The England team v Spain has been announced.A 7.45pm kick-off on Saturday night at Wembley.A first match for England since the World Cup finals.Thomas Tuchel having led the national side to third place at the tournament.Tonight also sees The FA and England paying tribute to Kevin Keegan, this Nation
England are today paying tribute to Kevin Keegan.The Nations League match against Spain is the first game for the Three Lions since the national team’s former captain and manager sadly passed away on 20 July 2026.Back in July The FA released an official statement which began: ‘We are saddened to lea
I wrote an article for The Mag recently, ‘Has the game gone’, in which I posed the question whether modern football is losing its emotional working class soul to a clinical technocratic elite who prioritise over-complicated VAR checks and cold spreadsheets over the raw, imperfect joy of the stadium
Newcastle United got drawn out of the hat against Everton in the Carabao Cup fourth round draw.A huge bonus was the surprise decision to give United fans an allocation of 7,732 tickets for the game.The Carabao Cup rules state that away clubs should get at least 10% of the stadium capacity and that m
Another working day but today is different as football and Newcastle United is on the menu.I set off home to meet my lad as my top mates have dropped digital tickets to me late afternoon for the Millwall Carabao Cup game.Everyone has been there, tickets promised and then the anxious wait, but once a
On Friday the news finally came that Manchester City had been found guilty on the numerous Premier League charges that they were originally charged with in February 2023.David Ornstein at The Athletic breaking the story, reporting that Manchester City had been found guilty by an independent commissi
The Sporting Braga President has been talking about the sale of Lukáš Horníček to Newcastle United.António Salvador speaking at the Portugal Football Summit.Lukáš Horníček signed for Newcastle United on 3 August 2026, 20 days before United were kicking off the new season against Liverpool in the Pre
It was a busy night of international football at Under 21 level as a number of young Newcastle United stars were involved.These were European Championship group qualifying games that were played out on Friday.Sean Steur had been called up for the very first time for the Netherlands Under 21s thanks
Yet more misery for former Newcastle United star Sandro Tonali.His £100m move to Tottenham has been a disaster so far, his new team bottom of the Premier League without a single win and the fans booing the team and questioning the commitment of Sandro Tonali and others.Friday night at the Stadia Oli
Whenever I watch the Newcastle United matches on TV, if Mrs Lass is in the room I invariably pass on nuggets of vitally important information to her – some of which she occasionally listens to!Recent topics of note have highlighted how poor the referee is (a standard one, that), how much I hate chea
