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Ward appointed Liverpool's sporting director

Julian Ward becomes Liverpool's sporting director for the second time following the departure of Richard Hughes.

Ex-Southampton and Italy striker Dani Osvaldo in intensive care

Former Southampton, Roma, Juventus and Italy striker Dani Osvaldo has been admitted to hospital and...

Calafiori reacts after Italy 0-2 Belgium defeat: ‘Not convincing at all’

Riccardo Calafiori admits that Italy were ‘not convincing at all’ in their 2-0 defeat at...

Why are Northern Ireland playing Ukraine in Slovakia?

Northern Ireland will head to Slovakia to face Ukraine in the Nations League

Why Donnarumma and Lukaku clashed at the end of Italy 0-2 Belgium

Roberto Mancini’s second stint as head coach of the Italy national team started with a...

Today’s Papers: Mancini’s second era starts badly, Italy stayed in Zenica

La Gazzetta dello Sport Italy, 2 slaps Azzurri beaten by Belgium (0-2): It finishes in...

Lamine Yamal: ‘Football is mechanised but players like me have that special spark’

Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won World Cup and European Championship but says there are no limits for his career Like the kid he is, Lamine Yamal just wanted to keep playing. This wasn’t Plaça Joan XXIII, wasn’t El Parque de Rocafonda either; it wasn’t the Mataró neighbourhood where it all began, but it might have been. “We’re in a World Cup final and I wanted to carry on,” he says, and there’s the smile again, the braces. Really? “Yes”. No nerves? “No. I never thought: ‘Just blow the whistle’. I was enjoying it.” No fear, just fun: 19 July, New Jersey and he knew: this 19-year-old who had happily been asleep on the bus to the biggest match of his life. And now he sits in a first-floor office in Las Rozas, surrounded by tactics boards and stats sheets. There’s a Spain keyring hanging from the door and a second star on his shirt. In the corridor, crates loaded for London. Son of Mounir and Sheila, named after the family friends who helped them, “ touched by God’s wand ” in the words of the coach whose office is next door, there’s something about Lamine Yamal. He turned 17 the day before the final of Euro 2024 , a schoolboy sitting exams, and 19 the day before the semi-final of the World Cup. Asked what he wanted, he said a trip to New York, so there he was, about to be a champion again. Continue reading...

How do England beat Spain, or even score against them? The data suggests crosses

Thomas Tuchel wishes his team could play more like the world champions, but, as he put it, they may have to ‘embrace the chaos’ instead England are about to face the hardest challenge in international football, maybe at any level of the game. They are going to try to score against Spain. Spain conceded one goal in eight games on the way to winning the World Cup while allowing their opponents 2.37 expected goals, a mere 0.30 per 90 minutes played. Thomas Tuchel has said he hoped his side “became for 10 minutes more like Spain” to comfortably dominate possession when the heat was on. A fine aspiration for those situations, but it is not an approach that will help England unlock the Spain backline. The pass masters cannot be toppled that way. The solution may lie elsewhere within the same Tuchel press conference . Continue reading...

‘Island girl’ Malard aims to become a legend with Bompastor at Chelsea

She left her Indian Ocean island home at the urging of her current manager and now they are working together again in pursuit of trophies at Stamford Bridge It is rare to see Melvine Malard without a grin and she has a mountain of reasons to keep it that way. A wedding in June, a big-money move to Chelsea, a Ballon d’Or nomination and a first taste of a London derby against Arsenal at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The France forward is loving life and the personality behind the smile that instantly connects her to teammates is infectious. “Goals,” says Malard, with a laugh, when asked what keeps her happy. “Seriously though, it’s seeing the kids, the families, my family, in the stands. It is crazy. I love my life, I love my job, I’m happy with my wife and everything is good. I smile because of those things, because I’m happy.” Continue reading...

Manchester City verdict: what happens next, will club appeal and could they be relegated?

We analyse what City must do to appeal, why even that might not be the end of the legal wrangling, and the potential penalties if the verdict is upheld Manchester City have been found guilty of the vast majority of the 134 disciplinary charges brought against them by the Premier League. Continue reading...

Burnham’s booze ruse is a non-starter: just keep doing your drinking in the pub | Barney Ronay

The prime minister, a life-long football fan, was just restating a personal opinion about having a drink in the stands, not trying to make policy Hi, I’m Andy Burnham and I don’t believe any child should eat gravel for breakfast. That’s why we’ve launched the National No Gravel Breakfast initiative. Hi, I’m Andy Burnham and I think everyone should have access to sitting on a chair no matter if they live in the north or the chair-rich south. Hi, I’m Andy Burnham and I don’t think pensioners should be required to stab themselves in the hand with cocktail sticks. Unless that’s what they want. In which case I will personally do this for them. Hi, I’m Andy Burnham and I believe in a mother’s love, the laughter of baby horses and beautifully crisp and gooey churros straight from the pan. Unless you don’t want those. In which case I believe you have that choice and I will fight for it. Or not fight for it. Whichever. Continue reading...

The MMA fighter helping Brighton - and filling stadiums

From helping Brighton with set pieces to fighting in front of nearly 60,000 people - meet MMA star Christian Eckerlin, who competes at Oktagon 94 in Frankfurt on Saturday.

Do England have a problem against top-10 teams?

As England prepare to take on Spain in their opening Nations League match, BBC Sport takes a look at whether they have a problem when faced with teams in the world top 10.

Charles brothers 'brilliant' in NI's landmark win

The Charles brothers led the way for Northern Ireland at both ends of the field during the side's Nations League win over Georgia in Tbilisi.

The computer hacker who tried to take down Man City

BBC Sport travelled to Portugal to find out more about Rui Pinto - the computer hacker who sparked the Manchester City investigation.

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How drawn-out saga of Manchester City’s alleged cheating came to this

Club’s ruthless approach was always at odds with their public image and this inglorious story has further to run There is no episode in English football’s history that even resembles a precedent for the epic Manchester City disciplinary drama, which encapsulates the modern game at breaking point. Here was a grand, stoic old club, taken over in 2008 by Abu Dhabi royalty and mega-funded to imperious success, then crowned serial champions by a league simultaneously pursuing charges of monstrous financial cheating. On Friday sources confirmed that saga, in which Pep Guardiola’s expensively constructed City teams won five Premier League titles and the Champions League during the years since the investigation began in December 2018, culminated in guilty findings on almost all of more than 100 charges. Continue reading...

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