Paul Pogba was targeted on Twitter by racist assholes after he missed a penalty kick for Manchester United on Monday, the third player to receive similar abuse in the past week in England. On Wednesday, it was Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham; on Sunday it was Reading’s Yakou Méïté.
It’s disgusting and heartbreaking — it needs to stop.
But Phil Neville’s plan isn’t going to solve anything.
Christian Pulisic’s first Premier League start and Stamford Bridge debut wasn’t exactly the stuff of dreams. The 20-year-old American lasted 71 ineffective minutes against Leicester City before being swapped for Willian with the score level at 1-1, which is how it would end.
Pulisic spent his time on the pitch in the pocket of Leicester right back Ricardo Pereira. The Portugal international was Leicester’s Player of the Season last campaign, and with support provided by Ayoze Pérez out wide, Pulisic completed only one of five dribbles while getting dispossessed six times.
Bernardo Silva was called for a foul for the filthiest 15 seconds of Premier League foot skills we’ve seen since the last time we wrote about an insane piece of Bernardo Silva skill, which, as it turns out, is quite often.
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” is the common refrain from Liverpool fans. What they don’t tell you is that if you’re a Liverpool goalie right now, that means you’ll probably never walk.
Such is the state of Liverpool’s goalkeeping injury crisis at the moment. Alisson was injured in the Premier League opener against Norwich and now it appears Adrian has been injured.
Not during a match but after it — by a fan.
We all know that Manchester City loves to spend big, and it has been under the watch of just about every governing body in football as of late. FIFA and UEFA are the big ones, and they have been after City for a while now after exorbitant amounts of spending and the suspicious transfers of youth players since Pep Guardiola arrived in 2016.
For those who watched the Premier League this weekend, I think there were many conclusions to be made after Week 1, but these were by far the clearest:
According to the Telegraph, Manchester City and England star Raheem Sterling has been offered a contract worth $120 million from Nike subsidiary Air Jordan to be face of the company’s upcoming soccer line.