MARTIN SAMUEL: It’s time for players to wake up…football is an empty shop with big bills to pay

Having given up £1million of his salary, England manager Gareth Southgate must have been rather surprised to end up as the villain on Sunday. So too Eddie Howe and Graham Potter, managers of Bournemouth and Brighton, who have also elected to go short.  This is how warped the rhetoric around coronavirus has become. This is … Read more

Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe becomes first Premier League figure to take voluntary pay cut

EXCLUSIVE: Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe becomes the first Premier League figure to break rank and take a voluntary pay-cut to his £4m per year wages… but stars keep their full salaries for now Eddie Howe has decided to take a voluntary pay cut amid coronavirus crisis The Bournemouth boss becomes the first Premier League figure … Read more

Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe becomes first Premier League figure to take voluntary pay cut

EXCLUSIVE: Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe becomes the first Premier League figure to break rank and take a voluntary pay-cut to his £4m per year wages… but stars keep their full salaries for now Eddie Howe has decided to take a voluntary pay cut amid coronavirus crisis The Bournemouth boss becomes the first Premier League figure … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Premier League stars are ‘ready to revolt over plans play behind closed doors’

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES   The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Premier League stars are ‘ready to revolt over plans play behind closed doors’

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES   The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more

Premier League’s plan to save the season: Start again on June 1, play all matches in just SIX weeks

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES   The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more

Premier League’s plan to save the season: Start again on June 1, play all matches in just SIX weeks

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES   The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more

Liverpool ‘set to be given Premier League title’ if season is ended now due to coronavirus

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES  Cancelled The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday 13 March – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta on Friday despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of … Read more

Premier League Coronavirus Q&A: Will Liverpool win the league?

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES  In doubt  The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more

Fans mock Liverpool and Bournemouth players as they walk by each other after handshake ban

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES  In doubt  The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more