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Clubs may be able to roll over squad cost ratio allowance £30 price cap on away tickets extended until 2027-28 season The Premier League is poised to amend its new spending rules before they are introduced next season to give clubs greater flexibility in the transfer market. Under squad cost ratio (SCR) rules approved last November clubs will be restricted to spending 85% of their revenue on play…

⚽ Updates from the 5.45pm GMT kick-off in Denmark ⚽ Live scores | Read Football Daily | Mail Daniel I can’t help but note that McAtee and Lucca were both hooked at half-time when Fenerbahce visited Nottingham; both start tonight . I guess it’s possible Forest use the first half to stay in the game, then send on their better players to try and steal a result, but given they went close to full-stre…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Another night in Bigger Cup and the hopes and dreams of another two teams from The Best League In The World™ were brought to an end in varying degrees of ignominy. Of the six teams that advanced to this season’s Round of Arsenal, only two (including Arsenal) made it into the quarter-finals. This state of affairs has prompted all manner of existe…

Nellie Pou’s bill follows ICE chief, Todd Lyons, refusing to rule out enforcement near stadiums and fan festivals A New Jersey congresswoman introduced legislation on Thursday to block immigration enforcement from conducting raids within a mile of a Fifa World Cup soccer match or fan festival in the US this summer. The Save the World Cup act, introduced by Nellie Pou, a Democrat, is meant to assu…

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning , Philippe Auclair and Mark Langdon to review Wednesday night’s Champions League action and to look ahead to the Carabao Cup final. Barcelona hit seven against Newcastle at Camp Nou. The visitors equalised a couple of times but Barça kept scoring and scoring and scoring. Liverpool made easy work of Galatasaray , with Mo Salah – in the second half at leas…

Cunningham to miss time with playoffs near Detroit star may now fall shy of awards cutoff Pistons lead East but face uncertain timeline All-Star guard Cade Cunningham of the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons has a collapsed lung and is expected to miss at least two weeks and possibly more, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press on Thursday. The exact timeline …

‘It’s not come from any place of malicious intent’ Manager has spoken to Enzo Fernández ‘at length’ Liam Rosenior has revealed that Chelsea have found the mole leaking team news. The starting XI was published by French media before the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Paris Saint-Germain. A week later, it also emerged before kick-off that Wesley Fofana was not in the lineup…

Only two of the Premier League’s last-16 teams made it to the quarter-finals while European giants are coming into form when it matters Another traumatic week for the self-worth of the Premier League, one in which Europe’s big beasts got into their stride. The defending champions, Paris Saint-Germain , put on a devastating display at Chelsea. Bradley Barcola’s goal, their second, was the highligh…

Supporters of national side struggle to come to terms with decision to declare Morocco the winner of Africa Cup of Nations Two days after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) stripped Senegal of its 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title and instead declared the host nation, Morocco, champions, Alhassan Hann remains in shock. “We didn’t expect this at all,” the 23-year-old Dakar university stude…

All England Club wants 38 new courts and new stadium Campaign group SWP says it will ‘fight on’ Wimbledon has received a major boost to its expansion plans. The All England Club’s proposals to almost triple the size of the current site are not prohibited by restrictions on how the land earmarked for development can be used, a high court judge has ruled. The plans, approved by the Greater London A…

‘There are clear similarities to football’ World No 1 Magnus Carlsen likely to play Erling Haaland has become a significant investor in a new world chess championship tour that is expected to star his fellow Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, the Guardian can reveal. The deal was agreed shortly before Manchester City played at West Ham last Saturday, with Haaland shown on Sky Sports wearing a Norway Chess…

The Herons are out of the Champions Cup after defeat to Nashville. Now it’s back to the same old hits for the club Concacaf may not have the world’s most hallowed Champions League. The confederation is so aware of that fact that it rebranded the competition as a Champions Cup two years ago. Nonetheless, winning the continental competition is the ultimate aim for MLS’s most ambitious clubs, even t…

After Six Nations, focus back on clubs with Saracens’ director of rugby saying ‘there’s everything to play for’ Remember the Prem? It’s been in hibernation almost as long as your tortoise. The last sighting of England’s elite men’s domestic league was on 24 January but now, finally, it is re-emerging from the shadows of the Six Nations , starting under the Friday night lights at the Rec where sec…

Captain denies relationship had broken down ‘There is frustration because last year was amazing’ Virgil van Dijk has said the connection between Arne Slot’s Liverpool and the Kop remains intact and cited the rout of Galatasaray as evidence of what they can achieve by sticking together. The Liverpool captain took issue with claims that the team’s relationship with supporters had broken down this s…

Trial planned from 2027, potentially in big Asian market Uefa rejects call to end league phase ‘country protection’ Uefa hopes to follow in the Premier League’s footsteps and trial a new direct-to-consumer streaming service for Champions League matches in the next television rights cycle. If implemented successfully the trial could pave the way for games to be streamed more widely via a dedicated…