GRAEME SOUNESS: Gibbs-White could have a stinker at Wembley on Sunday against Manchester City, but it won't change anyone's opinion of him. I met him in Portugal last summer where we chatted and he seems to be so enthusiastic about the game. He certainly gave me the impression that he loves his job.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Charlton were 18th and flirting with relegation to the fourth tier for the first time in their history when Jones arrived in February last year.
IAN LADYMAN: The winner of the football writers' Player of the Season award tends to come from teams who win the league. This has been the case in seven of the last ten seasons.
NIK SIMON: A proud South African, he has thrown himself into the local culture and is fast becoming one of the most popular men in the area as he brings success back to the rugby club.
F1 CONFIDENTIAL: In contrast stands the inevitable razzmatazz of next weekend's Miami race, where the glitzy grid will be so heaving you can barely shuffle along. Even Trump may appear.
SIMON JONES: The rhetorical question for Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish last September was: why had Eberechi Eze not been prised away from Selhurst Park?
LIVERPOOL CONFIDENTIAL: The Premier League champions-elect held an important recruitment meeting last week and discussed their main ambitions for the summer window.
SPECIAL REPORT BY ALEX BYWATER: Abu Dhabi, 2015. The mood was jovial as board members of what was then the Cardiff Blues mixed with some of the Middle East's wealthiest people.
INSIDE THE EFL: Ethan Hamilton is reflecting on another season in the professional game and his second year at Lincoln City.
RICHARD GIBSON: Zak Crawley's early season form - first-innings scores of 1, 0 and 1 - has reignited debate about whether the Kent batsman merits a place in England's Test team.
SIMON JORDAN: We're told that feelings trump facts and thus those feelings are so important and defining. Yet now we have commentators invested in the game we don't want that either!
RANGERS CONFIDENTIAL: Incoming Rangers sporting director Thelwell has detailed the debt he owes to the former Ibrox player who helped set him on the way to a successful career.
In January last year, MIKE KEEGAN travelled to Silicon Valley to gain an insight into how the San Francisco 49ers operate - and learn exactly how the NFL team would transform the Yorkshire club.
KIERAN GILL: Another transfer battle is brewing between Chelsea and Liverpool, with the Stamford Bridge club already leading 2-0 after twice blowing away their Premier League rivals.
NIK SIMON - RUGBY CONFIDENTIAL: Midweek fixtures will be trialled by Premiership Rugby for the first time next season with the league's opening game scheduled for a Thursday night.
AADAM PATEL IN LEEDS: As the sun set shortly after 8pm, the Leeds players walked across the outfield and came out of the other side where a sea of yellow, white and blue awaited.
TOM COLLOMOSSE: Ruben Amorim has had a turbulent start to life as United boss but if he can solve the Matheus Cunha conundrum it may change everything for him at Old Trafford.
OLIVER HOLT: As Liverpool prepare to be anointed champions this week - it could happen on Wednesday if Arsenal lose at home to Crystal Palace, or Sunday if they beat Tottenham at Anfield - there is vanishingly little room for debate about who should be crowned LMA Manager of the Year next month.
Chelsea teenager Tyrique George was 11 years old and in the Blues' academy system when he spied Jadon Sancho, then 17, in the car park of a goals centre in south London.
THE SHARPE END: All this has led to the question: is this the worst Premier League bottom three of all time? That's the easy bit: yes.
MATT BARLOW: It's now three from three for the former midfielder in the Championship. Fulham, Bournemouth, Burnley. They and Leeds are on the up - Sheffield United destined for the play-offs.
So much is made of Daizen Maeda, Adam Idah and the centre-forward question that it's easy to forget just how many of Celtic's goals come from elsewhere in the team.
INSIDE CRICKET: The third round of county championship matches finished yesterday, with Nottinghamshire and Sussex the early leaders in division one, and Leicestershire and Kent leading the way in division two.
MATT BARLOW: Nuno Espirito Santo should win the Premier League 's manager of the year award if he can complete the leap from 17th to the top five.
CHRIS FOY: Whether Andy Farrell is such a fan of Lawes that he will pick him for one last Lions mission will be known on May 8.
NATHAN SALT AT OLD TRAFFORD: Once upon a time Tyler Fredricson's biggest responsibility was putting the ball in the back of the net. Playing for Richmond Rovers, a junior team in Cheshire, he scored five in an 11-1 win for the Under 10s and dazzled with his razor sharp instincts in front of goal. These days he is an accomplished defender, a captain at youth level for Manchester United, with his biggest responsibility keeping the ball out of the net that he once wreaked havoc on as a kid.
CHRIS WHEELER: The front page of Le Progres summed up the mood in Lyon yesterday. Nuit de folie, tristesse infinite. Night of madness, infinite sadness.
Nigel Martyn hung up his football boots almost two decades ago due to a chronic ankle injury. But the ex-England goalkeeper is back starring in gloves - this time as a wicketkeeper.
TOM COLLOMOSSE AT VILLA PARK: How Aston Villa perform in the next four weeks could shape this club for the next four years - and Unai Emery is producing a masterclass in squad management to ensure they hit their targets. 'Team first' has been the mantra at Bodymoor Heath in recent weeks, as Villa have chased goals on three fronts. Now they are down to two: winning a first major trophy since 1996 and earning another crack at the Champions League next season. With a fully-fit squad to choose from, Emery knows he will have to leave out some important players in key matches, starting with the trip to Manchester City on Tuesday and the FA Cup semi-final against Crystal Palace at Wembley on Saturday.
LEWIS STEELE: When David Moyes set off on his commute home yesterday, he was greeted by the scene of hundreds of fans lining the country road out of their Finch Farm training base.
MARTIN KEOWN: Arsenal's Champions League win over Real Madrid was a statement victory for Mikel Arteta. Here is the Gunners men managed to beat the European champions…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY CHRIS FOY: During his formative playing stint at Auch in France's second tier, Tom Harrison learned the Gallic mantra which is as true now as ever before: 'Pas de melee, pas de victoire' - 'No scrum, no win.' That philosophy is particularly relevant to England's recent fortunes. Last year, set-piece struggles were a factor in the national team's agonising series of narrow defeats. But this year, England's scrum was the best in the Six Nations and provided a dominant platform which allowed them to claim four wins out of five, to finish narrowly behind champions France after a promising campaign. Rewind nine months and Steve Borthwick was lamenting trouble up front which was undermining his side.
