Barney Ronay

3 days ago | theguardian.com | Max Rushden |Barry Glendenning |Barney Ronay |Jonathan Wilson |Joel CooperAlex Grove |Danielle Stephens

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Barney Ronay and Jonathan Wilson as Aston Villa, Manchester City and Chelsea secure important wins in the race for the five Champions League spots. Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today; Liverpool close on the finish line and the race for fifth place remains very exciting. Just two points separate third and seventh.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Barney Ronay

Well, that’s good then. Things fall apart. But sometime they also don’t. And the centre does actually hold. Perhaps the most interesting part of Mohamed Salah’s contract extension at Liverpool is the fact this is a rare crossover story, a signing that steps outside its own tribal margins. There will of course be localised delight. Liverpool fans can look forward to their own lost weekend in the sun, a sense that the good times will now continue to roll, that the time bar has shifted.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Barney Ronay

It took three minutes of the second half for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, perhaps the most watchable footballer in Europe right now, to confirm the way this game was going. Unai Emery had sent on Axel Disasi for Matty Cash at the break, with the score 1-1 and PSG hugely dominant on every metric.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Barney Ronay

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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Barney Ronay

So that’s how you beat Real Madrid then. Here it is, the silver bullet. Improbably brilliant, aesthetically lovely, statistically semi‑impossible right-footed free‑kicks. What’s the problem here exactly? Before this fun, wild, unbound night at the Emirates Stadium Declan Rice had scored exactly zero free-kicks across his eight-year professional career. On Tuesday night he scored two in 12 minutes, against the champions of Europe, in Arsenal’s biggest European game in almost 30 years.