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Queen Keely the fast!

Keely Hodgkinson realised her long-standing dream of becoming the 800-metres indoor world record holder after setting a phenomenal time at a meet in northern France last night. Five days after smashing her own British indoor record by almost a second,...

Thrown to thewolves

Mikel Arteta told his Arsenal players to “take the bullets” of criticism after their shambolic second-half performance at Wolves last night handed control of the title race to Manchester City. Arsenal’s failure to keep hold of their two-goal lead...

Pollock will ‘thrive’ in face of Irish mind games

Steve Borthwick has backed Henry Pollock to thrive in the face of any Ireland mind games with the backrower set to make his first Test start in Saturday’s Six Nations clash at the Allianz Stadium. Telegraph Sport revealed exclusively yesterday that,...

England on super charge

After posting 202 for seven, and then unleashing Jofra Archer’s pace on Italy’s top order, England could finally glimpse what they have craved all T20 World Cup: a routine victory. But fans have learnt to expect rather different. These fears were...

Team GB’S Super Sunday

Team GB completed a gold-medal double on a “Super Sunday” at the Winter Olympics when Matt Weston delivered a stunning performance in the mixed skeleton to seal his second win of the Games. Partnering Tabitha Stoecker, Weston followed up his victory...

Don’t look now, Gunners! Title push hits buffers

When the irrepressible Brentford striker Igor Thiago broke through in the second minute of time added on and lined up the half-volley, the thought may well have occurred to Mikel Arteta that this would be a very good point after all. That would have...

Over to you, Mikel!

There is a long way still to go in this Premier League title race but if Manchester City do overhaul Arsenal then it is hard to believe the mid-season signings of Antoine Semenyo and Marc Guéhi will not have proved decisive factors. It is uncommon for...

Frank in freefall

Thomas Frank said he was “convinced” he would remain in charge of Tottenham Hotspur despite facing chants of “You’re getting sacked in the morning” from the club’s fans during his team’s latest defeat. After watching Spurs lose an 11th Premier League...

Brookes and Muir fall short fir Team GB

City’s crazy comeback

Were we just a handful of minutes from the Premier League title race being over? It felt like it and Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva admitted as much. Arsenal’s lead was about to be extended to nine points with 13 games to go and City’s...

French fancy it!

France have laid down an intimidating, brilliant marker. The last time these sides met on a Thursday in Paris was in 1948 when a Jack Kyle-inspired Ireland won 13-6 and went on to win the Grand Slam. This time it is Fabien Galthié’s side who look on...

We’re coming for you, Mikel!

Newcastle, it is fair to say, do not like their visits to the Etihad Stadium. Manchester City, by contrast, cannot get enough of Wembley. For the 16th season in a row, City are heading to the national stadium – or the “Etihad South” as City fans...

Kai sera sera!

There are many ways of winning a semi-final, although for Arsenal this felt every bit like each instalment of their Premier League title charge: fractious and teetering on the brink of disaster until Kai Havertz’s 97th-minute winner. Arsenal were...

Letting rip

Crystal Palace face a major headache over Jean-philippe Mateta’s return to the first-team squad after his move to AC Milan collapsed following a medical, making it successive windows with deadline-day drama at Selhurst Park. Mateta, 28, missed...

Solanke’s sting in the tail dents City title challenge

Manchester City were stung by a scorpion kick but how fatal will it be for them in the Premier League title race? Rarely does a goal receive such a reaction as the four separate raucous cheers inside the stadium after Dominic Solanke’s superbly...

Joshua: I no longer fear death

Anthony Joshua was close to tears as he paid tribute to the two friends killed in the car crash from which he narrowly escaped death. In his first video message since last month’s accident in Nigeria, Britain’s two-time world heavyweight champion was...

England’s high five

English clubs asserted their dominance over the rest of Europe with five Premier League clubs finishing in the top eight of the Champions League group phase. Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City and Chelsea joined Arsenal in securing...

Brook’s back on the beers!

Harry Brook celebrated a matchwinning hundred against Sri Lanka by imitating a “beer smash” made famous by a WWE wrestler. The England captain narrowly avoided the sack when he was struck by a nightclub bouncer hours before a match in New Zealand, as...

Football took Dad away

It was the crowning moment of Gordon Mcqueen’s glittering career. A towering header past Ray Clemence in front of 100,000 fans at Wembley Stadium to help Scotland beat England and clinch the British Home Championship. There were 75,000 Scotland fans...