INSIDE THE EFL: They sit second heading into the Easter Weekend, three points adrift of leaders Port Vale in what has been one of the tensest League Two promotion battles in years.
LEWIS STEELE IN BRISTOL: Manning never had a top-level playing career after being told by Ipswich manager Joe Royle that he was not quite what they were looking for.
GRAEME SOUNESS: This is the Manchester United player who deserves hero status more than anyone after his superb performance helped his side past Lyon in the Europa League. He is one of the game's good guys and became a hero again for Manchester United this week.
JAMES SHARPE: It took Hugo Ekitike just six minutes to show the rest of Europe why he's one of the most wanted young strikers on the continent.
If there is one factor, more than any other, that might just work in Rangers' favour when they play Athletic Bilbao on Thursday evening, it is the contrasting commitments of the two sides.
NATHAN SALT: Cherki arrives at Old Trafford with nine goals and 18 assists in 36 games this season across all competitions at club level. Nobody has more assists in the Europa League.
MAN UNITED CONFIDENTIAL: United have maintained contact over the RB Leipzig attacking midfielder who is one of several options they are juggling.
RUGBY CONFIDENTIAL: Farrell has already started working on the early sections of a book, entitled 'Being Myself', due to hit the shelves before he returns to his role with Ireland.
JONATHAN MCEVOY IN JEDDAH: Max Verstappen walked into the Jeddah paddock with a dust cloud swirling over his future but insisted - for now - he is 'very relaxed' at Red Bull.
MATTHEW LAMBWELL: The defining image of the Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers was Marta Kostyuk, tears rolling down her cheeks, singing the Ukrainian national anthem alongside Elina Svitolina.
If Kieran Tierney's return to prominence these last few months is anything to go by, then Celtic may just have pulled off the swoop of the century in securing his services on a free transfer.
CHELSEA CONFIDENTIAL: Chelsea and Strasbourg have agreed to wait until the end of the season before deciding what to do with Andrey Santos, after a loan spell in which he turned into a young force in French football. Sources say nothing is finalised regarding the 20-year-old Brazilian's future despite it being widely assumed - certainly in the social media sphere - that he will spend next term at Stamford Bridge after wowing supporters of their sister club. There is a strong chance that could happen, of course, as Chelsea have been impressed while following his development closely under Strasbourg manager Liam Rosenior.
OLIVER HOLT AT AUGUSTA: Often, the greatest stories in sport involve a quest, an epic journey through adversity towards a grail.
IAN HERBERT: Even in a three-hour court hearing of unspeakable bleakness on Monday morning, fragments of the light Kevin Campbell always radiated shone through.
TOP SPIN: There are 18 first-class county headquarters in Britain, and Mail Sport's Lawrence Booth has been to them all - many times over. Here, he ranks them in order of personal preference, starting from the bottom up.
The walk from the San Mames stadium is one of the most affecting journeys in football.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY ALEX BYWATER: The Gallagher Premiership's joint top try-scorer led a simple life, working on the family farm before qualifying as a prison officer.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY LAWRENCE BOOTH: Among spinners in last summer's County Championship, only Hampshire's Liam Dawson took more wickets than his 50. This season, Carson has begun with five in a draw with Warwickshire, and useful runs in an impressive win over Somerset.
EXCLUSIVE BY NATHAN SALT: When Amorim came to name his starters in the team hotel on Friday night, there was little surprise among the players to see 18-year-old Harry Amass' name up on the board.
DOMINIC KING IN HOLYWOOD: It wouldn't be prudent to eat this for breakfast every day but it's the end of a special week: normal rules, therefore, have been abandoned.
EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT AUGUSTA: McIlroy's entire career was distilled into one five-hour excoriation of the soul - he lost the Masters three times during that adventure between the Georgia pines and three times he won it back.
MATT BARLOW: Oliver Glasner would have cashed out if he could. The plan could hardly have gone better but the initiative had been lost.
JONATHAN McEVOY IN BAHRAIN: A crisis has been averted in large part, but, as we shall explain, the saga may have one final, stunning instalment left to unravel.
NATHAN SALT AT ST JAMES' PARK: Harvey Barnes struck twice for Newcastle in a dominant win over Manchester United on Sunday, the Magpies landing a huge blow in the race for Champions League football with a 4-1 win. Sandro Tonali opened the scoring with a first-time finish following a delightful assist from Alexander Isak, as the hosts tore into the lead with 24 minutes on the clock in an early blow to United. However it didn't last long, with Alejandro Garnacho restoring parity 13 minutes later to send the two sides in at the break level.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Let's start with the Spanish lad who did that thing in the wrong place at Augusta National on Thursday.
GRAEME SOUNESS: There is nothing to dislike about Declan Rice but we need to apply some perspective before declaring him world class for scoring two free-kicks against Real Madrid.
OLIVER HOLT AT AUGUSTA: It was not simply staring down Bryson DeChambeau that made Rory McIlroy's triumph at The Masters on Sunday evening one of the greatest and most courageous victories in the history of golf. That duel almost seems like an afterthought now in the happy afterglow of the most thrilling edition of this tournament there has ever been.
NEWCASTLE CONFIDENTIAL: Every top Premier League club has been credited with an interest in the 25-year-old in recent months and he represents an ambitious target for the Magpies.
This week, we have been mostly talking about robots. Premier League players as emotionless androids, incapable of independent thought and unable to break free of their programming.
There is a feast of tales at Camelon. They must be sampled before the meat and bones of how and why the club is targeting SPFL football is investigated. There is serious purpose in the club and there are curiosities surrounding it. As hospitality staff hand out ice cream cones to various punters, one takes a wee survey of the Moore Equipment Hire Stadium (the new regime at the club are energetic in attracting sponsorship) and digs up a few stories. There is the former player who plied his trade on three different continents. There is the invitation to sample a Buckfast pie, politely declined. There is the volunteer whose duties include fetching the ball from the nearby canal. He once did with the aid of a canoe but now simply dives in as his vessel was vandalised. And there is the fan who has erected a stand in his back garden that looks directly on to the park.
TOM COLLOMOSSE: Aston Villa have a trump card to play when they try to turn the tables on Paris Saint-Germain. He has the build of a centre-forward and knowledge to rival the greatest managers.
IAN LADYMAN: Gary Neville's words after last weekend's soporific derby struck a chord. His voice is powerful and other pundits have continued the debate of players and their coaching.
Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice is certainly a wonderful dead-ball kicker and that is why, despite being 6ft 2in, he is being sacrificed for set-pieces because, otherwise, with that physique, he'd be a wonderful aerial threat in the box. The best taker of a set-piece I ever saw was the Brazilian Zico. I witnessed that a couple of times first hand, unfortunately. At Liverpool, Jimmy Case and Sammy Lee were wonderful strikers of the ball. After Jimmy, it would be Sammy, Terry McDermott and me who were the designated free-kick takers. We would often be joined by Kenny Dalglish, who was forever offering to take the free-kicks but we would, equally, forever be shooing him out of the picture. The only problem was, if we turned our backs briefly, Kenny would run up and take it. Time and time again we would say, 'What the f*** was that?' And Kenny would just shrug his shoulders and walk away getting away with it. Typical Kenneth! Discussing what makes a world-class midfielder got me thinking this week, who were the best 10 midfielders I faced? I could only, truthfully, judge it off those I played against.
Henry Pollock's confidence after a breakthrough season for club and country can be summed up best by the announcement he made to his Northampton team-mates this week.
INSIDE THE EFL: It was the end of August last year when Jack Cork realised something had to give.
LEWIS STEELE: Slot, of course, knew about it long before the 8am official announcement, but Liverpool fans around the world were waking up to what many would describe as the best news of the season.
Those two sensational free-kick goals to topple Real Madrid on Tuesday offered a rare glimpse into the true depth of Declan Rice's technical brilliance.
Missed amid the focus on Chelsea selling their women's team to a sister company for a tidy £198.7million profit in their financial accounts was the stark decrease in wages.
SIMON JORDAN: Donald Trump 's trade wars are probably a moment in time, although currently challenging the world order and undermining trust in the superpower that America once was.
Mail Sport's AADAM PATEL rates the players on a stunning night for Arsenal at the Emirates as Mikel Arteta's side earned a 3-0 win over Real Madrid in their Champions League quarter-final first leg.
MAN UNITED CONFIDENTIAL: Andre Onana's wife Melanie Kamayou had her £62,000 Hermes bag and Rolex watch snatched by a thief as she got out of her car in Alderley Edge.
JONATHAN MCEVOY IN BAHRAIN: The the risk of zooming straight into Pseuds Corner, Andrea Stella might be described as Formula One's answer to Saint Francis of Assisi.
IAN HERBERT: It's been more than six months since Steve Townsend lost his brother, Mark, but the pain lingers. It was etched across his face when I saw him at a coroner's court in Sheffield last week.
NATHAN SALT: How Arsenal must be kicking themselves at letting Liverpool off the hook in a title race that could have been oh so different had they not fluffed their lines in January.
RUGBY CONFIDENTIAL: Over in Madrid, Spanish rugby officials are plotting to wake up one of the sport's 'sleeping giants'.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT AUGUSTA: Golf's biggest enigma has arrived here wrapped in mysteries around his form and the question of whether mad science can flourish on a canvas better suited to art.
SUBSCRIBE TO MAIL+ TO SEE ALL 57 PHOTOS AND EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: There's always been a big question hanging over Mary Fowler and Nathan Cleary's love story. Now we have an answer.
OLIVER HOLT: I've completed the journey of a lifetime and I am ranking all 92 English Football League grounds for Mail Sport. It's something I've wanted to do for as long as I can remember and on April 1, 2025, I did it. I completed the 92. Find out here why grounds like AFC Wimbledon and Barrow are in my top 20 - but what about Anfield, Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge? Where is the best grub in the Premier League and where did Tyson Fury once threaten to have my jaw broken?
TOM COLLOMOSSE: Nottingham Forest will watch with envy as Aston Villa line up against Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday, dreaming of similar Champions League duels next season.
MATT BARLOW: If automatic promotion was decided by Rudyard Kipling it might go to someone keeping his head when all around lose theirs and trusting himself when others cast doubt.
Avanti West Coast, Coach E. An empty table, seat on the aisle. Phone charger plugged in, cable strewn across the desk. Slouched ever so slightly. Content, a bit bored. Destination: London Euston, a Friday afternoon in late May. Before Liam Delap became this thing, this new shiny striker, this new great hulking hope.
There are two key windows in academy football where players can be poached by rivals - at 14 and 16. And so a cryptic Instagram story post last month with a 'wave' emoji felt ominous.
For all the complications written across Rory McIlroy's scorecards at Augusta, the solutions sound so simple when they come from the man entrusted with his mind.
DAN BIGGAR: One thing is for certain. If my mum was still here today, she'd have bought 50 copies of this column! I owe her everything and still miss her dearly.
THE SHARPE END: Onana's two years at United has been littered with mistakes, like when he charged out of his goal to hand Ipswich an early goal in February
ISAAN KHAN AT GOODISON PARK: There was no sense of shock among the visiting Arsenal fans when Darren England pointed to the penalty spot on 46 minutes.
CHRIS FOY: The people have spoken. The response has been emphatic. Since news broke that Spain want to host the 2035 men's World Cup, there has been a deluge of support - rightly so. Imagine a final at the redeveloped, iconic, 105,000-capacity Nou Camp in Barcelona. Yes, please. It ticks all the boxes, but it might have to be part of a shared event. Italy have been waiting patiently for their moment too, as a fixture in the establishment these days. And Portugal's potential was there for all to see when their squad came to a hero's welcome at Lisbon airport and national fervour after their stirring deeds at the 2023 tournament in France.
As far as road trips go, Hulk Hogan's two-day visit to Texas seemed surprisingly upbeat this week. Behind the scenes, however, is a very different story.
F1 CONFIDENTIAL: Toto Wolff needs to show George Russell more love. It was something Christian Horner said strategically in the new - absurdly fabricated - Netflix series. It's absolutely right.
EXCLUSIVE BY JACK GAUGHAN: Manchester City's academy auditorium, with its blue leather seats and walls depicting different stands of the Etihad Stadium, is just up some stairs from the gym.
It's two hours before Paolo Di Canio is due on stage but already the car park at the Loddon Valley leisure centre in Reading is at bursting point.
DAN BIGGAR: A week last Sunday, I sat down on the French Riviera with my Toulon team-mate Ben White , the Scotland scrum-half, and watched Bath against Gloucester in the Gallagher Premiership.
Manchester United and Manchester City played out one of the most robotic derbies in recent memory as they settled for a point apiece on Sunday. Fans groaned as players showed a real lack of quality and invention over the course of 94 minutes of play. Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne came back into the Manchester City team following their midweek win over Leicester City but struggled to have any meaningful impact. Mail Sport's NATHAN SALT was on hand to pass judgement over the two sides.
