Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!
With no actual football to report on but plenty of sports pages to fill, the commendable endurance of one high-profile party-animal has served as useful fodder for sports editors in recent days. But even a man with such heroic levels of stamina has to get his downtime at some point, so chapeau to Kylian Mbappé for helping to fill the resulting void. The Paris Saint-Germain striker has enjoyed a fruitful if somewhat fractious relationship with the French champions in recent years and has never been slow in voicing his displeasure if he feels his employers are not treating him with due deference.
Re: Soccer School tales (yesterday’s Memory Lane, full email edition). Back in the Glory Days of Leeds United (1971, if I remember correctly), the Yorkshire Evening Post ran a competition for youngsters to win a training session with Jack Charlton and Eddie Gray. The pair ran two sessions, morning and afternoon, and I was thrilled to win a place on the latter. Fifty-plus years on, I still treasure that experience (I’m the mop-top behind No 8)” – Bernie Baldwin.
About Author
More Stories
Sports quiz of the week: Geoff Capes, triathlon trouble and playground goals
Chess: Fabiano Caruana, world No 2, wins fourth US Championship title
Keir Starmer seeks 2030 host for troubled Commonwealth Games