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⚽️ Premier League updates from 12.30pm (BST) ⚽️ Today’s fixtures | Send Daniel your thoughts via email Glenn Hoddle, on TNT, wonders if De Zerbi knows what his best XI looks like. Well, Spurs have made 12 changes to their starting XI across the opening four league games, more than any other team. Continue reading...

Making big decisions and turning draws into wins is vital as head coach looks to improve on a mixed start with Reds Alisson made little attempt to sugarcoat Liverpool’s unbeaten start to the season under Andoni Iraola when analysing the draw against Fulham with the club’s in-house media. “Unbeaten with three draws is not something to celebrate too much with this shirt,” said a peeved Liverpool go…

Australia (win by 84 runs) 356-6; Zimbabwe 272 all out Tourists out to complete sweep in third one-day international on Sunday Opening batter Travis Head smashed a 75-ball hundred as he led Australia to a series-clinching 84-run victory in the second cricket ODI against Zimbabwe on Friday. Head’s swashbuckling 112 off 84 balls was well supported by captain Mitchell Marsh’s 53, his 21st ODI half c…

The Patriots owner’s decision to ban the rapper from performing at the team’s stadium brings back memories of the blackballing of Colin Kaepernick Six years ago, in the middle of a “racial reckoning” that never was, a White House that had begun out of control reached its chaotic apex. Federal officials were sweeping citizens off American streets in unmarked vehicles , surrounding the Lincoln Memo…

News, discussion and updates before Saturday’s games This weekend’s fixtures | Tables | Mail us your thoughts The last weekend before the international break. The final beer of the holiday. Savour it, drink in the sunset (Millwall v West Ham), ignore the kids screaming in the background (Tottenham v Aston Villa) and reminisce about all the memories you have created ( Brentford 3-0 Chelsea ). Ther…

Recruitment is under scrutiny after £155m was spent on three midfielders while other positions were neglected There was a mix of boos and apathy as Manchester United slumped out of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday in their latest depressing act in domestic cup competitions. A solemn Michael Carrick and his players were the target for the jeers. The director of football, Jason Wilcox, looked unamused …

Head coach says he must accept lack of control in games ‘Deep down, English players … they go for it’ Thomas Tuchel has admitted there are times when he craves greater control in matches. But the England head coach feels the more chaotic, adrenaline-fuelled nature of the Premier League will remain his template as he targets glory at Euro 2028. Tuchel described his team as “maybe not the most econ…

World No 9 beats Maks Kasnikowski 6-3, 6-0 in World Group I tie James Duckworth meets Kamil Majchrzak next at Pat Rafter Arena Alex de Minaur has taken his frustrations out in a Davis Cup thumping to put Australia up 1-0 in their must-win Brisbane tie against Poland. The world No 9, keen to rediscover his mojo after a disappointing second-round US Open loss , lit up Pat Rafter Arena on Saturday a…

Kane double helps Bayern Munich beat Union Berlin 7-0 Dieter Müller’s record of 129 games had stood since 1977 Harry Kane smashed the 49-year-old record for the fastest player to score 100 Bundesliga goals in Bayern Munich’s 7-0 victory over Union Berlin, his 98th league game for the club. Cologne’s Dieter Müller set the previous mark in 1977, but it took him 129 matches and, with the England cap…

Briton destroys 800m field in hooded black bodysuit Mill Hill event more like a rave than an athletics meeting Athlos arrived in London promising that its all-female spin on track and field would be radically different. Long before Keely Hodgkinson destroyed a women’s 800m field dressed in a hooded black bodysuit, looking like a cross between a ninja assassin and Catwoman, it had made its point –…

Those early season thoughts that Chelsea might be the team best placed to challenge Arsenal are beginning to look over-optimistic. The two chaotic wins with which they began the season were always difficult to read: they might have been useful points picked up on the way to a more solid structure, or they might have represented evidence of significant problems. After three games without a win, it…

Wakefield 26-16 Leigh Vagana and Faatili’s second-half tries seal victory Wakefield Trinity survived the sending off of Emre Guler to progress to the semi-finals of the Super League playoffs for the first time after proving to be far too strong for Leigh Leopards. Trinity, so long one of Super League’s perennial strugglers, have been revitalised under the ownership of Matt Ellis and the head coac…

Manchester City continued their winning start to the new Women’s Super League season but the defending champions needed a 90th-minute own goal from Grace Fisk to help them edge past an ever-improving Liverpool side after an entertaining game in which Lauren Hemp scored twice. Fisk inadvertently turned Grace Clinton’s dangerous cross into her own net to put City 3-2 up and then – with Liverpool se…

Payout of at least $10m to each association proposed Leaders want plan to be considered by Fifa Council The presidents of Uefa and Concacaf have written to Gianni Infantino requesting that Fifa release money from its $6bn (£4.5bn) reserves to its member associations, stating that the plan to fund them via the doomed Fifa Forward Enterprise scheme was unnecessary given the cash pile it is sitting …

Doncaster Knights’ new director of rugby is passionate about the Champ, who Steve Borthwick should pick from overseas and getting players to have a bit of fun Turn up at Castle Park in Doncaster this week and, bang on cue, a pony and trap is being driven in stately fashion down the nearby main road. There is, some might argue, a similarly retro feel about the Knights’ latest choice of director of…