Jerrad Peters

Nottingham Forest will not be ignored

They might be the two best teams in CONCACAF, and they’ve recently developed one of the North and Central American and Caribbean region’s most heated match-ups. No, it’s not Mexico-United States, although the border opponents will renew their enmity next week in Guadalajara. That’s yesterday’s rivalry. This fresher, more relevant animosity entangles a pair of innovative coaches, delivers reliably exciting soccer and animates almost everyone involved. JOHN LOCHER / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILES Canada’s Ismael Kone (right) knocks the ball out of the air against Harold Cummings of Panama during a 2023 CONCACAF matchup. It’s Canada-Panama, and their next encounter […]

There was a headline this week, in the hours after UEFA’s club competitions completed Matchday Two, that appeared on the front page in a major European centre. “We have hit rock bottom.” Overheard by...

We have heard them time and again — clichés about this league only really starting after Labour Day, that one at Christmas, another one in which “it’s still early” until the end of June; the list goes on.

How to define Sunday’s North London Derby… Nerve-racking? Must-win? Weird? Yes. This latest encounter of archrivals Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal (Sunday, 8 a.m., FuboTV) will be unlike anything most...

Canada ascending to elite of CONCACAF

With the Premier League season underway as of this weekend, how about a riddle to kick things off… What has six goalkeepers, no shirt sponsor and a midfielder stranded in Spain? Still thinking? Here’s...

There will come a day when the exploits of Canada’s women’s soccer team will be recounted as events taking place on the pitch over the course of 90 minutes or 120 or penalty kicks. It will not be today, this weekend, or any time during the 2024 Olympic Games — and probably not in the foreseeable future that follows them. Which is a shame, because this women’s team, like so many before it, has enough of the remarkable for any number of those inspiring stories that supplement, and even prop up, the occasion of this quadrennial spectacle. No, it’s not […]

In tournaments at the highest level of world football (sorry, Gold Cup), the Canadian men’s national team has played seven matches – and lost them all. Now, they’ve also come up against some elite opp...

As anticipation has built for the 48th Copa América, which begins next week in the United States, some worthwhile analysis of the Canadian men’s soccer team has turned up in the Argentine press. This...

It will be a spectacular send-off. As Barcelona’s blaugrana colours and the blue, red and white of Olympique Lyonnais shimmer on the nearby waters of the Nervión, projected by the illuminated panels o...

For a title race that’s come down to the final day of the Premier League season, very little tension surrounds a Sunday slate of matches that will end with one of Arsenal and Manchester City lifting the trophy. No doubt the Gunners will do their bit by beating an Everton outfit that can finish no higher than 15th and no lower than 16th. Avoiding relegation was always the Toffees’ top priority, and their players will likely be thinking more about their night out in London than the 90 minutes of football preceding the summer break. It almost certainly won’t matter. […]

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It makes for gruesome reading. Cameroon — gone. Burkina Faso — gone. Equatorial Guinea — gone. Egypt — gone. Senegal — gone. Morocco — gone. Each of them, having begun the Africa Cup of Nations with designs on a semifinal or final, victims of an absolutely ruthless round of 16. Add group stage casualties Ghana, Zambia, Tunisia and Algeria to the list and you have a roll call of this ongoing tournament’s stunning brutality. SUNDAY ALAMBA / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cape Verde’s Ryan Mendes (left) is t…

Over the next few days, some of world football’s most high-profile players will be leaving their clubs mid-season to contest what might be the most significant Africa Cup of Nations ever held. The tou...

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

If this is the end, it’s going to take some getting used to.