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Arteta: We want to be the hunted
Mikel Arteta wants Arsenal to embrace the pressure of being champions, insisting he would rather have a target on his team’s back than be chasing. Arsenal begin their Premier League defence against newly promoted Coventry City at the Emirates Stadium...
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Unrest at Match of the Day
Match of the Day is facing major unrest from a group of pundits and staff on the eve of the new season. Telegraph Sport has been told that staff in Salford – from where the show is broadcast – have concerns about the vision for the programme of Alex...
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Root: We must win back fans
Joe Root has called on England to be “good role models and human beings” as they look to reconnect with fans after a tumultuous year in which they had “fallen short”. England’s greatest run-scorer returns to the captaincy today against Pakistan on his...
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‘I celebrated with champagne and KFC’
The dream week began for Amy Hunt when she arrived at the British team hotel in Birmingham and found a golden gift with a note from her parents inside her kit bag. “I am usually a silver jewellery girl,” says Hunt, also an Olympic, world and...
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Queen Amy
An unprecedented quadruple is complete. Amy Hunt has become the first athlete in European Championships history to win four gold medals across a single competition, completing her fairy-tale week by anchoring Great Britain to victory in the 4x100m...
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Sprint queen
“Are you not entertained?” roared Amy Hunt, arms outstretched Maximus-style, after completing her coronation as Britain’s new sprint queen. We most certainly were. Not just by Hunt’s achievement at sealing a European Championships sprint double but the...
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Remember the name
Unai Emery’s Aston Villa 2.0 remains under construction but from the wreckage of a difficult summer there has emerged a potential star for the future. Emery may have now suffered four successive defeats in the Super Cup yet the big positive from a...
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Fast show!
The most exclusive club in European sprinting has a new member. In front of a watching Linford Christie, Great Britain’s Romell Glave followed in the rapid footsteps of the nation’s most successful sprinter by being crowned European 100metres...
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Sealed with a kiss
“I want it all,” Amy Hunt said, quoting one of her favourite Queen songs upon arriving for the European Championships. A self-professed track goddess and academic badass with an English literature degree from Cambridge, she is now also officially...
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I do not let drinking affect my cricket anymore
Gus Atkinson is quiet and undemonstrative in almost everything he does, from talking to bowling. So when he found himself caught up in cricket’s latest early-hours drama, his involvement was perhaps the most surprising aspect of a convulsing saga that,...
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‘I did not know whether I would walk again’
If Aaron Ramsey ever writes an autobiography then its title should be “Driven”. It is a word the former Arsenal midfielder uses often during this interview, his first since being appointed head coach of League One Oxford United. Ramsey was driven to...
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Arsenal agree £75m fee for Guimaraes
Arsenal yesterday agreed a fee of about £75m to sign Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United. The deal will bring to an end another painful transfer saga for Newcastle, who went into the summer window insisting it would take a ridiculous offer to...
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Cricket has a drinking culture, says Stokes
Ben Stokes believes cricket’s relationship with alcohol has not “moved on” as the game has become more professional, but denied the England team he captained had a drinking problem. Stokes ended a 15-year international career in June when his Test...
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Saints told to make Pollock a £1m player to keep him
Northampton Saints have been warned they will need to make Henry Pollock a “seven-figure player” going into crunch contract talks. Pollock has enjoyed a soaring commercial status since signing up with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom agency but, despite the...
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Queen of the track
On the boards of the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Emma Finucane surpassed even the knights of British cycling with a clean sweep of four track golds at a single Commonwealth Games. Victory over Olympic champion Ellesse Andrews in the women’s keirin...
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‘World Cup will never be for sale’
Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, was left reeling yesterday when Uefa members voted to boycott the World Cup in response to his plans to sell shares in the tournament.
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England to appoint Fleming
Stephen Fleming is close to being appointed England’s Test coach after emerging as the No 1 candidate following a week of interviews. Fleming, the former New Zealand captain, has emerged as the preferred candidate to replace his compatriot Brendon...
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Football must be saved from this megalomaniac
Of all Gianni Infantino’s delusions, perhaps the most dangerous is that he regards himself as a head of state. You saw it in a demand this year for the traffic in Vancouver to be stopped for his police motorcade, a level of security that the Canadian...
