was perfectly poised to become an Arsenal club legend – until he agreed to follow in Fabregas' footsteps by making a £15m ($20.6m) move to Barcelona.
We drive each other on every day, we speak to each other and give each other advice.It helps so much when you have two brothers doing the same job as you at a high level.
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Scotland set themselves up for Euro 2020 with a 1-0 win over 10-man Luxembourg but their final warm-up should have been much more comfortable.
The Gunners boss told a press conference: We want to win every game that we play, we want to do our best, so nothing changes.
The ball being out of play was a common theme in games featuring Stoke. The table below has four of their home matches.
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I've never had these kind of comments about me. The supporters have passion and this passion I think is the power of this club.
Everton fixturesThey go and put a performance in like they did against Fulham at home after scoring three at Man Utd and hitting five past Spurs in the FA Cup.
Things got even worse for the visitors before half-time as Kane ran onto Matt Doherty's pass to reverse his shot into the net, with the goal upheld upon VAR review despite a marginal offside call (37).
One of a number of promising players snapped up by City during the same summer, his arrival commanded just a four-paragraph story on the club's official website.
City were convinced Liverpool should have been reduced to 10 men when the already-booked Milner clattered into Bernardo, with Guardiola fuming at the decision to allow the Liverpool man to stay on the pitch.
Andorra boss Eloy Casals could keep changes down to a minimum but Alex Rente may be provided with an opportunity in the final third after the 17-year-old made his debut as a substitute against Albania.
Silva was reportedly unsettled for personal reasons but if he is still unhappy off the pitch, then he certainly doesn't show it when he is on it.
In matches where Maguire is missing, United become very vulnerable defending such situations. If he is given the nod this weekend it will be his first appearance for 628 days.
The Premier League board makes its decisions to postpone games on a case-by-case basis, taking into account medical advice and determining whether the club making a request has managed to bring an outbreak of Covid-19 under control.
I said to Fran [Kirby], I think it's the best I've seen her play for Chelsea and Sam's confidence is growing.
“It’s so hard to explain it unless you do it,” says Baisley. “But I believe it can not only prolong a players’ career, but also change their mindset.
Spurs have fresh Covid-19 concerns, but Conte, who was waiting for the results of some of his players' tests, did not say who could miss out.
Then, just minutes later, Robert Anrich added Leverkusen’s third with a sweetly struck free-kick into the bottom corner from 20-yards out.
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If a player is coming at the last moment and tells you on Sunday when the transfer window closes on the Monday ‘By the way, I can’t stay here’ then (it’s) ‘Sorry my friend, that’s not possible’.
Hoilett was making his first start for the Royals since he scored in the win over Cardiff on 2 October, having been out with a hamstring injury. He made it 2-0 not long after the restart, striking the ball between the legs of Derby keeper Allsopp from a free-kick.
Palace kept pushing and had West Ham nerves jangling in stoppage time - Olise's cross from a free-kick somehow found the far corner through the crowd in the box for 3-2 - before Mateta's overhead kick in the last minute of stoppage time fell inches wide of Fabianski's right-hand post.
Egypt, however, have been defensively solid throughout the competition this year and will be looking to get revenge by scraping another victory in Yaounde.
Reading, meanwhile, will want this season to end as quickly as possible now their play-off chances are over.
Since Claudio Ranieri took charge eight games ago, Watford matches average exactly four goals per 90 minutes - only Liverpool have a higher ratio at 4.13.
By the 54th minute, the small pocket of travelling Rangers fans were in dreamland as they watched their side add goals three and four after the break.
We have to start to get Barca back where they belong, which is not in the Europa League. This is also a hammer blow for me as a coach. We will work hard to bring Barca back, but we have to change a lot, of course.
England's World Cup qualifying campaign ends with a game in San Marino on November 15. The interesting question is how long does he want to remain England manager?
Who says he has to run 12 kilometres in every game? He's been playing the same way for 20 years. It changes when you have other players next to you, he added.
I can actually see and feel how hard he fights for the team and the effort he puts into it. He won the penalty against Newcastle and he had two chances to score tonight.
I will give everything I have to win the Champions League, the league and the cup. And to give all the pleasure to the fans, because they deserve it,” he said to CNN.
Fernandes and Ronaldo have played in the same team 33 times for United but only combined for three goals. Fernandes assisted Ronaldo against Young Boys in September, Spurs in October and Atalanta in November. There have been no Ronaldo assists for his compatriot.
Liverpool fans, naturally, will rue his absence for AFCON, but that's a selfish view. In terms of Liverpool, there is plenty to look forward to.
Manuel Fernandes has lived the derby as a fan, player and coach. He is Sporting's second all-time top goalscorer and is the man credited with bringing Sir Bobby Robson to the club in 1992, along with Jose Mourinho, who he insists was a member of the coaching team rather than merely a translator.
Following Sunday's clash against Hibs, Rangers face Sparta Prague in the Europa League at Ibrox before key away matches in the league at Livingston and Hibernian.
