Football Daily | ‘Did you see that?!’ Why the Nations League is our new favourite thing

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Sundays – especially those that are not branded by our TV satellite overlords as Super Sundays during these international breaks, have always given Football Daily the scaries. When the feeling of impending doom over another working week is not interrupted by the afternoon offerings of the usual Premier League kick-offs, Toby Carvery gravy and MOTD2’s ‘2 Good 2 Bad’, this particular tea-timely email starts getting a little jittery when the Sunday sun goes down. Yesterday, reader – with the weekend disappearing over the horizon faster than a Bobby Baggio penalty – Football Daily needed saving. We just didn’t think the thing to save us would be the Nations League.

He makes you understand the spaces on the pitch like no other coach and he lives the game emotionally like no other coach. I was brainwashed by [Pep] Guardiola, but in a good way. It was like I was at university. What I experienced with him allowed me to raise my level and keep that level to this day. It’s not that I was an idiot before I arrived at Manchester City but I realised that I played football in completely the wrong way” – Danilo gets his chat on with
Thiago Rabelo about his days in higher education at the Etihad Stadium, toxic social media abominations and much, much more.

Is Chris Wood the next Russian nesting doll (Friday’s Football Daily)? Getting into the referee’s notebook by putting his name in other people’s notebooks, and then the media wrote it in their ‘notebooks’. And now I’m writing another hopeful letter to Football Daily. At over six feet tall and made of Wood, he has a good start” – Keith Taylor.

I can’t have been the only person to check out the engineering marvel that is New Caledonia’s Pont de Mouli after its shoutout in Friday’s Football Daily. Having compared the before and after photos, it’s safe to say it’s the finest glow-up I’ve seen a bridge have since the former Southampton, Chelsea and England left back had his hair transplant” – Jim Hearson.

October 2021: Thomas Tuchel is angry after Thiago Silva returns late from his international duty with Brazil. March 2022: Tuchel says ‘you can’t discuss depth in the team when my players are involved in international breaks’. March 2025: No rotation for the sake of the clubs. Guess who? Yep!” – Krishna Moorthy.

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