Premier League Boxing Day Winners and Losers: Liverpool cruise on; City, United, Spurs battle for banter supremacy
The Premier League banter club title remains locked in a magnificent three-way battle between the Manchester clubs and Spurs.
Winners & Losers
Robbie Savage’s Winners & Losers: Zirkzee redemption, toothless Arsenal, bring back replays!
Robbie Savage was thrilled for Joshua Zirkzee, while Arsenal are once again urged to move for a striker and the FA are implored to reinstate FA Cup replays…
Premier League winners and losers: Man Utd impress and Alexander-Arnold… does not, but Barclays is top
Manchester United are both just about winners. But Postecoglou, Dyche, Lopetegui and Juric are racing for the sack and Alexander-Arnold’s head is in Madrid.
Premier League winners and losers: Slot, Everton, Forest, Son, McAtee, Lopetegui
Julen Lopetegui and Sean Dyche are in a compelling sack race behind Ange Postecoglou, who needs more from Heung-min Son. Liverpool and Forest are thriving.
Premier League winners and losers: Salah, Silva, Nuno, Manchester United, Pereira, RVN, MLS
Ruben Amorim and Ruud van Nistelrooy are finally together in abject misery, along with Bernardo Silva and Brentford. Mo Salah, Nuno and Vitor Pereira shone.
Premier League winners and losers: Dyche, Guardiola, Amorim, Liverpool and the two manager sackings
A Pep Guardiola resignation is more likely than a revival after Ruben Amorim’s masterclass. It would follow the two most justified sackings in recent memory.
Robbie Savage’s Winners & Losers: Awesome Amad and Walker’s embarrassment…
Robbie Savage has been in Kyle Walker’s position and understands the embarrassment the Man City defender will feel in the wake of Manchester turning red…
Premier League winners and losers: Frank, Spurs, Nuno, Man Utd, Van Nistelrooy, Martin and more
Thomas Frank, Andoni Iraola, Marco Silva and Nuno Espirito Santo must be looking awfully attractive to Spurs and Newcastle. Russell Martin, less so.
Robbie Savage’s Winners & Losers: Spurs ‘so open’ but Chelsea can challenge
Robbie Savage can’t believe how open Tottenham left themselves, while Cole Palmer and Jadon Sancho helped make Chelsea the big Winners…
Premier League winners and losers: Liverpool, Guardiola, Kluivert, Newcastle, Amorim, Martinez, Saka…
It genuinely feels more likely that Pep Guardiola resigns than he turns this around. Liverpool and Bukayo Saka are brilliant. Newcastle and Everton are not.
Premier League winners and losers: Postecoglou, O’Neil, Amorim, Leicester, Man City, Everton and more
Ruben Amorim is a Premier League winner. Hear us out. There is praise for Ange Postecoglou and Gary O’Neil but Man City, Steve Cooper and Sean Dyche get it.
Premier League winners and losers: Liverpool strengthen grip as Dr Tottenham saves another patient
Liverpool and Brighton take top winner honours, while it should take about 0.3 seconds to realise which dafties are getting both barrels in the losers.
Premier League winners and losers: Praise for Bournemouth and Gomez, flak for Arsenal, Lopetegui, Palmer
Bournemouth, Joe Gomez and Nottingham Forest’s assistant are praised. But Arsenal and Julen Lopetegui are in trouble and Cole Palmer must improve.
Erik ten Hag makes surely his last Premier League winners and losers appearance
Premier League winners and losers covers Erling Haaland, Cole Palmer, Crystal Palace and Arsenal but the bulk of it goes to Erik ten Hag and Man Utd.
Premier League winners and losers: Slot and Hojlund shame Martin, Paqueta and ‘naive’ Arsenal
Arsenal, Newcastle and Russell Martin are creating their own problems, while brilliant Bournemouth, Arne Slot’s Liverpool and Leicester’s subs all impressed
Premier League winners and losers: Ten Hag joins superb Saka in winners but Newcastle, Postecoglou blasted
Bukayo Saka, Brighton, Michail Antonio and even Erik ten Hag had positive enough weekends. But Ange Postecoglou and Wolves particularly disappointed.
