Charlton Athletic (0) 1 v Chelsea (1) 5 Hato 45+5 Tosin Adarabioyo 50 Leaburn 57 Guiu 62 Neto 90+1 Fernández (pen) 90+4 By Kaz Mochlinski at The Valley FA Cup Third Round Liam Rosenior’s reign at Chelsea got off to a spectacular start with a 5-1 thrashing of Charlton Athletic as the visitors were victorious at The Valley and eventually ended up enjoying themselves on their new head coach’s debut. Jorrel Hato’s first goal for Chelsea opened the scoring before the break, and Ma

There is still plenty of capital interest in the FA Cup, but little action will take place on London on the weekend of the fourth round ties - February 15/15. Arsenal are the only ones to get a home tie - with League One Wigan Athletic being handed a clash with the Gunners at Emirates Stadium. For the rest of our teams, travel is involved. Brentford's reward for a comfortable 2-0 win at Championship dead men Sheffield Wednesday is a clash against the darlings of the competi

By Alessandro Schiavone at BayArena Bundesliga Matchday 16 Bayer Leverkusen 1-4 VFB Stuttgart Goals: Leweling 2x, Mittelstädt penalty, Undav (VFB), Grimaldo penalty (BL) In a horror first-half at BayArena on Saturday evening, Mark Flekken and his Bayer Leverkusen side found themselves four goals to the bad with the second-half having not even started. Nick Woltemadde's former side VFB Stuttgart ran riot in a pretty much one-sided first 45 minutes to pull level with the 2024

Looking for FA Cup inspiration. It was East v West London today in the third round FA Cup Third Round West Ham United (1) 2 Summerville 45+10, Castellanos 98 Queen's Park Rangers (0) 1 Kone 65, After Extra Time : Score on 90 mins: 1-1 A first Hammers goal for winter signing Taty Castellnos secured West Ham's passage into the forth round of the FA Cup - but not before a gritty Hoops had taken them to extra-time and made life difficult for their cross-town opponents. How the Ir

History boys. The match programme cover today : Picture by @YTJourno FA Cup Third Round Tottenham Hotspur (0) 1 Odobert 54 Aston Villa (2) 2 Buendia 22, Rogers 48 Villa made off with the spoils, with the same 2-1 scoreline they achieved here in the league no so long - surviving a furious second-half Spurs fightback that was in stark contrast to the poverty of the hosts' first 45 minutes. After an insipid display in which Unai Emery's men breezed into a 2-0 lead, Spurs redisco

Macclesfield (1) 2 v Crystal Palace (0) 1 Dawson 43 Buckley-Ricketts 60 Pino 90 By Kaz Mochlinski at Moss Rose FA Cup Third Round Crystal Palace succumbed to the greatest shock in the history of the FA Cup, with the holders being knocked out of this season’s competition by non-league part-timers as Macclesfield secured a famous 2-1 win at Moss Rose. It was the first ever victory for a sixth tier team over a Premier League opponent, and the 117-place gap in the English footbal

Exclusive by Football Reporter at Gtech Community Stadium Granit Xhaka was far from impressed with  Sunderland's showing in their 3-0 trashing by Brentford. More than the defeat itself it was the manner of their slow degradation and overall attitude that irked the legendary Swiss. At 1-0 down following Igor Thiago's opener, French magician Enzo Le Fée missed a crucial penalty that could have killed Brentford's momentum and sowed the seeds for the Black Cats' turnaround. But c

Raining on their parade : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Arsenal 0 Liverpool 0 The folly of believing three Man City draws in a row had just about finished the title race was exposed as just that. Champions Liverpool became the first side to leave the Emirates this season with a clean sheet and only the second after Man City to claim a draw here. Having also prevented the Gunners from scoring in the reverse fixture at Anfield, they have done their best to keep those Gunn

Bournemouth (1) 2 v Arsenal (1) 3 Premier League Matchweek 20 Talking Points By Kaz Mochlinski at the Vitality Stadium No one with any affection for Arsenal will want to remotely tempt fate in the first week of January, but 2026 could very well be an immense year for the club. And right at the outset it already feels as if every game is going to be like a cup final. Just in January, out of a total of nine fixtures, there are five huge Premier League matches, which will be cru

By Capital Football Reporter at Gtech Community Stadium Premier League Matchday 21 Brentford 3-0 Sunderland Goals : Thiago 30', Thiago 65', Yarmolyuk 73' (B) "Ronaldo or Romario? No, Cristiano Ronaldo is my idol!", grinning two-goal hero Igor Thiago proudly told Capital Football after Brentford trashed Sunderland. And while his statement did not bat an eyelid among the present reporters in the mixed zone after the game given the Portuguese superstar's standing in England, it

Picture by @capitalfootball With five midweek Premier League games taking place in the capital this week, it has felt as though something is going on just about everywhere. And ahead of Wednesday's three games at Brentford, Fulham and Crystal Palace there was the little matter of the latest calamity at the London Stadium for West Ham United where distress signals are peppering the sky. You can read about that 2-1 defeat to Nottingham Forest for the ailing Irons and the impl

By Capital Football Reporter at London Stadium West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest Goals : OG Murillo 13' (WH), Dominguez 55' & Gibbs-White penalty 89' (NF) A win would hardly have shifted the dial on West Ham's survival chances in most people's eyes. But the bitter 2-1 defeat in the relegation six-pointer with closest rivals Nottingham Forest has now cut the Hammers seven points adrift. In footballing terms tonight's defeat is an unspeakable tragedy of perhaps unquantifiable spor

