Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe is under a lot of pressure after a disappointing run of form, and he could be shown the door at the end of the season. Even though he helped Newcastle end their prolonged wait for a trophy, he has not delivered this season. Newcastle are currently 12th in the league table and hope to do much better.
The Football Association is experiencing difficulties in securing suitable opposition for England's World Cup warm-up games owing to their late start to the expanded 48-team tournament. England open against Croatia on the last day of the first round of games on 17 June, six days after the first match between Mexico and South Africa, and Thomas Tuchel wants final preparation games as close to his team's tournament kick-off as possible.
England manager Thomas Tuchel and Scotland's Steve Clarke were both critical after a lengthy, star-studded World Cup draw ceremony in Washington D.C. on Friday. The biggest World Cup draw ever staged turned into a two-and-a-half-hour spectacle, featuring performances from Robbie Williams, a FIFA Peace Prize presentation to U.S. President Donald Trump, and ball-drawing duties handled by sporting greats including Tom Brady and Shaquille O'Neal.
Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson has received huge praise from England manager Thomas Tuchel as his fine form this season continues. The talented 23-year-old is really making a name for himself in the Premier League, and has fully deserves his recent involvement with the England national team as well. It could be that Anderson will now be a key player for the Three Lions at next summer's World Cup, while he might also earn himself a big move soon.
He swept into Chelsea, he floated in, he didn't walk. I've never seen anything like him in terms of personality and also in methodology, in a way of working. He was something for me that was almost like a UFO. He was not like anything I'd seen before. I have to say it was as much down to his methodology and his way of working, but it's down to him. There's something about Thomas for me ... There's stardust there.
We did very, very well. We had an excellent first half, we were 3-0 up very quickly but could have been four or five up at half-time. Then we couldn't score the fourth one or the fifth one. The stadium was silent. Silent. We never got any energy back from the fans and I think the players delivered a lot to get more from the fans. So, it was difficult to keep everything going in the second half, but we did excellent, we deserved to win. Next step in the right direction.
