Alan Pardew departed The Valley after a stinker against Sheffield United. Photograph: Daniel Hambury/EMPICS Sport/PA Photos
What wasn’t to like about the weekend? Australia’s rugby league players were thrashed by the Kiwis in the World Cup final, temperatures across the country soared to a balmy –37C and Oasis finally broke America by standing behind Ricky Hatton [...]

Charlton Athletic manager Alan Pardew. Photograph: Daniel Hambury/Empics/PA
The jeers that began less than 20 minutes into the game were ringing around The Valley long after the final whistle on Saturday. Charlton’s 3-1 home defeat to Barnsley leaves the Addicks in the Championships’s relegation zone and Alan Pardew hanging on to his job by a fraying [...]

Bayern Munich celebrate winning the Bundesliga. Photograph: Joerg Koch AFP/Getty Images
TV screens were getting positively drenched by salty bodily fluids on Saturday, you couldn’t move for all the money shots: everybody was crying, everywhere.
In Hamburg, Huub Stevens, the Bundesliga’s best-loved Dutch Gruffalo, shed a few tears after his last match in charge at Hamburg. His [...]