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Bronze Age
So, a pair of bronze medals for the man who once dealt only in gold. Not that Adam Ramsay-peaty thinks that is necessarily such a bad trade when he computes the wider price of sporting domination. “I’ve been that person who wins all the time, and it...
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Back at No1
For most of the season, Lando Norris has barely been an afterthought in the championship fight. Nearly eight months on from winning his maiden title he has had to contend with a largely uncompetitive and occasionally unreliable Mclaren car. He has...
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Blue boy:
Elliot Anderson poses with a Manchester City shirt at the Etihad Stadium after the midfielder completed his £116m move from Nottingham Forest
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Brain case on brink of collapse
The solicitor at the heart of rugby’s multi-million-pound concussion lawsuit has been forced out of the case amid claims that “misleading evidence” was provided to the court, leaving more than 1,000 players in limbo. Claimants from both rugby codes...
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Stokes’ Durham heroics upstage ECB’S big day
Just as John Newman broke out into his No1 hit single Love Me Again at the Oval, the real headline act was 130 miles north raising his bat for a century. It was inevitable that Ben Stokes would deliver the kind of belligerent up-yours innings to the...
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Farewell King Kev
When Kevin Keegan was a young, football-mad lad growing up in Armthorpe on the South Yorkshire coalfield, he once waited for hours at the door of the Doncaster Rovers stadium, hoping to get a player’s autograph. The first man to come out of the door –...
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Football celebrates as Spain put Argentina’s villains in their place
got there. The sport prevailed. Spain won the World Cup and we are all better for that. Football is better for that. It really, desperately needed Spain to win this final. Anything else would have felt like a crime. Even at the final whistle Argentina...
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Hole lot of trouble
Rory Mcilroy’s putting was terrible, while Bryson Dechambeau’s links know-how was tremendous. Few would have forecast those scenarios colliding on the first day of the 154th Open Championship here – least of all Sir Nick Faldo. The garlanded...
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End of the world
All the years that have passed since the day of those red shirts on a summer’s day at a Wembley Stadium that no longer exists – the humiliations, the occasional triumph, the plentiful servings of self-pity. For a short while at least in Atlanta it felt...
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Operation Stop Messi
Thomas Tuchel has warned Lionel Messi that England “will find a way” to stop him tonight. Messi will face England for the first time in his career, with a World Cup final date against Spain, who last night beat France 2-0, at stake. Getting past...
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Rice in race to face Argentina
England will give Declan Rice as much time as possible to get over the effects of his illness in preparation for starting tomorrow’s World Cup semi-final against Argentina. Rice went off at half-time in England’s quarter-final win over Norway on...
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Winner Sinner
The heavy artillery rolled out at Wimbledon yesterday as world No1 Jannik Sinner successfully defended his men’s singles title amid a fusillade of aces. After the deftness and artistry of Saturday’s women’s final, Sinner’s collision with Alexander...
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In for the Kyl
This World Cup has offered many curiosities and delights, but it is yet to find a team that is capable of getting close to disturbing the great hauteur of this fabulous France side. Once more the favourites for 2026 played an opponent for which every...
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Fery’s on a roll!
Arthur Fery is looking to Emma Raducanu’s fairy tale of New York for inspiration as he attempts to make history at Wimbledon. A week and a half ago, few would have heard of Fery, who had won just two matches in grand slams before he took to the courts...
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Messi’s miracle
Jubilant Argentina throw Lionel Messi into the air after his star turn helped the world champions score three times in the last 11 minutes to beat Egypt 3-2
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Tuchel: Now we believe
England’s epic victory at the Azteca Stadium has fuelled manager Thomas Tuchel’s belief he can “put a second star on the shirt”. Tuchel’s team beat Mexico 3-2 in one of the great World Cup wins in the early hours of yesterday and now face Norway in...
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Haaland double
When the ball swirled towards his back post in the 79th minute of this remarkable knockout match, Gabriel Magalhaes found himself in a situation that no defender ever wants to be in. He knew Erling Haaland was lurking, somewhere behind his shoulder,...
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‘We will avenge Hand of God’ – Tuchel makes Azteca vow
Thomas Tuchel believes karma is on England’s side and has told his players to avenge the “Hand of God” in the Azteca Stadium. England will face hosts Mexico in the World Cup last 16 in the early hours of Monday morning UK time, playing in the Azteca...
