7 h. ago ‘We wanted to break down barriers’: women’s teams finally join Football Manager

Sports Interactive has included the women’s game after its tireless effort of collating a comprehensive databaseWithin minutes I am in the deep end as the Arsenal manager before the start of the 2025-26 season, sizing up a transfer budget that does not match my ambitions for the club. I am immediately at odds with the board when I launch a rogue bid to sign Aitana Bonmatí, which is immediately rejected.I manage to recruit Alex Greenwood to shore things up in the wake of Leah Williamson’s injury and my late bid for Patri Guijarro, who wants to be part of my project, falls through at the last minute with the budget once again the problem. I demand answers from the board as to why they will not release more funds when the player-in-question wants to join, pointing out that our scouting report says she’s a necessary replacement for Lia Wälti. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Arsenal finalising deals for twins Edwin and Holger Quintero as Gunners continue aggressive recruitment drive

Edwin Quintero has been likened to former Barcelona and PSG star Neymar

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26 h. ago Major Loose Women cast update revealed just weeks before brutal ITV daytime TV cuts begin

THE Loose Women team have received an early Christmas gift – with the news they are now all safe from ITV’s daytime jobs axe. The channel’s swingeing cuts from January will reduce the award-winning talk show’s schedule — leaving the cast fearing there would not be enough work to go around. But bosses have decided...

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53 h. ago The Latest: Rivalry week could deliver changes in the top 10 of the AP Top 25

College football's final regular season week has set the stage for conference championships and new AP Top 25 rankings

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58 h. ago I’m A Celeb’s Alex Scott shares emotional message ahead of flight home to be with Jess Glynne after family emergency

I'M A Celebrity star Alex Scott has shared an emotional message with fans ahead of her flight home to be with girlfriend Jess Glynne. The former footballer, 41, will miss the series finale and wrap party after her pop star partner's mum Alexandra suffered a stroke and needed surgery. Jess didn't meet Alex on the...

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4 d. ago Alex Scott's One Direction secret leaked on Strictly Come Dancing before flirty rumours emerged

Former footballer Alex Scott, who earned 140 caps for England's women's team, dropped a strong hint about a fling with a member of One Direction

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5 d. ago Bridgerton star Genevieve Chenneour says she has been 'groped more times than I can count' in London as she calls for better women's safety after street attack and phone mugging

The former Team GB artistic swimmer turned actress says women in the capital are enduring 'a consistent pattern of violence, fear and institutional failure'.

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5 d. ago Bridgerton star Genevieve Chenneour reveals she has been 'groped more times than I can count' as she calls for better women's safety after street attack and phone mugging

The former Team GB artistic swimmer turned actress says women in the capital are enduring 'a consistent pattern of violence, fear and institutional failure'.

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5 d. ago DWP mum in line for Universal Credit and benefit boost to £2,770 after budget

Wales mum Lisa White says the Budget change will allow her children to finally join after-school activities like football and dancing

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5 d. ago Spain and Germany renew battle in Nations League final showdown

The Euro 2025 semi-final remains fresh in the memory, but this contest exists in a very different contextJust for a moment, cast your mind back to that summer’s evening towards the end of July when Spain earned their first win over Germany. The illustrious newcomers (relatively speaking) needed the genius of Aitana Bonmatí and her 113th-minute goal to eventually break down the resilience of the traditional trailblazers and book their place in their first European Championship final.Just four months on, Christian Wück’s team have the opportunity to avenge that night in Zürich, albeit in less distinguished circumstances as they battle for a trophy that carries less prestige. The second edition of the Uefa Women’s Nations League comes to a close this fortnight with a two-legged final between the holders Spain and Germany. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘The whole journey was fantastic’: how Bob Houghton led Malmö to European Cup final

Englishman was not an obvious candidate to lead them but Swedes pushed Nottingham Forest all the way in 1979Early in the 1979 European Cup final, Kenny Burns misjudged a long ball and ended up lobbing it up in the air for Jan-Olov Kindvall. He, in turn, attempted to knock the dropping ball over Peter Shilton but the goalkeeper was not as close as he had perhaps anticipated and Shilton ended up catching it simply. The chance was gone and, with it, Malmö’s hopes of beating Nottingham Forest.“I had quite a good chance to score and then they were the better team,” says Kindvall. “But maybe if we had got the first goal, maybe we had a chance. We were very good when we didn’t have the ball ourselves. We had good organisation in the defence. And Forest were very good without the ball as well. It was more difficult for us to play against a team who were more like our team. We played the English way.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Martin O'Neill confirms his final Celtic European match as Wilfried Nancy appointment nears

O’Neill set to lead Celtic out in Europe for final time

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7 d. ago England's route to the World Cup final is revealed as FIFA announce new format for next week's draw

FIFA confirmed the top four seeds will now be paired and placed into opposite halves of the knockout bracket for the first time in World Cup history.

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7 d. ago Man stole bags from breastfeeding mother at Gatwick Airport before using head to break barrier

John Brook also admitted causing criminal damage by breaking a security barrier with his head as he escaped

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8 d. ago Paul Pogba is a footballer again after two years out, a ban and a kidnap case | Luke Entwistle

Frenchman has never been far from the headlines since 2023 but he is finally back gliding across a football fieldBy Get French Football NewsHow much can you learn from Paul Pogba’s nine-minute cameo? Perhaps just that he does indeed exist and not only in columns, fitness updates and social media posts. That is where he has existed for the past 26 months, since his final game for Juventus in September 2023: equally at the centre of our gaze and absent from it.Between his four-year doping ban, reduced to 18 months on appeal, his release from Juventus, and the extortion and kidnapping case that led to his brother being sentenced to three years in prison, his name has been constantly uttered but his face has been rarely seen – at least not on a football pitch. Continue reading...

Events

9 d. ago Aston Villa rally to put Leeds in trouble with Morgan Rogers double

Five defeats in six and the anxiety is beginning to show for Leeds. For the second game in a row they took an early lead through Lukas Nmecha but ended up with nothing, Morgan Rogers producing a pair of remarkable finishes to lift Aston Villa into the Champions League qualification slots. Leeds remain in the relegation zone.Villa began the season apparently still feeling the hangover from the defeat at Old Trafford on the final weekend of the last campaign that cost them European football. But having failed to win any of their first six games, they have won nine of their last 11 in all competitions, the depth of their squad beginning to tell. Donyell Malen began on the bench and, while he may not have scored in his third successive game, his arrival at half-time shifted the momentum of the game as Villa became only the second away side in 26 to win in the league at Elland Road. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Conor McGregor 'to FINALLY marry his fiancée Dee Devlin next month after five years engaged'

The couple, who first sparked up a romance some 16 years ago, have been engaged for more than half a decade.

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2 w. ago ATP Finals prize money: How much is on the line as Alcaraz and Sinner clash for year

Alcaraz and Sinner meet in the ATP Finals for the first time to decide who takes home the year-end prize

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2 w. ago Revealed: The exclusive club England can join in final World Cup qualifier 

A comprehensive 2-0 victory against Serbia on a drenched Thursday at Wembley now places England in contention to join an exclusive club alongside Italy and Belgium. 

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2 w. ago Braless Champions League streaker reveals transformation and 'unexpected' career change

Kinsey Wolanski left football fans shocked after she bared all in the final of the Champions League back in 2019, but six years on - her life could not be any more different

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