10 h. ago World Cup qualifying news, Potter’s big Sweden bow and more – matchday live

⚽ News, discussion and buildup before the day’s action⚽ Read Football Daily | And you can mail matchday liveThere’s also Women’s Super League action on the cards today in the form of the Manchester derby. City are top of the table going into Andrée Jeglertz’s first derby as manager, while Jess Park and Grace Clinton will be reunited after swapping clubs in September. For more talking points on the match, best to read Sophie Downey’s preview:How are Scotland fans feeling about this evening? It would be a serious worry if it was all boundless positivity and optimism. Finger crossed, though, they should be OK. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Football Daily | Ronaldo hits new heights for hubris after busy week playing fame game

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Football Daily, for research/self-loathing purposes, recently sat through Cristiano Ronaldo’s latest chat with Piers Morgan. Among many moments of hubris, self-celebration and smoke being blown up the great man’s rear end by the ever-willing Morgan, Ronaldo took a typical moment of quiet self-reflection. “I think in the world, nobody is more famous than me,” he trumpeted, Piers nodding along obediently. “Let’s debate it – who’s more famous, me or Donald Trump?” Though such a pointless debate might provide welcome distraction for a president rather uncomfortably named in some emails making the news at the moment, it has very little to do with what Ronaldo is famous for. While doing his day job he had a very bad time in Dublin, as Portugal went down 2-0 to an inspired Republic of Ireland side.Loosely on the theme of the Wythenshawe FC story doing the rounds (Football Daily letters passim), I have a mildly amusing tale from the late 90...

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3 d. ago Football Daily | From a ban on long hair to fever threat: Argentina never ease into a World Cup

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Not much of a shock, but Wolves have just appointed Middlesbrough’s Rob Edwards as their new head coach. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Sydney Sweeney's movie flop sparks cruel remark about her body from plus

The film sees Sydney, 28, playing Hall of Fame boxer Christy Martin, a role that's a total departure from her sexy blonde bombshell image.

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4 d. ago Lioness Alex Scott is the eighth contestant to arrive in Australia ahead of I'm A Celebrity after emotional goodbye with girlfriend Jess Glynne

Wearing a £597 brown knitted tracksuit bottoms with a matching £645 top, the Football Focus host, 41, told the Daily Mail on arrival: 'I'm so nervous.'

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5 d. ago Football Daily | Turn up the Jaws soundtrack: the Premier League title chase is on

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!In the borderline reverential buildup to his landmark 1,000th match as an excitable man gesticulating wildly on the touchlines of various football pitches like a traffic policeman with a ferret down his trousers, Pep Guardiola mused that “the universe deciding” to mark the occasion by having his Manchester City side play Liverpool “couldn’t be better”. On Sunday we found out why, as City made fairly short work of Arne Slot’s side on a damp afternoon at the Etihad to ensure Pep’s managerial millennium was unsullied by anything so demeaning as the scoreless draw between Barcelona B and Premià in the Spanish fourth tier that marked his first match as a head coach. Having joshed with reporters last week that the undoubted highlights of his career as a “Mister” were the combined 2,000 pre- and post-match press conferences he’d been contractually obliged to conduct with them, the great and the good on the Manchester media beat missed a tr...

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8 d. ago Thomas Frank throws his support behind Tottenham star Destiny Udogie after he was 'threatened with a gun' by football agent on busy London street

Thomas Frank throws his support behind Tottenham star Destiny Udogie after he was 'threatened with a gun' by football agent on busy London street  Daily Mail

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9 d. ago Europa League: Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv, Rangers v Roma, and more – live

⚽ Europa League updates from the 8pm GMT kick-offs⚽ Live scores | Read today’s Football Daily | Mail MichaelThe man moved on by the police for “breaching the peace” is the 17 year old YouTuber Young Bob. It’s not exactly clear but they seemed to be trying to move him on from broadcasting near the main pro Palestine demonstration using special powers in place for the duration. He was heard talking animatedly to police as they tried to get him to leave the area. He has now been escorted away.“The best name on the pitch at Villa Park has got to be Roy Revivo, the son of Israeli legend Haim Revivo,” emails Peter Oh. “Arguably even better than Roy of the Rovers.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Football Daily | Infantino, Trump and giving peace a chance: Fifa

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!When María Corina Machado won this year’s Nobel peace prize for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights”, Donald Trump took the news as Maga-nanimously as you might expect. Having tirelessly run a campaign of self-promotion to ensure he won it himself, the president of the USA USA USA immediately claimed the credit for the Venezuelan opposition leader’s triumph, listed his own self-proclaimed and often dubious achievements in the field of global peacemaking and attacked the credibility of the committee who made the decision not to award the medal, cash prize and diploma to him. While security concerns mean it remains to be seen if the newly crowned Nobel laureate will emerge from hiding to pick up her accolade in person at the Oslo ceremony in December, a certain obsequious Fifa president appears hell-bent on stealing her thunder anyway. Yup, Gianni Infantino has decided to award a peace prize of his own creation in front of ...