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Kane is Captain Fantastic
The looks said it all. Every one of them. Every member of that England squad craning their necks, arms locked, staring intently at Harry Kane as he stood in the middle of the huddle and delivered his thumping team talk. It ended with a cry of: “We go...
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Stokes calls time on his England career mid-test
Ben Stokes stunned the cricket world yesterday by announcing his international retirement in the middle of the deciding third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge, admitting that he no longer had “any more fight” left in him to be England...
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Bazboiled!
Ben Stokes wore a wide grin as he led England off at the end of a sweltering day of hard toil that at one stage threatened to spiral out of control. You can poke many holes in this England team but two wickets in the final five minutes of a day spent...
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Stokes ‘sorry’ for causing team trouble
Ben Stokes has apologised to the England team on his return to be captain in the series decider at Trent Bridge after a disciplinary process that “frustrated” him. Stokes and Gus Atkinson missed the second Test defeat at the Oval while under...
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England lack the guile to breach
Croatia, this largely drab game will have sobered them up. It could have been worse. It could have been a defeat with Ezri Konsa hugely fortunate not to concede a second-half penalty when he launched himself to stop Ghana substitute Prince Adu after...
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Greatest of all time
Lionel Messi showed exactly why he is the greatest of all time by delivering another World Cup masterclass last night. Just two days before his 39th birthday, the little magician sprinkled more magic on the world’s biggest stage by scoring both of...
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Teenage hero
There he was, sliding in at the back post to grab the headlines. Just when his country needed him, just when a tournament was aching to see him, Lamine Yamal arrived right on cue. What a joy it was to see this young phenomenon and how absurd it feels...
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Bells and whistles!
This World Cup has started at a fearsome pace, obliging England to join at a similar tempo – and among the many big names who started fast one can add Jude Bellingham. Two goals from Harry Kane, a substitute’s flourish from Marcus Rashford, and before...
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Do us proud, England
Harry Kane believes England are perfectly placed to end 60 years of hurt by winning the World Cup and that he has elevated his game “to another level”. The England captain is in the best possible shape following his move to Bayern Munich and is in the...
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Cape crusaders
In one of the great World Cup shocks, Cape Verde held off the European champions thanks to a masterful goalkeeping performance from a 40-year-old. The first World Cup match in Cape Verde’s history unfolded in a scarcely imaginable way for Spain, who...
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Hamilton: I always believed
An emotional Lewis Hamilton admitted after his first grand-prix victory for Ferrari that there were days last year when he wondered whether he had “lost it” because of his age, adding that criticism of his driving had “penetrated deeply”. But the...
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We’re off to a flier!
Raul Jimenez jumps for joy as he scores Mexico’s second goal in their win over South Africa. The World Cup curtain-raiser ended with three red cards, just one fewer than in the entire tournament in Qatar
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Stokes captaincy in doubt over Saracens nightclub incident
Ben Stokes’s position as England Test captain is hanging by a thread after an altercation at a nightclub with a Saracens rugby player in the early hours of yesterday morning. The England and Wales Cricket Board announced last night that it had...
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Eriksen collapses again
Christian Eriksen, the Denmark and former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder, has collapsed during an international match against Ukraine, five years after he suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch. Eriksen, who had a cardioverter-defibrillator fitted in...
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Iraola: I’m ready for challenge
Andoni Iraola has vowed to prove to Liverpool supporters he is good enough to lead the club after he was confirmed as their new head coach last night. The Basque flew to Merseyside yesterday to complete the formalities of his appointment. He and his...
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New beginnings:
Ollie Robinson bowls in the nets at Lord’s ahead of the first Test against New Zealand starting today
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Miami heat
As temperatures soared to 32C, Thomas Tuchel removed his cap and cooled his head with a water sprinkler meant for the pitches at the Palm Beach Gardens Tennis and Pickleball Center. The England manager has said that “suffering is one of the headlines...
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Welcome to Miami
Thomas Tuchel has warned that the scorching conditions at this World Cup will be challenging for his England team. Tuchel and his squad, bar the Arsenal players who played in Saturday’s Champions League final, arrived in Florida last night to...
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Painting the town red
One of the central lines of Louis Dunford’s The Angel, the song that has become Arsenal’s pre-match anthem in recent years, is “these streets are our own”. Never have those words felt more appropriate than in the past two weeks, when London has been...
