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Manchester United crisis deepens with Chelsea defeat and Martínez red card16:17 Get ready for another week of agonising over the sorry state of Manchester United. The legends of old will rage, clips of a fuming Gary Neville will fly around social media, the airwaves will reverberate with complaints from angry supporters and by the time United play again there is every chance a new manager will be in the dugout. There were echoes of Erik ten Hag’s final game in charge as the … Manchester United miss chance to close on WSL top three in drab draw at Everton16:17 A group of well-choreographed, fancy-dress-wearing school-age dancers fully embraced the Halloween spirit as they boogied to one of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits at half-time at Goodison Park. Alas, the football match itself was no thriller. For Manchester United, the only scary thing about this game was how few times they tested Courtney Brosnan in Everton’s goal across the first 75 minutes of… Manchester City v Brighton, Bournemouth v Leeds, and more: clockwatch - live15:46 ⚽ Clockwatch updates on the Saturday 3pm GMT kick-offs ⚽ Football Daily | Scorers | Live Scores | Table | Mail Tom Nottingham Forest are a strange proposition. Lots of quality players but they’ve only won one Premier League game so far this season. They’ve only conceded 10 goals – an Oliver Glasner trademark is defensive organisation – but Liam Delap is yet to fire and today they face another wel… Australia collapse on final day as Simon Harmer spins South Africa to series win14:42 South Africa regain top spot in Test rankings Harmer takes career-best six for 16 at Newlands South Africa’s Simon Harmer took a career-best six for 16 as the hosts thumped Australia by 176 runs to clinch their three-test series 2-1 at Newlands on Saturday. Australia lost Matt Renshaw and Marnus Labuschagne in the opening over and never really recovered. While Pat Cummins’s 90-ball vigil and … Jimmy Anderson reveals ‘sadness and shock’ at Lancashire exit13:07 England great talks for first time since surprise dismissal Bowler optimistic about future within or outside sport Jimmy Anderson has revealed the “sadness and shock” he felt at his surprise Lancashire exit while he weighs up whether his future involves playing cricket or “something different”. Speaking for the first time since being told he will not have his county contract renewed, the England … He was one of the NFL’s most feared runners. Now Larry Johnson fears what football did to his brain13:07 Once among the NFL’s most punishing running backs, Larry Johnson opens up about memory loss, intrusive thoughts and his fears over football’s lasting toll In his heyday, Larry Johnson was the NFL tailback you’d least want to line up against, the steamroller in pads who had defensive players and coaches questioning their life choices on every down. But since Johnson walked away from pro football i… The low-budget Brewers won the World Series – and exposed baseball’s biggest lie | Howard Bryant13:07 Milwaukee’s first World Series championship is a rebuke to baseball’s oligarch class, whose insistence that small-market teams cannot compete has been laid bare as fiction For the entirety of the 2026 baseball season, the overlords of the game have stood on the single position that what has now happened could not happen, and the result was a year that has been treated like an appetizer for the ma… Jay-Z is the perfect Super Bowl shill for a league of billionaires13:07 The rapper lends the NFL a veneer of credibility but is unlikely to push back on the establishment figures who run the league On Monday the NFL named Jay-Z as the headliner for this season’s Super Bowl half-time show. His company, Roc Nation, produces the show under a 2019 deal reportedly worth $5m a year, and the agreement was extended for another five years in 2024. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said his one request when the partnership began was that Jay-Z “ take the stage himself one day “… Howe, Nagelsmann, Pochettino: can anyone end Manchester United’s doom loop?13:07 Even an elite coach would surely struggle at Old Trafford amid the executive chaos and with an unfit, uneven squad In January 2014 the 13th series of Celebrity Big Brother aired in the UK, the show so popular that its run time was extended by five days before a public vote anointed Jim Davidson the winner. Then, two years later when Brexit happened, people wondered where their tolerant country ha… Fallon Sherrock pulls off shock defeat of world darts No 1 Luke Littler in live TV battle12:35 The 15th amateur to challenge Littler in Netflix stream on Friday evening, Sherrock was ‘lost for words’ after winning £501,000 prize The name of the programme was Beat Luke Littler, and Fallon Sherrock did just that. On one of the biggest nights of the year for British TV, Netflix, too, there was much at stake: not just £501,000 to any of the 20 amateur challengers who managed to beat Littler in… Reece Walsh sparks clunky Australia to Rugby League World Cup win against Cook Islands12:35 Pool A: Kangaroos 66-6 Cook Islands in Townsville Tom Trbojevic scores second hat-trick in as many games Reece Walsh showed if there was anything James Tedesco could do, he can do better with a starring role for the Kangaroos in a partly clunky but otherwise entertaining victory over the Cook Islands in Townsville. Coach Kevin Walters faces a choice between the two brilliant No 1s for the much-an… Alex de Minaur hits career milestone in Vienna to book semi-final date with Zverev9:56 World No 10 defeats Matteo Berrettini 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 in quarter-final 27-year-old becomes ninth Australian man to reach 350 tour-level wins Alex de Minaur has enjoyed a landmark 350th tour-level win of his career at the Vienna Open, downing an old rival to set up a semi-final date with the world No 1-elect Alexander Zverev. Australia’s main man defeated Matteo Berrettini, the Italian he’s had plen… No big deal: how Mac Allister shook off contract doubts to fire Liverpool’s revival9:56 Iraola’s midfield has rediscovered its aggression and intensity just in time for Sunday’s visit of Arsenal to Anfield Alexis Mac Allister found himself in a strong position to apply pressure on Liverpool over a new contract before Atlético Madrid’s visit to Anfield last month , although only in the physical sense of being up on stage to preview the game in front of a mass audience. In reality, th… Pakistan v Sri Lanka: tri-series cricket one-day international final – live9:25 Updates on the ODI in Lahore. Play starts 8am GMT Eliminated England beat Sri Lanka | Email Tanya 3rd over: Sri Lanka 10-0 (Avishka 6, Kamindu 4) Shaheen, something less than a towel, more like an ironed pocket hankerchief, tucked into his waistband runs in. Kamindu launches into a pull but just collects a single, but Avishka collects the first boundary of the day to short fine leg. 2nd over: Sri… Adil Rashid’s exile cost England but they can right tactical wrongs in Australia | Taha Hashim9:25 The leg-spinner’s absence in the final three games of their tri-series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka was puzzling but there’s no need to panic just yet In the end, the beginning was just a little too perfect. When Gus Atkinson struck with the first ball of England’s tour, the rhythm appeared set. They intended to make it four ODI series wins in a row. Sri Lanka had been beaten home and away this… |