• Real Madrid player wins men’s vote for fifth time after stellar year• Holland international who starred at Euro 2017 takes women’s prize Cristiano Ronaldo and Lieke Martens were named Fifa men’s and women’s player of the year respectively at the governing body’s annual ‘The Best’ football awards, which took place in London last night. […]

Valencia have changed everything from their players’ diets to the players themselves, and the revolution at the club has sent them second from top Valencia’s players were hungry. It was two years since they’d had a decent run of results and it felt almost as long since they’d had a decent meal. For the 13th […]

Spurs manager ran through his options in the commendable draw at Real Madrid and the Argentinian is increasing his sphere of influence closet to home It numbers among the many construction projects at Tottenham Hotspur but, perhaps, it is the one to have drifted under the radar. The London club have committed £30m to the […]

Following his Tottenham side’s 1-1 draw away at champions Real Madrid, manager Mauricio Pochettino congratulated his team on the result, saying: ‘I’m so proud of the effort.’ Harry Kane, whose deflected effort provided the first goal, said that he thought the draw represented a good result for Spurs, while Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos assessed that […]

Spurs’ top scorer could not quite find the decisive finishing touch at the Bernabéu but still made an impact that demonstrates how far he has come Harry the Strong” one front-page headline here had called him. “Kane is the danger,” another warned and Raphaël Varane knew. Moussa Sissoko’s cross from the right sought Kane, as […]

Harry Kane’s reaction said it all. It was a mixture of disbelief and deep regret. There were 71 minutes on the clock at this glittering venue and, suddenly, Tottenham’s main man was in. The pass from Fernando Llorente was made to measure and, when Kane shot, all eyes followed the ball to the bottom corner […]