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Conor Townsend: West Bromwich Albion defender on ‘amazing’ return to action after injury
13 August 2026 Off

Conor Townsend: West Bromwich Albion defender on ‘amazing’ return to action after injury

By Total Football News

Townsend’s contract at Ipswich expired in the summer but the Suffolk club invited him to participate in pre-season training, an offer he was thankful for as it allowed him to “hit the ground running” when the chance to rejoin Albion arose.

He said returning to The Hawthorns and therefore moving much closer to his family base was “an easy decision to make”, while it also reunited him with Baggies head

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EFL takeaways: Sam Parkin gives his views on Saturday’s action
9 November 2025 Off

EFL takeaways: Sam Parkin gives his views on Saturday’s action

By Total Football News

Middlesbrough boss Rob Edwards has been given permission to speak to Wolves.

Parkin: “I’m surprised, because I think given where he was at Luton in terms of his stock, I think that was probably, with respect, as good as he could have hoped for, the Middlesbrough job. It’s a really big job.

“He’s turned the support around from being a little bit in the doldrums to feeling really positive.

“So

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Oxford United: Ciaron Brown ‘feeling good’ after return to action
21 October 2025 Off

Oxford United: Ciaron Brown ‘feeling good’ after return to action

By Total Football News

Oxford United defender Ciaron Brown says he is “feeling good” after making his first league appearance of the season in Saturday’s 1-0 win against Derby County.

The Northern Ireland international kept a clean sheet in his return following six month’s out with a knee injury.

“I think while being out on the sidelines, when you are imagining playing again, getting this sort of result with a win and a clean

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EFL takeaways: Sam Parkin gives his views on Saturday’s action
21 October 2025 Off

EFL takeaways: Sam Parkin gives his views on Saturday’s action

By Total Football News

Pressure is also growing on Norwich boss Liam Manning, who saw his team beaten by former club Bristol City at Carrow Road.

Parkin: “It was a horrible game for Liam Manning today. It was hugely pressurised because Norwich have lost five home games already this season. To go into that, you’ll just want a team that is struggling, but to come up against his previous employers was really difficult.

“He’ll

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Morgan Gibbs-White: Nottingham Forest consider legal action over Tottenham interest
14 July 2025 Off

Morgan Gibbs-White: Nottingham Forest consider legal action over Tottenham interest

By Total Football News

Nottingham Forest are considering legal action over Tottenham’s interest in midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White, sources have told BBC Sport.

Forest are believed to be looking at whether a specific confidentiality agreement in the £60m release clause in Gibbs-White’s contract has been breached.

BBC Sport reported on Thursday that Gibbs-White was set to have a medical on Friday as Spurs look to trigger that release clause.

Sources have told BBC Sport that

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Leeds United: ‘Promise of action over tragedy chants must be kept’
12 February 2025 Off

Leeds United: ‘Promise of action over tragedy chants must be kept’

By Total Football News

It will be 25 years this April since Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight went to the UEFA Cup semi-final first leg in Istanbul and never came home.

Like all footballing tragedies, it was a loss that transcended rivalries.

Tributes poured in from supporters’ groups from across the globe and there was a terrible feeling of loss and anger that reverberated around Elland Road in the days and months after.

Those

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Manchester City launch new legal action against Premier League APT rules
7 February 2025 Off

Manchester City launch new legal action against Premier League APT rules

By Total Football News

Manchester City have launched a fresh legal challenge against the Premier League over new rules governing sponsorship deals which the club claims are “void”.

Last year an independent arbitration panel found aspects of the league’s Associated Party Transaction regulations (APTs) to be unlawful after a lawsuit instigated by the champions.

The rules were formed by the Premier League to prevent clubs from profiting from commercial deals with companies linked to

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Everton to face no further action over Premier League PSR dispute
17 January 2025 Off

Everton to face no further action over Premier League PSR dispute

By Total Football News

Speaking earlier on Friday, manager David Moyes was asked whether the club’s PSR position will now help with signing players in this transfer window.

The Scot said: “I’m probably not the person you should be speaking to about this as I don’t quite have the full information.

“But I think things are looking much better than they were, obviously new ownership has come in which will help greatly, but I

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Rob Atkinson: Portsmouth defender calls return to action a “weight off my shoulders”
9 January 2025 Off

Rob Atkinson: Portsmouth defender calls return to action a “weight off my shoulders”

By Total Football News

Atkinson said he was grateful to parent club Bristol City for letting him go out on loan and play football.

He played for the Robins’ under-21 side this winter as he built up his fitness and had been an unused substitute in 11 Championship matches before his loan move.

“We all agreed that it was something that needed to happen. The manager was great and I knew it was

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Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi avoids FA action over armband messaging
4 December 2024 Off

Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi avoids FA action over armband messaging

By Total Football News

The Football Association will not take formal action against Crystal Palace or club captain Marc Guehi after the defender again displayed a religious message on his kit.

The England centre-back was reminded about the FA’s regulations over religious messaging after writing “I love Jesus” on his rainbow captain’s armband for Saturday’s match against Newcastle United at Selhurst Park.

Guehi ignored the reminder and displayed a ‘Jesus loves you’ message on

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