Jack Pitt-Brooke

Harry Kane has said that England’s senior players know that the team culture can be lost quickly if they are “not careful”. The 31-year-old was speaking for the first time since his eye-catching interview this week where he reminded his team-mates of the importance of reporting for England duty this month. Kane said that these autumn camps were vital for reinforcing team culture, and that the other senior players have a duty to protect something they have worked so hard to create. “It was just my opinion that England is really important,” Kane said, when asked about his mid-week ITV...

Harry Kane expects Thomas Tuchel to be a “real injection of energy” when he takes over as England head coach next year. Tuchel, 51, will start work on January 1 and then manage England for the first time in March. England captain Kane, who played for Tuchel last season at Bayern Munich, described the German’s motivation style at length on Saturday, saying that he did not “shy away from confrontation”, and admitting that some players did not like how he spoke to them at Bayern. But 31-year-old Kane, who admitted he was a “little bit” shocked to be dropped by interim head coach...

A second-half surge saw England breeze back into the top tier of the UEFA Nations League

Lee Carsley has solved many - if not all - problems for his long-term successor when he begins in January

Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur has been given a seven-game ban for a comment made about Son Heung-min - here is the background

Lee Carsley says England “have all the tools” to win the World Cup in 2026, as he prepares to hand the team over to Thomas Tuchel. Carsley hopes to debrief with Tuchel before the new England manager formally takes over on January 1, and he sounded a confident note on the national team’s prospects under Tuchel on Sunday evening. England’s 5-0 win over the Republic of Ireland meant that they won their Nations League group, granting Tuchel his wish that he will start his England tenure with a clean focus on the World Cup qualification campaign. And Carsley, in his last remarks to...

Five years since the Argentine manager left Spurs, is there a way back onto the path the club veered off back then?

Tottenham Hotspur have appealed against Rodrigo Bentancur’s seven-game ban for comments he made about team-mate Son Heung-min. Bentancur was given a seven-game ban from domestic games and fined £100,000 ($127k) by an independent commission after he was found to have used “insulting words”, and that it was an ‘aggravated breach’ of the FA’s rules, as his words referred to “ethnic origin, colour, race, nationality”. Bentancur had said, with reference to Son, “Sonny, or one of Sonny’s cousins, as they all look more or less the same” in an interview on Uruguayan TV in...

Ben Davies suggested Bentancur's seven-game ban was the time to 'move on', but his club's appeal means that still cannot happen

By moving Kulusevski into the centre of midfield, Ange Postecoglou solved several of Spurs' issues - and gave his team a new star man