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MUSIC royalty was in attendance at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium today as Tottenham Women hosted reigning Women’s Super League champions Chelsea.
Almost 10,000 fans watched on as the Blues won 2-0 thanks to goals from Keira Walsh and Alyssa Thompson, including pop megastar Madonna.
The Queen of Pop was pictured watching the WSL clash from the stands alongside partner Akeem Morris, who is a 29-year-old Jamaican-born ex-footballer and adopted twin daughters Stella and Estere.
They attended the game after watching the two girls play football for the Spurs women’s football academy.
Madonna, 67, shared pictures as Stella and Estere, both 12, played for the club’s youth team.
However, the American singer was not too impressed with the British weather.
Sharing pictures to her Instagram story during a gloomy looking day, she said: “I will pay G*D for some sunshine.”
She added in a follow up as the team were seen in a huddle after a 5-0 win: “Go Stella and Estere!”
Before going to watch them she shared a picture alongside Morris revealing she was taking only her second ever Uber while, “On the way to footy”.
Madonna is a mum of six and has more than one house in London.
But she has been known to watch Chelsea in the past.
Her affiliation with the Blues goes back to her marriage with well-known Chelsea fan Guy Ritchie, between 2000 and 2008.
BRYAN MBEUMO has lifted the lid on the secret training ground routine that paved the way for his set-piece opener against Tottenham.
While the finish was all Mbeumo, the winger admitted the routine itself was the brainchild of Jonny Evans.
United capitalised after Cristian Romero’s sending off when Kobbie Mainoo ran towards corner-taker Bruno Fernandes and flicked the ball into the path of Mbeumo.
The Cameroon international was left unmarked to roll a tight finish beyond Spurs keeper Guglielmo Vicario in the 38th minute.
Mbeumo said: “Jonny came to me and the rest of the guys who were involved. We just tried to hit it.
“It was the coach who wanted to practice this in training. So we did it once, it didn’t work out, but this one was the most important.”
Fernandes signalled to the trio before taking the corner and later doubled United’s lead in the 81st minute for his 200th goal contribution in 314 games.
Evans has been working closely with players since joining Michael Carrick’s interim coaching staff after Ruben Amorim was sacked a month ago.
But Mbeumo played down suggestions of a dramatic shift behind the scenes, refusing to fuel the idea of a major overhaul since Carrick took the reins from Amorim.
He said: “We have just been building on what we’ve been doing since the start of the season.
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“Because I don’t think it was as bad as what people think.
“And yeah, we just work together, make the effort together with a big mentality.
“We try to never get beaten, even if someone gets passed, another one will come back to support. We just try to give it our all.”
United picked up their first victory over Tottenham since October 2022 after losing all FOUR matches against the North London club last season.
Amorim was defeated in three of those ties, including the dismal Europa League final, which left United without European football for the first time since 2014/ 2015.
Mbeumo said: “A club like Manchester United needs to play in Europe. We are going to try and achieve European football and aim as high as possible.”
While United remain in the top four, Spurs sit 14th in the table and remain winless in the Prem this calendar year.
THOMAS FRANK is the worst permanent Big Six manager in the history of the Premier League.
The Spurs boss holds the lowest points per game and win percentage of any ‘Big Six’ head coach with 10 or more Premier League matches to their name.
That rules out interim/caretakers as well as those at Manchester City before the Abu Dhabi takeover and with Tottenham pre-Harry Redknapp.
When it comes to Prem spells for Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, City, Tottenham, and Liverpool, Frank is rock bottom.
From his 25 matches in charge – all this season – Frank has accumulated just 29 points.
That leaves his side firmly in the bottom half with 18th-place West Ham in the relegation zone, only six points off.
Spurs are in danger of being dragged into a scrap with Leeds, Nottingham Forest, and Crystal Palace.
They could go below Palace on Sunday after losing 2-0 to United at Old Trafford.
That is the seventh game in a row without a win for Frank – a run that extends to one victory in 10 and just two in 16.
After Ange Postecoglou could only muster a 17th place finish last term, Frank is actually doing worse than his predecessor overall.
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Postecoglou won the Europa League in his second season, sacrificing the Prem as he focused on mid-week matches.
The Aussie had come fifth in his first year in the job but dropped off after a brilliant start.
He is also fifth on this list with an average of 1.37 points per game (PPG) from his 76, winning 40 per cent of those.
Frank has won 28 per cent, which is also the lowest number, below that of even Ruben Amorim at Manchester United.
Amorim was sacked as much for his fallout with Jason Wilcox as results but still only managed a 23 per cent win rate and 1.23 PPG.
The Portuguese boss did come above Spurs last year but that was not much to shout about.
Roy Hodgson‘s 20-game spell at Liverpool is third with just 1.25 PPG and 35 per cent wins.
Graham Potter at Chelsea (22 matches) was marginally better at 1.27 PPG but worse on 31 per cent winning rate.
Postecoglou rounds out the top (or bottom) five with Mark Hughes behind him.
The former City man is perhaps harshly done by the list as the Etihad club did not finish in the top four until the season after he left.
They haven’t dropped out of it since and missed out to Redknapp’s Spurs in Hughes’ last season, 2009-10.
He was sacked after 18 months in charge, straddling the 2008 takeover.
Roberto Mancini proved the decision to be right, winning the title in 2011-12.
It is then back to Spurs and Nuno Espirito Santo for his barely qualifying 10-match stint.
He got 1.50 PPG but still got the can quickly after failing to impress.
Kenny Dalglish is eighth with 1.51 PPG at Liverpool before Frank Lampard.
The Coventry boss is another slightly hard done by with one win in 11 games as interim at Stamford Bridge in 2023 post-Potter bringing his numbers down.
Lampard managed 1.66 PPG in his first year-and-a-half at Chelsea before being sacked in January 2021.
Rounding off the top 10 is Ralph Rangnick at Manchester United after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was shown the door.
He managed 1.54 PPG but also managed to lose himself a job as director for the following years.
To come below some of these guys might say it all for Frank.
He is wildly unpopular in North London (at least with the Tottenham fans) and things don’t get any easier.
It is the visit of Newcastle up next, followed by rivals Arsenal.
Fulham and Palace come after that with Liverpool and Forest before the end of March.
His record could somehow get even worse.