The 2025 County Championship season begins on Friday with a full list of nine fixtures across the Divisions One and Two. Here, Mail Sport introduces six young players to look out for.
IAN LADYMAN: There is a misunderstanding that all footballers have an obligation to play well into their 30s.
INSIDE THE EFL: Tan Kesler smiles as he greets Mail Sport in the lobby of a plush hotel in Cambridge. The former Hull City vice-chairman is here to talk. To talk about his impressive career as a football executive, to talk about his near three-year spell with the Tigers - and to talk for the first time about a departure that left fans shocked.
CHELSEA CONFIDENTIAL: For the last 20 years, strange as it sounds, Jose Mourinho has not owned his own name. It has been the property of Chelsea Football Club Limited.
SIMON JORDAN: Sky's decline in viewing numbers is significant, in no small way because of piracy and the prices broadcasters have to charge customers, but also due to their content.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Butch Harmon isn't one for sitting on fences. So there was little dithering, none in fact, when we chatted on Wednesday evening about the Masters and his prediction for the coming week.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAN BIGGAR: I had four fantastic years at Northampton during which Courtney Lawes went from being a fearsome opponent with England to a team-mate and friend.
RACING CONFIDENTIAL: It's the weekend of miracles and the arrival of Aintree feels as good as time as any to reflect on the one we witnessed last year.
NEWCASTLE CONFIDENTIAL: Newcastle are in talks over a lucrative pre-season friendly against Tottenham in Seoul, Confidential can reveal.
IAN HERBERT: When the starter raises the tape for the Grand National on Saturday afternoon, Frankie Dettori will be in the thick of the action out at the Dubai World Cup.
LIVERPOOL CONFIDENTIAL: The small group who made Liverpool Premier League champions-elect also contributed to coming up short in the Carabao Cup and Champions League.
RICHARD GIBSON: One of the great appeals of the county game is provided when it spreads its net beyond the big cities, landing in some weird and wonderful outposts. Places where you can either smell the history or the sea air.
Some footballers are so humble and selfless in the way they go about their work, so consistently able to perform at a high level, that their importance to the team is taken for granted.
Nearly three weeks since being released by the New York Jets, Rodgers remains in NFL free agency as he agonizes over his future amid interest from the Steelers and Vikings.
RUGBY CONFIDENTIAL: At the peak of his career as a Bollywood actor, Rahul Bose would leave film sets with a face full of make-up and head straight to rugby training. He starred in more than 50 movies and walked the red carpet at film festivals around the world.
INSIDE CRICKET BY LAWRENCE BOOTH: The start of the county championship usually means cheap wickets on fresh pitches for 78mph seamers - but it doesn't have to be this way.
It took one picture of Bukayo Saka to send the Arsenal fanbase into a frenzy. It came last week, showing him smiling on the London Colney training pitches, with the caption 'Hello again'.
MAN UNITED CONFIDENTIAL: Liam Delap has the benefit of Premier League experience with 10 goals in the top flight for Ipswich this season despite their struggles at the foot of the table.
CHRIS FOY: Here is a prediction, which appears more feasible with every passing week - Henry Pollock will end up playing for the Lions this summer, aged 20, even if he isn't picked to start with.
A squad packed with young talent including three Under 19 internationals, a recently inaugurated new training complex, the ninth-best attendance in the whole of Spain, and the promise of a new stadium that will host the 2030 World Cup.
It was February 19. Manchester United's squad and a number of staff were dining at Brazilian eatery Jardim Rodizio Grill in Altrincham after an evening spent tenpin bowling at Lane7 where the party of 50-plus also played pool and darts.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Manchester City made an announcement on Friday morning. It wasn't the one we're all waiting on, but they do have a new energy drink partner in Vietnam.
TOM COLLOMOSSE: It does not take much for coaches to recognise a special talent and at Leicester, they have been very excited about Jeremy Monga for some time.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY LAWRENCE BOOTH: Six months on from the Test pick that left English cricket speechless, Josh Hull is still pinching himself at the madness of it all. His solitary cap sits in his bedroom at home near Oundle, a reminder of four unexpected days at the Oval against Sri Lanka - and a source of inspiration, perhaps, for a Test career to come. The good news is that England don't do one-cap wonders like they once did; including Hull, there are only seven still playing county cricket. Besides, he's had a taste of the big time now, and he has no intention of remaining part of that exclusive club.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: No subplots to The Masters are as provocative as the presence of an ex-champion making his first return after being in prison for domestic violence.
RICHARD GIBSON: The sight of Andrew Flintoff mingling with county cricketers highlighted the increasing influence of one of the sport's most recognisable figures.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: To understand the undulations of Viktor Hovland's golf, it is probably necessary to start with the boundaries of his curiosity. They stretch wider than the 15th fairway at Augusta.
JONATHAN McEVOY: One Formula One driver, a multiple grand prix winner, sent me a text this week: 'The gradual decline of the House of Red Bull.' A source close to the team called it 'chaos'.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY IAN LADYMAN: It is an FA Cup alive with possibility this season. Danny Welbeck is excited and it's partly because of him that Brighton are here.
MATT BARLOW: Lord Sugar's approach to football's transfer market came to mind with the big 'game's gone' moment of the international break - Southampton 's £100million valuation of Tyler Dibling. It seems a tad steep, a dangerous investment even, for a teenager who could not wait to retreat to St Mary's a month or so after signing for Chelsea in the summer of 2022. The same year, incidentally, in which Serbian businessman Dragan Solak bankrolled Sport Republic's takeover of the Saints, buying a controlling stake in the club for £100m. So, what could have bought you to the whole shooting match less than three years ago, will now get you one prodigiously gifted 19-year with 25 Premier League appearances and a couple of goals.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Bill Sweeney's survival as RFU chief executive following a vote of no confidence in his position should and must prove to be a seminal moment for English rugby.
CHRIS FOY: Sir Bill Beaumont's epic feat in helping to extinguish one of the biggest fires to engulf English rugby in years earned a fitting tribute on Friday.
IAN HERBERT AT BLOOMFIELD ROAD: The seagulls are shrieking around Blackpool's emptied-out stadium, the rain is sheeting down, and Bolton's visiting manager is standing under the shelter of the main stand roof, trying to rationalise defeat, the pained look in his eyes betraying the agonies attached to the getting one of England's great club sides back into the second tier. Five years ago, Bolton had no expectation of even being in a place like this. Their team's players were running out in shirts with no sponsor's name on front, taken straight off the rail at the club shop because they owed cash to every firm they had worked with. Their own staff were relying on food banks. The club's descent, after gambling catastrophically on players to extend ten uninterrupted years in the Premier League, took them to the bankruptcy courts and three places off the bottom of League Two.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY CHRIS FOY: When Shaun Edwards returned home to the south of France, he celebrated yet another title with a rendition of one of The Drifters' greatest hits.