Eagles didn't soar in the north east Premier League Newcastle United (0) 2 Guimaraes 71, Thiaw 78 Crystal Palace (0) 0 If Crystal Palace can take any solace from their latest defeat at St James' Park, one of their least favourite hunting grounds, it must be that Newcastle didn't manage a greater victory margin. The Magpies would have challenged last season's 5-0 triumph had two first-half efforts by Anthony Gordon and Joelinton not been ruled out by fractional offside decisi

In the cold light of day : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Fulham (1) 2 Wilson 17, Reed 97 Liverpool (0) 2 Wirtz 57, Gakpo 94 He was never the most prolific of goalscorers. And these days he hardly gets any minutes on the pitch. But Harrison Reed made full use of the five minutes he was given by Marco Silva to crash in a point-saving worldie. So often it is Harry Wilson who comes up with the spectacular. This time it was Reed. He only came on for Sasa Lukic in the 92nd mi

Twilight capers : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Bournemouth (1) 2 Evanilson 10, Kroupi 76 Arsenal (1) 3 Gabriel 16, Rice 54, 71 Declan Rice marked his return from injury with two precious goals as the Gunners maintained their stranglehold at the top of the table. It was only the second time the midfielder has bagged two goals in a game - the other occasion being that famous trouncing of Real Madrid last season. As usual, he was everywhere and his contribution stretched

Brentford 0 v Tottenham Hotspur 0 Premier League Matchweek 19 Talking Points By Kaz Mochlinski at the Brentford Community Stadium There may not have been much to watch in Brentford’s goalless draw with Tottenham Hotspur, but there was plenty nevertheless for the two head coaches, Keith Andrews and Thomas Frank, to talk about over a beer after the match. Friendly from their work together for the Bees before Frank’s move to Spurs in the summer, they still live close to each oth

Baby it's cold outside. The Gtech hosts a chilly New Year's Day clash : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Brentford 0 Tottenham Hotspur 0 It's a mere 78 years since the Bees last beat Spurs at home. That's one that must remain on the bucket list for now after the drabbest of New Year's Day encounters. This Thomas Frank derby will not live long in the memory, with the freezing conditions further sapping the life from a hopeless contest. Brentford had the better of it but wer

Crystal Palace (0) 0 v Tottenham Hotspur (1) 1 Premier League Matchweek 18 Talking Points By Kaz Mochlinski at Selhurst Park “S**t happened again.” The articulate and eloquent Crystal Palace manager, Oliver Glasner, could not have expressed in any better phrasing the frustration felt by his team after yet another narrow and probably undeserved defeat against Tottenham Hotspur. It was an inauspicious result to end the best ever year for the club, with a first major prize in Pa

Great way to end the year - Arteta in his post-match press conference : Picture by @YTJourno A disenchanted Unai Emery raced down the tunnel at full-time without waiting to shake hands with Mikel Arteta after Arsenal's thumping 4-1 win over Aston Villa - but the Gunners boss could hardly have cared less. He played down what might be interpreted as churlish behaviour by former Arsenal boss Emery and could afford to be magnanimous. His side had handsomely seen off a side on an

Blues v Cherries by @JTaylorSport Chelsea 2 Bournemouth 2 Chelsea’s final game of the calendar year saw some festivities in the shape of an entertaining draw at Stamford Bridge. Yet there will be little seasonal fun for embattled Enzo Maresca, who left the stadium feeling unwell at the climax. Naturally, the consequence of stalemate, disjointedly thrilling or not, will provide significantly more satisfaction for Bournemouth than it will for the Blues, who now have one win fro

Last Emirates dance of 2025: Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Arsenal (0) 4 Gabriel 48, Zubimendi 52, Trossard 72, Jesus 78 Aston Villa (0) 1 Watkins 94 Villa had this coming. Their last-gasp winner against the Gunners in Birmingham a month ago was a bitter pill to swallow, ending an unbeaten run of 18 games. It was only right that Arsenal should respond in kind by ending the Villa sequence of 11 straight wins. The catalyst for a vital win against opponents who had to move

Night Lions on the prowl: Picture by @YTJourno Championship Millwall (1) 2 Neghli 16, Langstaff 81 Bristol City (0) 1 Randell 49 Sometimes it is no-nonsense man on the terrace who comes up with the best summary of a game. "F knows how we won that," voiced a happy Lions fan departing the Den after seeing Millwall complete a quickfire double over the Robins. A recent 1-0 win at Ashton Gate was mired in the controversy of the late spat which saw Alex Neil end up on the turf and

West Ham United (0) 0 v Fulham (0) 1 Raúl Jiménez 85 By Kaz Mochlinski at the London Stadium Premier League Matchweek 18 This was the one that brought them to tears. Ollie Scarles could not stop himself crying very visibly on the pitch at the final whistle, after his mistake led to the winning goal in the closing stages, but most of West Ham United’s faithful must have felt very similarly. The Hammers’ growing gloom got ever greater on a grey winter afternoon as they were con

Eyes down for another capital clash : Picture by @YTJourno Premier League Crystal Palace (0) 0 Tottenham Hotspur (1) 1 Gray 42 Archie Gray claimed his first senior goal after 112 appearances as Spurs made light of being second best for most of the game to plunder a vital away win. They had to soak up up a ton of pressure from the Eagles whose drip-drip feed of crosses could not quite carve out the opening they desperately needed. In the end the on-target count was edged by S