Another Premier League campaign reached its climax on Sunday and quite a lot looks familiar.
Manchester City are champions again, becoming the first team to win the English top-flight four times in a row, ahead of Arsenal and Liverpool.
Meanwhile at the opposite end, the three clubs that came up – Sheffield United, Burnley and Luton Town – are the three going straight back down again.
In the middle there was intrigue, however, with Aston Villa storming into the Champions
It doesn’t take long in conversation with Tom Cartledge, the Nottingham Forest chairman, to realise that the dispute threatening the future of the City Ground has accelerated the possibilities of a stadium move.
“The club continue to be frustrated,” Cartledge tells The Athletic in relation to Forest’s standoff with Nottingham City Council, which owns the land where the team play. “Neither the leader of the council, the CEO nor any of the commissioners appointed by central government have reached out
This is an updated version of an article first published on March 8.
It is two and a half years since Mark Clattenburg had his autobiography, Whistle Blower, to plug. No prisoners were taken in the book’s content or the promotional work ahead of its release.
Graham Poll, Martin Atkinson and David Elleray were all among the former colleagues Clattenburg swung for in caustic appraisals designed to settle old scores. And as for Mike Riley, his old boss at Professional
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Alisson returned to Liverpool’s starting XI on Sunday after missing eight Premier League matches with a hamstring injury that threatened to derail his season – but the blessing in disguise was the form of No 2 keeper Caoimhin Kelleher.
The Irishman was subject to strong interest from Nottingham Forest in the last days of the January transfer window but Liverpool turned down the relegation-threatened club’s approaches. Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo is keen to re-explore signing Kelleher, though.
Santo, a
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