Rob Dawson, CorrespondentNov 21, 2024, 08:00 PM Pep Guardiola signed a new two-year contract to extend his stay as Manchester City boss, the club announced Thursday. Guardiola, 53, agreed to a deal that will keep him at the Etihad Stadium until 2027. His contract was due to expire at the end of the current campaign.

Farrell has made seven changes for the Fiji game with Ulster back row Cormac Izuchukwu and Leinster hooker Gus McCarthy handed their debuts. “Izzy has been in and around the squad for a while. The first Emerging Ireland tour was when we first came across his ability, his athleticism, his point of difference,” observed Farrell.

Repeated Super Bowl heartbreak is behind the San Francisco 49ers’ disappointing start to the NFL season, believes Sky Sports analyst Phoebe Schecter. The 49ers sit 5-5 in a wide-open NFC West having been hindered by marquee injuries in their ongoing bid to maximise a Championship window following February’s defeat to the back-to-back defending Super Bowl

Harlem Eubank is still willing to fight Adam Azim, even though their mooted contest fell through earlier this year. The British rivals faced off in March and signed to fight, but Azim rolled his ankle, an injury which led to a series of postponements and eventually saw Eubank move on to other fights. Eubank will

Ian Darke, ESPN.com writerNov 21, 2024, 02:47 PM Close Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most recognizable

The irony was not lost on Manchester United staff. As the watching world zoomed in on Carrington and Ruben Amorim sampling his new surroundings for the first time, the man instructive in appointing him as the club’s head coach had to fly in the opposite direction: Lisbon. Portugal’s capital must have felt like a second

Bestowing new nicknames upon the German double winners has become something of a cottage industry. Throughout last season’s unprecedented unbeaten domestic campaign, Bayer Leverkusen time and again summoned the kind of mental willpower late in games with which illusionist Uri Geller in his spoon-bending days was synonymous. Sixteen stoppage-time goals in all competitions resulted in

After losing out on the 2021 drivers’ title on the final lap of the season to Max Verstappen, Hamilton did not win a race in the 2022 and 2023 seasons as Mercedes struggled to adapt to new regulations. The team appeared to have overcome their difficulties when winning three out of four races in the

Enzo Maresca has said Reece James has suffered another hamstring injury and will miss Chelsea’s trip to face Leicester in the Premier League this weekend. James, 24, has suffered from frequent muscular injuries over the past few seasons and only returned from a five-month layoff in Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat to Liverpool on Oct. 20. “We

Rúben Amorim has received so much coverage since being linked to the Manchester United job that most people know the manager has mostly played a 3-4-2-1 formation throughout his career. Given that presumably Manchester United have done their homework on him, this raises the question of how the players in the current United squad might