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...
Manchester United show patience and hope for big things from Benjamin Sesko | Andy Brassell
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...
Premier League 2025-26 preview No 17: Sunderland
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...
Triumph and disaster for you, soft power for the Premier League: fantasy football is back | Jonathan Liew
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...
‘Very, very proud’: Thomas Frank hails Tottenham players after PSG defeat
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...
British sports teams and bodies ‘failing to safeguard’ women from online abuse
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...
Australia unfazed by England’s aggression before Ashes, says Scott Boland
Fast bowler hoping for selection after Windies hat-trick Home Ashes series starts with Perth Test on 21 November Fast bowler Scott Boland says Australia will ignore any on-field aggression brought down under by England this summer, 100 days from the first Ashes Test in a tour that looks set to...
Chiefs’ Travis Kelce admits he ‘slipped a little bit’ given off-field pursuits
Tight end says last two seasons ‘not to my standard’ Says off-field acting and hosting drew focus from NFL KC star motivated to ‘show up’ for Chiefs this season Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce is the first to admit that his past two seasons haven’t been up...
Europe’s Ryder Cup class of 2025 shapes up with familiar feel for US showdown | Ewan Murray
Captain Luke Donald could be able to keep changes from victorious 2023 team to an absolute minimum at Bethpage If continuity is key to Ryder Cup success, even the phlegmatic Luke Donald must be doing cartwheels. This also applies to those who believe the occasional away win is necessary if...
‘Challenger level is about survival’: brutal reality of life below elite tennis
Shared motel rooms, sleeping on floors and making a net loss are among hurdles facing the globetrotters chasing ranking points Less than a year after exiting the 2022 Wimbledon quarter-final on the All England Club’s pristine No 1 Court, Cristian Garín found himself 10,000 miles away on a hard court...