CRAIG HOPE: Newcastle United's Cup-winning heroes will parade the trophy through the city's streets on Saturday. Here, we go back to 1952 to capture what a cup win means to Tyneside…
CRAIG HOPE IN NEWCASTLE: It was an ocean of black and white, washed from every street, avenue, estate and tower block of this joyous city, a force-of-nature convergence on the tarmacked tributary running the mile between St James' Park and the Town Moor.
LIVERPOOL CONFIDENTIAL: If Trent Alexander-Arnold was to be let go early, Liverpool would save around a month of wages and would be able to demand a small compensation.
EXCLUSIVE BY IAN HERBERT: It's a Saturday night in the Staffordshire town of Cannock and at a boxing ring rigged up inside a local leisure centre, an asthmatic is taking a serious beating.
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has had many trusted lieutenants on and off the pitch during his 13-year spell at the club, but he would count Arsenal 's new sporting director Andrea Berta near the top of that list.
In the 76 years since George Robledo became the first South American-born player to compete in the top flight, English football has always kept a close eye on developments there.
RACING CONFIDENTIAL: Flat racing returns to these shores at Doncaster on Saturday and with it comes the promise of new champions and future stars.
GRAEME SOUNESS: I understand the frustration of Liverpool supporters towards Trent Alexander-Arnold over his decision to join Real Madrid but I don't think they can be too critical.
DAVID COVERDALE IN ASPATRIA, CUMBRIA: As England kickstart their new era in front of 80,000 fans, a legendary player from their past is attempting his own reboot in front of 100 punters.
IAN HERBERT: Joey Barton was adopting his intellectual persona in court on Tuesday afternoon. He walked in carrying a thick paperback of Christopher Hitchens essays.
MATTHEW LAMBWELL: In the lobby of a Manhattan hotel during last year's US Open I got talking to a prominent tennis agent about the Big Three and legacy; about what Roger Federer , Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will leave behind them in the game other than memories of their greatness. I was reminded of that conversation after seeing three photographs within a few hours of each other on Sunday evening.
Don't be surprised if there are a few more fans than usual, perhaps even one or two of a Celtic persuasion, at Somerset Park on Saturday for the match between Ayr and Dunfermline Athletic.
Travis Kelce may already be easing into retirement - and it's all thanks to his superstar girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
IAN LADYMAN: Two or three months into his time as Liverpool manager a friend visiting from the Netherlands remarked to Arne Slot that there were no obvious references to him in the club shop at Anfield.
MAN UNITED CONFIDENTIAL: Ruben Amorim will be in the market for a wide player this summer with Marcus Rashford, Antony and Jadon Sancho all set to leave.
NATHAN SALT: A lot of the chatter at St George's Park in the past seven days has been about whether Nwaneri can count himself hard done by to have not been picked by Tuchel for the seniors.
IAN HERBERT: The tense music, the lingering close-ups, the warrior declarations like 'you can either hide away or get out there and face it.' Netflix's Drive to Survive has found a dramatic hero for the start of its new series.
LAWRENCE BOOTH'S INSIDE CRICKET: In the grand scheme of things, Ben Duckett leaving Twitter was neither here nor there, but it felt like a small moment in time for Bazball.
LAWRENCE BOOTH: It is nearly six years since Archer took international cricket by storm, starring in England's dramatic World Cup win, then breaching 98mph in the Tests against Australia.
IAN LADYMAN: The stark reality for Thomas Tuchel is that a quarter of his World Cup preamble is now behind him. Two qualifying games gone, six to go. Much of the good news starts and ends with the results. Two victories, two clean sheets. The rest of it is more nuanced. There has been much that we have seen before from England teams here at Wembley against limited opponents who come to sit and smother and frustrate.
TOM COLLOMOSSE: Mail Sport has been looking closely at some of the best young players across the world, profiling them and assessing which Premier League clubs would help their talent flourish.
With a new boxing league on the horizon - one that looks set to mirror the UFC's structure - Tom Aspinall has some strong opinions on what it could mean for fighters.
OLIVER HOLT: Sometimes, there is a point in a Formula One legend's career where the focus shifts to new heroes. Watching Lewis Hamilton, one of Britain's greatest sportsmen, struggling to conjure a romantic last hurrah at Ferrari has assumed a macabre fascination but there is something more vital about the quest of the driver who is leading the race to replace him as this country's next grand prix great.
Secret Service, along with 'MAGA' cap-wearing fans, traipsed after Kai Trump. They had all descended for her famous last name. Ironically, that may be the one thing preventing her success.
MATT BARLOW: It was the morning after England had been demolished by Germany in the Under-21 Euros final and Sir Trevor Brooking was sifting through the debris in a Malmo hotel.
HUGH MACDONALD: Max Johnston, the 21-year-old Sturm Graz full back, is a graduate of the SFA Performance School programme - as is Billy Gilmour, the 23-year-old Napoli midfielder, and six members of the under-17 squad that now have the fate of the group in their hands.
JONATHAN McEVOY IN SHANGHAI: It is difficult to think of a less propitious start to the marriage of Lewis Hamilton and the world's most famous team, and the season is only two races in.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: Fabio Capello puts down his espresso and laughs. The last foreign manager of England has been asked if he has a message for the current one.
NEWCASTLE CONFIDENTIAL: Once the stag do leg of Newcastle's current stay in Dubai is over, the footballs will come out - but there is another sport where the action will be far more competitive.
CHRIS FOY: History and tradition don't ease the gridlock or provide an escape from the kettling ordeal at the train station which, sadly, for many, is part of the Twickenham matchday experience.
IAN LADYMAN: Football management is a precarious business. Well-paid at the top levels, yes, but precarious and deeply stressful at the same time and this manager carries it deeply in his heart.
On the eve of the cricket season, Mail Sport's Dan Biggar sat down with another British sporting icon in England's leading Test wicket-taker Jimmy Anderson for the rugby man's A Load of BS on Sport podcast.
NATHAN SALT: England's Under 21s squad is one brimming with talent that soon senior boss Thomas Tuchel will find it impossible to ignore this crop of youngsters.
