Jonny Coffey

Jul 24, 2024 | sportsgazette.co.uk | Jonny Coffey

Zach LaVine is at a crossroads in his NBA career. The two-time all star and his franchise, the Chicago Bulls, are determined to part ways this summer but no suitors have emerged for the 29-year-old, who has three years and $138 million remaining on his contract. Once regarded as one of the NBA’s next stars, LaVine is now facing a reluctant reconciliation with a franchise whose aims have shifted from competing to rebuilding.

Jun 14, 2024 | sportsgazette.co.uk | Jonny Coffey

The European Championships are one of football’s greatest stages – one shared by young talents hoping to announce themselves as the next best thing and stars in the twilight of their career. While excitement builds around the next generation – headlined by Jude Bellingham, Jamal Musiala, and Florian Wirtz – ahead of Euro 2024, the Sports Gazette looks at some of those bidding farewell to the competition and the legacies they leave behind.

May 27, 2024 | sportsgazette.co.uk | Jonny Coffey

This is an extended version of the piece shortlisted for the Football Writers’ Association’s Hugh McIlvanney Student Football Writer of the Year 2024 award. Life is quite different for Paris Saint-Germain, France’s reigning domestic champions, and Standard Athletic Club (SAC), who became the first club to hold that title in 1894. While PSG epitomise the modern ‘superclub,’ SAC’s is a more humble existence, but one enriched by a trailblazing history.

May 19, 2024 | sportsgazette.co.uk | Jonny Coffey

Twelve Brentford fans rowed from Strawberry Vale to Kew Bridge as The Bees concluded their Premier League campaign with a 4–2 loss against Newcastle United at the Gtech Community Stadium. Brentford Football Club traces its history back to the Brentford Rowing Club and October 1889. The rowing club had split into two earlier that year, with the original continuing to meet at the Bunch of Grapes pub while the breakaway club met at the Oxford and Cambridge Hotel.

May 18, 2024 | sportsgazette.co.uk | Jonny Coffey

Brentford reach the conclusion of what has been a sobering Premier League campaign as they face Newcastle United at the Gtech Community Stadium this Sunday. Their aspirations to play European football were alive as they entered last season’s final day but there is considerably less at stake this weekend. The Bees cannot fall lower than 16th – the position they currently occupy – and they can only climb as high as 15th with Emirates bound Everton leading them by one point.