Tag: failure

11 October 2026 Off

Manchester United: Another failure to beat 10 men increases pressure on boss Carrick

By Total Football News

“I’m not happy with he amount of points we’ve got so far, for sure, you know,” said Carrick.

“I’m not hiding, there’s no hiding from that. I think it could have been different for a couple of little things here or there, but the reality is the reality, we’ve got to accept it, you know. We need to put things in a direction, in a positive direction quite quickly, that’s

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29 April 2025 Off

Jed Wallace: West Brom’s failure to reach play-offs is ‘unacceptable’

By Total Football News

West Bromwich Albion’s failure to reach this season’s Championship play-offs is “unacceptable”, says midfielder Jed Wallace.

The Baggies were in sixth place when Tony Mowbray replaced Carlos Corberan as head coach in January but a run of just five wins from his 18 games in charge ended their play-off hopes and Mowbray was sacked.

“It’s been massively disappointing – take the first five games out of the season and our

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24 April 2025 Off

Michael Carrick: Hard to class missing out on play-offs as Middlesbrough failure

By Total Football News

Boro finished fourth in Carrick’s first season two years ago, only to lose to Coventry in the play-off semi-finals.

Last year, they were eighth and four points adrift. Now they are one of six sides still competing for the last two play-off places.

The Boro boss is preferring to focus on three seasons of consistent work in a notoriously competitive division.

“History shows that over the last 15 years, it’s

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6 February 2025 Off

Middlesbrough: Missing play-offs would be ‘complete failure’ for Boro

By Total Football News

It was a busy January on the transfer front with Morgan Whitaker and George Edmundson arriving on permanent deals while Mark Travers, Kelechi Iheanacho, Ryan Giles and Samuel Iling-Junior signed loan agreements.

Heading out of The Riverside were Isaiah Jones, Micah Hamilton, Matt Clarke, Alex Gilbert, Lukas Engel, Sammy Silvera, Mathew Hoppe and for a club record fee of £22.5 million, top scorer Emmanuel Latte Lath.

So are the

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27 November 2024 Off

Portsmouth P-P Millwall: Championship game postponed after power failure

By Total Football News

The floodlights suddenly cut out a couple of minutes before kick-off, with some initially thinking it was for dramatic effect to build the tension before the game.

As the minutes passed, it became clear that this was not the case, with both sets of fans initially amused before becoming frustrated.

Loud cheers spread around the ground as the lights slowly came back on section by section, but other lights in

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