CHRIS FOY: Northampton's humiliating capitulation at the hands of Leicester broke records and exposed the downside of supplying England regulars.
GRAEME SOUNESS: There's been plenty of talk all week about how suddenly everything is wrong with the Liverpool team. Respectfully, I say that is nonsense.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY WILL PICKWORTH: It took just nine minutes for Nathan Lowe to make an impact, freshly recalled from a stunning loan spell at League Two Walsall in the first half of the season.
It's a measure of the world we're in that some were so desperate to point a finger and apportion criminal blame when Adam Johnson was killed on the ice on hockey's darkest day nearly 18 months ago.
JACK GAUGHAN: It was 48 hours after Phil Foden had delivered history for Manchester City that he sat inside the opulent Mottram Hall, content and absolutely sure of himself in a way that had not been quite so apparent before.
SIMON JORDAN: Chief Constable Mark Roberts has been doing the media rounds with what I can only describe as disingenuous agenda-motivated nonsense about football and policing.
NIK SIMON: Celebrating their victory over Wales, England mingled with Kate Middleton - patron of the Rugby Football Union - before piling into crates of Guinness and Cruzcampo lager.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY JACK GAUGHAN: We've interrupted Lee Carsley's sacred afternoon. Monday, spent in front of wide screens with wide angles at St George's Park reviewing the weekend performances of a half-century of players vying for a place with the holders at this summer's Under 21 European Championship.
Managing Rangers is not like managing anyone else, at least not in Scotland.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY LAWRENCE BOOTH: During a winter of highs and lows Duckett became one of England's all-format linchpins, batting more times (22) than any of his team-mates.
LEWIS STEELE: You learn more about yourself in times of hardship and after bruising defeats this week, Slot and sporting director Hughes will know exactly what they need.
Last week, Scott McTominay posted a picture on Instagram. In it, he and Billy Gilmour stand with the Campanian coastline behind them as Mount Vesuvius peaks through the clouds.
INSIDE TENNIS: The usual procedure following a breakthrough title for a young British tennis talent is to urge caution: 'Give them time'; 'Let's not get carried away'; 'Everyone stay calm and drink tea'. But after Jack Draper won in Indian Wells, it feels like the opposite is required: listen up Britain, you have permission to get excited.
MAN UNITED CONFIDENTIAL: Manchester United's decision to uproot fans to make room for a new VIP dugout club at Old Trafford has been branded 'appalling' and 'ruthless'.
Not many Celtic players could emerge from the derby defeat with their heads held high, so poor was their overall performance, in the first half at least.
CRAIG HOPE: It was after midnight when the bus carrying Newcastle's Carabao Cup-winning team pulled into The Grove, closer to Watford 's Vicarage Road than Wembley. But a vicarage this was not - the after, after-party was just about to begin. In fact, it was only sunrise that brought the curtain down.
OLIVER HOLT: The whole Byzantine farrago has sometimes seemed eerily similar to episodes from Franz Kafka's The Trial. Resolution rests tantalisingly and torturously out of reach.
CHRIS FOY'S WORLD OF RUGBY: What a busy and confusing period it has been for Andy Farrell, the man charged with masterminding a series victory over Australia this summer.
CHRIS SUTTON: I'm struggling to remember the last time I saw Liverpool as outrun and outmuscled as they were at Wembley on Sunday, not least in midfield.
If any Liverpool fan was in doubt about how much their team would miss Mohamed Salah if he does not sign a new contract this summer, they should watch back the Carabao Cup final.
CRAIG HOPE AND LEWIS STEELE AT WEMBLEY: Eddie Howe and his men etched their name into history with the 2-1 win in the Carabao Cup final over Liverpool on Sunday.
LEWIS STEELE AT WEMBLEY: The Arne Slot machine malfunctioned at the worst time possible, following up their European exit with a Carabao Cup final defeat.
NIK SIMON: The Six Nations came to an end on Saturday, with France pipping England to the title despite losing against Steve Borthwick's side earlier on in the competition.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: If you'd asked any England fan at the start of this Six Nations whether they'd have taken four wins from five matches, they'd have bitten your hand off. So, this has been a successful campaign for Steve Borthwick and his players. Yes, any England team should always be aiming to win the Championship title.
ISAAN KHAN AT THE EMIRATES: Mikel Arteta 's men started brightly and went close early on through decent chances for both Leandro Trossard and Declan Rice in north London.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The tragedy of Diego Maradona was told in many details this week, but none were so arresting as those contained in a single photograph.
CHRIS FOY - WORLD OF RUGBY: Seeing is believing. This was the occasion when the stars aligned for England and they justified all the bold talk of an impending lift-off.
CHRIS FOY AT THE PRINCIPALITY STADIUM: Replacements Henry Pollock and Chandler Cunningham-South each scored two of England's TEN tries in Cardiff.
JOE MARLER:I was peak arrogant Englishman in 2013 - 22 years old, heading west to seal the Grand Slam. All I could think was, 'It's going to be incredible when we lift that trophy on Saturday night'. There was not a sniff of doubt in my mind.
ANDY NICHOL AND JASON WHITE: It's the final day of the 2025 Six Nations and the title is very much up for grabs. Alas, Scotland aren't in the running. Again. But can they beat France?
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Steve Borthwick 's selection for England's visit to Cardiff is the best he's made in his time in charge. Some have said it's risky, but I think it's great.
KIERAN GILL: It's difficult to say exactly how many goals McNeilly has scored for Chelsea's youth sides over the years. There are various age groups, competitions, games official and unofficial. What we do know is the 19-year-old London-born striker is good for a goal - bunches of them.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY NIK SIMON: In January, Henry Pollock was watching Luke Littler on TV. Now it is his time to bask in the limelight and hysteria.
IAN HERBERT: It's hard to believe we're fast approaching five years since the beginning of the dark Covid days when there was so little ambient light and Henderson provided some.
JONATHAN MCEVOY IN MELBOURNE: Lewis Hamilton hopes that his golden age is before him, not behind him. But aged 40 and embarking on his final hurrah at Ferrari, there are no guarantees of that.
When Tommy Freeman was selected in the centres this week, Steve Borthwick asked him to stand up in front of the team and perform one of his party tricks.
IAN LADYMAN: It threatens to become a fundamental pattern that has already brought great danger to the door of our game.
CHRIS WHEELER: United are hoping to start this year but it will depend on acquiring additional land next to Old Trafford and the government and local authority agreeing to fund a wider regeneration of the surrounding area that could boost the UK economy by £7.3bn-a-year, create 92,000 jobs, 17,000 homes and attract an additional 1.8million visitors annually.
