Pep Guardiola is reportedly preparing to thwart Cristiano Ronaldo’s plans to lure Mateo Kovacic to Saudi Arabia. Following Ilkay Gundogan’s unexpected return to Manchester City last month, Kovacic’s position in Guardiola’s team appears under threat. The 30-year-old former Chelsea star was signed as Gundogan’s replacement last summer, but with the 33-year-old German set to return… Read More »
Cristiano Ronaldo had a disappointing tournament and also had to contend with some pitch intruders trying to take selfies with him – Shutterstock/Paul Currie We all know how it ends. You see the final shot of the victorious captain lifting the trophy from the now traditional dog-eye view below the podium. This means the lasting… Read More »
Here, in Düsseldorf’s historic Altstadt district, known as the “longest bar in the world” (due to several hundred bars crammed so close together that there is barely any space between them), the streets are packed with English football fans, drinking large quantities of Altbier, the local beer. England fans celebrate narrow victory over Serbia on… Read More »
A suspected football hooligan accused of being involved in an attack on Serbian fans on the streets of Gelsenkirchen was previously arrested in Germany for painting a Nazi symbol on his body. Gordon Thomas, 39, who is currently at risk of being banned from matches, was previously detained by police while watching England’s World Cup… Read More »
If an excellent team hotel is the key to a successful international tournament, England could have a good month ahead of them. For the upcoming Euros, Gareth Southgate has booked the England squad to Golfresort Weimarer Land in central Germany for a rumored fee of around £800,000. The hotel is in line with previous tournament… Read More »
We begin to get the idea of the Cologne constitution from our fifth Kölsch. We are sitting in Päffgen, one of the traditional beer halls that produces the pale yellow beer typical of the German city. It comes in small, flat glasses (apparently the foam disappears quickly) and as each one is empty, a waiter… Read More »
As you sit at the rooftop bar of the Congress Hotel in Chemnitz, looking out at the bleak modern cityscape below, you get a good idea of what Western Europe might have looked like if Russia had won the Cold War. Beneath this ugly socialist skyscraper are rows of brutalist apartment blocks – soulless, anonymous,… Read More »
There is something in the water; E.coli to be exact. Questions have been raised about how safe it will be for triathletes and open water swimmers participating in the 2024 Olympic Games after high levels of bacteria were found in the River Seine. Meanwhile, just before the Oxford and Cambridge regatta in March, both teams… Read More »