The Paraguayan Primera División restarted with its Clausura phase last week and for the first two Olimpia games, the closest we got to any Tim Payne action was the occasional close-up of his face on the bench…

Still got another few weeks of preseason for most European clubs but they don’t wait around in Denmark. The Superliga is already underway for the 2026-27 campaign and for as long as Callum McCowatt remains a Silkeborg player he is going to be starting games for them

Nobody was expecting Elijah Just to remain a Motherwell player beyond this transfer window. Not after the twelve months he’s just had, shortlisted for the Scottish Premiership Player of the Year and then scoring three goals at the World Cup where he was New Zealand’s best performer.

You never quite know what the situation is when a player is released by a club. After Hannah Blake was let go by Durham last week, that could have been the English club saying ka kite after two years…

You won’t be seeing Emma Pijnenburg in a Wellington Phoenix jersey next season because she’s heading back to the Netherlands. She already spent a couple years with Feyenoord before joining the Nix…

The saying goes “No Payne, No Gain” therefore by logical extension Much Payne must equal Much Gain. Two years of contracted Tim Payne is a lot of Payne so when the biggest club in Paraguay, Club Olimpia, agreed a transfer for Tim Payne after the World Cup…

It’s Ligue 2’s St-Étienne and it will remain Ligue 2’s St-Étienne after Les Verts were beaten 4-1 in the away leg of their promotion playoff against Nice. This following the 0-0 draw at home on Wednesday.

Darren Bazeley claimed a few weeks ago that Minnesota United were being careful with Michael Boxall’s adductor injury and that he’d have been playing a lot earlier if it were playoffs or whatever.

Finn Surman thinks that blocking shots is nice? Never was a truer word spoken at a time when his 29 blocks this MLS season aren’t far off doubling the second-most prolific blocker in the division.

Go tell the children, there will be no Europa League title for Chris Wood. His penalty had given Nottingham Forest a 1-0 advantage after the first leg at home but they barely even turned up for the second leg.

Imagine thinking a few months ago that Chris Wood would be in the middle of a European semi-final right now. Not only was he working his way back from knee surgery at the time but Nottingham Forest, largely in his absence, were tearing through managers at rapid pace…

When Silkeborg go well, it usually means that Callum McCowatt has gone well... and Callum McCowatt has been going very well lately.

Last week the story was about Chris Wood’s return, this week it was all about the action. Nottingham Forest had two games in quick succession with the potential to massively alter the course of their season.

173 days after he last took the pitch in a 3-0 loss against Chelsea that marked Ange Postecoglou’s final game in charge of the team, Chris Wood made his return for Nottingham Forest.

23 November 2024 and 25 March 2026… those were the two games of competitive football played by Malia Steinmetz on either side of busting her ACL, returning to action in a very convincing Danish Cup semi-final first leg win against Kolding

Nottingham Forest had put a mid-April target out there for Chris Wood’s return to the first team so nobody was expecting him to appear in the starting line-up for the U21s this soon. And yet there he was.

Celtic Park was the destination for Motherwell, where they faced arguably the biggest game of their season thus far. If they could repeat the 2-0 win they served up to Celtic a couple of months ago then…

Ben Waine loves a dose of cup footy. Always has. But none of his past exploits compare to what he did over the past week.

Ben Old is a left-back now, he’s even admitting it himself. Not a winger playing out of position but a genuine converted option having played nothing but fullback for the past two months.

The bad news for Motherwell is that if they want to win a trophy this season, it’s going to have to be the Premiership. The good news is that they might genuinely be in the league title race after another week of very helpful results.