FA Cup (AP) Manchester City will play Luton Town in the fifth round of the FA Cup, while non-league Maidstone United will meet either Sheffield Wednesday or Coventry City. FA Cup holders Manchester City secured their place in the fifth round with a 1-0 win over Tottenham on Friday night, while Luton knocked out fellow Premier League side Everton at Goodison Park. Maidstone, meanwhile, are the lowest-ranked side remaining in the competition and delivered their latest upset by knocking out Championship side Ipswich Town on Saturday. The National League South will need to eliminate another Champ ..read more

Former footballers have spoken candidly about their sporting dreams crumbling in front of their eyes When he was just 11, Danny Edmead had an eight week trial with a team he had always dreamed of playing with, Tottenham Hotspurs. However, after the stint the young boy wasn’t kept on with the club. ‘I remember finishing my training session with them. I played very well, so I asked the Tottenham coach if the decision about signing me had been made,’ Danny tells Metro. ‘Two coaches then took me into an office where they reassured me that I was a good and hard working player who would go far in f ..read more

Roy Hodgson’s Crystal Palace won 1-0 at Man Utd (Photo: Getty) Roy Hodgson made Premier League history when his Crystal Palace side pulled off a shock victory at Manchester United on Saturday. Joachim Andersen’s sublime strike was enough for Palace to beat United 1-0 at Old Trafford, and condemn the Red Devils to yet another defeat. It’s another huge setback for Erik ten Hag, and a hugely surprising result given that the Eagles were humbled by United 3-0 just five days earlier in the Carabao Cup. It also meant that Hodgson has become the first manager in history to go unbeaten in five consecu ..read more

Leigh-Anne Pinnock has dropped her first solo single after the end of Little Mix after admitting she felt ‘undervalued’ while part of the all-girl group. The singer, 31, who recently married long-term partner, former Watford footballer Andre Gray, dropped Don’t Say Love on Friday morning – and it’s a firecracker. In a ceremony rumoured to have taken place in Jamaica, Andre and Leigh-Anne tied the knot after first announcing their relationship back in 2017. Earlier this month, a snippet of the single, now revealed to be Don’t Say Love, was dropped on social media, which left fans eager to hear ..read more

The striker also spoke to Jose Mourinho about moving to Spurs (Pictures: Getty / Filthy Fellas) Troy Deeney claims he was approached by Arsenal about joining the Gunners in the summer of 2020 but baulked at their request to apologise for antagonistic comments he had made about the club previously. The former Watford captain famously said Arsenal’s players lacked ‘cojones’ when they were beaten 2-1 at Vicarage Road in the 2017-18 season, a comment which began a rather unlikely feud between the striker and the Gunners’ fanbase. But just a few years after digging out Arsenal, Deeney says he rece ..read more

Relegation is horrible for all involved (Picture: Jan Kruger/Getty Images) The Premier League relegation battle will go down to the final day of the season with Everton, Leicester and Leeds all desperate to escape the drop. And this year’s battle has naturally cast minds back to the struggle to escape the clutches of the Premier League trapdoor 12 months ago. The three clubs who suffered the fate last year will serve as a reminder that it is more than possible to bounce back at the first attempt – or to just simply suffer midtable mediocrity. Let’s take a look at which sides were relegated fr ..read more

Slaven Bilic is the latest manager to be shown the door at Watford (Picture: Getty Images) Watford have sacked yet another manager as Slaven Bilic is dismissed from the Championship club, with Chris Wilder immediately replacing him and becoming the Hornets’ 18th manager in the last decade. Bilic has overseen a poor run of form, with Watford winning just one of their last eight Championship matches and slipping to ninth in the table. They are only four points outside of the play-off places so the season was not at all over for them, but that is the justification the club has given for ousting ..read more

Former Watford boss Javi Gracia has joined Leeds on a ‘flexible contract’ (Picture: Adam Davy/PA Wire) Leeds have turned to Javi Gracia as Jesse Marsch’s successor, naming the former Watford boss as manager as they look to escape the Premier League relegation zone. The Spaniard, who led the Hornets to the 2019 FA Cup final, has agreed what Leeds described as a ‘flexible’ contract to replace Marsch, who was sacked just over two weeks ago. Leeds slipped into the drop zone for the first time this season after Saturday’s defeat at Everton and face bottom club Southampton in what should be Gracia ..read more

Deeney made the comments in November 2020 (Picture: Getty) Troy Deeney has revealed Harry Maguire’s agent rang him up and ranted at him over his criticism of the Manchester United captain. During an appearance on talkSPORT in November 2020 following United’s 1-0 defeat at home to Arsenal, Deeney questioned why Paul Pogba was bearing the brunt of criticism, insisting other senior members of Ole Gunner Solskjaer’s squad like Maguire should be equally responsible. Appearing on Ben Foster’s Fozcast, the forward explained how in the days that followed, he received a call from Maguire’s agent Kenne ..read more

Anthony Elanga has struggled for game time this season (Photo: Getty) Manchester United are reportedly willing to loan out promising youngsters Anthony Elanga and Facundo Pellistri – but only to the right club. With Marcus Rashford and Antony now firmly installed as Erik ten Hag’s first-choice wingers at Old Trafford, opportunities have been limited for the other forwards in the squad. Two players that have suffered from a lack of game time are Elanga and Pellistri, the former making just five Premier League starts this season. Things have been far rougher for Pellistri however, who finally m ..read more