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Enzo Maresca had warned his Manchester City players this would be their toughest match of the season to date and he was not wrong. On a breathless afternoon at the Etihad Stadium, City and Sunderland traded blow after blow to play out the best game of...

Revealed: Eghbali’s plan for Chelsea

The new Chelsea regime posttodd Boehly believes it has fresh impetus to solve the critical problem at the heart of the club – rebuilding Stamford Bridge as a stadium fit for the modern era or moving elsewhere – although, as ever, the rest of English...

Carrick calamity

Michael Carrick branded Manchester United’s Carabao Cup exit unacceptable as, for the first time in 50 years, the club lost at home after leading by two goals. Shea Lacey and Mason Mount had given United an early lead before Brighton and Hove Albion...

... as prodigy Dowman stars in Arsenal cup win

There is an obligation on all of us, from fans to pundits and journalists, to remain calm and measured about footballers as young as Max Dowman. But, my word, he does make it difficult. Arsenal’s 16-year-old sensation continues to sparkle whenever he...

Ticket to slide

The noise started in a corner of the South Stand early in the second half. It was muffled at first but as the ball popped from one white shirt to another, it became louder and louder, sweeping around the stadium: here was the soundtrack for a...

Referees ‘sorry’ for City winner

Manchester United have received a formal apology over the hugely controversial decision to allow Manchester City’s derby winner to stand after referees’ chiefs admitted it was a mistake. City overcame the 23rd-minute sending-off of Phil Foden for...

Back with a bang

This was Manchester United’s first foray back in the Champions League for 1,003 days but, even with hazy memories of the competition, they know full well they are unlikely to have it this easy again in Europe this season. After an unconvincing...

Grin and tonic

Do your talking on the pitch, the old adage goes, and Alexis Mac Allister emphatically did just that as Liverpool came from behind to win their first Champions League tie under new head coach Andoni Iraola in his debut at this level. On the eve of...

Hero Haaland

Erling Haaland revealed on the eve of this clash how he loves chopping firewood in his spare time – and his goals set alight Manchester City’s Champions League campaign on a fractious evening in Porto. So much for the new group stage of the...

The summer of wobble

This has been the summer of wobble. Throughout England’s Test clashes against New Zealand and Pakistan, the wobble seam has emasculated batsmen. This summer, Test batsmen average a combined 23.2: the lowest average in any English season since 2000....

Arteta’s title warning

Mikel Arteta said Arsenal’s victory over Chelsea was a warning sign that his Premier League champions can be even stronger this season. Arsenal maintained their perfect start to the campaign as they came from behind to beat their London rivals through...

Tuchel in World Cup inquest

Thomas Tuchel undertook an intensive World Cup inquest last week with Football Association staff now preparing a major report into England’s failings – and successes – over the summer. The conclusions on tactics and squad selection will be reflected...

Royal appointment:

City land £125m Fernandez

Manchester City have equalled the British record transfer after agreeing to pay £125m to sign midfielder Enzo Fernández from Chelsea on deadline day. The deal brings to an end the biggest saga of the summer and means that new City head coach Enzo...

Forward thinking

Bukayo Saka maintained Arsenal’s perfect start to the season, but Mikel Arteta appeared to acknowledge that the Premier League champions were in danger of leaving themselves short in attack. There is still time for Arteta to add another forward to his...

Hat-trick hero Bruno

Is attack going to be Manchester United’s best form of defence this season? There was plenty to like going forward, particularly once United had nudged their way in front after their second lucky break of what had hitherto looked like being a tricky...

Pakistan threaten to halt Test over Khan interview

The Pakistan Cricket Board threatened that its team would not return to the pitch after lunch at Lord’s yesterday if Sky Sports aired an interview with Imran Khan’s sons. Khan’s sons accused the Pakistani government of “trying to kill” the imprisoned...

Back to cricket

Until Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson stayed out beyond midnight celebrating England’s crapshoot win, the first Lord’s Test of this summer was all set to be remembered chiefly for its pitch. But by the time the match referee gave his judgment, grading the...

Root: I am really hacked off with Carse

Joe Root said he was “really hacked off ” to be discussing another “stupid mistake” by an England player after Brydon Carse was handcuffed by police outside a nightclub. In an attempt to draw a line in the sand over his team’s behaviour after Carse...

Chills and thrills

The stirring of what might yet be a great partnership between Cole Palmer and Morgan Rogers, although it will need to be, given some of the chaos that endures at Chelsea. This was a Premier League game played at a furious pace, and the two former Real...

Szoboszlai spot on

It had to end that way, didn’t it? A last-minute goal, a sense of what might have been, and a helterskelter contest that will take days to decipher. Newcastle versus Liverpool became the Premier League’s most dramatic fixture when Kevin Keegan was...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Blue boy:

Elliot Anderson poses with a Manchester City shirt at the Etihad Stadium after the midfielder completed his £116m move from Nottingham Forest

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...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...