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Liverpool manager Arne Slot says forward Diogo Jota will miss their Premier League game at Arsenal on Sunday. Jota was substituted in the victory against Chelsea last Sunday after suffering a chest injury when Blues defender Tosin Adarabioyo fell on top of him during a challenge. The Portugal international missed Liverpool’s Champions League win at RB Leipzig on Wednesday and …

British number one Katie Boulter lost only three games as she beat former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu to reach the semi-finals of the Pan Pacific Open. Boulter, 28, triumphed 6-2 6-1 in one hour three minutes in Tokyo. The world number 33 broke Canadian Andreescu’s serve five times, including in her opening service game. “I played really well today,” …

There was no shortage of emotion at the final whistle. Unsurprisingly so given that, for all the domestic success, this level had long eluded the 16-time Welsh champions. But after the romanticism of beginning their groundbreaking first campaign at a European group stage away to Fiorentina, this was the realism of needing a result. Although Opta had last month predicted …

European governing body Uefa are bound to be in touch – which is where we probably should start. In 2023, Mourinho was given a four-match touchline ban for his behaviour around the Europa League final when his Roma side were beaten by Sevilla in Budapest. Premier League referee Anthony Taylor was abused in the airport on his way home after …

Murphy compiled a break of 104 to win the first frame against Bingham, who responded with 121 to draw level. Essex veteran Bingham moved 3-1 ahead, helped by a run of 101 in frame four, but breaks of 56 and 52 helped Murphy draw level before the world number eight got over the line. Despite a break of 60 from …

Boulter is ranked 33rd in the world after a year which has yielded two WTA titles and a breakthrough into the top 30. While she has been unable to go past the third round of a major, Boulter has regularly asserted her authority with her powerful baseline game. That is what happened in Tokyo as the gulf between Boulter and …

BBC Sport looks back at Manchester United’s October 2004 clash with Arsenal at Old Trafford, which resulted in Sir Alex Ferguson being hit by a flying slice of pizza.

Ospreys face Edinburgh in Bridgend on Saturday, their final game before the international break. The Swansea-based side are bottom of the United Rugby Championship having won only one of their five games so far this season. “We are all determined, myself included, to put right what has been a disappointing block for us,” Booth said. “I am confident that everyone …

There are 30 nominees in both the men’s and women’s category. In the men’s category, six England players – captain Harry Kane, midfielders Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden and Declan Rice, and forwards Bukayo Saka and Cole Palmer – have been nominated. England-based players Ruben Dias, Emiliano Martinez, Martin Odegaard and William Saliba are also nominated. It is the first time …

Manager Stephen Robinson has agreed a new contract that ties him to St Mirren until the summer of 2027. The Northern Irishman left Morecambe to take charge in Paisley in February 2022 and has led the Buddies to back-to-back top-six finishes in his two full seasons. The 49-year-old has steered St Mirren to their highest league positions in almost 40 …