

The latest Football Weekly special focuses on dementia in the game and is well worth your time.

Inequality, racism, all these things that need kicking out of society” – Cambridge United manager Mark Bonner hits out at the behaviour of fans who booed as the players took a knee before his side’s League Two win over Colchester. What was a really good night for us on the pitch was overshadowed by a real small minority that decide to boo in a moment when we’re reflecting the values that everyone at our club believes in. Join Barry Glendenning from 6pm GMT for hot MBM coverage of Arsenal 2-2 Southampton in the Premier League, before Rob Smyth guides you through Liverpool 2-2 Tottenham at 8pm. Yes, just 31 years after beginning his fledgling management career as reserve-team player coach at West Brom, it looks like Sam Allardyce is finally going to get a long overdue promotion. Showing the kind of stunning lack of imagination that has seen them boing-boing between the Premier League and Championship in recent times, they appear to have illuminated the Jurassic Football insignia in the night sky over the Hawthorns and the early indications are that it is about to be answered. And one that gives him more than tuppence ha’penny and a handful of beans to spend on helping fulfil the second part of his brief after he’s successfully achieved the first by winning promotion.Īnd what of West Brom? What do they deserve? The Fiver isn’t quite sure but it looks as if they might be about to get it. A club whose overlords don’t sell players against his wishes, perhaps. Looking more ashen-faced and disgruntled than he does even at the best of times, everyone’s favourite curmudgeonly Croatian has had the look about him of a man who deserves much better.
