Tag: years

11 February 2026 Off

Five years of Hollywood: Wrexham’s transformation under Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney

By Total Football News

Wrexham’s on-field success is plain for all to see, however, background developments and groundworks are equally important to sustain Reynolds and McElhenney’s ambitions for the north Wales club.

Regulars at the Stok Cae Ras – or the millions of viewers watching games on screens around the globe – will also have noticed a number of alterations to the world’s oldest international football stadium still in continuous use.

The stadium’s iconic

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24 December 2025 Off

The final Christmas Day Football League fixture – 60 years on

By Total Football News

The two sides went into the game struggling at the wrong end of Division One, with Blackburn in 20th place and only outside the relegation zone on goal average, and Blackpool only one point and two places better off.

The home side had won just one of their previous eight league matches while Rovers’ form had improved with two wins from three before the trip to Bloomfield Road.

The Tangerines

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8 December 2025 Off

Tony Pulis column: ‘Everyone follows fashion’ – is the Premier League better now than 10 or 20 years ago?

By Total Football News

It is nine years since Pep Guardiola arrived at Manchester City and brought with him a style of play that was to be followed – and copied – by coaches up and down the country, from the highest professional level to the amateur and youth game.

As I talked about in a previous column about the value of defending properly, Pep’s style of play did not just become ‘the right

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5 December 2025 Off

Derby County v Leicester City: First East Midlands derby for nearly 12 years ‘pivotal’ for both sides

By Total Football News

Waghorn topped the scoring charts for both his former clubs in the East Midlands.

The 12 goals that made him Leicester’s highest scorer in the Championship in 2009-10 came when the Foxes had only just returned to the division from League One.

He left Leicester for Wigan Athletic in January 2014, just months before they won promotion to the top-flight with a team that formed the nucleus of the one

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1 December 2025 Off

Paul Furlong: Academy coach leaves Queens Park Rangers after 14 years

By Total Football News

Development squad head coach Paul Furlong has left Queens Park Rangers after 14 years with the club.

The 57-year-old former striker made 183 appearances and scored 58 goals as a player for the R’s.

He returned to the club as a coach in 2011 and saw his son Darnell Furlong come through the youth system to make his first-team debut in 2015.

“I have had an amazing 14 years at

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1 November 2025 Off

Unai Emery: Aston Villa go “from black and white to full colour” in three years

By Total Football News

On 6 November 2022 a packed house at Villa Park exploded with joy as Aston Villa beat Manchester United on home soil for the first time since 1995.

A dream debut for new head coach Unai Emery, less than a week after the work permit hurdles that delayed his appointment had finally been cleared.

There had been fleeting moments of joy in the past but, for many years, never anything

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26 October 2025 Off

West Ham defeat by Leeds marks ‘perilous’ Hammers’ worst start in 52 years

By Total Football News

West Ham’s miserable Premier League campaign continued with a defeat at Leeds on Friday which ensured their worst start to a season for 52 years.

The result was their third consecuitve defeat under new manager Nuno Espirito Santo, who remains winless since replacing Graham Potter in September.

The Hammers, who sit 19th in the table, have recorded just one win this season and ironically it arrived against Nottingham Forest, when

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23 June 2025 Off

Nahki Wells: Bristol City forward to leave club after five-and-a-half years

By Total Football News

Wells joined Bristol City from Burnley in January 2020 in a deal worth £5m and has been a regular presence in their front line under managers Lee Johnson, Dean Holden, Nigel Pearson and most recently Liam Manning.

Manning said in March – before he left to become Norwich head coach – he hoped Wells would extend his stay at the club after having a “fantastic season”.

This season the Bermuda

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17 June 2025 Off

Man Utd can win Premier League title in three years says chief executive

By Total Football News

But Berrada knows where the major external focus will be, in particular on coach Ruben Amorim, who had such a tortuous introduction to life at United following his arrival from Sporting in November.

Berrada joined United after working as chief football operations officer at City Football Group. And he can see similarities between Amorim and Pep Guardiola, who he got to know during his time at Manchester City and who,

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25 May 2025 Off

‘I’m retiring after 46 years on Nottingham Forest’s turnstiles’

By Total Football News

Over the years, Mr Moore has built up a good rapport with some fans who regularly pass through his turnstile.

“I worked on the away side as well but, certainly, the home fans, they’re all happy and cheerful,” he said.

“One chap puts his hand through to shake my hand every game.”

But the lifelong Forest fan is moving to Matlock in Derbyshire, so he is giving up his beloved

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