Sam Wallace

London

Chief Football Writer at The Telegraph

Chief Football Writer at The Sunday Telegraph (UK)

Chief football writer for The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers (formerly @SamWallaceIndy)

Articles

England unhappy with Fifa plan to control where teams stay at World Cup

1 week ago | msn.com | Sam Wallace |Jason Burt

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England unhappy with Fifa plan to control where teams stay at World Cup

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Wallace |Jason Burt

Thomas Tuchel and the Football Association will lobby Fifa to change new protocols for the World Cup next year that require countries to move to new base camps for each knockout round. England head coach Tuchel arrives in Florida next week to watch Manchester City play Juventus in Orlando at the Club World Cup on Thursday and also to visit potential base camps. Those include some in Kansas, the Midwest state that is the approximate geographical centre of the United States.
Inside Donald Trump's extraordinary bromance with Gianni Infantino

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Wallace

First there were the immigration laws introduced in Trump's first term that were potentially objectionable to many of the nations voting. There was also Trump's widely reported " s---hole countries " remark in January 2018, made privately to a group of senators, and directed at Central American and African countries which had high levels of immigration into the US. But Infantino wanted the US and its two neighbours to host 2026. Kushner had Bin Salman onside.
Inside Donald Trump’s extraordinary bromance with Gianni Infantino

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Sam Wallace

Gianni Infantino was in the Oval Office almost seven years ago when he introduced Donald Trump, then in his first term as president of the United States, to the concept of football’s yellow and red cards. The Fifa president was a much less globally established figure in 2018 – just a few weeks past his first World Cup finals at the head of the organisation he had ruled since shortly after its 2015 crisis.
How DAZN can spend $1bn on Club World Cup

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Wallace |Tom Morgan

Salutary warning for the Premier LeagueDAZN paid an exit fee of around €100 million to get out of the LFP deal as well as additional outstanding sums. Remarkably, it may yet play some role in the direct-subscriber service Ligue 1 clubs are hoping to launch next season, although that has not yet been decided. Above all, it showed the problems of launching a new-to-market streamer that offers football and nothing else - a miscalculation that those in the Premier League will have followed closely.
Empty seats, exhausted players, excess heat

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Wallace

It is a reminder that this is a tournament that has not been driven in any way by match-going fan demand. Instead the match-going fans have been retro-fitted around it. The tournament itself, as has been well trailed, is a political play by Infantino to make an incursion into the lucrative broadcast rights for the elite club game - by which one means Uefa and the Champions League primarily.
Uefa making an example of Crystal Palace would be farcical

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Wallace

Crystal Palace, this season's FA Cup winners, are faced with the kind of administrative nightmare that might see them kicked out of the Europa League because they failed to do the necessary pretending by a certain Uefa deadline. The US investor John Textor, whose company Eagle Football owns around 40 per cent of Palace, did not put that share in Palace in a blind trust by March 1, an MCO deadline brought forward by Uefa this year.
Ange Postecoglou was right man to lead Tottenham forward

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Wallace

The temptation is to say that now Levy will be under pressure. That this time he has raised the stakes. Except that was said every time he pushed a manager out the door. Whether it was Pochettino after his transformational effect on the club, or Mourinho six days before a Carabao Cup final. In that respect nothing ever changes - Levy just sails onwards. He makes what he will describe in a statement as a hard but necessary decision and then a few years later he says the same.
The £60 pills that will give England an edge at the World Cup

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Sam Wallace

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The £60 pills that will give England an edge at the World Cup

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Sam Wallace

Of all the items handed out to England players this week – from match shirts to personalised legacy number caps to training bibs – they can be sure that there is one which the Football Association staff will not be asking them to give back. The biometric pills swallowed by Thomas Tuchel’s squad on their training camp in Girona, as part of the heat acclimatisation project, have been common in many other sports for the past decade. Football, however, has been a relatively late adopter.