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Arsenal’s 100% start to season comes to an end Manager says team put themselves in trouble from start Mikel Arteta admitted Arsenal were taught a lesson by free-scoring Brighton as their 100% start to the season was abruptly ended on Saturday. Not since 10 May 2023 – 1,224 days ago...

It is apt that the most perplexing football country will now be guided by the most enigmatic of leaders Even in his playing days, Zinedine Zidane seemed unknowable. As a manager, the sense of distance has only grown. He won three Champions Leagues with Real Madrid without ever giving a...

New Zealander hopes to add ‘a bit of cricket sense in the key moments’ to Bazball template “Flemball? That’s a medical condition.” Stephen Fleming’s first press conference as England Test coach was exactly what you would expect from a man appointed to bring calm to a team that had started...

Family is determined to ensure her ‘legacy lives on’ three years after the Sheffield United player’s death Olivia Cusack says her sister, the late Maddy Cusack, is on her mind every single day and she is determined to ensure her “legacy lives on” three years after the former England youth...

News, discussion and updates before Sunday’s games This weekend’s fixtures | Mail us your thoughts How things stand in the Premier League… At Hill Dickinson Stadium, Thierno Barry fired Everton to a 1-0 win against 10-man Ipswich Town. Continue reading...

Wakefield 26-16 Leigh Vagana and Faatili’s second-half tries seal victory These are the nights Matt Ellis dreamed of bringing to Belle Vue when he took control of his boyhood club three years ago: but not even he could have imagined all of this could be happening quite so quickly. For...

News, discussion and updates before Saturday’s games This weekend’s fixtures | Tables | Mail us your thoughts There was a fabulous WSL game at the Academy stadium in Manchester last night. City were made to work very hard by an improving Liverpool side, with the defending champions scoring two in...

Briton destroys 800m field in hooded black bodysuit Mill Hill event more like a rave than an athletics meeting Athlos arrived in London promising that its all-female spin on athletics would provide a radical departure from the status quo. Long before Keely Hodgkinson stepped on to the track dressed in...

Those early-season thoughts that Chelsea might be the team best-placed to challenge Arsenal are beginning to look extremely over-optimistic. The two chaotic wins with which they began were always difficult to read: they might have been useful points picked up on the way to a more solid structure, or they...

Recruitment is under scrutiny after £155m was spent on three midfielders while other positions were neglected There was a mix of boos and apathy as Manchester United slumped out of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday in their latest depressing act in domestic cup competitions. A solemn Michael Carrick and his...