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⚽ Carabao Cup updates, 7.30pm/8.15pm GMT kick-offs ⚽ Live scoreboard | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Scott Manchester City name the same League Cup team they selected at Swansea City in the previous round, with the exceptions of the injured Jeremy Doku and the Afcon-bound pair of Rayan Ait-Nouri and Omar Marmoush. Still plenty of attacking power in the shape of Rayan Cherki and Savinho, but just i…

⚽ Women’s Champions League updates, 8pm GMT starts ⚽ Live scoreboard | Follow us on Bluesky | And email Yara It is all to play for in the last games of the Women’s Champions League league stage. Teams who finish in the top four after today’s games will book their spot straight into the quarter-finals, teams that fall from fifth to twelfth place will enter a two-leg knockout playoff and teams in 1…

Police said Paul Doyle, 54, used his vehicle ‘as a weapon’ in a moment of rage at a victory parade in the city on 26 May A former Royal Marine is starting a 21-year jail term for mowing down dozens of Liverpool football fans in a “truly shocking” act that “defies ordinary understanding”. Paul Doyle, 54, bowed his head as he was sentenced at Liverpool crown court where victims and their families w…

Annual jamboree can spring surprises and Masters champion could be at risk of repeating 2014 disappointment It has been a 2025 for the ages for Rory McIlroy. He cemented his legacy by completing a career grand slam with victory at the Masters . Then he carried Europe on his back at the Ryder Cup, defying the venom and spite of a braying Maga crowd . Now, though, he has one final devilish sandtrap…

Club yet to make a decision on how to build bigger ground £10bn housing and retail bid granted planning permission Chelsea have been urged to “put up or shut up” and decide whether they want to move to Earl’s Court after alternative plans for the site were approved by Kensington and Chelsea council. The club are yet to make a decision on how to build a bigger ground and another stumbling block is…

Player involved in collision on M1 after match at Bedford Club says ‘Ethan’s vibrant legacy will never fade’ The Macclesfield forward Ethan McLeod has died in a car accident. The 21-year-old was driving back from the club’s National League North match against Bedford on Tuesday night when the incident occurred on the M1. Macclesfield said in a statement: “[It is] with the heaviest of hearts and a…

Six Sunderland players are off to the tournament but Chelsea, Arsenal and Aston Villa are not losing anyone By Opta Analyst The Africa Cup of Nations begins on Sunday in Morocco. Thirty-two Premier League players have been selected to represent their national teams at the tournament but some clubs will be hit harder than others. Sunderland have enjoyed an excellent return to the Premier League, w…

All 48 competing nations to get minimum of $10.5m Fifa Council approval comes amid ticket price row Fifa has announced a 50% increase in World Cup prize money for next year’s tournament, with the champions set to take home $50m (£37.5m) as a reward for their success. The news comes days after there was widespread public outrage over the price of seats at the tournament, to be held in the United S…

New York got a championship while a high-stakes meeting between the Thunder and Spurs showed where the NBA, and the NBA Cup, is today After toppling the defending champion Boston Celtics in a shocking upset in the Eastern Conference semi-finals this spring, The New York Knicks immediately became the favorites to represent the conference in the NBA Finals. The Indiana Pacers, a team that will no d…

There is a hint of feudalism about the way the unelected body has treated those who love the track like its serfs It has taken the better part of a decade but the Jockey Club, the private, self-appointed body that has wielded immense power in racing for nearly 300 years, seems poised to realise its long-standing ambition to see one of the sport’s most historic racecourses bulldozed for housing. I…

Give the one you love something special: a free subscription to Football Daily. The gift that never starts giving Welcome to the fourth Football Daily Christmas Awards. This is the bit where, in our old guise, we would bang on about becoming so jaded that we’d lost count of how many years we’d been churning out this old tat. Hmm … So OK, here we are, refreshed and ready to go! Pour yourself a pin…

Centre with goal of inclusivity pursues a reassessment of the coaching and even the language of the sport “Cricket is shit if you’re shit at cricket. But everyone has been shit at cricket. Even Ben Stokes. When someone threw a ball at him for the first time, he didn’t smash it six rows back. Ben Stokes was shit at cricket, and then he got good at cricket, and he got good quick enough to stay in i…

Women’s football is booming – but the bigger it’s got, the messier it’s become for players. Through it all, the hot tip for Sports Personality of the Year has kept a cool head At the end of last year, Chloe Kelly was seriously considering stepping away from football. She was deeply unhappy at Manchester City, her team since 2020, where it seemed as if they wouldn’t let her play, nor let her leave…

Latest Liverpool alumnus to join Saudi Pro League will not have to worry about a lack of funds at Al-Qadsiah The path from Liverpool to the east of Saudi Arabia is becoming increasingly well-worn, but Brendan Rodgers has a bigger job on his hands than Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard and Jordan Henderson. On Tuesday, the 52-year-old was confirmed as the new head coach of Al-Qadsiah , with the target…

Two high-class spells on day one at Adelaide proved how misunderstood the England fast bowler is And now our feature presentation, Jofra unchained. This was a gripping day of Test cricket. The visuals were perfect. Adelaide Oval was a dreamy place, with its bleached greens, soft surfaces, the scroll of blue above the stands, the sense of some chino-shorted Eden, ultimate expression of the leisure…