Newly promoted Premier League side Aston Villa faced off with Charlton Athletic in a summer friendly today, but some players are obviously showing maximum effort.
Villa’s John McGinn went full-power super saiyan while scoring two goals and providing an assist.
McGinn first got on the board in the 57th minute with a great strike, deflecting off the Charlton keeper’s foot from about 22 yards out for the goal.
20-year-old Christian Pulisic has jumped onto the international soccer scene over the past few years, but after signing for Chelsea this past winter, the American is looking to use the Premier League to push himself even further.
@cpulisic_10 enjoying his first training session at Cobham! pic.twitter.com/e45LWY1IzW
The Arsenal-Tottenham rivalry is among the fiercest in Europe, so if you go at someone from the other side, expect some retaliation.
One Spurs fan went after Mesut Özil and his tendency to go missing in matches, but the German playmaker hit back. Hard.
If you look closely ... you can see your trophy cabinet #YaGunnersYa https://t.co/e5YCn1doDt
Everton has unveiled the first renderings for its proposed $623 million, 52,000-seat stadium on the banks of the River Mersey, complete with all the things that a modern soccer stadium must have: a stand that draws its inspiration from Borussia Dortmund’s “Yellow Wall,” heaps of steel and glass, promises of as-close-as-possible proximity to the pitch, and yes, a tunnel club for the excruciatingly rich to watch the players enter and exit the pitch like peng
Racism in English football is on the rise, with a startling increase in the number of reported racist incidents.
Kick It Out, an anti-discriminatory charity, said reports of racial abuse jumped 43 percent during the 2018-19 season across English football, the BBC reported. Kick It Out chief Roisin Wood has said Brexit is partially to blame.
For the uninitiated, there’s nothing more surreal than the conglomerates of fans that group together in unison to turn the world's footballing cathedrals into cauldrons of noise and song. In America, this sort of thing can be seen in college football and basketball, but the choreographed support largely dies at the professional level (save for a stadium wave here and a seventh-inning stretch there).
With the English Premier League kicking off in just 17 days, it seemed like the right time to provide some background on the teams who will be replacing Fulham, Huddersfield and Cardiff City. Here's a guide to the three Premier League promoted clubs for the 2019-20 season.
Tuesday it was reported that Ed Woodward, Manchester United’s Chief Executive, will not be traveling to meet the squad while on preseason tour. This usually means Woodward will be dealing with important transfer business ahead of the upcoming Premier League season. Woodward is not Manchester United’s director of football, however he was brought in by the Glazer family to help the club increase its commercial outreach and revenue; a way of achieving that is through high-profile transfers.
If the big-wigs of soccer are looking at the Forbes World’s 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2019, you can bet your bottom dollar they’re thinking “European Super League.” Back in 2012, only one team across all sports was worth at least $2 billion, that being Manchester United. Now, 52 teams meet that criteria, including almost every NFL team.
We all know rules we want to get rid of or add, if only for a second to help our team win a game. But these Premier League rule changes are here to stay. How often they get called into effect is anybody’s guess.
In an effort to reduce time-wasting near the end of matches, players being substituted will have to leave the pitch at the nearest point to them.