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Slip-ups are brutally punished in English football’s top flight, but enlightened management can still transform a team’s fortunes Sign up for the World Behind The Cup newsletter The final day of the season, to a modern audience, can seem almost overwhelming: 10 games going on at once, each with their own rhythm and dynamic and storyline. It can be hard to imagine that at one time, before the adve…

Updates from the final match of the series at Hove Sign up for The Spin | Mail James with your views The players take the field, plenty of zinc on faces and sun hats and sombrero’s in the stands. Linsey Smith has the new ball in hand for England. Suzie Bates and Izzy Gaze to open up for the White Ferns. Play! Teams: Continue reading...

⚽ League Two playoff final at Wembley; kick-off 3pm BST ⚽ Bolton 4-1 Stockport | Follow us on Bluesky | Email Will More tedious links to this game, you say? Gary Neville and Nicky Butt are at Wembley. Not sure if David Beckham will be in attendance, but who knows? Continue reading...

The Spurs are up against the best team in the NBA in the Western Conference finals. But their star player has enough sorcery to give them confidence Victor Wembanyama called for the ball. His San Antonio Spurs were up by nine at the tail end of the second quarter, but had led by as many as 16 in the first half. Down 2-1 in the Western Conference Finals to the Oklahoma City Thunder, building the l…

Nascar champion died last week at age of 41 Sport honors late driver before Sunday’s race Daniel Suárez honored his close friend Kyle Busch in the best way possible on Sunday night. Suárez used a two-tire pit stop and hard rain to hold off Christopher Bell and Denny Hamlin and win an emotional Coca-Cola 600 in the first race since the death of 41-year-old two-time Nascar champion Busch . Suárez’s…

The battle for the top four in Italy was overshadowed by violence in Turin, where Juve joined Milan in missing out The stage was set for a grand finale: five games to settle season-long battles at either end of the Serie A table. Top spot was decided – Inter claimed their 21st Scudetto at the start of this month – but there were four teams contesting two Champions League berths, while Lecce and C…

From the No 1 goalkeeper Jordan Pickford to the shock call-up Ivan Toney, a player-by-player guide to the 26 bound for the US Spence and Toney in, Alexander-Arnold out Continue reading...

The Bank of Scotland has unveiled a £20 note featuring an image inspired by Scott McTominay’s iconic goal The Bank of Scotland has unveiled a limited-edition £20 note featuring an image inspired by Scott McTominay’s famous overhead kick. It has been created to celebrate Scotland’s return to the World Cup, and fans will have a chance to win 50 of the 100 notes in the coming weeks. The design blend…

From Wissa’s solitary goal for Newcastle to Postecoglou’s brief reign at Forest, it’s been a campaign to forget for some Newcastle’s year-long chase to sign Yoane Wissa from Brentford felt like it would never end until they paid £55m for his services in September. The Democratic Republic of the Congo forward arrived after banging in 19 goals for Brentford last season and was supposed to lead the …

From the experience of Emery to European-bound Le Bris there are a handful of managers whose work stood out Promoted through the playoffs, Sunderland began the season as white-hot favourites to go straight back down but never once flirted with relegation and a win over Chelsea on the final day secured Europa League qualification. Their success was rooted in an inspired summer recruitment drive th…

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Barney Ronay, Jonathan Wilson and Jacob Steinberg to discuss the final day of the Premier League season Tottenham survive after narrowly beating Everton, while West Ham’s win over Leeds proves meaningless as they are relegated from the Premier League after 14 years in the top flight. Jacob Steinberg joins the panel to discuss the failures behind the clu…

Manager’s deal allows for summer parting of ways Scott Parker and Gary O’Neil of interest to West Ham West Ham are expected to part company with Nuno Espírito Santo after their relegation from the Premier League. The manager has been called in for talks with the board and discussions are likely to end with the Portuguese leaving. Nuno refused to talk about his future after West Ham’s descent into…

In today’s newsletter, how quick starts, keeping the ball and banking on the bench will help the finalists beat the high temperatures and humidity Graeme Souness is one of the toughest footballers of all time, a midfield titan for Liverpool and Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s. He was occasionally outwitted by subtler players such as the Brazilian genius Zico, but no opponent ever got the better o…

Maddison and Gallagher pay tribute to coach’s impact Spurs expected to sign Senesi and Robertson on frees Tottenham would probably have suffered the disaster of relegation from the Premier League if it were not for the decision to bring in Roberto De Zerbi for Igor Tudor, according to James Maddison and Conor Gallagher. Spurs made the managerial change with seven games to go and the team in free …

Updates from the second day’s play at Roland Garros Raducanu slumps to defeat in first round | Mail Yara Jasmine Paolini takes the first set against Dayana Yastremska. The Italian holds to love with four clean points to make it 6-5 with Yastremska’s returns kept finding the net or sailing long. In the final game the two traded breaks throughout, but a crucial 0-40 break in the final game sealed i…