Salty Beef Extracts: Chelsea's St Kitts star, West Ham United's black hole and more
This week’s links take us to Chelsea, West Ham, Fulham and Tamworth
Welcome to your weekly round-up of good football stuff.
Manchester United icon Denis Law sadly passed away last week and the tributes have been widespread and heartfelt. I’ve included Brian Glanville’s obituary but I’d encourage you to read a couple more if you can.
Elsewhere, Chelsea and England star Cole Palmer has St Kitts roots and BBC Sport went there to meet a local DJ and hear a bit about the player’s family connections with the Caribbean island.
West Ham are a black hole where a football club used to be (i)
Fulham's civil war is tarnishing everything this magnificent club once cherished (i)
The inside story of Sandro Tonali's Newcastle redemption (i)
Alexander Isak is Putting East African Football on the Map (Versus)
Cole Palmer: Saint Kitts and proud (BBC Sport)
Tamworth's Wreh refuses to play over reaction to racism (BBC Sport)
Paul Lambert: ‘Zinedine Zidane just looked at me and said “bloody hell”’ (The Guardian)
Denis Law obituary (The Guardian)
Murillo’s imperious form shows Forest’s recruitment gamble has borne fruit (The Guardian)
A$AP Rocky may be the headline at the moment for Tranmere, but Tacopina is the story (Unexpected Delirium)
(£) Unelected Tory Lords trying to stop the independent football regulator, is it? (Unexpected Delirium)
Mizuno Unveils New Alpha II ‘Japan’ Boots (Versus)
Hummel Follow Up Bespoke 2025 Greenland Home Shirt With New Away Shirt (Soccerbible)
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