Arsenal to follow rivals Tottenham by featuring in Amazon All or Nothing behind-the-scenes documentary July 9, 2021 Arsenal are to become the latest club to get the Amazon documentary treatment after agreeing to let cameras follow them next season. The Gunners are the third Premier League team to feature in the All Or Nothing series, after north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur and current champions Manchester Cit. “Arsenal is a historic club going [...]
Exclusive: Majority of Brits believe England will beat Italy in Euro 2020 final, City A.M. poll finds July 8, 2021 Most Britons expect England to end half a century of waiting for a major trophy and beat Italy in the Euro 2020 final, a City A.M. poll has found. Gareth Southgate’s team fell behind and missed a penalty in extra-time before seeing off Denmark 2-1 in the semi-final. But 55.3 per cent believe Harry Kane [...]
England 2, Denmark 1: Euro 2020 final awaits as Gareth Southgate and team exorcise another ghost of tournaments past July 8, 2021 England are in the final of a major football tournament. This is not a drill. Fifty-five years after the nation’s male footballers last contested a trophy, this England team will return to Wembley on Sunday for a Euro 2020 final against Italy with sights set on silverware. It is their reward for a hard-fought semi-final [...]
Euro 2020 success is the boost England needs after the pandemic – but don’t underestimate Denmark, says Alan Shearer July 5, 2021 Former England striker Alan Shearer says Euro 2020 success is the tonic the country needs after the Covid-19 pandemic. England face Denmark in the semi-finals at Wembley on Wednesday amid growing optimism that they can win a first major trophy since 1966. “The country would take off” if England won Euro 2020, Shearer told BBC [...]
At 8pm TONIGHT: Three quarters of Brits expect England to swat Ukraine aside at Euro 2020 – and four in 10 think they’ll go on to lift the trophy July 3, 2021 Three quarters of Britons expect England to take another step towards Euro 2020 glory by beating Ukraine tonight. A poll for City A.M. by OnePulse found that 75.9 per cent predict England to win their quarter-final in Rome this evening. And almost four in 10 are now convinced that England will end 55 years of [...]
England v Ukraine: Why Gareth Southgate needn’t change tack to win Euro 2020 quarter-final against leaky opponents July 3, 2021 England have pootled carefully into the quarter-finals of Euro 2020, where they face Ukraine this weekend. Gareth Southgate has been in sensible Sunday driver mode at the wheel, unwilling to shift through the gears and happy to keep his luxury models parked on the bench. But while it may prove unpopular, the statistics suggest Saturday [...]
Sport sees steep fall in gambling sponsorship as government considers ban and demand grows for social responsibility, says new study July 3, 2021 Gambling sponsorship in sport has fallen sharply ahead of a possible ban, a new report has found. The number of betting companies sponsoring sports teams in England has almost halved since 2019, according to the study by consultancy Caytoo. Gambling’s share of the market has dropped from 15.3 per cent to 8.1 per cent and [...]
England 2, Germany 0: England rip up the script on night of release for fans and Gareth Southgate June 29, 2021 For England, matches against Germany have historically been about pain, injustice, recurring nightmares and inferiority. At Wembley, in front of the biggest sports crowd the UK has witnessed since before the pandemic, they rewrote the script. This time around it was about joy, deserved victory, resilience and glorious possibility. But more than anything it was [...]
Exclusive: Most Brits expect England to beat Germany at Euro 2020 and avenge previous major tournament defeats June 29, 2021 Most Britons expect England to overcome Germany when they clash at Euro 2020 on Tuesday, according to a City A.M. poll. Germany have inflicted some of England’s most painful major tournament defeats, eliminating them in 1990, 1996 and 2010. But a slight majority of 52 per cent believe Gareth Southgate’s team will avenge those defeats [...]
How Germany are using data science at Euro 2020 and why it won’t help them in a penalty shoot-out against England June 28, 2021 It’s hard to tell whether Pascal Bauer is being modest about his own work or afraid of giving too much away when he talks about Germany’s Euro 2020 showdown with England. As a senior data scientist for German football federation (DFB), he has an important role in preparing the team for matches like tomorrow’s last-16 [...]