With seven goals in eight matches, the 29-year-old's impact has been so great at Villa that they are already considering whether they can sign him permanently.
OLIVER HOLT IN PORTOFINO: There is a point on the tight, twisting coast road that meanders between Santa Margherita Ligure and Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where it passes a nightclub.
EXCLUSIVE BY CRAIG HOPE: The club are preparing to take their intentions to the Government for sign-off on a project that will create hundreds of jobs and pour money into the local economy.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RICHARD GIBSON: Rob Key is contemplating asking Ben Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum to use their Test elixir to revive the country's white-ball cricket.
GRAEME SOUNESS: Mo Salah had two of his quietest games against Paris Saint-Germain but, regardless of that, the importance of getting him a new contract was still emphasised.
WILL PICKWORTH: Stockport had fallen on hard times during the late 2000s and early 2010s, tumbling from the second tier all the way to the bottom of the National League North in the space of a decade and a half.
CHRIS FOY: The 24-year-old Sale wing has had to be patient. He made three appearances as a replacement last year and scored his maiden international try in the Autumn Nations Series.
LEWIS STEELE: The setting is a convention centre just down the road from the home of the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park, on a cheerful spring afternoon.
LEWIS STEELE: Liverpool Confidential has spent the last week ploughing through footage, data and talking to sources close to potential targets to find out who the Reds could sign this summer.
CHELSEA CONFIDENTIAL: It is nearly three months since Chelsea winger Mykhailo Mudryk confirmed he had failed a doping test. There has only been silence since.
RANGERS CONFIDENTIAL: For all their shortcomings on and off the pitch these last few years, there is no doubting Rangers' crowd-pulling power.
DAN BIGGAR: The week changes in Wales camp when England are coming to Cardiff. Everything goes up a notch.
SIMON JORDAN: Sir Jim Ratcliffe's achievements dwarf mine so maybe I shouldn't question him, but it's beyond me how all his bold statements regarding Manchester United can come true.
Time and again, the TV cameras panned to a stony-faced Raheem Sterling during Arsenal's 1-1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.
RUGBY CONFIDENTIAL: The WRU are finalising their One Wales strategy to restore the fortunes of the game at all levels.
MATTHEW LAMBWELL: With her run to the last 16 in Indian Wells, Kartal is up to 63rd in the world - currently just three places and 15 ranking points behind countrywoman Raducanu.
Jadon Sancho was one of the Manchester United stars singled out by Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who revealed that the Old Trafford flop will cost the club another £17million this summer even though he is now playing on loan at Chelsea.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Make no mistake. When you go away from home in international rugby, the host team will do what they can to disrupt your preparation.
So Brendan Rodgers' remarkable Scottish Cup record continues, this time with a 2-0 win against Hibs in last Sunday's quarter-final tie at Celtic Park.
EXCLUSIVE BY IAN LADYMAN: Frank Lampard is sitting behind a small table in a small room and is poking a bit of fun at himself. Superstitions? Yeah, he's had a few. 'Yeah I used to,' Lampard laughs. 'I used to eat the same meal in the same proportions and then walk the dog the same walk, the same laps of the park. I had a certain order of putting my boots on and putting my kit on.
As India were handed the Champions Trophy by India's ICC chairman at India's new home-from-home in front of India's fans, it seemed perverse to wonder if cricket has ever been more polarised.
TOM COLLOMOSSE: As he headed for the dressing room following Middlesbrough's 1-0 defeat by Aston Villa, Morgan Rogers started to suspect something was afoot.
IAN HERBERT: It's been a painful recent history. The club's attempts to make ground on Celtic have been obsessive and, ultimately, hopeless.
DANNY MURPHY: Is he good enough to one day be United's main centre forward in a team who challenge for big trophies? After 19 games without scoring, the evidence suggests he is not.
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has had many trusted lieutenants in his 13-year spell at the club, but he would count new Arsenal sporting director Andrea Berta near the top of that list.
CHRIS WHEELER AT OLD TRAFFORD: Arsenal and Manchester United shared the spoils on Sunday in their Premier League clash, as the Gunners lost further ground to Liverpool.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Job done for England. A bonus-point victory over Italy was absolutely required and that was delivered. More importantly Twickenham wanted entertainment.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY JOSUE SEIXAS: Murillo is far too modest and polite to get carried away about Nottingham Forest, the Champions League or even links to Real Madrid but this devoutly religious superstar knows something divine is happening.
JONATHAN McEVOY: It's make or break for Lando Norris this year, for his reputation and his future. Indications from pre-season testing in Bahrain suggest his McLaren team own the fastest car.
OLIVER HOLT: This is not a hagiography of Mikel Arteta. I'm not all-in on the Arsenal boss. For a start, who gets a dog to help the squad bond and calls it 'Win'?
JOE MARLER: We made a great pair, in my eyes: he was Mr Positive, happy, loving the world; I was Mr Negative and hated the world. We balanced each other out until we were both in a realistic place.
RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: He's up before dawn most mornings and that's a knife he brings to the gunfight - you can't cure dementia, but you can slow its advances.
MATT BARLOW: Few had it down as a good development for Raphinha when Lamine Yamal burst from Barcelona's youth ranks to make the position on the right wing his own.
DAN BIGGAR: I've always hated it when players deliver bland, boring platitudes to journalists. I don't see the point. I feel it's important to say what you think.
NIK SIMON IN DUBLIN: When Caelan Doris was a baby his father, Andy, spent 40 days and 40 nights living on the top of the Croagh Patrick Mountain, in County Mayo, interviewing pilgrims.
IAN LADYMAN: United are desperate, all right. Desperate not to go back to square one. Desperate not to have to start all over again. Desperate not to admit they've got it wrong once more.
Three rounds into the Six Nations and Lions No. 10 shirt is still anyone's to grab. The easy assumption heading into this tournament was that the jersey was reserved for Finn Russell.
CHRIS FOY: Having opted to ditch the blitz after the Autumn Nations Series, the national team have been seeking to bed in a new, more refined defensive system under Joe El-Abd.
CRAIG HOPE: Newcastle are still scouring the market for big-ticket strikers this summer, despite their determination to keep Alexander Isak. It was telling when chief executive Darren Eales said three times during his media briefing this week that the club's star players were under long-term contracts, and the desire not to sell Isak was clear.
