Category: Sports

Our selection panel’s votes have been counted to reveal the best men’s Test side from the last 12 months Sharpen your pencils and swallow your marmalade on toast before you read on, everyone, it’s time for the Guardian’s annual men’s Test XI of the year (here’s the women’s team from...

With an unusually high number of elite-level players out of contract in 2026 it promises to be an intriguing January Transfer fees in women’s football have been rising at a rate of inflation that would cause anguish at the Bank of England. Last January alone, $5.8m (£4.3m) was spent in...

British boxer is released on New Year’s Eve in Ikeja Joshua can ‘recuperate at home’ after treatment The British boxer Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, Nigerian authorities said on Wednesday night. The two-time former heavyweight champion and Olympic gold medalist was involved in a car accident near Lagos...

Set pieces on the rise, fans transformed to customers and conspiracies seen in every decision – is football losing its fun? English football has always mirrored the passions, conflicts, identities and inequalities of the age. After the golden 1960s, the decay of the 1970s and ensuing disasters of the 1980s...

England scrum-half returned from injury to a side on the crest of a wave and will hope to catch Steve Borthwick’s eye Harry Randall and Bristol enter the new year with high hopes. The scrum-half has returned to fitness ahead of schedule after hamstring surgery and marked his 150th Bears...

Club set to open new year with emergency talks Cryptic comments have led to rapid escalation Enzo Maresca is on the brink of leaving Chelsea after a complete breakdown in his relationship with the club. The situation around the head coach has been unpredictable for weeks and it is highly...

This year features a football World Cup, a Winter Olympics, a Commonwealth Games and a historic Test match Jannik Sinner will be aiming to become only the second man in the Open era, after Novak Djokovic, to win three consecutive Australian Open singles titles, while in the women’s draw Madison...

We look at 10 players likely to create headlines next month, including the ‘new Kevin De Bruyne’ Men’s transfer interactive: January 2026 edition While Semenyo would doubtless prefer to be in Morocco at the moment, one of the advantages to Ghana’s failure to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations...

Money is tight but a breakthrough came in 2018 while coaches are working tirelessly in the Caribbean Nigerian influence within English rugby union is strong and getting stronger. But could Jamaican rugby, in time, become just as significant? There is no shortage of talent. Jamaica UK Rugby, a club under...

It is fair to assume that Pep Guardiola has targeted Antoine Semenyo for more than his enormous long throws. Still, the Bournemouth winger’s missiles were a devastating weapon against a slipshod Chelsea defence. They led to insultingly simple goals for David Brooks and Justin Kluivert during a breathless first half...