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What that forward-planning and successful business does for Tottenham will be clearer at the end of the season. They have consolidated their position as a WSL club and have enough off-field resources to start building towards European football. Ho has been consistent in his messaging, stressing Tottenham’s ambition is to …

How do you replace the irreplaceable? Manchester City are often title favourites having won six of the past nine Premier League trophies, but they start this new season without their greatest ever manager, Pep Guardiola. The 55-year-old led City to 17 major trophies in 10 years, but left at the …

As Kalvin Phillips nears a fourth loan move away from Manchester City, what can record signing Elliot Anderson learn from his struggles at the Etihad? Source link

Welcome to a cricket edition of our Who am I? game. The rules are simple. For each day of The Hundred, there’s a cricketer, taking part in this year’s tournament, who we want you to identify in as few attempts as possible. After each wrong guess you unlock a new …

So much has happened over the past seven days, including controversy in village cricket, the start of the Commonwealth Games and the end of the Tour de France. About 5% of quizzers got full marks in last week’s edition. Will you make the grade this week? After more quizzes? Go …

Welcome to our Who am I? game. The rules are simple. Each day there’s a new footballer and the challenge is to guess who they are in as few attempts as possible. After each wrong guess, you unlock a new clue. The fewer clues you need to get the right …

From day one Chinchar thought “we got something”. Traore learned his first playbook in a matter of days, which is like learning a new language. And playing as a wide receiver, he was immediately dominant against kids who had played the game their whole life. He thinks his goalkeeping skills …

Available for 29 days Eleanor Oldroyd is joined by BBC Sport’s Chief Football News Reporter Simon Stone and football finance expert Kieran Maguire. The panel discuss FIFA’s proposal and the fallout from the announcement. They assess the chances of it actually happening and consider whether investors could have a greater …

After the widespread condemnation of both the proposals and the manner in which they have been created, Fifa released an eight-page document highlighting the reasons behind them on Wednesday evening. Fifa said its view was that “too little of football’s growing commercial value has reached the parts of the game …

Before the super-heavyweight bout Abdul told the BBC he wanted to become the new ‘King of Scotland’ – in reference to Amin declaring himself that name in 1976. After taking power in a coup in 1971, Amin ran a brutal regime during which an estimated half a million people were …

Available for over a year Daniel Norcross is alongside Ashes-winning bowler Steven Finn and former England Test opener Michael Carberry to discuss the prospect of Stephen Fleming becoming the next England Test head coach. Finny & Carbs wonder what he needs to fix with England, and Jamie Overton, who played …

Given that impressive 2025 she had, the pressure was on O’Connor to at least win a medal in Glasgow and it only ramped up after Katrina Johnson-Thompson, who had won gold ahead of her in 2022, pulled out. The Englishwoman’s withdrawal paved the way for a good shot at that …

After a relatively quiet day, the first medal was claimed by the men’s 3×3 basketball team just before 17:00 BST. A couple of hours later, three more followed in the space of five minutes. The women’s wheelchair 3×3 basketball team took silver; Evans added her second gold – and third …

The Hundred men’s competition, The Oval MI London 164-5 (100 balls): Jacks 65 (44); Overton 3-30 London Spirit 165-3 (89 balls): Pretorius 64 (28); Gleeson 1-23 London Spirit won by seven wickets Scorecard. Table Lhuan-dre Pretorius recovered from a heavy collision in the field to hit 64 as London Spirit …

London Spirit win their first match in the 2026 men’s Hundred competition as they beat MI London by seven-wickets in the London derby at The Oval. BBC News

Real Madrid confident in securing a deal for Manchester City‘s Rodri, Inter Milan could rekindle move for Liverpool‘s Curtis Jones and Aston Villa have bid for Palmeiras forward Allan rejected. Real Madrid are confident of signing 30-year-old Spain midfielder Rodri – who has one year left on his contract with …

Will Jacks makes 65 off 44 balls against London Spirit at The Oval as he becomes The Hundreds leading run scorer. BBC News

On the pitch, the club’s men’s side are sixth in County Championship Division One, winning four of their first eight red-ball games of the season. The white-ball team reached the quarter-finals of the T20 Blast where they were knocked out by eventual finalists Hampshire Hawks. Essex have now turned their …

The Hundred women’s competition, The Oval MI London 151-4 (100 balls): Kerr 49* (32); Kapp 2-24 London Spirit (151-5 balls): Jones (49); Gordon 2-29, Matthews 2-33 Match tied Scorecard. Table MI London held London Spirit to a nail-biting tie at The Oval after Hayley Matthews conceded only three runs from …

Twenty of the past 26 Scottish top-flight titles have been won by Celtic, the other six going the way of Rangers. In the 2000s (starting with season 2000-01, when the top flight moved from 10 to 12 teams and with a split after three rounds of fixtures), the average points …