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⚽ All the latest pre-match news and analysis ⚽ Fixtures | Tables | Mail Tom with your thoughts Good morning and welcome to Sunday’s matchday live. Decent day in the Barclays yesterday wasn’t it? Goals aplenty. Let’s hope for more of the same today. We’ll be building up to four fixtures in the Premier League, five in the WSL and a Women’s Champions Cup double-header at Emirates Stadium, where Arse…

Comeback win over West Ham sixth in seven games ‘Fans were magnificent. I would have booed in first half’ Liam Rosenior said he hopes his appointment as head coach will eventually be seen as the best decision Chelsea have ever made. Although Rosenior has won six of his first seven games since replacing Enzo Maresca earlier this month, the mood in the stands has been far from positive. Many fans a…

Saturday’s home defeat leaves Rovers in relegation trouble amid pitch problems and fan anger with Venky’s For Blackburn managers of the recent past, this has been the cruellest month. Jon Dahl Tomasson and John Eustace left the club in February 2024 and 2025 respectively when they became disconnected from the club’s unpopular owners, Venky’s. The problem for the current manager, Valérien Ismaël, …

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Updates from the men’s singles final at Melbourne Park Big-match preview | Follow us on Bluesky | Mail Daniel Over the 74,301 years he’s been playing tennis, warming to Novak Djokovic hasn’t always been easy. And the man himself knows it, frequently bristling at sleights perceived, imagined and real, his 24 grand slam titles unable to replace the basic need to feel loved. What we all learn from D…

Centre-back scores emotional goal against Newcastle Slot: ‘Everyone was cheering for Ibou in dressing room’ Arne Slot revealed Ibrahima Konaté was not due to face Newcastle after the recent death of his father. The centre-back was rewarded for responding to Liverpool’s defensive crisis with his first Premier League goal at Anfield. Konaté returned from compassionate leave after three matches out …

Stevenson beats López to become four-weight champion Unanimous 119-109 cards underline one-sided bout result Newark southpaw controls tempo, distance all night long Shakur Stevenson delivered the most complete performance of his career on Saturday night, outmaneuvering, outthinking and ultimately outclassing Teófimo López over 12 rounds to claim the WBO and lineal junior welterweight titles at Ma…

The 19-year-old says touring England in 2027 is a dream but as the hype around him builds the classy batter is keeping his feet on the ground After five-year-old Ollie Peake had gone to bed in his family home in Geelong, his mother, Sarah, entered his bedroom to check on him. He was fast asleep in his cricket gear. She removed his helmet and gloves before tucking him in for the night. The next mo…

Miller’s hairpiece knocked loose during middle of fight Heavyweight tosses wig into crowd between rounds Fighter goes on to win fight despite mishap Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller was involved in one of the more unusual moments in recent boxing history on Saturday night when his hairpiece was dislodged during his heavyweight victory over Kingsley Ibeh on the undercard of the Teófimo López–Shakur Steve…

American still preparing for Milano Cortina Games ‘Thank you for the love and support I have received’ Lindsey Vonn sat out a World Cup super-G race on Saturday after crashing and injuring her left knee a day earlier, but remains on track for the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, her coach said. “No, she is not racing today but preparing for Cortina as usual,” Chris Knight, Vonn’s personal head coa…

Harry Wilson, Igor Thiago, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Jack Grealish and Antoine Semenyo have shone for their clubs By WhoScored Harry Wilson was often a spectator rather than a player in his first three seasons at Fulham. He made 89 appearances in the league, but 48 of them were from the bench and he was taken off 34 times. Having scored just 12 league goals in three years, he was nearly shipped off …

Pep Guardiola’s No 2 sought Klopp’s blessing for role Lijnders: ‘Jurgen said he would take the job if I didn’t’ Pep Lijnders has revealed Jürgen Klopp convinced him to take the job as Pep Guardiola’s assistant at Manchester City, despite the German spending almost a decade at their fierce rivals Liverpool. He said Klopp had joked about taking the role if Lijnders didn’t. Lijnders joined Guardiola…

WSL side host Brazilian champions in Sunday showdown Slegers wary of complacency against a ‘very good team’ Renée Slegers praised the impact of trailblazing hijab-wearing footballer Nouhaila Benzina after Arsenal’s defeat of Moroccan side AS Far earned them a place in Sunday’s Champions Cup final against Corinthians. Asked about the impact of Benzina competing in the new cross-continental club co…

Despite an estimated outlay of $6bn since 2022, LIV appears to be far away from establishing itself in the manner of PIF projects in other sports In one sense, it is difficult to detect anything warm and cuddly in all of this. Elite golfers, who were already obscenely rich, take the bounty on offer from a Saudi Arabian-backed disruption model before shuffling back whence they came – essentially f…

While the desperation to keep Trinity Rodman is understandable, tweaking the salary cap could be a big mistake Perhaps it was all worth it in the end. As a tearful Trinity Rodman signs the most lucrative contract in the history of women’s football – flanked by the Washington Spirit owner, Michele Kang , and a young fan called Emma in pink braids – the internet is already burning white hot. The po…