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It was an unguarded comment from an Arsenal official and it came shortly after Eberechi Eze’s mural outside the Emirates Stadium had been defaced with white paint – presumably by a Tottenham fan. It summed up the snark between the clubs and Arsenal’s delight at pipping their rivals to Eze’s signature from Crystal Palace at the end of August. “We sign a top-class forward for £60m. They throw paint…

England 27-23 Argentina Hosts hold on to secure 11th successive victory England rounded off their first four-Test autumn Twickenham clean sweep since 2016 with their 11th successive win of a highly satisfying calendar year. Argentina made them sweat in the second half but 12 points from the boot of George Ford and a productive first home start by Max Ojomoh enabled Steve Borthwick’s side to edge …

Minute-by-minute updates on the 1pm UK time kick-offs Any questions or comments? You can email Graham Chiefs 0-7 Colts 1:00, 1st quarter The Chiefs pick up a nice chunk of 10 yards with a pass to Worthy then hand it to Hunt who moves the stick again. Chiefs are 1st & goal. Continue reading...

Ben Stokes’s side had been more bullish than past teams to tour Australia, but history implies another belting is coming As an Australian, even one lacking in cricket parochialism, it’s flat to sit around the Perth CBD city centre on what should have been the third day of the opening Ashes Test but isn’t. In the same way that this city of heatwaves is now being combed by chilly winds and rain, th…

Topi Keskinen scores Aberdeen winner; Hearts wasteful Callum McGregor hits Celtic’s late winner at St Mirren Callum McGregor scored a late winner as Celtic cut the gap on the Scottish Premiership leaders, Hearts , to four points with a 1-0 win at St Mirren on Saturday, a lead that was confirmed when the Edinburgh side lost 1-0 at Aberdeen on Sunday. At Pittodrie, Topi Keskinen’s strike just befor…

Roma claim 3-1 away victory to maintain league form Teenager Ouédraogo scores in victory for RB Leipzig Roma gave themselves a chance of finishing the weekend top of Serie A with a 3-1 win at Cremonese, where the Irish striker Evan Ferguson came off the bench and ended his almost 13-month goal drought at club level. Roma are on 27 points, two points ahead of Napoli who beat Atalanta 3-1 on Saturd…

American enjoys comfortable margin of victory 30-year-old has three World Cup wins in a row Mikaela Shiffrin continued her slalom domination with a record-extending 103rd Alpine skiing World Cup win in the Austrian resort of Gurgl on Sunday. Shiffrin is a big gold medal hope for the US team at February’s Winter Olympics, and the 30-year-old made it two out of two for the season in slalom with ano…

Five defeats in six and the anxiety is beginning to show for Leeds. For the second game in a row they took an early lead through Lukas Nmecha but ended up with nothing, Morgan Rogers producing a pair of remarkable finishes to lift Aston Villa into the Champions League qualification slots. Leeds remain in the relegation zone. Villa began the season apparently still feeling the hangover from the de…

Scotland 56-0 Tonga Visitors given three yellow cards and one red Duhan van der Merwe moved in front of Darcy Graham at the top of Scotland’s all-time try-scoring charts as Gregor Townsend’s side rounded off a disappointing autumn with an eight-try 56-0 win over indisciplined Tonga at Murrayfield. The Scots’ series was always going to be defined by results against New Zealand and Argentina, so ba…

One derby goal tends to be enough for a place in Steel City folklore, so Tyrese Campbell is more than assured of his entry to the pantheon after scoring twice in Sheffield United’s 3-0 win at Hillsborough, 12 months on from his similar match-winning effort in the fixture at Bramall Lane. Chris Wilder’s side remain in the Championship bottom three but this was a bright spot in what has otherwise b…

Losing the first Test to Australia by eight wickets after being 105 ahead with one man out could derail the entire tour Stuart Broad was a highly meme-able cricketer and it turns out that talent now extends into commentary. As Joe Root chopped Mitchell Starc on to his stumps during England’s subsidence on Saturday afternoon, Broad summed up the mood of a nation without uttering so much as a word.…

A pension-pot World Cup looms and with Trump in the White House and a crown prince at his back, it is now a safe space It was hard to choose one favourite photo from football’s double-header at the White House this week. In part this is because the pictures from Donald Trump’s state dinner with Mohammed bin Salman and his in-house hype men Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianni Infantino were everywhere, r…

Australia’s bold call as replacement for creaking Usman Khawaja in second innings set up a Test-winning 69-ball ton, the second-fastest in Ashes history In short, England tried to play a certain style of Test cricket. Travis Head succeeded at it . As his numbers grew on the second afternoon here, what they represented grew more astonishing. A normal 16 runs from 20 balls became brisk at 26 from 2…

Captain visibly angry after defeat to Nottingham Forest Accuses champions’ squad of letting down Arne Slot Virgil van Dijk has delivered a scathing assessment of Liverpool’s woeful title defence, the club captain admitting the champions are in a mess and letting down Arne Slot while questioning whether every player is shouldering responsibility for the team’s slump. Van Dijk could not contain his…

FA offers up to six sessions via Sporting Chance Latest figures show rise in discrimination charges The Football Association is offering free counselling and mental-health support to victims of hate and discrimination in grassroots football. Discriminatory abuse is on the rise at grassroots level. In surveys 70% of participants including players, referees and spectators told the governing body th…