Martin Lipton

KARREN BRADY has quit as West Ham vice-chair - just weeks before the end of the season. The Tory peer and star of The Apprentice has been on the Hammers board since 2010. Her role alongside David Sullivan and the late David Gold saw Brady, 57, become one of the Premier League’s most important voices...

THEY are the best barometer of how fans really feel about their club. Not the fans who flood into the Emirates, bringing that bizarrely Arsenal mix of bravado and terror and then watch the next week on television. But the supporters who dig deep into their pockets, clamber aboard the trains that often cannot even...

THE race for European football has never been tighter. Chelsea fans in particular are likely to be pulled all over the place in the final weeks of the season as their side’s fate may well lie in the hands of other clubs. Prem performances over recent seasons put England top of the Uefa coefficient table...

NOW it’s game on. Now we have a title race for the ages. Now it’s truly up for grabs. And the momentum has firmly swung City's way after a dramatic and explosive clash between the country's two top teams. Erling Haaland, who else, was the man on the spot when it really mattered, the Norwegian’s...

A MONTH of mayhem, misery and growing despair. Yet, despite the fear of implosion, that can be utterly transformed in the space of 90 minutes. We have long been told that the Premier League season is “a marathon, not a sprint." But Arsenal, it seems, have hit “the wall” — that moment when, with the...

OLLIE WATKINS clocked up his Aston Villa century to send Unai Emery’s men a step closer to their first trophy in 30 years. Watkins may well be anxious about earning a spot in Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup squad but he has a place in the heart of every Holte Ender. His 100th Villa goal, in 279...

THE WORLD CUP public transport row has exploded further - with Fifa now blamed for the stratospheric prices in some cities. Transport bosses in Boston were slammed when it emerged the usual £20 train from the city to the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough - where Scotland play Haiti and Morocco and England face Ghana -...

IN THE end, the Anfield passion play was not enough for Liverpool. They gave themselves too much to do against the best team in Europe, who showed just why they are favourites to retain their crown in Budapest next month. For all the effort and desire of Arne Slot’s men, there was never really a...

FIFA are trying to use Gianni Infantino’s personal relationship with Donald Trump to halt anti-immigrant ICE raids during the World Cup. Zurich bosses have been criticised for Infantino’s decision to get publicly close to the US President. The Fifa head has been spotted at Trump rallies and the launch of his Peace Board, even wearing...

IT is not, yet, a collapse of Devon Loch proportions. Indeed, for all the dread and despair, Arsenal remains masters of their title destiny. But as the Gunners fans felt like throwing up the lunch AND dinner Mikel Arteta had urged them to bring to the Emirates, the creeping sense of the inevitable repeating itself...

NOT another "robbery" for Liverpool in Paris this time. Just an old fashioned beating, the gap between these two sides wider than the Channel. And while, just about, there is still the chance for Liverpool to create one of those special Anfield nights next week, it’s hard to see it happening. Arne Slot’s Mo Salah...

IN THE end, the Easter miracle comeback was in vain. Yet as Leeds celebrated reaching their first FA Cup semi-final since 1987, nobody who walked away from the London Stadium last night could deny they had witnessed a match for the ages. A game of four goals, two of them in stoppage time to turn...