🇮🇹 Ashley Cole will not be continuing as the manager of Cesena.
The 45-year-old took over at the Serie B club in March and led the club for the final eight matches of the season.
However he picked up just one win as the club dropped out of the playoff spots.
Imagine this sort of ball knowledge being coached at under 13/14 for a young Rele, WitBooi, Mdu,Mbuthuma,Vilakazi etc. When you hear such stories, you then understand the disparities in quality between us and Europeans.
A top manager in the top job. Message is not to worry about the result. Focus on the controllable aspects. So why can’t every coach under this level adopt the same approach?
He did his research! ✔️
Harry Kane knew if he stuttered in his run-up, there was a chance Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic would come off his line.
🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:
“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.
The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.
This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”
The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.
And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?
Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.
The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”
😭🇮🇪 Roy Keane delivered another classic line on the Overlap today and had Gary Neville and Ian Wright in stitches:
🗣️ Keane: “Gary was telling me he went through a bad spell of form after the EUROs for about 6 months because of relationship issues. WOW. Really? WOW.”
🗣️ Neville: “I obviously had a captain at the time who I didn’t feel I could go to.” 😂
🗣️ Keane: “If a full-back is going through relationship issues, it doesn’t mean he can’t stop a cross does it?"
"No I’m being serious: That shouldn’t stop you from closing your winger down: 'Oh my girlfriend’s broke up with me because she’s got her eyesight back'.”
“You can still stop crosses, that shouldn’t effect ya.” 😂
The thing is, Roy is absolutely spot on, but his delivery is always on point. 👏
¡¡EL FÚTBOL TIENE MEJORES HISTORIAS QUE EL CINE!!
✅ En 1994, Alfie Haaland, Goran Sorloth y Erik Thorstvedt jugaron con la Selección de Noruega en una Copa del Mundo celebrada en Estados Unidos.
✅ En 2026, Erling Haaland, Alexander Sorloth y Kristian Thorstvedt jugaron con la Selección de Noruega en una Copa del Mundo celebrada en Estados Unidos.
Padres e hijos representando a su país en el torneo más importante que existe. El círculo se completó, señoras y señores.
FÚTBOL EN LA SANGRE.
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⚠️‼️ Loco Bielsa, sobre su foto viral MIRANDO EL SUELO en la sesión de Uruguay:
“No tengo que dar ninguna explicación. Me sacaron la foto como me la sacaron, NO SOY UN MODELO. Estaba enfrentando a los fotógrafos y esa fue la foto que obtuvieron de mí.
Tiene un límite lo que hay que explicar: si uno usa lentes, porque usa lentes; si mira a los ojos, porque mira a los ojos, si mira para abajo o arriba... Tantas cosas hay que explicar.
No tenemos una obligación de actuar como modelos para respetar pretensiones que no tienen ningún fundamento”.
This is the year when the game of two halves became the game of four quarters. And the greatest sport and event was damaged for fistfuls of dollars. Hydration breaks ruin the game’s flow and frustrates fans and viewers. If hydration breaks were solely about player welfare then they would be linked to the temperature in the stadia. It’s a nonsense having a three-minute break in an air-conditioned arena.
Fifa should long ago have established a working party of coaches, sports scientists, national team doctors and Fifpro to agree a set temperature at kickoff, say 25C, which triggers the breaks. That would prove the breaks were for player welfare. At the moment, and to nobody’s surprise, it is widely accepted that these breaks are for US TV to accommodate commercials. Big bucks for the small screen.
Fifa should have thought more about the effect on games and to fan (and viewer) experience when negotiating. Coaches’ desire for a mid-half tactical time-out masquerading as a drinks stop should be resisted anyway. Games have been played for 150 years without needing such intervention. Coaches can shout instructions. And who says that 22 mins and 67 mins is when a coach needs to intervene anyway. It’s nonsense. It’s about money.
Respected and sane footballing voices from Virgil van Dijk to Mauricio Pochettino have spoken out against the breaks. Fifa should listen to them not appear only to listen to the rustle of dollar bills. It’s important that there is resistance to this from all over. Because if we tolerate this, our TV games could be next. BBC can’t do ads, ITV says it won’t follow its US counterparts. But it has been discussed by TV people. It’ll come one day. #FIFAWorldCup.
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Tunisia have SACKED head coach Sabri Lamouchi following their 5-1 defeat to Sweden. 🇹🇳👋
Lamouchi becomes the first manager to lose his job at the 2026 World Cup, with Tunisia acting swiftly after their heavy loss.
(Source: @Romain_Molina)
Scotland’s Andy Robertson has found a hack to beat FIFA’s new throw-in countdown:
Get your team-mates in position before you pick the ball up, which starts the referee’s countdown.
Very smart 👏 👏 👏
#Robertson#HAISCO#Scotland