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FA Cup holders Crystal Palace were beaten in the third round by a non-league opponent on Saturday in what was the competition’s biggest upset in terms of league position. Palace are the ninth top-flight side to have been knocked out by non-league opposition in the FA Cup over the past …

East London played host to two very different versions of the ‘beautiful game’ on Sunday. Just a stone’s throw from the London Stadium, where 58,669 fans turned out to see West Ham beat QPR in the FA Cup, about 4,000 supporters watched close to five hours of football as season …

While the excitement for a third appearance in the fourth round of the FA Cup in just five years under Parkinson remains at fever pitch, Wrexham’s immediate focus will return to the league – where they sit just one point and three spots behind the top six. They welcome strugglers …

PA Media The special sleeping bags emit therapeutic light Newborn babies with jaundice can now be treated at home in a special “sleeping bag” that emits therapeutic light. The equipment allows babies who meet the clinical criteria to receive phototherapy without having to stay in hospital. About six in 10 …

The investment vehicle set up to house a string of prominent sports assets is launching a €2.7bn (£2.3bn) debt-raising process aimed at funding its ambitions to become a global powerhouse. Sky News has learnt that Global Sport Group (GSG), which is owned by CVC Capital Partners and counts a stake …

Tyrone manager Malachy O’Roure remains hopeful that some of his walking wounded, including Eoin McElholm and Darragh Canavan, will be ready for the start of the Allianz Football League. The Red Hands open their Division Two campaign at home to Kildare on Saturday, 24 January and although the pair are …

Northampton had to make two late changes before the game with England fly-half Fin Smith unable to play because of a calf injury – Anthony Belleau took his place despite a serious mouth injury suffered against Harlequins the previous weekend – and a hamstring problem sidelined James Ramm. They also …

Manchester City will have Antoine Semenyo available for their EFL Cup semi-final against Newcastle United after a change to the competition’s rules this season. Semenyo, 26, joined Pep Guardiola’s side in a £65m deal from Bournemouth and made a goalscoring debut in the FA Cup third round 10-1 thrashing of …

Former England midfielder Carrick played 464 games in all competitions for United between 2006 and 2018, having been signed from Tottenham by Sir Alex Ferguson. He has been out of work since he was sacked by Championship club Middlesbrough last June after two and a half years in charge. Carrick …

Team GB will endeavour to secure their best ever Winter Olympics medal haul at next month’s Games in Italy – but chef du mission Eve Muirhead insists success in Milan-Cortina will not only be measured by podium places. Britain returned from the 2018 event in Pyeongchang and the 2014 staging …

BBC/Rare TV The discovery of the Anglo-Saxon burial site was an exciting experience for the team, said archaeologist Len Middleton A “princely” grave of a horse buried alongside two people has been discovered by archaeologists working on one of Britain’s biggest digs. The excavation is being carried out by Oxford …

Cardiff supporters have told the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) they do not favour their side being bought by owners of rivals Ospreys. Cardiff were taken over by the WRU after temporarily going into administration in April 2025. With the governing body expecting to sell the organisation to new investors in …

Half of the Premier League is now in some form of multi-club ownership (MCO). But those clubs are at the top of the food chain and would not have experience of being the poorer relative. The City Football Group has Manchester City as its core club, and full control of …

Getty Some residents in Church Court in Strabane say they can no longer open their windows due to the amount of rats climbing on walls in their back gardens People in a County Tyrone town are calling for urgent action over the “absolute hell” of what they say is an …

A British man has died in an avalanche in the French Alps. The man, believed to be in his 50s, was skiing with a group off-piste at La Plagne, a statement from the resort said. Rescuers were alerted to the avalanche at 13:57 (12:57 GMT) on Sunday and went immediately …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Yeison Jiménez, a 34-year-old Colombian singer-songwriter, died in a plane crash just hours before he was set to perform.  On Saturday, a plane crashed “in the sector between Paipa and Duitama,” in Colombia, the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics announced on …

Eder Maestre has challenged London City Lionesses players to match his ambition after his managerial tenure with the Women’s Super League club began with a drab goalless draw against Liverpool. The 39-year-old Spaniard was appointed on 2 January following the sacking of Jocelyn Precheur last month. Precheur was dismissed on …

The penultimate round of pool matches in this season’s European Champions Cup brought high-scoring games, last-minute heroics and more teams qualifying for the knockout stages. Glasgow Warriors, Sale Sharks, Leinster, Harlequins, Bordeaux, Bristol Bears and Northampton Saints are all into the last 16. But with the likes of six-time winners …

Harlow Town Football Club has gone into administration, prompting the town council to describe the decision as “deeply concerning”. According to court documents filed in London’s insolvency court, the judge made an order appointing administrators to the club on Friday. The court said the order was made in an application …

A British skier has died in an avalanche in the French Alps. The man, thought to be aged in his 50s, had been skiing off-piste in La Plagne, according to the resort. It said in a statement that at 1.57pm on Sunday, rescue teams got an avalanche alert and went …