Tag: fight

Crystal Palace: Manager Pierre Sage facing a fight to keep his job
19 October 2026 Off

Crystal Palace: Manager Pierre Sage facing a fight to keep his job

By Total Football News

Sage may point to the disbanding of the squad that led Palace to their first ever major trophies, with the FA Cup in 2025 before last season’s Europa Conference League triumph, as the reason for his tough start to life in south London.

Eberechi Eze, Michael Olise, Maxence Lacroix, Daniel Munoz and Guehi have all departed Selhurst Park since the summer of 2024.

The departure of highly influential sporting director

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Manchester City charges: Legal fight could spiral out of control, says former executive
26 September 2026 Off

Manchester City charges: Legal fight could spiral out of control, says former executive

By Total Football News

Manchester City‘s legal fight with the Premier League has the potential to “spiral out of control”, a former top club executive has warned.

Christian Purslow, a former Liverpool managing director and Aston Villa chief executive, who also held a senior role at Chelsea, said the case could begin a chain of events that would be “appalling for the game”.

City have been found guilty of the vast majority

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Burnley 2-2 West Ham – Clarets fight back to draw in Championship
16 August 2026 Off

Burnley 2-2 West Ham – Clarets fight back to draw in Championship

By Total Football News

Zian Flemming scored two late goals – including a stoppage-time equaliser – as Burnley came back from two down to snatch a point against West Ham in Nicky Hayen’s first Championship match as Clarets boss.

The Hammers seemed on course for victory when Manor Solomon added to Max Kilman’s header to make it 2-0 with 18 minutes remaining.

But Flemming pulled a goal back from the penalty spot with seven

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Hull City 2-1 Norwich City: Tigers fight back to gran final play-off spot
3 May 2026 Off

Hull City 2-1 Norwich City: Tigers fight back to gran final play-off spot

By Total Football News

Hull owner Acun Ilicali struggled with his emotions after the final whistle and he can look forward to the play-offs, in which the Tigers have won twice promotion twice previously.

They began, however, like a team who had not won in their previous six games as Norwich took control, opening the scoring when Toure volleyed home Anis Ben Slimane’s dinked pass into the middle.

But 12 seconds after the restart,

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Queens Park Rangers 2-3 Derby County: Rams fight back to stay in play-off race
25 April 2026 Off

Queens Park Rangers 2-3 Derby County: Rams fight back to stay in play-off race

By Total Football News

For 76 minutes, it looked like there would only be one winner.

But the Rs were ultimately made to pay for a catalogue of missed chances. Julien Stephan’s side had 23 shots to Derby’s 12 – and 12 on target.

For the Rams – three shots on target, three goals.

QPR hammered at the Derby goal from the first minute and were almost ahead within five – Jacob Widell Zetterstrom

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Derby County: John Eustace vows Rams will fight for play-offs to the end
25 April 2026 Off

Derby County: John Eustace vows Rams will fight for play-offs to the end

By Total Football News

John Eustace says his Derby side will go all-out to gatecrash the Championship play-off places, despite the odds being against them.

The Rams are eighth, four points adrift of both sixth-placed Wrexham and Hull City in seventh, with just two games remaining.

Tuesday’s 2-1 defeat at Norwich was a third straight away defeat for County, who have now lost six of their past seven games on their travels.

However, Eustace

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EFL fight a ‘credible threat’ to future of Sheff Wed
20 March 2026 Off

EFL fight a ‘credible threat’ to future of Sheff Wed

By Total Football News

Sheffield Wednesday fans feel that every time there is some hope, there is another sledgehammer just around the corner.

Silverwood says that the Trust does not expect the slate to be wiped clean, but there needs to be some “common sense”.

“Minus 15, a transfer fee restriction, and the significant wage cap, both annually and weekly, is excessive and punitive,” Silverwood said.

“Everybody accepts that Sheffield Wednesday will come out

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Saints fight back from 3-0 down to stun Leicester
11 February 2026 Off

Saints fight back from 3-0 down to stun Leicester

By Total Football News

Leicester caretaker manager Andy King told BBC Radio Leicester:

“I want to start by apologising for that last half an hour. It was completely unacceptable.

“Obviously, the feeling I have at the moment is sheer anger towards the performance. It will take a bit of time to process, I have to watch it back, see what happened but, yeah, passive and not good enough.

“Probably a lack of character, a

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Sheffield United 3-1 Oxford United: Blades fight back as U’s woes mount
4 February 2026 Off

Sheffield United 3-1 Oxford United: Blades fight back as U’s woes mount

By Total Football News

Sheffield United’s deadline-day arrivals Kalvin Phillips and Joe Rothwell were introduced to the home crowd before kick-off, although neither was involved. Leo Hjelde, signed on loan from Sunderland, came off the bench for the closing stages of a feisty contest which included seven bookings.

Matt Bloomfield’s side gave themselves early hope through Peart-Harris’s 13th-minute opener as the January arrival from Brentford followed in Cameron Brannagan’s long-range effort and was rewarded

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Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Watford: Struggling hosts fight back to earn point
25 January 2026 Off

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Watford: Struggling hosts fight back to earn point

By Total Football News

Valerien Ismael’s Blackburn are now level on points with 22nd-placed Portsmouth albeit having played two games more, while Watford hover outside the play-offs in eighth off the back of Wrexham’s comeback win at Queens Park Rangers.

The game took place at a mostly empty Ewood Park, as Blackburn’s supporters began a boycott of home fixtures in protest against owners Venky’s.

Earlier in the week, Rovers told BBC Radio Lancashire that

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