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9 d. ago Erik ten Hag 'in talks' with former club Ajax after rejecting Premier League return

Erik ten Hag has been busy this week as the former Manchester United manager edges closer to a return to management following his brutal sacking by Bayer Leverkusen

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9 d. ago Slime, Battleship and Trivial Pursuit join the Toy Hall of Fame

The gooey, sticky and often-homemade plaything slime was enshrined into the National Toy Hall of Fame on Thursday along with perennial bestselling games Battleship and Trivial Pursuit

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9 d. ago Deliverance 'banjo kid' unrecognisable after 'really hard' money struggles

Billy Redden shot to fame as a child for playing the banjo boy in the Oscar-nominated 1972 thriller Deliverance, but his life took a sad turn and he fell on hard times

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2 w. ago Burnley v Arsenal, Nottingham Forest v Manchester United, and more: football – live

⚽ Updates from 3pm GMT kick-offs around the grounds⚽ Live scoreboard | Sign up to Football Daily | Email BillySophie Downey was at Stamford Bridge this lunchtime to watch Sam Kerr seal the points for Chelsea against London City Lionesses:Early full-time results Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Football Daily | Tactics derived from AI? ‘The algorithms are watching’

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Is nobody safe from the cold, dead hands of artificial intelligence? Certainly not if you’re in the business of attempting to write a borderline humorous weekday mailshot. Take this, punched into a smartphone, belched out by ChatGPT in mere seconds after the instructions: “Write 100 words on AI in football in the style of the Guardian’s Football Daily email.”Ah, football and AI — the game’s newest double act. From tracking player movement with eerie precision to whispering tactical tweaks into analysts’ ears, artificial intelligence is now as common at training grounds as bibs and banter. Clubs crunch mountains of data to predict fatigue, refine pressing triggers, even scout teenagers before they’ve finished growing. VAR, of course, remains the clumsy cousin — still learning when ‘clear and obvious’ actually means clear and obvious. But love it or loathe it, AI isn’t leaving the pitch anytime soon. The algorithms are watching — and ...

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2 w. ago Week in wildlife: a tiger in a tube, migrating crabs and busy Highland beavers

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Football Manager 26 review: A tale of two halves with wonderkid potential hidden deep

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star has spent a week with the new Football Manager 26 game, and while there's rage abound, there's also a lot of green shoots for the future

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2 w. ago Football Daily | Liverpool and Arne Slot get in on this whole ‘six

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Having started the season playing badly but still managing to emerge victorious from every game, the widespread assumption was that Liverpool would inevitably get their act together, improve their performances and continue said winning streak. On the contrary, their level of performance has dipped even further and, in the process, they have become the first team in English top-flight history to win their opening five matches and then lose the next four. And while there’s no getting away from the fact that four consecutive Premier League defeats constitutes something of a crisis for the reigning champions, Football Daily is simply not prepared to accept that a team comprised almost entirely of whey-faced youngsters and senior reserves getting knocked out of Fizzy Cup by Crystal Palace should in any way be lumped into the same bracket as previous defeats. A cursory glance at both team-sheets before kick-off on Wednesday night suggeste...

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2 w. ago Arsenal v Brighton, Swansea v Manchester City and more: Carabao Cup clockwatch – live

⚽️ League Cup updates from 7.45pm GMT kick-offs⚽️ Football Daily: Shamrock Rovers’ title stumble⚽️ Live scoreboard | Email Michael with your thoughtsNewcastle: Ramsdale, Krafth, Thiaw, Schar, Burn, Willock, Tonali, Ramsey, Elanga, Woltemade, Barnes. Subs: Pope, Trippier, Botman, Joelinton, Gordon, Osula, Jacob Murphy, Guimaraes, Miley.Tottenham Hotspur: Kinsky, Porro, Danso, Sarr, Spence, Bentancur, Joao Palhinha, Johnson, Bergvall, Simons, Richarlison. Subs: Austin, Tel, Kudus, van de Ven, Muani, Scarlett, Olusesi, Rowswell, Gunter. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kirsty Gallacher breaks down after being kicked ‘like a football’ by man on central London pavement on daily walk

KIRSTY Gallacher has revealed she was "kicked like a football" by a man on a central London pavement. The former Sky Sports presenter broke down after describing the horror attack, which has left her bruised and in utter "shock". In a devastating post on Instagram, she told how she was walking down a well-lit street...

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2 w. ago This woodland walk near a quiet village ends with an epic Sunday Roast

There's really nothing like an autumn woodland walk to clear the mind and soothe the soul after a busy week at work

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