The 50 best premier league players

TWO OF THE MOST VALUABLE FEET ON the planet are burning. It’s a stifling mid-June afternoon and Erling Haaland, the superstar Manchester City striker from Norway who looks like Thor but sometimes cele

Manchester City may have been short-priced odds to win a fifth straight Premier League title last season, but the signs of a fall were there if you knew where to look. That’s according to ex-City wing

Just 36 hours before Liverpool were scheduled to return for pre-season, everything changed in a tragic instant. The mood up to that point had been buoyant. The Reds were champions of England for a 20t

The 2024-25 Championship was a split league. The second tier produced an unprecedented two 100-point campaigns, with Leeds and Burnley pulling clear of play-off finalists Sheffield United and Sunderla

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.” The Tempest wasn’t written about the Premier League but, given the play’s central themes of power, revenge, upheaval and a dash of magic, William Shakespea

Steve McManaman, Michael Owen, and this year Trent Alexander-Arnold. The road from Liverpool’s academy, to first-team stardom, to the Bernabeu is well-trodden – now the 26-year-old will follow those f