Liverpool documentary showing Jurgen Klopp’s final months as manager yet to be picked up by streaming service #LFC
Story by Tom Burrows

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Scunthorpe United were close to the brink last year.

Now, they have been saved and came close to a place in the National League play-off final on Saturday.

And a huge chunk of credit goes to owner Michelle Harness — a grandmother of seven.

📝 Philip Buckingham

Forest Green Rovers, football's greenest club, have lost their Football League status after seven years -- the first five joyful, the last two grim.

It's not your typical story of a club losing its league status. But #FGR are far from a typical club
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Went to Scunthorpe v Boston in the National League North play-offs today. Sixth tier of English football and there was 8,036 there. Up the pyramid.

Q1: Why did the National League back the decision to scrap cup replays?
A: It’s in talks with the Premier League about an EFL Trophy-like comp between 16 NL sides & 16 U21 PL teams.
Q2: When is fixture congestion OK?
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Nottingham Forest have come under fire from some for standing up for themselves robustly, in the face of VAR and PSR controversy.

In Evangelos Marinakis, they have a figurehead who has been shaped by his environment in Greece. This is what he knows.

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Sam Wilson is a non-league footballer who was convicted of rape in 2015.

His past was an open secret yet he still had an active post-jail playing and managerial career.

How did that happen? And did his use of three names since 2012 play a part?

Report by Simon Hughes

𝗘𝗫𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘: The majority of Premier League clubs want to introduce a hard spending cap — and the motion will be voted on Monday.

The cap would allow clubs to only spend five times the commercial and broadcast revenue of the lowest team in the division.

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How Fabio Carvalho became rejuvenated at Hull City... and what could come next?

🧼 Cleans his own boots
🫂 Popular with team-mates & Rosenior
🔟 Freedom as No 10
⚽️ Sixth most goals in Championship since arrival
🔴 Likely to get pre-season with #LFC

✍️ Philip Buckingham ⤵️

Fabio Carvalho has impressed on loan at Hull City ahead of a summer of change for Liverpool. Scoring goals, cleaning boots and traffic jams. #hcafc #lfc
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Watching Jobe Bellingham on a weekend when his brother scores a winner in El Clasico highlights a contrast. Jobe has done well in his first season at Sunderland but been overplayed. He was only 17 when it began, a more significant detail than his name. theathletic.com/5435209/2024/0…

▪️ Marinakis wanted even stronger language in statement
▪️ Forest believed they had no choice but to go public
▪️ Reaction at other clubs has included likening Forest 'to a small child'

#NFFC , Stuart Attwell's Luton link and a melodrama played out on social media.

Philip Buckingham

And #Inter are champions of Italy for a 20th time
⭐ A second star
👹 Clinching it in the derby against #Milan
🇹🇷 Istanbul state of mind
🪄 Inzaghi's total football
🇨🇳 Where's Zhang? On video. Not in Milano
🏡 Uncertain ownership situation

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Fabio Carvalho has impressed on loan at Hull City ahead of a summer of change for Liverpool. Scoring goals, cleaning boots and traffic jams. #hcafc #lfc
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“There’s a morbid curiosity to the game. Everton and Nottingham Forest are viewed similarly: community-based, provincial clubs. But we’ve both been done for trying to compete.”

Fear and loathing in the Premier League: Philip Buckingham endures the Points Deduction Derby.

Went to Everton v Nottingham Forest yesterday, the first time two Premier League clubs had met with an asterisk against their name. An inglorious day and an unedifying end. Infamy, infamy...

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The latest in an occasional series…
🤫 Everton: no news, no explanations, no hope?
🗓️ Calendar crunch trumps tradition…but where’s the compensation?
💷 Situation vacant: chair of football regulator
📺 DFL v DAZN
🇳🇱 A mess at Vitesse, Roman’s shadow theathletic.com/5426266/2024/0…