Arsenal lack ‘mental strength’

Patrick Vieira questioned Arsenal’s Premier League title-winning bottle after they were booed as they fell to a first home defeat of the season. Matheus Cunha scored a late winner for Manchester United after Mikel Arteta’s team had thrown away a...

Emery in spat with Tielemans

Unai Emery, the Aston Villa manager, shoved midfielder Youri Tielemans in a touchline bust-up during the closing stages of their team’s win at Fenerbahce yesterday. Emery lost his cool after substituting the Belgium international in injury time in the...

Reds roll on

It is now 13 games unbeaten for Liverpool, they are in position to go through to the last 16 of the Champions League and, importantly, this was by far their most convincing game in that run. And Mohamed Salah is back. Not just back but back from the...

Laughing all the way to the Frank

Quite how far Thomas Frank has pulled himself back from the brink remains to be seen, but the head coach will hope this was the turning point of his Tottenham Hotspur career. What promised to be a public flogging inside the stadium that had echoed...

Frank’s last stand?

Thomas Frank remains in critical danger of losing his job as Tottenham Hotspur head coach, despite being given a stay of execution for tonight’s home Champions League game against Borussia Dortmund. Tottenham’s Lewis family owners and chief executive...

‘LIV has spent all this money ... and still gone backwards’

Rory Mcilroy believes LIV Golf no longer poses the threat it once did to the traditional tours, saying that its Saudi paymasters will now have to spend “hundreds of millions” just to ensure it does not fall even further behind in the game’s civil...

Guardiola’s VAR kiss-off

Pep Guardiola launched an extraordinary rant at VAR and expects clarification from referees’ chief Howard Webb after Manchester City put themselves on the brink of the Carabao Cup final with victory at Newcastle United. Antoine Semenyo had an effort...

It’s January and United’s dreams of a trophy are already over

Darren Fletcher has warned Manchester United’s players they risk being sold if they “waste the season” and fail to step up after watching the club’s hopes of a trophy effectively end in early January for the first time in 54 years. Five months after...

Brook clashed with nightclub bouncer hours before match

Harry Brook is on a final warning about his conduct after a late-night altercation with a bouncer just hours before captaining England on the tour that preceded the Ashes series. Telegraph Sport can reveal that: zbrook was close to being sacked as...

Hammer blow

The morning after waking from a terrible dream, you are compelled to recount its plot to anyone who will listen. This was one of those nights for Nuno Espirito Santo. The anxiety and horror piled up, each turn more traumatic than the last. He watched...

Amorim blew up at Wilcox before being axed by United

Ruben Amorim was sacked by Manchester United after he “blew up” during a heated meeting with director of football Jason Wilcox. United announced in a 106-word statement yesterday that Amorim had been dismissed following a tumultuous 14 months in...

Chelsea caretaker outwits Guardiola

Who would have thought that a rookie manager – who only seven months ago was a youth-team coach at Southampton – would play such a potentially significant role in the Premier League title race? This was the first game in which Calum Mcfarlane had been...

Stadium of fight

do not yet know whether 2026 will be Pep Guardiola’s final year as Manchester City manager, but it has not got off to the best of starts. In a title race that looks like it will grip us all the way to May, it is City who have wobbled first, their...

Maresca’s future in doubt

Doubts over the future of Enzo Maresca, the Chelsea head coach, have intensified. Sections of the home support booed following the damaging draw with Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday, and the reaction will further test the Italian’s...

Tiger Woods at 50

a self-avowed “Tiger geek”, Rory Mcilroy is as keen as anyone to discover what happens next in his childhood hero’s extraordinary career and life now that he turns 50. But for the Northern Irishman there is also that inevitable tinge of sadness at the...

Match of the Gray

has been the year in which Tottenham Hotspur’s home form has collapsed and as the man who has inherited that mess, Thomas Frank took an alternative approach to deliver a flinty away victory at one of the Premier League’s form teams of the last 12...

‘I had best dad in the world’

Jackson Warne is contemplating a hair transplant just like his father. “Since he passed, it has thinned,” he says, running his hand through his blond hair. It looks fine to me. “Do ya reckon? Really? I’ve always had a thick head of hair, but I might...

‘Drunk’ Duckett under scrutiny

England chiefs are looking into a video that appears to show an intoxicated Ben Duckett as they investigate claims of players drinking to excess during the Ashes. The England and Wales Cricket Board said it would seek to “establish the facts”...

Isak surgery shock

As Alexander Isak and Liverpool come to terms with the possible season-ending injury for the most expensive player bought by a Premier League club, there is just one crumb of comfort. “We have signed him for six years, not six months,” Arne Slot said,...

