Eyes down for another tilt at glory The World Cup has barely ended but for most of football fans, the attention now turns to the real business - the return of the domestic programme. Saturday sees the start of the campaign with the Carabao Cup taking up the mantle as season curtain-raiser a week ahead of a full EFL programme in the Championship and Leagues One and two. The Premier League's stars gets a extra week on the beach before they get going the following weekend (Augus

By Alessandro Schiavone in Eindhoven No wonder Arsenal have temporarily cooled their interest in Dutch whizkid Kees Smit and instead gone all-out for proven Premier League estrella Bruno Guimaraes. The Gunners saw their opening bid for the Newcastle star knocked back today, but should they eventually be forced to explore back-up options, Smit's name is unlikely to shoot back to the top of Mikel Arteta's shortlist any time soon. The AZ Alkmaar prodigy has been admired in north

By Alessandro Schiavone It’s 40 years since Suzy Lamplugh vanished into thin air on the afternoon of 28 July 1986. It's a story we've all read thousands of times. The 25-year old estate agent left the Sturgis Estate Agency to meet a client calling himself “Mr Kipper” to show him around a flat at 31 Shorrolds Road. And was never seen again. Whether those events unfolded exactly as recorded remains anyone’s guess. But it remains the accepted version of events to this day. Her w

By Alessandro Schiavone A former teammate of Christos Tzolis has backed the new Arsenal winger to come up trumps in English football. Premier League champions Arsenal nipped in to nab the Greece international for £34m as a replacement for Besiktas-bound Leandro Trossard last week. And the incoming Club Bruges starlet has what it takes to take centre stage in the Premier League thanks to his ambidexterity, ability to combine with teammates and knack for goals. Tzolis made 40 g