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A year to the day since Ruben Amorim fielded his first Manchester United XI, his latest iteration folded in a capitulation to 10-man Everton , who ended United’s unbeaten sequence at five games. Idrissa Gueye’s bizarre red card for slapping Michael Keane, his centre-back, gave United most of the match to overcome Everton, who had previously won once at Old Trafford in 32 years before Kiernan Dews…

Eberechi Eze’s hat-trick and Manchester City’s loss to Newcastle means Arsenal are in control of their own destiny Sign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here So it turns out those who had already handed the title to Arsenal were right after all. It’s absurd, of course, to start handing out the title in November but a feature of modern football is how obsessed it becomes so early with title race…

Pair target of fan anger after team’s poor start to season Club’s American owners leading search for replacements Rangers have announced the sacking of their chief executive, Patrick Stewart, and the sporting director, Kevin Thelwell. The pair have been the target of intense supporter anger after a disastrous start to the season. Rangers won one of their first eight league games and suffered seve…

Discounted loans for construction of stadiums Priority given to developing nations Fifa has announced the creation of a partnership with a Saudi Arabian government agency, with up to $1bn (£762m) being pledged to fund the development of football infrastructure across the globe. The game’s global governing body announced on Monday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Fun…

Forward fit to face Chelsea after shaking off cold Barça manager is happy to have England player Hansi Flick has said that joining Barcelona on loan from Manchester United and experiencing life in a new country has put the smile back on Marcus Rashford’s face. The forward was out of favour at United last season but he has found fresh momentum since moving to Spain. Rashford has made a positive im…

When Chelsea host Barcelona, fans can assess two 18-year-olds who are equally tipped as future Ballon d’Or winners Comparisons mean little to Estêvão Willian. The Brazil winger did not even take kindly to being nicknamed Messinho – “Little Messi” – earlier in his career. He called the nickname “disruptive” and made clear that he had no interest in trying to be someone else. “I don’t like comparis…

Test-winning century and Usman Khawaja’s bad back make strong case for the stand-in opener to lead Australia’s innings again Accidents do not come much happier. Usman Khawaja’s mid-game back problem was annoying for the player and potentially damaging for his team, until it wasn’t. Clearing out the regular dry-powder opener created space in the final stanza of the Perth Test, allowing Travis Head…

The England forward has made a decent start to his Emirates career but this performance was stick-it-on-a-mural stuff Has there ever been a softer, more delicate act of derby day brutality than this, a hat-trick in a 4-1 win where every goal must have felt like being bludgeoned to death with a feather‑light Parisian macaron? Eberechi Eze’s third goal, the killer, the legend-maker, was the funnies…

NBA champion accused of playing in rigged games Could face decades in prison if found guilty Portland Trail Blazers coach and basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges he profited from rigged poker games involving several mafia figures and at least one other former NBA player. Billups, who won a championship with the Detroit Pistons as a player, was arraign…

Team preparing for series of games in March Cameron Brink and Rickea Jackson also named Caitlin Clark will make her USA Basketball senior national team camp debut at Duke next month. The Indiana Fever All-Star, who missed the second half of the WNBA season with a groin injury, was invited to a few camps while she was in college at Iowa, but the timing didn’t work out. Continue reading...

After 11 victories in a row England will go into next year’s Six Nations as the team to beat A Six Nations grand slam, plus Nations Championship victories against South Africa and Fiji and England would head to Argentina next July having equalled their record run of 18 victories, in pursuit of a groundbreaking No 19. Sounds simple put like that, but there’s more chance of Steve Borthwick busting …

The sport may have jumped from the gaming-fuelled bandwagon just in the nick of time After many months of campaigning, an unprecedented “strike” when racing relocated to London to make its voice heard and an intervention by a former prime minister, no less, the UK’s second-biggest spectator sport will soon discover whether its concerted, and impressively united, effort to avert a tax hike on raci…

Late equaliser was a kick in the teeth for Eder Sarabia’s plucky promoted side who threatened first win since 1970s “It sounds a little crazy,” David Affengruber said but it didn’t sound crazy at all, not to anyone who had actually been watching. “We only come into this league this year and we’re a little bit disappointed to get a point against Real Madrid,” Elche’s Austrian centre-back concluded…

Frenchman has never been far from the headlines since 2023 but he is finally back gliding across a football field By Get French Football News How much can you learn from Paul Pogba’s nine-minute cameo? Perhaps just that he does indeed exist and not only in columns, fitness updates and social media posts. That is where he has existed for the past 26 months, since his final game for Juventus in Sep…

Guardiola: ‘I apologised after one second’ ‘Losing four games, we have to improve a lot’ Pep Guardiola has admitted “shame” at his dispute with a camera operator following Manchester City’s 2-1 defeat at Newcastle on Saturday. At full time, a visibly upset Guardiola entered the St James’ Park pitch and had heated discussions with the referee, Sam Barrott, and Newcastle’s Bruno Guimarães, while al…