Category: Sports
Edu’s Arsenal exit explained: transfer trouble and the Joorabchian connection | Ed Aarons
Evangelos Marinakis is no stranger to acquiring footballers but the Nottingham Forest owner was an interested observer at a different kind of auction last month. [more…]
Football Daily | Nottingham Forest and a Premier League rise no one saw coming
RETURN OF THE JEDI Although they enjoyed the luxury of a six-point buffer zone, Nottingham Forest finished just one place above the relegation zone when [more…]
Manchester United fans prefer new stadium to redeveloping Old Trafford
A majority of Manchester United fans favour a new stadium rather than the redevelopment of Old Trafford, a survey has found. Fifty-two per cent of [more…]
ATP Finals face up to life without big three for first time since 2001
Novak Djokovic has announced his withdrawal from ATP Finals due to an unspecified injury, marking the end of his 2024 season. Djokovic pulling out means [more…]
Saudi oil and betting firms? Women’s football must not lose its moral compass | Suzanne Wrack
Women’s football, the business, is on the rise. There will be ups and downs, anomalies and backwards steps, but the overall trajectory is upwards. In [more…]
Manchester City’s league title defence will be a struggle, Guardiola admits
Pep Guardiola has said Manchester City must accept that their title defence will be a “struggle and this is fine”. The champions’ 2-1 defeat at [more…]
Struggling Elena Rybakina out of WTA Finals contention after second defeat
As Elena Rybakina trailed Zheng Qinwen by a set and a break in their tight group-stage tussle at the WTA Finals in Riyadh on Monday, [more…]
Weston-super-Mare’s heartbreak, Arsène Wenger and the debate over football governance | Nick Ames
Weston-super-Mare’s ground, the Optima Stadium, holds around 3,500 fans. It was last packed to the rafters when Doncaster Rovers arrived a decade ago, a convincing [more…]
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
1 United need injection of confidence If Ruud van Nistelrooy was supposed to wash the nostalgia out of the Manchester United system then perhaps that [more…]
Guardiola says he will ‘just handle’ heavy NBA-style schedule with less rest
Pep Guardiola has said he has no alternative other than “just to handle it” as his ailing Manchester City squad bears the brunt of a [more…]
