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Manchester United are in talks about appointing Sporting manager Ruben Amorim as Erik ten Hag’s replacement. Dutchman Ten Hag was sacked on Monday following the side’s poor start to the season. Amorim, 39, is a highly regarded coach who has won two Portuguese league titles with Sporting – including their first in 19 years – since joining in 2020. The …

Reflecting on the game at Easter Road, Gray thought both teams played “with a fear not to lose” given their early season woes. “It was a bit scrappy, there was a lack of quality,” he said. “But every time we did show a bit of quality, we created chances, so that’s a real positive. “To lose the goal and drop …

Ten Hag has had to deal with other tough situations. Right at the start of his tenure, he had to discipline Cristiano Ronaldo for leaving Old Trafford early after he had been replaced at half-time during a pre-season game against Rayo Vallecano. The move showed strength but set in place a chain of events that would eventually lead to Ronaldo …

The Ballon d’Or winner will be announced on Monday in Paris – with 30 players named on the initial shortlist. Many of them started their careers in English football, with more joining Premier League clubs later on. We want you to name them from the first English team where they played a first-team game, so we are including loans. Some …

Gary Kirsten has resigned as Pakistan’s limited-overs coach after six months in the role and Test coach Jason Gillespie will be in charge for the white-ball tour of Australia which starts next week. The former South Africa batter was appointed on a two-year contract in April at the same time as Gillespie took over the Test side. Kirsten is reported …

Match of the Day 2 pundits Micah Richards and Stephen Warnock analyse the controversial late penalty awarded to West Ham against Manchester United.

MOTD2 pundits Micah Richards and Stephen Warnock give their verdicts on some contentious decisions during Arsenal’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool.

At the front, Sainz made it three Ferrari wins in the past five races after taking pole position, despite losing the lead to Verstappen on the first lap. The race was immediately put under the safety car after a collision between Williams’ Alex Albon and Yuki Tsunoda’s RB led to the Japanese crashing at the first corner and Albon pulling …

Arsenal have plenty of heart, as they demonstrated here as they ended battling to keep Liverpool at bay with a back four of Thomas Partey, Ben White, Jakub Kiwior and 18-year-old Myles Lewis-Skelly. There was, however, a lack of ambition and belief that saw them fail to capitalise on their first half-superiority. It was inevitable Liverpool would improve, as they …

England’s Liz Young won the Women’s Indian Open by one shot to claim her second Ladies European Tour title. The 42-year-old trailed compatriot Alice Hewson and Belgium’s Manon de Roey at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Haryana before carding a final-round 72 to finish two under par overall on Sunday. De Roey went round in 74 to finish …