Monthly Archives: December 2024

It was 3.15 in the morning. I'd been sitting for five-and-a-half hours, in clouds of cigar smoke, inside the executive lounge of the Georgios Kairaskakis Stadium, waiting for my final audience with the King of Piraeus.

Harry Kane scored a hat-trick for Bayern Munich away to Borussia Dortmund in Der Klassiker last season. This time around, he trudged off injured. But not before being upstaged by compatriot Jamie Gittens, who scored himself after a sensational solo run.

You know a player is a good when they are tipped to potentially snatch Joe Root's England records.

The top stories and transfer rumours from Monday's newspapers...