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RASH, brazen and bombastic Brummie Ben Whittaker will once again bring his stomach-churning showboating antics into the ring with him on Saturday.The

THE NEXT time Simon from ­Surrey pours out his heart to talkSPORT about the woes of supporting Manchester United, spare a thought for ‘Steven’ fr

FOR everyone involved with Liverpool this is probably as good as it will get for some time — and I think they all know it.Next season the Reds will

HAVING already captured one crown jewel in Jude Bellingham, Real Madrid are set to acquire another in French super-scorer Kylian Mbappe.Spain’s most

IT’S been 7½ years since an FA suit called Martin Glenn sat beside Roy Hodgson and clumsily declared: “Iceland will not be your epitaph.”That w

I’M no fan of shopping but I love a bargain in the January sales. The big problem is finding them.And if you think that’s hard on the high street,

ENGLAND women's manager Sarina Wiegman is given a whopping new contract while Jose Mourinho gets the boot from Roma.It would be hard to think of two m

JORDAN HENDERSON is taking some serious stick after the end of his brief stint in Saudi Arabia.But I would like to know how many critics would dismiss

DCL, VAR, WTF! Sometimes one single incident is so absurd that it has the capacity to bring down an entire house of cards.And when Everton striker Dom

FRIDAY night will be my first match as a manager in the Football League.Ask me what kind of boss I’ll be and the only answer I can honestly give at

IF they did a league tableof football’s larger-than-life personalities, Terry Venables would be the odds-on favourite for the title.I ha

I’VE always said football is a simple game — now it seems even Pep Guardiola agrees that you can’t beat winging it.But don’t think I’m havi

IT is just 95 days until the Bahrain Grand Prix, the opening race for the 2024 season, and boy do Mercedes have their work cut out.This season has bee

UP until this week, I thought Aaron Ramsdale would be OK against Brentford.I was confident he would have a strong game and put himself in contention a

FOOTBALL is falling foul of so much over-regulation it reminds you of the old workers’ axiom, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.As if VAR ha

THERE was a wistful smile on Marcus Rashford’s face when ref Donatus Rumsas brandished the red card.It was the look of a man convinced that everythi

I HAVE never heard anyone from Watford, Manchester City or Borussia Dortmund say Jadon Sancho was a bad trainer.So I appreciate why he came out and sa

OSCAR DE LA HOYA has finally come cleanand admitted he blatantly lied about one of boxing's most heart-wrenching stories.Two years before going

FRANK WARREN —  ever the optimist  — has always maintained that faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.

MAURICIO POCHETTINO’S Spurs were not only a fine footballing team, they were a big, nasty, intimidating bunch to play against.They might never have

HARRY KANE turns 30 on Friday, with smoke signals from the Bahamas suggesting that Spurs’ billionaire owner Joe Lewis will finally gift him a long-a

ENGLISH football has come on leaps and bounds in the last dozen years.Take, for example, Ashley Cole — a man who once injured an aspiring youngster

MAX VERSTAPPEN was victorious again and Red Bull maintained their 100 per cent win-rate for the season.But don’t switch off yet, the others are defi

THERE will be a great deal of Brummie pride for me in seeing Jack Grealish playing in a Champions League final.Even though Jack is an Aston Villa man

MIKEL ARTETA worked wonders to get Arsenal into second place considering the players he had at his disposal.But when a manager has massively over-perf