Kevin Garside

England

Chief Sports Correspondent at The i Paper

Chief sports correspondent at @theipaper Sport is life; everything before or after is just waiting (Steve McQueen, approx)

Articles

Ruben Amorim knows the Man Utd job is too big for him

3 days ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

Man Utd 0-2 West Ham (Soucek 26′, Bowen 57′)OLD TRAFFORD — How to lose a match part 17. In this bizarre race to the bottom Manchester United exceeded expectations with a performance at least as bad as anything seen under Ruben Amorim, and we are not short of options. Amorim has overseen a bewildering 13 of United’s 17 defeats, seven of those at home. In total, the Red Devils have fallen nine times at Old Trafford. The team relegated in 1974 had a better home record than this.
Battle of Bilbao? Spurs vs Man Utd smacks of El Crapico

5 days ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

Any more of this and Ange Postecoglou will be traversing the Bay of Biscay in fatigues. In the context of the full English between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, the battle of Bilbao, or as some might call it, El Crapico, has acquired a significance greater than the weight of the pot. The Europa League is essentially no more than a support act to the main event. Indeed, its greatest value lies in the qualification for the Champions League it controversially confers upon the winners.
Spurs win at Bodo/Glimt to book Europa League final with Man Utd

6 days ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

Bodo/Glimt 0-2 Tottenham (Solanke 63′, Porro 69′) – Spurs win 5-1 on aggregateSo that second year trophy is still a thing for Ange Postecoglou, if that is still of any consequence at the end of a season of improbable decline. Big Ange celebrated Dominic Solanke’s decisive strike as if he were witnessing a routine outcome, saluting the brilliance of his magnificent team, or perhaps raising two fingers to those who question his suitability for the role of Tottenham Hotspur manager.
Oulton Park crash shines a tragic spotlight on the deadly risks of motorsport

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

The profound sense of shock at the deaths of two professional motorcycle racers at the opening meeting of the British Supersport Championship in the Cheshire countryside continues to reverberate across the sporting world. In their short time on this earth, 21-year-old Owen Jenner and New Zealander Shane Richardson, 29, achieved a level of excellence that most will never know.
Lewis Hamilton is suffering under Ferrari's weak leadership

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

Ferrari shouldn’t feel so bad about another awful weekend in Formula One. The spat between the hapless pit wall and the drivers in Miami, starring an exasperated Lewis Hamilton and a frustrated Charles Leclerc, was cinema gold. Just think about the Netflix ratings. There are as many fault lines in this Big Red family drama as there are at Manchester United, and just as at Old Trafford, it all starts at the top.
Balance, pace and a wicked left foot - Cole Palmer can shape football’s future

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

On occasions such as this, with summer in the air and the opposition in exhibition mode, you wonder if Cole Palmer might be the next Lamine Yamal. Or, more sensibly, is Yamal the next Palmer, who is certainly a better comparison for the 17-year-old Barcelona phenom than Lionel Messi.
Postecoglou’s Spurs fate rests on a plastic pitch in the Arctic Circle

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM — See you next week, said Bodo/Glimt coach Kjetil Knutsen, rising from his seat in the media suite. He followed that with the menacing chuckle of a comic villain warning of trouble ahead. Tottenham Hotspur opened the scoring after 44 seconds and, leading 3-0 early in the second half, were one more goal from killing the tie.
Tottenham have work to do after late goal opens door for Bodo/Glimt

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

Tottenham 3-1 Bodo/Glimt (Saltnes 83′ | Johnson 1′, Maddison 34′, Solanke pen 61′)TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM — As the late Bodo/Glimt goal demonstrated, Tottenham Hotspur could easily blow it from here. I mean, what could be more Spursy than freezing in the Arctic Circle after starting this Europa League semi-final with a goal after 44 seconds, and firing a second of such rampant audacity only the defiant Ange Postecoglou could keep the game face on?
Pogba could have been Man Utd’s De Bruyne - his comeback is a sad footnote

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

Paul Pogba back at Manchester United? There’s a teaser headline to blow the internet. It certainly caught the imagination of Rio Ferdinand. “I’d say to Pogba, ‘Come in and train with us, let me see what you’ve got’. I’d do that. I would have done that already. Come in and get fit.”The dream, it seems, never dies. Indeed for some displaced souls it grows ever stronger, even in 32-year-olds and attendant sponsors.
Eubank Jr and Benn are two sons of privilege pretending to be hardmen

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Kevin Garside

You have to hand it to Eddie Hearn – he could sell ice to the Inuit. Roll up, roll up rings out along the Tottenham High Road. This has it all, he says, a once in a generation fight, the biggest in England outside the heavyweight division since Carl Froch and George Groves danced the fandango 12 years ago.