Nick Miller

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Nick Miller

Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during this season, The Athletic will discuss three of the biggest questions to arise from the weekend's Premier League football. This was the weekend when Liverpool recovered from a late blow to beat West Ham United, Arsenal dropped more points, Newcastle United continued to stride on, and Leicester City collected a rare point, their first since the end of January.

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Nick Miller

Share They weren’t wrong when they named the Cimitero Monumentale, just to the north of Milan’s city centre and a few miles east of San Siro.It isn’t a typical cemetery: before you get to what looks like a usual graveyard, there’s a massive marble and stone building, the Famedio, that looks more like a stately home than a crypt. It’s grand, it’s slightly foreboding, it dominates the surrounding area, it’s… well, monumental.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Nick Miller

They weren't wrong when they named the Cimitero Monumentale, just to the north of Milan's city centre and a few miles east of San Siro. It isn't a typical cemetery: before you get to what looks like a usual graveyard, there's a massive marble and stone building, the Famedio, that looks more like a stately home than a crypt. It's grand, it's slightly foreboding, it dominates the surrounding area, it's... well, monumental.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Nick Miller

At the start of this season, Paris Saint-Germain's Marco Asensio was presumably looking forward to lining up at the Parc des Princes in the latter stages of the Champions League. Which he almost certainly will do this week. The twist being that he'll wear an Aston Villa shirt, playing against PSG rather than for them, having moved to the Premier League club on loan in January.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Nick Miller

There was a headline this week in the Spanish sports newspaper Marca that made reference to Real Madrid's 'crisis de los penaltis.'Even the most rudimentary Spanish speaker probably doesn't need that translating. Real, reigning European and Spanish champions and all-round perennial winners, seem to have a penalty problem. Vinicius Junior missed their last one, against Valencia this past weekend, and fired another one over the bar against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League last month.