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Sinner sizzled in Paris
Tim Henman criticised apparent favourable treatment afforded to Jannik Sinner after the world No1 was allowed to take 18 minutes of off-court breaks in his shock French Open second-round defeat. Sinner was one game away from victory over Juan Manuel...
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Soaring Eagles
Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish hailed a victory for the good guys as his club ended a dramatic season by making history. The final game of the Oliver Glasner era ended with Jean-philippe Mateta scoring the only goal to beat Rayo Vallecano in the...
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Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
Aryna Sabalenka began her French Open campaign wearing more than $102,000 (£75,000) of jewellery, days after leading the charge of players demanding more prize money. Sabalenka set a women’s tennis record last year by earning $15m, and has been one of...
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I’ll never be a red!
Erling Haaland promised Manchester City would keep fighting to “win everything” following the end of their “amazing journey” with Pep Guardiola. Guardiola signed off after 10 glorious years as City manager during an open-top bus parade through...
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Arsenal crowned at the Palace
At almost the exact moment Pep Guardiola was bidding farewell to Manchester City, his close friend and former assistant was spinning around the Selhurst Park pitch with the Premier League trophy in his hands. The timing of it felt entirely appropriate:...
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Palmer, Maguire and Foden face World Cup heartbreak
Cole Palmer and Phil Foden are expected to miss out on a place in England’s final squad for the World Cup in the United States, while Thomas Tuchel’s decision to drop Harry Maguire has brought an angry response from the Manchester United centre-back...
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Tears of the Crown
The Prince of Wales wiped away tears of joy before being urged to “get his credit card out” by Aston Villa captain John Mcginn as the club broke their 30-year trophy drought to lift the Europa League. Goals from Youri Tielemans, Emiliano Buendía and...
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Golden Gunners
During a recent transfer window, a meeting was arranged for Mikel Arteta and one of Arsenal’s top targets. The plan was for it to be a relaxed occasion. Food on the table, football on the television, easy conversation. An opportunity for Arteta and...
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We’re heading for the title!
A set-piece goal, 1-0 to the Arsenal and a nervy, stressful atmosphere inside the Emirates. How very appropriate for Mikel Arteta and his players that the last home game of the campaign ended like this. As ever, the manager was a hyped-up...
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Hip, hip hoo-rai!
After a 107-year wait, England has finally won a US PGA Championship again. In the city of Rocky Balboa, rank outsider Aaron Rai slugged all of the heavyweights onto the canvas with an incredible one-two of birdies on two of the last three holes and...
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Rory’s rough stuff
A controversial non-conforming driver in one US PGA; a ruinous non-performing driver in the very next US PGA. Do not talk to Rory Mcilroy about turning up at the season’s second major as the reigning Masters champion only to see his supposedly...
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We’re still alive!
Manchester City are not ready to throw in the towel in the Premier League title race just yet and, on this evidence, Phil Foden is unwilling to do the same in belated pursuit of a World Cup place with England. Pep Guardiola gambled with his team...
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I spy Wembley!
Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg was left fighting back tears as he claimed Southampton had destroyed the “beauty” of football in the clubs’ “Spygate” row. Hellberg saw his side beaten 2-1 in the Championship play-off semifinal following a week...
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Spurs’ sting in the Tel
Oh, the surrealness of Tottenham Hotspur. The irrational, logic-defying strangeness of them and of life inside their stunning stadium that has turned into a claustrophobic gilded cage. And how it was summed up by two arresting moments from Mathys Tel...
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Biggest moment in VAR history
Arteta praised the “bravery” and “clarity” of the referees as Arsenal’s title charge was aided by potentially the most consequential VAR decision in Premier League history. Arsenal thought they had conceded a devastating stoppage-time equaliser...
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Heir we go!
Villa’s current generation of players were fearing a reputation as the nearly men, but could now become legends by winning the club’s first trophy in 30 years. In front of the Prince of Wales, Europa League king Unai Emery has reached another...
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It’s the final countdown!
Arsenal will face Paris St-germain in the Champions League final after the holders overcame Bayern Munich to reach the showdown in Budapest on May 30. Mikel Arteta’s team must defeat the European champions for a historic triumph but they will not face...
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