Tag: calls

Florian Wirtz: Liverpool midfielder’s start to life in Premier League compared as Jamie Carragher calls for him to be dropped | Football News
12 October 2026 Off

Florian Wirtz: Liverpool midfielder’s start to life in Premier League compared as Jamie Carragher calls for him to be dropped | Football News

By Total Football News

“I felt he could be the Kevin De Bruyne that at times got Man City over the line.”

Those were Jamie Carragher’s hopes on what Florian Wirtz could’ve been for Liverpool. In the next breath he said “he needs to come out of the team.”

To say it’s been an underwhelming start to life at Anfield would be an understatement. The price tag (£116m), expectations and comparisons to the likes

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Middlesbrough: Championship club calls for Southampton’s expulsion from play-offs
15 May 2026 Off

Middlesbrough: Championship club calls for Southampton’s expulsion from play-offs

By Total Football News

Most of the attention around Middlesbrough’s statement on Friday will centre around the club wanting Southampton thrown out of the play-offs.

We sort of knew this anyway, of course, but Boro coming out and putting it on the record ramps up the story another notch.

But buried in the detail is one important fact: the Riverside club have not been named by the Independent Disciplinary Commission as an “interested party”.

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Hull City: Oli McBurnie calls on Hull to secure play-off spot
15 April 2026 Off

Hull City: Oli McBurnie calls on Hull to secure play-off spot

By Total Football News

Oli McBurnie has urged his Hull City team-mates to focus on finishing the job by confirming a place in the end-of-season Championship play-offs.

Hull were wounded by Saturday’s late 2-1 defeat at Sheffield United and their promotion push has lost momentum at a critical time, with the club winning just four of their last 13 league games.

McBurnie says they must focus on the bigger picture, adding that no-one expected

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Preston North End: Heckingbottom calls for ‘realism’ from disillusioned fans
20 March 2026 Off

Preston North End: Heckingbottom calls for ‘realism’ from disillusioned fans

By Total Football News

Preston North End boss Paul Heckingbottom has called for “realism” amongst fans amid a difficult spell at the club.

The Lilywhites were fourth in the Championship table in January, but are now 17th after winning just one of their past 12 matches.

And while Heckingbottom understands the fans’ anger, he also feels the expectations were raised too high during the first half of the season.

“If we are a team

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Valerien Ismael: Blackburn Rovers boss calls decision to replay abandoned Ipswich game ‘a disgrace’
26 September 2025 Off

Valerien Ismael: Blackburn Rovers boss calls decision to replay abandoned Ipswich game ‘a disgrace’

By Total Football News

Ismael’s comments echo those of his club, who said they were “extremely disappointed by the outcome” on Thursday.

“When you receive that many messages from people around the world and they are all shocked it means something is wrong,” the Frenchman, 49, added.

“You quickly need new guidelines otherwise it will always be a political case.”

As yet no new date has been scheduled for the rearranged fixture.

In their

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Sheffield Wednesday: PFA boss calls situation at club ‘shocking’
2 July 2025 Off

Sheffield Wednesday: PFA boss calls situation at club ‘shocking’

By Total Football News

“We’ve been in touch with the players. Our role is not to tell them what they need to do, (it is) to give them the tools and say, ‘this is what you could do if those criteria are met’.

“Then it is for them to assess what they want to do, because I wouldn’t take it for granted that just because certain criteria are met, automatically someone just terminates their

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Chris Wilder: Sheffield United boss calls fan abuse ‘a disgrace’
7 April 2025 Off

Chris Wilder: Sheffield United boss calls fan abuse ‘a disgrace’

By Total Football News

Saturday’s result was just Oxford’s second win in their past 12 games and leaves Wilder’s men in second, one point behind leaders Burnley and one ahead of third-placed Leeds before Tuesday’s visit of Millwall.

Across the whole of the Football League nobody has won more games away from home this season than the Blades, who, like Burnley, have 12 victories on the road.

United suffered a dismal relegation from the

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