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All Euro 2024 roads lead to Berlin as 24 teams do battle to be crowned the best in Europe.The top two teams from each group of four – there are six groups in total – will qualify for the last-16, along with the four best third-place teams. The tournament will then follow a one-leg, knock-out

The leading contenders to take over from Ten Hag – Tuchel, Gareth Southgate, Graham Potter, Roberto de Zerbi, Ruben Amorim – come with enviable pedigree. But all of them could be forgiven for asking whether they are being set up to fail. It is not just that United, having sunk so far, are now plumbing

In the ensuing 15 years since that first squad trip up Table Mountain, Saracens have won more trophies than any other English club with six league titles (having made a further three finals), and three European Cups in the space of four years. When the trips have gone well, which they have almost all of

The Premier League is football’s Pyramid stage, the land of milk and money. Promotion is a time to put away childish things, like annual trips to Deepdale. The reality is not quite as advertised. You will be obliterated, probably half a dozen times. Minor mistakes will be punished by brutally excellent players you have previously

A secret lifetime ban has been imposed on a former Chelsea coach following accusations of racist bullying at the club that saw them pay damages to former players.Gwyn Williams, who spent 27 years at the club, was handed the strongest possible sanction by the Football Association almost five years ago – nearly three years before

To end up with a wage bill that is 92 percent of the club’s turnover – and having nothing to show for it – proves he has been taken to the cleaners.There is guilt by association for everyone who followed Moshiri’s dream and turned a blind eye to the red flags as the club overspent

It is the only race on the card, the prize money is generated entirely from car parking receipts, there is not so much as a coffee concession because everyone brings their own picnic and a there is a seven-year waiting list for a parking spot by the paddock.The race is run over four miles and

Hogg spoke only once to confirm his name during the five-minute hearing, at which trial date was fixed for July 30.He was released on bail with special conditions not to contact his former partner and to stay away from her address near Hawick.After denying all the charges against him and receiving his bail papers, Hogg

Johannes Spors, the global sporting director of 777 Group, is among the names Newcastle United have considered in their search for Dan Ashworth’s successor.With Ashworth on gardening leave ahead of a move to Manchester United, Dougie Freedman has been a frontrunner to replace him at St James’ Park although there have been others under consideration with

Aston Villa’s do-or-die Europa Conference League semi-final second-leg tie against Olympiacos will be officiated by a referee who served a six-month ban as part of a German match-fixing scandal.Felix Zwayer has been confirmed as the referee for Thursday night’s game in Greece, where Villa need to overturn a 4-2 first-leg deficit to advance to the