Premier League winners and losers: Spurs praised but the Man Utd kicking continues with relish
We’ll understand if you just want to scroll straight down to the losers bit and Manchester United getting another thorough kicking, but there’s praise too for Spurs.
Premier League winners and losers: Maresca, Arsenal and Kelleher impress but West Ham, Howe, O’Neil struggle
Arsenal join Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca, Fulham and Caiomhin Kelleher as Premier League winners putting West Ham, Eddie Howe and Everton to shame.
Premier League winners and losers: Everton and stubborn Slot slammed but Nuno, Howe and Havertz shine
Eddie Howe eased the managerial pressure while Sean Dyche’s position only became more shaky. Kai Havertz and Jhon Duran had a better time than Evanilson.
Premier League winners and losers brings the Ten Hag sack chat, Liverpool praise and Everton despair
Liverpool were great, Manchester United were terrible, and Manchester City are already threatening to be more crushingly unstoppably relentless than ever before.
Chelsea inevitably lead the way with Liverpool and Newcastle also among transfer window losers
Chelsea’s ridiculousness shows no sign of slowing down, while Newcastle and Liverpool are among those not to get done what they wanted to get done.
Sterling late move sees him join Man Utd and West Ham among the transfer window winners
Man United remain a long way from being back, but ignore all the other nonsense it does look on paper like a very decent transfer window. Same for West Ham. ...
Premier League Winners and Losers accepts winning 6-2 is quite good and has views on Man Utd
Chelsea get some grudging credit where it’s due while the other half of Winners and Losers contains, inevitably, a great deal of Man United and Everton.
Premier League winners and losers kicks off with Lewis, Saka, Ten Hag, Dyche, Southampton and more
Arne Slot and Fabian Hurzeler made light work of their Premier League bows as ‘experience’ backfired for Everton. Erik ten Hag could save this marriage.
Scottish Messi exposes Steve Clarke blindness as real Messi not missed by MLS
The fast-approaching Copa America and European Championship meant many of the biggest stars in MLS were absent this past weekend. But there was still some brilliant football.
Swiss model goalkeeper and Swiss cheese in tale of two MLS goalkeepers
As the USMNT crumbled, MLS saw two very contrasting goalkeeper performances from a pair of Swiss No. 1s.
MLS winners and losers sees Arango do a Beckham and Bernardeschi match his hair
There was some Beckham-esque brilliance from the league’s top scorer in MLS this weekend, while a New York City FC substitute emulated one of the baseball greats at Yankee Stadium.
MLS winners and losers: Insigne’s inspirational defeat and Nick Hancock-baiting goalkeeper gaffes
Lorenzo Insigne versus Luca Orellano was a battle for the ages in MLS, while Inter Miami won without Lionel Messi and former Manchester United coaches drew.
Premier League 23/24 season losers: Kompany, Ten Hag, Sheffield United and Newcastle failed
Vincent Kompany, Chris Wilder and Erik ten Hag have had just the worst time. Manchester United and Nottingham Forest need to look themselves in the mirror.
MLS winners and losers features some rotten cornrows and some cornball schmaltz
There was a stone-cold classic in the shadow of the Rockies this past MLS weekend, while north of the border there was a bad haircut and worse defending.
Premier League 23/24 season winners: Foden, Palmer, Emery, Arsenal, Klopp and Dyche all brilliant
Pep Guardiola made history and Phil Foden was key. Arsenal should take hope from pushing them. Unai Emery, Jurgen Klopp and Sean Dyche did brilliant work.
Premier League winners and losers: Arteta and Arsenal target Pickford praised; Hojlund, Villa signing slammed
Arsenal are overachieving and might be even better once they sign Jordan Pickford. David Moyes is praised. Ivan Toney and Manchester United are slammed.
MLS winners and losers: MVP Acosta closes on Messi as Union broken again
It was a different diminutive Argentinian No.10 shining brightest in MLS this weekend, while the man from Le Mans put his racing speed to use in a fresh way.