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He was admitted to hospital with abdominal symptoms Keegan, 74, ‘grateful for intervention and ongoing care’ The former England and Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan has been diagnosed with cancer. The 74-year-old was recently admitted to hospital after presenting abdominal symptoms and tests have shown he has the disease for which he will undergo treatment. Continue reading...

⚽ Premier League updates from the 8.15pm GMT kick-off ⚽ Live scores | Table | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Daniel Ruben Amorim was, by any metric, an absolute disaster at Old Trafford. In the Premier-League era, no United manager has achieved fewer points per game, nor a finish as low as 15th-place; looking further back, no United manager since Frank O’Farrell, in 1972, lost as high a percentage …

⚽ Premier League updates with games from 7.30pm GMT ⚽ Live scores | Table | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Niall Today’s Football Daily takes a peek into the West Ham doom vortex … Kick-offs 7.30pm GMT unless stated … Continue reading...

Chivers also had long spell with Southampton He scored 13 times in 24 games for England The former Tottenham, Southampton and England striker Martin Chivers has died at the age of 80. Chivers, a League Cup and Uefa Cup winner with Spurs, won 24 caps from 1971 to 1973, scoring 13 goals. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of our legendary former striker Martin Chivers,” Spurs …

Real attendance closer to 34,000 than 62,429 announced Marketing push fails to attract fans to watch ailing club West Ham’s official attendance of 62,429 for their 2-1 defeat by Nottingham Forest was almost twice as high as the number of fans who went through the turnstiles at the London Stadium on Tuesday night. The club have an increasingly apathetic fanbase and were unable to convince a big cr…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! While precisely nobody else thought to say so at the time, when those West Ham fans who were howling for the head of Tin Pot-winning saviour David Moyes two years ago, Football Daily wondered if – whisper it – they should be careful what they wished for. While the turgid meat-and-potatoes fare served up by Moyes’s Irons was undeniably unpleasant…

Innovation means every player being digitally scanned Infantino: Move will ensure more accurate decisions Every player at this summer’s World Cup will have their own physically accurate “AI avatar” that will be used in taking VAR decisions. The innovation, which will involve every player being digitally scanned and leaves the possibility of size mattering in future offside calls, was part of a pa…

In a bad season for big-money transfers in the Premier League, maverick Frenchman has been a notable exception By WhoScored “There are moments I just want to shout at him and there are moments I want to kiss him.” Such is Pep Guardiola’s relationship with Rayan Cherki: part exasperation, part adoration.​ Guardiola is football’s master of fine-tuning. He has polished footballers until their natura…

British cyclist calls time aged 33 after a 13-year career ‘Now feels the right moment,’ says Giro d’Italia winner Simon Yates, one of Britain’s most storied riders and the winner of last year’s Giro d’Italia, has stunned cycling by announcing his retirement at 33. The Visma-Lease a Bike rider announced on Wednesday that he is quitting with “deep pride and a sense of peace” after a 13-year career …

Special Ks lose topsy-turvy match 6-0 1-6 (10-6) Performance bodes well for Kyrgios’s wild card hopes Nick Kyrgios was a motivational speaker, a part-time masseur and a dancer on the way to an entertaining doubles loss in Brisbane, with the defeat unlikely to harm his Australian Open wildcard hopes. Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis looked set for an embarrassing Brisbane International loss after co…

On the podcast today; a huge win for Nottingham Forest at the bottom of the Premier League. West Ham were a little unlucky, a second goal disallowed just before the equaliser and the agony of Alphonse Areola punching Morgan Gibbs-White’s head after the ball had gone. Does this result mean the bottom three is done a week into the new year? Elsewhere, Liam Rosenior arrives at Chelsea, Martin O’Neil…

40-year-old was flown to Austin after accident Shipley played three seasons in NFL Former Texas star and NFL receiver Jordan Shipley is being treated in hospital after suffering severe burns in an accident on his ranch near his hometown of Burnet, Texas. According to a statement from his family, Shipley was operating a machine when it caught fire. Although the 40-year-old was able to free himself…

Documentary makers seeking funds to finish making film of an extraordinary man and his influence on the game After a mere 100 years the Spin, always first with the news, is finally able to reveal the details of one of the more extraordinary secrets in the history of English cricket. The story comes from the private family archives of the former Surrey captain Percy Fender, which are being compile…

Seven of the eight nations have won the tournament before while Mali take on the role of stubborn outsiders A comfortable 3-0 victory for the defending champions, Côte d’Ivoire, over Burkina Faso on Tuesday evening completes the highest-powered set of quarter-finalists the Cup of Nations has ever known. Seven of the last eight are former champions; between them they have won 22 Cups of Nations. I…

A brilliant hundred against an elite attack on a wearing pitch shows this England team can survive and evolve Et in dystopia ego. In the midst of death, we are in life. On a throbbingly hot deep blue afternoon in Sydney, as this ghost ship of an England Ashes tour creaked towards its final dock, the fourth day of the fifth Test produced an unexpected late plot twist. Something good happened. Jaco…