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1 month ago | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
The energy, warmth and vivacious sense of fun is all there. A break from the day-to-day of club management has, it seems, done wonders for Mauricio Pochettino who arrives for our interview relaxed, happy and full of enthusiasm after a lunch in the London sunshine. It was a very different Pochettino to the one I last saw 10 months or so ago a few weeks before leaving Chelsea.
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1 month ago | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
The Sonia Bompastor who sits down in front of me isn't the steely-eyed ice-cool coach you see on the sidelines on matchday, in fact she is quite the opposite. She's chatty, warm and funny - almost two different people and that's the way she likes it. There's Bompastor the football coach and then the other Bompastor, the one person who, until this week, we knew very little about.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
Almost a year ago this week, Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard did something he later described as a "beautiful moment". With his side 2-0 up against Bournemouth and having won a penalty, the Arsenal captain handed the ball to Kai Havertz. The German, who had taken time to settle following his big-money move from Chelsea, scored the penalty for his first Arsenal goal and then celebrated alongside his captain and the travelling fans.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
Thomas Frank bounds in to the coffee shop full of energy and radiating the positivity we've come to expect from the Brentford boss. It's two days before the start of the season, Frank has already spent an hour being peppered with questions from the press and with just a week left of the transfer window the future of Ivan Toney is still unclear.
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May 5, 2024 | 
mkfm.com | Gail Davis
The Italian had already come through quite a grilling from some of the club's fans at an open forum at the Amex Stadium earlier in the week. Top of their list of questions - and they asked a number of tough ones - was unsurprisingly the speculation around his future. Over the last few months, De Zerbi has been linked with some of the biggest jobs in Europe.
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May 3, 2024 | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
Facing the press for Friday’s media duties at Brighton’s training ground may have felt a little more manageable this week for Roberto De Zerbi. The Italian had already come through quite a grilling from some of the club's fans at an open forum at the Amex Stadium earlier in the week. Top of their list of questions - and they asked a number of tough ones - was unsurprisingly the speculation around his future. Over the last few months, De Zerbi has been linked with some of the biggest jobs in Europe.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
This time last year Ross Barkley was spending his time watching his Nice team-mates from the substitutes' bench. Barkley, who made his Premier League debut for Everton aged 17 and had earned an England call-up before he turned 20, had featured just nine times for the French side he'd joined having been released early from his Chelsea contract. It wasn't the first time in his career he'd found himself here. The midfielder was falling off the footballing radar.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
In a week when love, affection and adoration is being showered extensively there is one man who is not feeling quite as cherished as he had hoped, writes Gail Davies. Mauricio Pochettino's wife of 30-plus years, he says with a smile, has "abandoned" him on Valentine's Day for a trip to Spain to see their son.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
Jurgen Klopp came bounding into the room full of energy and with a definite sunny glow that suggested he had very much enjoyed making the most of his break. "It was good, funnily enough on the way back half the team were on the same plane," he tells Sky Sports. "I had no contact with them for four days, I only saw Pep [Lijnders] as we played padel but besides that, I had no contact with any of them.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
skysports.com | Gail Davis
Two-time Rugby World Cup winner Dan Carter spoke to Sky Sports ahead of this year's tournament in France; the New Zealand great believes his nation can make an impact, but has the hosts, Ireland and South Africa as the leading contenders to lift the Webb Ellis Cup in 2023 Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player All Blacks legend Dan Carter expresses confidence in New Zealand's chances at the Rugby World Cup and discusses some of the other teams in contention The very best...
