Sport

Coote, 42, was suspended on 11 November pending a full investigation after a video allegedly showing him making derogatory comments about Liverpool and the club’s former manager Jurgen Klopp was circulated on…

“What a shot, that’s completely unstoppable but the keepers got to do better for me” “It’s definitely hit Defoe’s hand as it’s gone in, but it’s not a handball for…

Israeli football supporters rioted through the city tearing down Palestine flags and chanting ” there are no schools in Gaza because we have killed all the children. The home fans…

England suffered defeat by Germany as the teams that contested the Euro 2022 final at Wembley returned to the same stage and delivered a seven-goal friendly thriller. It was a…

Fifa has been accused of not paying the final part of agreed sums to players across Europe whose contracts have not been honoured by their clubs. A number of sources…

The implications for club in the medium-to-long term are probably minor, but in the short term, Chelsea is effectively in a limbo.

Surely the greatest spin bowler of all time, and perhaps the most iconic figure of the Australian game in the 1990’s, was found dead at his holiday villa on the Thai island of Koh Samui.

police had closed an outer entry gate, apparently telling the large queues still waiting for access that they would not be let in until half-time in the match. Many who had tickets were understandably furious at that, and, less forgivably, started pushing those ahead of them, and piling pressure on the gate. The gate was reopened to ease pressure, but the fans poured through out of control

It is hard to argue that Benitez really got a chance to fashion a team of his own choosing.

Attitudes to concussion have thankfully transformed completely since the 1980s – an era when, scarily, there was nothing remarkable about players getting concussed, having a head-wash by the physio’s ‘magic sponge,’ and then carrying on playing. Current practice is worlds away from such folly.