Michael Butler

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Michael Butler

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleRarely has a quarter-final been so decisive for a team’s season, or a manager’s future. If Tottenham lose this game, and exit the Europa League, then their season is definitely over and it will almost certainly spell the end of Ange Postecoglou’s tenure. Spurs are 15th in the Premier League, and while they are not mathematically safe from relegation, there is nothing left to play for domestically, apart from pride.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Michael Butler

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePreambleIn an age of steel and glass stadia, San Siro remains arguably the most iconic cathedral of football left on the continent. Internazionale and Bayern are fitting giants of Europe, nine European Cups between them. And while you might be tempted to check if Real Madrid have got the crucial, early goal to get Arsenal hearts a fluttering, the real action is here.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Michael Butler

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureFurther Harvey Barnes-related reading. PreambleHello and welcome to the match known by absolutely nobody as the Ayoze Pérez Derby. There are not too many players that have made the not-so-famous switch between Leicester and Newcastle – I remembered Pérez, Chris Wood, Les Ferdinand, Keith Gillespie before Googling the rest, and found that I had forgotten Steve Howey, Nobby Solano, Steve Guppy, Danny Simpson.

2 weeks ago | hoerzu.at | Michael Butler |Dennis Shryack

» Tour de Force mit zynischem Unterton « Eigentlich sollte die Fahrt von Las Vegas nach Phoenix für den Polizisten Ben Shockley und die Zeugin, die er beschützen soll, kein Problem sein. Was der Cop nicht ahnt: Die schöne Augusta will gegen die Mafia aussagen und sein neuer Boss ist in den Fall verwickelt. Viele Leute haben Interesse daran, dass Ben und Augusta nicht am Ziel ankommen. Ein lebensgefährlicher Trip nimmt seinen Lauf...

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Michael Butler

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is still just 31 years old, which feels very young for a man who made his first-team debut for Southampton when Gordon Brown was UK prime minister.