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Luis Miguel Echegaray, ESPNDec 26, 2024, 02:31 PM Welcome to the end-of-year awards! From best players and best teams in the men’s and women’s game to the best celebration of the year, I’ll reveal my winners from 2024. A reminder that these awards take only the calendar year into consideration. So even though last season…
India’s Virat Kohli has been fined 20% of his match fee after barging into Australia opener Sam Konstas on day one of the fourth Test in Melbourne. Kohli clashed shoulders with Konstas at the end of the 10th over, with the former India captain appearing to change direction to make contact as the 19-year-old walked…
Rovers sacked previous boss Taylor after losing three league matches in succession, without scoring once. The Gas are 19th in the League One table, three points above the relegation zone having won just six league games this season. “Inigo is someone I have followed for a long time, both as a player and as a…
Sporting have appointed Rui Borges as head coach after sacking Joao Pereira, who lasted just over a month in charge at the Portuguese club following Ruben Amorim’s departure. Pereira took over as boss of the Lisbon side soon after Amorim left to become Manchester United head coach in November, but he endured a difficult spell…
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has said he believes he can continue to play at the highest level for several years as uncertainty over his future at the club continues. Van Dijk — alongside teammates Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold — is out of contract at the end of the season, with negations over a…
Arsenal need to find a Robin van Persie. That might be a touchy subject at the Emirates, where the former Gunners centre-forward is regarded with disdain rather than affection after leaving to join Manchester United for £24 million in 2012, but if Mikel Arteta’s team unearth a goal scorer to do for them what Van…
Former Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic has described Sir Alex Ferguson’s insatiable desire to keep winning by saying “for him, it’s never enough”. Speaking in a new two-part BBC documentary called Sir Alex, former defender Vidic said of the Scotsman that “if he’s won two trophies this season, next year he wants to win three….
It has been quite the rise for Konstas, who has only played 11 first-class matches and made his debut for New South Wales in 2023, less than two months after his 18th birthday. Pitched straight into the action after skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and chose to bat, Konstas was engaged in a fascinating…
I went to New Orleans. I want to go to New Orleans again. I will never not want to go to New Orleans again. Everybody should go to New Orleans, all the time. The NFL should go… I heard February is good. It is the trendy grandparent to whom you skip joyously, lifted by the…
It has been quite a year for Welsh sport – from the highs of football and Olympic succcesses to the lows of the national rugby teams. So as we take time to reflect on the past 12 months this Christmas, here are a dozen questions to see how well you remember some of the stories,…