Can there be anything in football more magnificent than the goal from an overhead kick?

When Gareth Bale scored exactly that goal on Saturday in a Champions League final, the acme of elite-club-football competition, it was literally breath-taking. The stage, the spectacle made it possibly the greatest goal ever scored.

But for all the beauty of that goal and how it will undoubtedly be admired throughout the ages, it wasn't even the most important scored that day. That accolade rests with Tom...

Back in the autumn, promotion looked not so much a distant dream as a laughable fantasy for Fulham, languishing in the lower half of the Championship with internal disagreements making anything beyond survival look like the height of optimism.

But an extraordinary unbeaten run of 23 games, stretching from December to May, took them to within a whisker of automatic promotion. And on Sunday they completed the job, beating Aston Villa 1-0 in the playoff final to return to the Premier League. So who...

LONDON -- Three quick thoughts from Fulham's 1-0 win over Aston Villa in the Championship playoff final at Wembley, which sees the Cottagers return to the Premier League after four seasons in England's second division.

1. Cairney sends Fulham back to the big time

Fulham are back in the Premier League after four years away, Tom Cairney's 23rd-minute winner edging them past Aston Villa in a tense and increasingly chaotic Championship playoff final. They won despite playing the last quarter...

The summer window opens soon and Transfer Talk has the latest rumours.

Pochettino wants huge Spurs shake-up

This could be a big summer at Tottenham -- the Telegraph reports that Mauricio Pochettino "will ask chairman Daniel Levy and owner Joe Lewis to sanction a £150 million overhaul of his squad."

A 5-4 win over Leicester saw Spurs finish third in the Premier League, but Pochettino wants them to take the next step.

The Telegraph says he is asking for funds "to bring in the players he wants...

The news that Shad Khan, the billionaire owner of Fulham and the Jacksonville Jaguars, has put in a bid to buy Wembley from the Football Association caused a real stir when it broke on Thursday.

As well as having big implications for the NFL's planned expansion across the Atlantic, there are potential knock-on effects for the England national team, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Khan's own club, Fulham.

ESPN FC's Tottenham and Chelsea correspondents, Dan Kilpatrick and Liam Twomey, look at what...

It was when he was asked who his idol was growing up that it really hit home exactly how young Fulham's Ryan Sessegnon is. "Luke Shaw," was the response, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph. Shaw, just for clarity, is 22-years-old.

Sessegnon, who has been one of the driving forces behind Fulham's increasingly fierce tilt at promotion, is not 18 until May but already has 68 first-team appearances to his name. He has started every league game this season and even in the two EFL Cup fixtures he...