Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink is no longer manager of Northampton.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has been sacked as Northampton manager with the club lingering in the League One relegation zone.
The Cobblers are without a win in their last nine games and fell to a 2-0 defeat at Peterborough on Monday to leave them two points adrift of safety.
“We are sorry to see Jimmy depart as he has worked very hard for us, but felt a change at this point was in the best interests of the club,” chairman Kelvin Thomas said on the club’s website.
“We thank Jimmy for his work as manager…

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Shaka Hislop and Alexis Nunes assess the performances of Chelsea and Southampton, who’ll square off in the FA Cup semifinals alongside Man United and Tottenham.

Harry Kane’s 35 goals and 4 assists for Tottenham are unmatched this season. Who will pick up the scoring slack for Spurs in his absence?
Tottenham loanee Anton Walkes has told Sky Sports that MLS is on an upward trajectory and that his spell at Atlanta United has helped prepare him for life in the Football League.
Walkes, 21, joined Portsmouth on loan in January after spending the 2017 MLS season on loan at expansion club Atlanta, where he scored twice in 23 appearances.
The defender, who can also play in midfield, made his Spurs debut in the EFL Cup win over Gillingham in September 2016 and said his loan in the U.S. has given him…

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Patrick Kluivert is wanted by Oxford United, sources have told ESPN FC.
Patrick Kluivert has emerged as a shock candidate for the manager’s job at Oxford United, sources close to the League One club have told ESPN FC.
Everton Under-23s boss David Unsworth and former Wales international Craig Bellamy have been linked with the vacancy, but the sources said Oxford owner Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth was looking further afield.
Thanakarnjanasuth is keen to make a high-profile appointment at the Kassam Stadium and has sounded out former Barcelona and Netherlands star Kluivert.
Kluivert,…

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After an apparent confrontation between Sergio Aguero and a Wigan fan following Man City’s FA Cup defeat, the FC crew discuss the incident and their concerns about fans storming the pitch.
Football’s police lead for England and Wales has told the BBC that disorder at English football grounds will continue to rise if clubs fail to cover policing costs.
Deputy chief constable Mark Roberts, of South Yorkshire Police, delivered his warning after a pitch invasion marred the aftermath of after Wigan’s FA Cup win over Manchester City on Monday, with a fan confronting City’s Sergio Aguero.
Police figures show a growth in incidents including pitch encroachments, the use of pyrotechnics at…

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Kick It Out has said there is ‘still significant work to be done.’
Anti-discrimination group Kick It Out has said incidents of racism, anti-gay abuse and other discrimination have increased by 38 percent from last season in the top four divisions of English football.
The group said that although this could be partially due to incidents having been made easier to report, the increase should serve as “a wake-up call.”
It said there had been 111 incidents of discrimination since August, with 64 of those happening at Premier League games and 47 in the other three divisions.
Those…

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With Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang now headed to Arsenal, take a look back at some of his most recent statistics with Dortmund.

New Arsenal signing Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang shares his thoughts on joining the Gunners and reuniting with former Dortmund teammate Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Arsenal have sent midfielder Jeff Reine-Adelaide and striker Chuba Akpom, plus Krystian Bielik, out on loan for the rest of the season.
Reine-Adelaide, 20, will join French club Angers while 22-year-old Akpom heads to Belgium’s Sint-Truidense for his sixth loan spell away from Arsenal.
Young centre-back Krystian Bielik was also sent out to League One side Walsall after recovering from a shoulder injury that ruled him out for the first half of the season.
Reine-Adelaide has been viewed as one of…

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