GRAEME SOUNESS: Thomas Tuchel was responsible for one of the most memorable periods in Chelsea's recent history.
CHRIS FOY: This is about much more than just a Six Nations showdown with Italy at Twickenham - it is about an identity crisis which has been a major problem for more than two decades.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: Sometimes, it is who you don't pick that gets the headlines. And that is exactly what has happened this week with Marcus Smith.
LAWRENCE BOOTH: And, for England's one-day side, these really are desperate times. But as with the Test team's Bazball revolution, there may just be method to the madness.
Ryan Wedding never had much issue carving his way down a winding path. In 2002, he represented Canada at the Winter Olympics. Now, he is the man to catch in Operation Giant Slalom.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: After England's Calcutta Cup win, I wrote that Marcus Smith was approaching the time when he would have to sit down with Steve Borthwick and insist on playing No 10.
THE SAMI MOKBEL COLUMN: Arsenal teenager Ethan Nwaneri is being considered for an England promotion following his brilliant form for Mikel Arteta's side.
In a groundbreaking move poised to reshape the boxing landscape, TKO Group Holdings - the parent company of UFC and WWE - has announced a new boxing promotion.
Chelsea's forgotten star faces further turbulence as the footballing vagabond moving from club to club in search of a fixed home, each time expressing his desire to stay for good.
DOMINIC KING: Liverpool's history is decorated with goalkeepers whose names reverberate through the ages - and some carry more distinction than others.
DAN BIGGAR: Let's be honest - Marcus isn't an international full back. What he is, is a world-class No 10 who is so good in certain areas that he has the ability to play 15 if needed.
SIMON JORDAN: Given we're in a world of increased activism and a petition on every issue, it's little surprise certain football fans are changing the way they interact with their clubs, often with a sense of entitlement.
Dr Barry O'Driscoll has devoted most of his life's work to safeguarding the sport he loves with a particular focus on limiting the dangers of head injuries and concussion.
As if these last few weeks haven't been humiliating enough for Rangers, along comes the prospect of another indignity, one that would underline just how bad they have been this season.
LEWIS STEELE: Real Madrid's pursuit of Trent Alexander-Arnold has been well-documented but Liverpool Confidential understands their interest in another Reds defender is also very real.
CHRIS FOY AND ALEX BYWATER: He has been one half of England's 'Ant and Dec' double-act - now Jamie George is ready to celebrate his Test century, after taking inspiration from Joe Root.
He sits joint third in this season's UEFA Conference League scoring charts alongside the likes of Chelsea's Christopher Nkunku and Krzysztof Piatek of Istanbul Basaksehir.
MATTHEW LAMBWELL IN CALIFORNIA: Amid the hot desert breeze that whips down through the San Gorgonio Pass, one can also discern the winds of change here in Indian Wells, and they are sweeping in a new generation.
MAN UNITED CONFIDENTIAL: Confidential revealed in January that Chelsea will lead the chase for Mainoo if United cannot tie him to a new deal and reluctantly decide to sell him.
RACING CONFIDENTIAL: Praise for Michael O'Leary wouldn't be a familiar starting point but, in this of all weeks, it is only right to give credit where it is due.
Huddled together on the touchline, parents, scouts and coaches were left mouths agape as the 14-year-old toyed with Blackburn Rovers while his body was hanging together by a thread.
ANDY NICOL, JASON WHITE AND CALUM CROWE: Suddenly, Scotland are at a huge turning point. After the agonising defeat at Twickenham, they face a nightmare scenario.
IAN HERBERT: It was someone in the row behind me at on Saturday who captured the journey those of us who support the club through the decades have experienced.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: The biggest compliment Maro Itoje should take about the fine job he's done as England captain in this Six Nations is that there is no debate in the media about him doing the role.
JACK GAUGHAN: This was supposed to be the reset, the turning of a page, the season Grealish returned to being Grealish. Last year, the post-Treble comedown, was effectively a write-off.
SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: We're set for a thrilling final two rounds of the Six Nations. There will be real pressure - for different reasons - on all the teams, but we wouldn't have it any other way!
The Arsenal hierarchy were braced for the potential backlash. Partnering with an impoverished nation suffering from crisis, including allegations of politically-motivated murders, was always going to court controversy. But as is the way in football, money talks.
NASSER HUSSAIN: Back in 1999 when I was appointed England captain, we had hit rock bottom in the Test rankings after underperforming for a very long time.
During an astonishing first season, Daniels helped Dan Quinn transform the Commanders. He began the year as the No 2 draft pick. He ended it as rookie of the year and the NFL's most exciting prospect.
ALEX RASKIN IN INDIANAPOLIS: After speaking with league insiders, agents, and a bevy of league hopefuls, here are the biggest breakout performers from the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine.
JONATHAN McEVOY IN BAHRAIN: A large posse of photographers waited by the press conference door to capture his arrival, echoing the Michael Schumacher era.
GARY KEOWN: In a way, the Vaudeville, of giving Ferguson the manager's job and letting him bring in his pals for a few months is a most apposite end to the reign of those currently in charge at Ibrox.
| Pos | Pos | Team | P | PTS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Liverpool | Liverpool | 33 | 79 |
| 2 |  | Arsenal | Arsenal | 34 | 67 |
| 3 |  | Manchester City | Man City | 34 | 61 |
| 4 |  | Nottingham Forest | Nottm Forest | 33 | 60 |
| 5 |  | Newcastle United | Newcastle | 33 | 59 |
| 6 |  | Chelsea | Chelsea | 33 | 57 |
| 7 |  | Aston Villa | Aston Villa | 34 | 57 |
| 8 |  | AFC Bournemouth | Bournemouth | 33 | 49 |
| 9 |  | Fulham | Fulham | 33 | 48 |
| 10 |  | Brighton & Hove Albion | Brighton | 33 | 48 |
| 11 |  | Brentford | Brentford | 33 | 46 |
| 12 |  | Crystal Palace | Crystal Palace | 34 | 45 |
| 13 |  | Everton | Everton | 33 | 38 |
| 14 |  | Manchester United | Man Utd | 33 | 38 |
| 15 |  | Wolverhampton Wanderers | Wolves | 33 | 38 |
| 16 |  | Tottenham Hotspur | Tottenham | 33 | 37 |
| 17 |  | West Ham United | West Ham | 33 | 36 |
| 18 |  | Ipswich Town | Ipswich | 33 | 21 |
| 19 |  | Leicester City | Leicester | 33 | 18 |
| 20 |  | Southampton | Southampton | 33 | 11 |
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