It is almost 49 years since the end of his professional playing career and nobody has come close to Jimmy Greaves' record for goals scored at the top level of English football. It is now time he was...

MATT BARLOW IN GENOA: As Tottenham descended upon the San Siro and Antonio Conte bemoaned their injury crisis, one of their own orchestrated an unlikely result against Inter Milan.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT BARLOW AND FABRIZIO FERRARI: The 72-year-old feels strong connections to Guardiola and Sarri. Like Sarri, a banker, he had no career as a professional player.

There's more to Sheffield United than Wilder and credit is due to his backroom team and the players for their rise to the top. And yet it all revolves around their no-frills manager.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: 62-year-old Mick Harford is back where a living Luton Town legend truly belongs, at the heart of the ramshackle charms of Kenilworth Road.

EXCLUSIVE - MATT BARLOW: Of the 36 Englishmen who have won the league title as managers only two are still alive. Howard Wilkinson won it with Leeds 25 years ago.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: He is still following news bulletins for positive updates. Still praying Derby will find a saviour after Chris Kirchner's takeover bid collapsed.

We're now well into this year's World Cup as we head into the final group games. Sportsmail's MATT BARLOW pens his latest World Cup diary from Doha.

MATT BARLOW AT WEMBLEY: There are signs the magic may be starting to fade but Messi proved once more he still has what it takes to sell out Wembley Stadium and keep Argentina dreaming.

MATT BARLOW: The 1990 FA Cup final replay when Manchester United beat Crystal Palace was the first trophy of the Sir Alex Ferguson era. It was also goalkeeper Les Sealey’s finest hour.

EXCLUSIVE: Marcus Edwards might easily have wound up on the sizeable scrapheap of football's failed wonderkids. He was hailed as Tottenham's future and likened to Lionel Messi at 17.

Charlton's Under-18s up against Birmingham City in the Professional Development League Two play-off final on Saturday and have a pair of strikers with an incredible haul of 87 goals this season.

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EXCLUSIVE - MATT BARLOW: Of the 36 Englishmen who have won the league title as managers only two are still alive. Howard Wilkinson won it with Leeds 25 years ago.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Hill does not hide the scars of his relationship with Luton Town, nor strident views on opportunities for black coaches which he calls ‘coaching apartheid’.

MATT BARLOW: Sheffield Wednesday won on a night they really had to win, three new loan signings sparkled with promise and Hillsborough resounded to the beat of its new favourite anthem.

The march of Birkenhead’s mariachi regiment on Britain’s first Roman city was complete and anyone present will begin the week with a ‘Tequila!’ worm still wriggling in their ear.

MATT BARLOW: Mick Harford has promised to tackle prostate cancer with the same fierce spirit and courage that made him one of the best centre-forwards in English football.

If Kane really does crave trophies to go with the goals, there you have 36 in the time Spurs have won two, without getting into the realms of the German League Cup or Super Cup competitions.

Hull City are stalling on plans for ticket concessions and fans fear that promises to restore the club’s identity have been broken. Fans were told the name 'Hull City AFC' would be restored.

MATT BARLOW: Tottenham are huge in the land of Son, a bone fide global icon and commercial phenomena, acknowledged as one of the finest footballers in the Premier League

His tribute will be at Derby County, where the diminutive striker scored 40 goals in 55 games towards the end of his playing days, and not at Newcastle or Chelsea.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Sam Allardyce sinks into a sofa and talks about the jobs he loved and the jobs he lost. But the job which might tempt him back is harder to define.

MATT BARLOW: The Good Friday win against Tranmere Rovers ended a sequence of four defeats, three of which came at home before a 3-0 thumping down the road at Harrogate.

INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: It is impossible to know where to begin as Declan Rice searches for the defining image of his footballing year as the midfielder goes from strength to strength.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: At Stamford Bridge  comes a third round tie with hidden depth for fans of a club with little to cheer in recent years, nagged by a footballing injustice for a quarter of a...

MATT BARLOW: Never has a football club's place in its community been more evident than during the pandemic and nowhere has this connection been more appreciated than at Wigan.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The first thing to pop into the mind of Ron Harris upon mention of the FA Cup final in 1970 was the state of the Wembley pitch. 'A disgrace,' tuts Harris.

MATT BARLOW: It was half-time at Arsenal, his team were 3-0 down and Conte could hold it in no longer. His players were not entirely surprised. They had seen the steam rising.

This fall and rise of Luton Town is not the first. They have rattled vigorously up and down on the helter-skelter of English football for several decades and chairman David Wilkinson has ridden with...

The former England international, a star at Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds in the 90s, is the new manager of Grantham Town in the Northern Premier League.

INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Graeme Jones pauses amid the frenzy of the season's onset, takes the weight from his feet for half an hour and allows his mind to drift back 12 months.

Massimo Maccarone appreciates the value of goals. In all the years he has never scored goals like he did playing for Maurizio Sarri at Empoli. ‘Sarri is special for strikers,’ says Maccarone.

MATT BARLOW IN SINGAPORE: ‘My question is this,’ says Antonio Conte. ‘What are Tottenham’s expectations? If they don’t win the title it’s not a tragedy.'

Calls for England football legend Jimmy Greaves to be given a gong intensified on Tuesday night as leading politicians joined the sporting stars backing Sportsmail's campaign.

There appears to be no way of healing the rift between Costa and Conte and the striker wants to leave for Atletico Madrid, although Chelsea’s asking price will start at more than £60million.

ut simply, they were the coolest team around. The kit was iconic and, by the time they were completing a hat-trick of European Cup wins, they wore it with shirts untucked and socks rolled down.

He has stepped in to deputise ably when Edouard Mendy was absent due to Covid and the Africa Cup of Nations and brilliant saves against Al-Hilal secured a place in the Club World Cup final.

MATT BARLOW: Perhaps someone at Nottingham Forest had this looming anniversary in mind when the Midlands club started peddling conspiracy theories like Donald Trump on polling day.

SPECIAL REPORT BY MATT BARLOW: The man known as Big Kev ducks and weaves his super-heavyweight frame through the tight twisting corridors to Portsmouth's inner sanctum.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Joe Jordan gently ran a finger along his front teeth and explained how the originals had been kicked clean out during his first appearance at Leeds.

MATT BARLOW: Without another hitch he should be a Chelsea player by the end of the week to boost Antonio Conte and his squad before the set off on pre-season tour to China and Singapore.