Category: Sports

Brexit and PSR are contributing to a spike in the fees and wages offered by big clubs for teenagers, but is this stockpiling really raising standards? The discussion during a meeting of Premier League sporting directors this year turned to academies and the amount of money spent on homegrown teenagers....

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Manchester United’s striker is a topic of context-free condemnation as social media’s sluice of aggravation sinks us all The first thing you need to do is find a photo of Rasmus Højlund looking happy in a Napoli shirt. There you are. Now you find a photo of Benjamin Sesko looking...

Updates from the series opener in Christchurch Sign up for The Spin newsletter | And mail James 3rd over: England 14-1 (Buttler 9, Bethell 2) Buttler gets a single off the first ball but Bethell can’t get off strike. Some free flowing shots go straight to the fielders and the...

Igor Kovalenko, 36, the world No 48 with a Fide rating of 2669, has been a frontline soldier for three years and only began playing again a month ago Ukraine was the most successful nation at this week’s European team championships, winning gold in the open event and silver in...

WSL board examining ways of raising funds Loans would be used to boost payments and prize money The Women’s Super League is exploring borrowing tens of millions of pounds in an attempt to accelerate the growth of the competition. The WSL board has commissioned the investment bank Goldman Sachs and...

West Ham’s lack of forward planning, Rodri’s fitness concerns and a crunch clash at Anfield Top scorers: check out the latest standings Ange Postecoglou is under increasing pressure at Nottingham Forest having failed to secure a win in his seven games in charge. Reports suggest Sean Dyche is waiting to...

Europa League match is classified ‘high risk’ by police Keir Starmer: ‘We will not tolerate antisemitism’ Fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be allowed to attend the Europa League match at Aston Villa on 6 November owing to safety concerns. West Midlands police said it had classified the fixture...

Seven Conmebol members do not support expansion Impact on World Cup qualifying cited as main factor The proposed expansion of the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams is facing opposition from within Conmebol, the South American confederation that would benefit from staging the extra matches. The Guardian has learned that...

Lord Beefy has ruffled feathers with his comments on England’s schedule and he has a point – just not the one he thinks he’s making It was a shock to hear, this week, that Ian Botham had launched a new podcast. But only because I had assumed he already had...