Mccullum: Blame me

Brendon Mccullum has accepted responsibility for England’s Ashes defeat, admitting that his team were not adequately prepared. England took a controversial approach to warming up for the series, eschewing traditional tour matches in favour of a cosy...

Join the club

After joining the most exclusive club in golf, Rory Mcilroy has crowned a fairy-tale 2025 by becoming the first golfer in 36 years to win the BBC’S coveted Sports Personality of the Year award. Mcilroy took his place alongside only Tiger Woods, Jack...

Two-goal Garnacho lifts Maresca mood

After all the cryptic messaging, Enzo Maresca allowed his players to do the talking as Chelsea survived a scare against Cardiff City to book their place in the Carabao Cup semi-finals. The manager proved his worth with a series of key decisions, from...

Flippin’ heck!

Bournemouth’s Eli Junior Kroupi is head over heels at his 84th-minute equaliser as Manchester United had to settle for a draw in a game they led three times

Blue Moon rising

Is Erling Haaland the cheat code that will mean Manchester City win yet another Premier League title? But for a fortuitous late, second own goal against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, Pep Guardiola’s side would already be top in a season in...

Youri the man

Unai Emery is being touted as the only manager who can stop Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola from again turning the Premier League title race into their own personal duel. But the Aston Villa manager still has a strong attachment to the Europa...

We’re Mad for it!

At the spaceship-like rebuilt Bernabéu, Manchester City had lift-off. It was only their second win in this celestial stadium and it propelled them into the top eight in the Champions League table. The significance of that cannot be overestimated. If...

Slot: Your move, Mo

Arne Slot has suggested that Mohamed Salah should question whether he has made a mistake with his bombshell interview as he considers peace talks over the coming days. Salah was axed from the Liverpool squad last night at Inter Milan after claiming he...

Slot ‘no clue’ if Salah will play again

Arne Slot said he could not guarantee Mohamed Salah would play for Liverpool again after axing the Egyptian from their trip to Inter Milan as punishment for his bombshell interview. The storm around Salah escalated last night as Jamie Carragher, the...

Top of the world

After taking the chequered flag in Abu Dhabi for the third place he needed to secure a maiden world title, and having performed a few crowd-pleasing donuts on the finish line, Lando Norris finally parked up his Mclaren. But Britain’s 11th Formula One...

Not your ‘Average Joe’

From “Average Joe” to England’s greatest: Joe Root answered all the insults about his batting in Australia with a shrug of his shoulders and a hundred that makes him the undisputed king of English batting. On a sultry evening in Brisbane, a floodlit...

The barmy Arne!

Not for the first time, Anfield could hail the most impressive recruitment team in the Premier League. Take a bow, Sunderland. Had they been in attendance, John W Henry and his moneyball disciples might have led the standing ovation for the visitors’...

City survive in nine-goal thriller

on this scale – a rare moment when the league’s great competitive depth gives us the sort of game where the goals keep coming and no one can be certain of anything until the very end. This was one of those evenings: rain-soaked, dramatic and full of...

In the pink England get to grips with new ball

headlines from Joe Root’s press conference at the weekend were about him calling into question the need to play a day-night Test in the Ashes, but the more revealing comment was one possibly aimed at himself. “I know I’m a good player, I know I’m...

Crisis? What crisis

West Ham 0 Liverpool 2 Isak 60, Gakpo 90+2 Was this the first proper glimpse of Liverpool 2.0? The first sign that Arne Slot’s costly evolution is, at last, beginning to take shape? It certainly felt that way as Slot dropped Mohamed Salah to the bench...

Villa police clash with Swiss yobs

Police and stewards at Aston Villa were attacked by supporters of Swiss club Young Boys, and striker Donyell Malen sustained a cut head after being struck by a missile. Fans of the Bern club threw punches at police and stewards in the away section and...

It’s code red, Slot

Arne Slot insisted he had the backing of Liverpool’s hierarchy after the humiliating 4-1 defeat by PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League last night. It was a ninth defeat in 12 games, Liverpool’s worst run since the 1953-54 season – the last time they...

’Stevao wonder!

There is a tradition in the recent history of modern Barcelona of brilliant players coming to Stamford Bridge and delivering something spectacular, although on this Champions League night that honour belonged to Chelsea’s own teenage...

Moment of madness

Idrissa Gueye was sent off for slapping team-mate Michael Keane as the 10 men of Everton bounced back to beat a dismal Manchester United at Old Trafford. The Everton midfielder apologised after being shown a red card by referee Tony Harrington for...

