Day: August 14, 2025

Dispute between governing body and commercial partner has forced top-flight clubs to suspend player salaries Crystal Palace may be disappointed the court of arbitration for sport ruled against them on Monday but at least they now know their fate. Imagine if all Premier League clubs were waiting for a court...

Forward has not yet been registered by financially troubled club in a summer when Real Madrid have spent €200m La Liga begins again in Girona on Friday evening, a five-day weekend to start it off, and for the first time the division’s biggest clubs, every side competing for the title,...

Re-establishing themselves in the top tier will be tough but the Wearsiders are throwing everything at the challenge Guardian writers’ predicted position: 19th (NB: this is not necessarily Louise Taylor’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 4th in the Championship Continue reading...

After the club’s two previous attempts to sign the forward, Ruben Amorim will be hoping they have found the real deal It has, for a while, appeared to be destiny. Benjamin Sesko’s arrival at Manchester United was third time lucky for last season’s Europa League finalists, having attempted to make...

Red Roses prop on her creative endeavours and England expectations before the Rugby World Cup on home soil “I like capturing people’s laughs; I think being able to hear it through the picture is so cool,” Maud Muir says as she discusses her favourite photographs from hundreds she has taken...

Crowding out every other format from the centre of summer for this still seems odd, but if you sell it they will come and this was a good day “That was SO COOL!” What’s cool around here? The aggressively upbeat DJ box? The handsome supply teacher type with the roving...

Study finds organisations ‘shirking their duty of care’ Issue raised again this week by England’s Jess Carter Most of Britain’s leading sports teams and governing bodies still have no specific safeguarding policies to protect women from online abuse, research has found. The study, which analysed the public policies of 52...

Spurs take PSG to penalty shootout in Super Cup ‘They gave everything – it’s the smallest of margins’ Thomas Frank described himself as “very, very proud” of a Tottenham team that came within two minutes of a famous Uefa Super Cup win over Paris Saint-Germain. They were ultimately defeated on...

Celebrities play it. Footballers play it. Gradually, insidiously, fantasy football has seeped into the way we consume the game Perhaps you’re a template kind of guy. Perhaps, by contrast, you’re spurning the triple Liverpool consensus and stacking your team with handy differentials like Jarrod Bowen and Donyell Malen. Perhaps even...