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Spain and Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati has won the women’s Ballon d’Or for the second year in a row. Bonmati won every possible trophy at club level last season as Barcelona secured a historic quadruple – winning Liga F, the Champions League, Supercopa and Copa de la Reina. The 26-year-old scored a career-best tally of 19 goals across all four …

Manchester City and Spain midfielder Rodri has won the men’s Ballon d’Or – awarded to the best footballer of the year – for the first time. The 28-year-old, who lost just one game last season for club and country, was awarded the prize in Paris after helping Spain win Euro 2024 in July. He also won the Premier League, Uefa …

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 …