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Salah to leave Liverpool

Mohamed Salah will consider offers from across the football world after reaching an agreement to leave Liverpool as a free agent at the end of the season. His departure has been confirmed three months after his bombshell interview in which he turned...

Pick me!

Roberto De Zerbi is believed to be open to taking the job as permanent Tottenham Hotspur head coach should the club avoid relegation. Spurs face a huge fight to stay in the Premier League after losing at home to Nottingham Forest, but that has not...

It’s the life O’reilly

As Nico O’reilly headed in his and Manchester City’s second goal, Pep Guardiola danced down the Wembley touchline, gleefully conducting the crowd. He skipped like a child, not a 55-year-old manager who has won the lot. More than once. It may have been...

Chelsea defied pre-match order in referee huddle row

Chelsea players had been warned not to form their controversial huddle around the ball just ahead of kick-off in the game against Newcastle United on Saturday. The image of referee Paul Tierney surrounded by players went around the world and prompted...

Slot gets the thumbs-up!

Liverpool thrashed Galatasaray to reach the Champions League quarter-finals in a win that eased the pressure on head coach Arne Slot. Anfield fans had jeered after Liverpool’s draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday but the mood was more jubilant last...

Style high club Arsenal swagger into last eight

There have been many days in these past seven months when Mikel Arteta’s players have been obliged to grind towards victory, overpower opponents at corners, or sit tight in defence of slender leads – but not this time. There are various ways to...

Child’s play Should Dowman go to World Cup?

Max Dowman should not go to the World Cup with England. It is not even a debate. This one should be stopped now. Not because he is not good enough. There is no doubt in my mind, having watched him live more than once, that he is the best talent...

Richarlison gives Tudor a lifeline

Liverpool 1 — 1 Tottenham

Calm before the storm

The best way to view preparations for another Cheltenham Festival are from the back of a horse. Will Do, a Gordon Elliott-trained 28-1 shot in today’s National Hunt Chase, was my viewing platform yesterday and my main conclusion was: I wish my lawn was...

Wizard of Oz

George Russell let out a squeal of delight before channelling his inner Borat as he gave his verdict on this new era of Formula One. “Woohoo! Very nice, very nice!” the Mercedes driver shouted over his radio in a voice which sounded very like the...

Going down, Igor?

Tottenham 1 — 3 Crystal Palace Tottenham Hotspur fans fought one another after their team went down to a fifth straight defeat and were left a point above the relegation zone last night. The mood was rebellious in the stadium following Micky van de...

JASON BURT

Was this the decisive night in the Premier League title race? A night when Arsenal earned the hardest of hard-earned wins and Manchester City dropped the points that mean their destiny is no longer in their hands. A night when the challenge finally...

Borthwick takes aim at flops with a record nine changes

Steve Borthwick says that a drop in his “unwavering” standards led to a record nine changes for England’s Six Nations trip to Italy on Saturday. The shake-up, which comes after consecutive defeats by Scotland and Ireland, represents the most...

Can Weston help England stop the slide?

England back-rower Ben Earl revealed there had been a “glint in the eye” of the squad leading into their trip to Rome after the senior leaders held a no-holds-barred meeting last week. During the rest week, England’s senior players came together...

Nervy Arsenal winning ugly

Can Arsenal win the Premier League being this anxious and relying so heavily on set-pieces? They are again five points clear, with nine games to go, having played one more than Manchester City – their destiny remains in their hands. That is the good...

Full English

After a roller-coaster season of high drama and uncertainty, Nottingham Forest were never going to do this the easy way. Three different managers have taken their games in the Europa League, while the man who helped them return to the competition –...

Saracens salary-cap scandal reignited by shock new claim

Saracens’ punishment for the Premiership salary-cap scandal is under scrutiny because of an alleged undeclared conflict of interest at the heart of the disciplinary hearing. Saracens were relegated from the Premiership and fined £5.36m in 2019 – an...

Captain marvel

Harry Brook woke up in Pallekele expecting to bat in his usual number-five position. By the night’s end, Brook had used his new role at No3 to play one of England’s finest Twenty20 innings: a round 100 that led his side to a two-wicket victory over...

Big Ben strikes!

For Manchester United this was not just a win. It was, at last, an affirmation of their decision to go all in and overhaul their forward line last summer. All three of their recruits combined to score the kind of glorious counter-attacking goal that...

Arsenal back on Eze street

Eberechi Eze celebrates with Declan Rice after scoring his second goal and Arsenal’s third. Mikel Arteta’s side repeated the scoreline against Tottenham in November, when Eze scored a hat-trick

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...