Jason Burt

jason burt Christopher Nkunku joined Chelsea from RB Leipzig in the summer of 2023 - Getty Images/Darren Walsh

Robbie Savage turned down a lucrative TV offer to remain as manager of Macclesfield - Jon Super for The Telegraph

Incoming German head coach’s decision to wait until the new year to start leaves the national side in limbo, merely wasting valuable time

Sometimes it just needs the captain to call it as it is. After all that is part of the responsibility of having the armband.

It is difficult to point finger at players who choose to drop-out, while incoming manager sits on sidelines waiting until Jan 1

England's Nations League match with Greece in Athens tonight has been described as a ‘dead rubber'. Far from it. This is a must-win game that has more riding on it than being promoted back into the top tier of European countries – where England should be anyway.

He is 31. He may not be that quick. He may have even lost a bit of mobility. His status as an automatic selection has even been placed in doubt. But no England player passes the ball quite like Harry Kane.

Back-to-back promotions have made richer clubs covet Ipswich head coach who has spectacularly proved detractors inside Old Trafford wrong