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'Hard work ahead' - Pressley bemoans Dundee loss
Dundee should be "under no illusions how much work's required", said new head coach Steven Pressley following the home Premier Sports Cup loss to Premiership side marked Pressley's first competitive match in charge with defeat, an improved second half unable to cancel out Chris Mochrie's solitary Falkirk and Coventry City boss Pressley replaced Tony Docherty in the Dens Park dugout this summer, a somewhat surprise appointment after an equally eye-opening had staved off relegation in his second season in charge after a top-six finish in his maiden campaign."Obviously the result is far from the result we wanted," Pressley told BBC Scotland. "It very much highlighted that we have so much hard work ahead of us. You could see in both our attacking and defending elements that we weren't in sync on many occasions."We haven't had long enough, I could see that in our performance. We were disjointed at times. Every day on the training ground will help us put some of these things in place."I hope we're under no illusions just to how much work that's required. I know that."Dundee visit Alloa Athletic in their next Group C game on Saturday before a trip to Bonnyrigg Rose (22 July) before Montrose visit Dens Park (26 July)."Today was the first time the real ball came out and there were some real teething problems in our display," Pressley added."I'm confident with this group of players and some additions that we can put that right."I'm really excited about what we have here but it's going to take time."
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Euro 2025 Wales v England rival fans gather in St. Gallen
Thousands of Welsh and English football fans have arrived in the Swiss city of St. Gallen before Sunday's Euro 2025 match between the two countries.A win will guarantee England's Lionesses a place in the last eight of the will be eliminated unless they beat England by four goals or more and the Netherlands lose to have lost their two opening Group D matches to the Dutch and French, each by three goal margins, while England bounced back from a loss to France with a 4-0 win against the Netherlands. England fan Vicky Morgan, 40, from Surbiton in south west London, has travelled to Switzerland with Welsh friends Hannah Maddy, 39, from Barry and 43-year-old Jo McSweeney from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan."We've been friends for a very long time. We met while at Cardiff University but still stay close and have been in Switzerland for two days," said Vicky."I was at the last final that we won [England are the defending champions]. It was an immense game and since then the game has just grown and grown."It's great to see so many young fans watching the Lionesses. I'm a teacher myself so it has grown the game in schools as well."Despite Wales being on the brink of a group stage exit, Hannah and Jo still feel Wales could cause an upset:"I've got all the hope. I reckon 4-0 and England to be knocked out," said Jo."I'd take that," added Hannah. "I reckon 5-1, [Jess] Fishlock hat-trick, [Sophie] Ingle and Ffion Morgan." Phillip Spakouskas is a 48-year-old St. Gallen native who will be supporting England because his father is English."I was buzzing knowing England would be coming here and seeing all the fans, even Welsh fans on Tuesday and Wednesday - they were fantastic - and I'm really looking forward to Sunday as well," he said."I saw the France v Wales game [in St. Gallen] and I thought the Welsh girls were quite good but the French were better and I think England will be massive favourites."I thought they [England] weren't up to it against France but against the Netherlands they were really good."Phillip said the people of St. Gallen had embraced being a host location at Euro 2025 and hopes there will be a legacy in place for women's football, especially in Switzerland."It started slowly then the first game was Germany v Poland and from then on it really has been buzzing," he added."I've met a lot of fans in St. Gallen - German, Polish, French and Welsh. They all say it's a nice city, not big but it has nice architecture and it's clean."For women's football it's the next step, England was buzzing three years ago [when they hosted the tournament] but this is another step."Birmingham couple Mike and Carol Adams, 67 and 70 respectively, follow the Lionesses across the world and have high hopes of qualification for the knockout stages despite the early tournament defeat to France in Zurich."It's massively important to be here and fingers crossed for a win," said Mike."When you look at the draw, it has certainly favoured other people hasn't it? Because we are in the toughest group there's no doubt about that."She [England coach Sarina Wiegman] changed the tactics. The first game she just seemed to allow them to sit back and Hempo [Lauren Hemp] and Bronzey [Lucy Bronze] never ever went down the sides and the French just came on to us and realised they could beat us."I'd like to think we can win the tournament but Spain are really hot aren't they?"Carol has enjoyed meeting Welsh fans since arriving in St. Gallen, saying: "It's wonderful. It's what you want, everybody here from the United Kingdom, so it's great to have Wales here and the banter is brilliant."Mike added: "We are on a campsite not too far away surrounded by Welsh fans and we were sat drinking with them last night. Everyone wants a good game." Among the expected 3,500 Welsh fans in St. Gallen are representatives of the Wales women's walking football Clemence, 58, is from Cardiff and has travelled with teammates Leanne Williams, 47, from Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and Juliette Payne, who's lived in Merthyr Tydfil for 27 said: "We've been to Sweden for the world walking football championships last weekend representing Wales in different age categories. The over-40s got into the semi finals and the over-50s reached the quarter finals. It's a tough three days - 25 minute games, three or four times a day."We travelled across by train and boat to get here via Munich in Germany. You see the kids going around with the ladies' names on the backs of their shirts, we didn't have that in our day. It's come on so much in the last 30 years."Aneurin Williams has travelled with members of his family from Blaenau Gwent, and said: "We have all the faith [against England], we've got the fans, and we can always do England over, they've got nothing special about them. We've had friendly banter with England fans."Linda Rosser from Merthyr Tydfil agrees, saying: "Absolutely they can. I've got every faith in them."We came out for the French game, so we came out on Tuesday. It has been amazing, we're having a fantastic time."
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Arsenal target Gyokeres faces Sporting disciplinary action
Arsenal target Viktor Gyokeres is facing disciplinary action by his club Sporting after failing to report for pre-season training, says the Portuguese club's president Frederico added that any potential transfer was now becoming "more complicated".BBC Sport reported last week that Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta held face-to-face talks with Sweden international Gyokeres in have told BBC Sport that talks are ongoing with Arsenal, who are still hopeful of striking a deal, with their most recent proposal for the 27-year-old totalling about 70m euros (£60m) including month Sporting president Varandas said there was no 'gentleman's agreement' for Gyokeres to leave for 70m euros but added that the club would not demand his full release clause of 100m euros (£85m).Gyokeres, who scored 54 goals in 52 games last season, has yet to publicly explain why he has not turned up for told Portuguese news agency Lusa that "no one is above the interests of the club"."We're calm. Everything can be solved with the closure of the market, a hefty fine and an apology to the group," Varandas said."If they don't want to pay Viktor's fair market value, we'll be very comfortable with that for the next three years."If the geniuses who are devising this strategy think that this puts pressure on me to make it easier for him to leave, not only are they completely wrong, but they are also making it more complicated for the player to leave."Gyokeres has scored 97 goals in 102 matches during his two seasons in Portugal, firing Sporting to two league titles.