Three and Eze

“Who’s Eze?” We all know that Thomas Frank was joking. But rarely has a quip come back to crack like a whip and to such a painful extent. There will be a scar. Tottenham Hotspur were not just beaten but beaten up as Arsenal extended their lead at the...

Stokes hits out

Ben Stokes dismissed criticism of his team’s Ashes preparations by “has-beens” and insisted it would be “balls to the wall” in their inhouse warm-up game against the Lions this week. A long line of former players have criticised England’s absence of...

…as England unveil their secret weapon

Emma Raducanu received a kicking masterclass from Marcus Smith and traded lessons in leadership with Maro Itoje after being invited into the England rugby camp before this weekend’s showdown with the All Blacks. England head coach Steve Borthwick...

England’s next No8?

Saracens are in talks to sign former All Black Hoskins Sotutu who could provide a solution to England’s problem position at No8. Sotutu is English-qualified through his mother and has not represented New Zealand since coming off the bench in the 25-25...

Slot slams referee ‘error’

Arne Slot hit out at an “obvious and clear” mistake after Liverpool had a goal controversially ruled out in their 3-0 bludgeoning by Manchester City. A fifth defeat in six Premier League matches leaves Liverpool eighth in the table, eight points behind...

Discrimination wins out on night of shame

Long before darkness fell over Birmingham, a Jewish man, nervous about giving his name or revealing his full face for a photograph, opened his bag to show the small Israeli flag he had brought. In a heartbeat, the drivers of two passing cars wound down...

Foden’s fireworks display

At half-time a caption on the big screens at the Etihad Stadium flashed the words “vintage Phil Foden” as the midfielder’s masterful goal was discussed. Vintage? Foden is only 25 but we know what was meant. After all he has already achieved so much....

We’re the Real deal

Even the best teams must evolve, but when it came to the greatest test that European football has to offer, Arne Slot reverted to the midfielders who served him so well last season and they delivered against Real Madrid for a second time. Slot’s team...

An emotional homecoming

Trent Alexander-arnold returns to Anfield tonight as a Liverpool legend; a home-grown emblem of a golden era, hero of two Premier League triumphs and a European Cup win. His contribution to the successes of Jürgen Klopp and Arne Slot will not be...

Goal hero celebrates with ‘robot’ dance

Can Rayan Cherki be Manchester City’s new Kevin De Bruyne for Erling Haaland? Cherki provided two assists for the phenomenal striker as Manchester City beat high-flying Bournemouth, and provided some compelling evidence that he can fill the creative...

England accuse Australia of ‘illegal and dangerous’ tactics

England have raised serious concerns about Australia’s “illegal” breakdown tactics before their first autumn Test against the Wallabies tomorrow. Telegraph Sport understands that Steve Borthwick, the England head coach, highlighted dozens of examples...

It’s all gone to pot, Slot

Arne Slot defended his Carabao Cup team selection that backfired against Crystal Palace, insisting he was protecting his squad from injuries and suspension. The Liverpool head coach saw his struggling side fall to a sixth defeat in seven games after...

England’s wing plan for Pollock

Henry Pollock is training as wing cover for England’s autumn international against Australia on Saturday as part of Steve Borthwick’s latest “hybrid player” system. The England head coach also revealed that Pollock’s fellow backrower Ben Earl was in...

Ford edges Smith for No 10 shirt

George Ford looks set to retain the fly-half position for England against Australia at Twickenham on Saturday with Fin Smith to be named on the bench. England are also seriously considering playing a back line featuring both Ford and Smith in a 10-12...

Arteta: This was the best yet

Mikel Arteta said Arsenal’s narrow victory over Crystal Palace was their most valuable of the season after his side went four points clear at the top of the Premier League. Arsenal’s win, secured by a fabulous goal from Eberechi Eze against his former...

Porto The Dyche is right

Nottm Forest 2 Gibbs-white 19 pen, Jesus 77 pen Porto 0 Sean Dyche is back and you will be relieved, or annoyed, to know he has not changed. He has not mellowed, he has not altered, but after two training sessions and one game he has already shifted...

Slot stops the rot

Arne Slot said that his Liverpool team had at last taken their chances to secure a decisive Champions League 5-1 win against Eintracht Frankfurt and end their four-game losing streak. The win came at a cost though, with an injury to Alexander Isak,...

To the Viktor, the spoils

Mikel Arteta hopes Viktor Gyokeres is at the start of a “beautiful run” after he ended his drought with two goals in Arsenal’s dismantling of Atlético Madrid. Gyokeres, the £64m summer signing from Sporting Lisbon, had gone nine matches without a goal...