Ben Burrows

Ruud van Nistelrooy will have “mixed emotions” when he leads Manchester United for the first time as interim coach on Wednesday night. The former striker — who scored 150 goals in 219 appearances for United as a player — was appointed on an interim basis following Erik ten Hag’s sacking on Monday. He returned to his former club in the summer as an addition to Ten Hag’s coaching team following a spell in charge of PSV Eindhoven. The 48-year-old will now take over for “however long I am asked to do so” as the club work to find Ten Hag’s permanent...

The Women’s Super League (WSL) has agreed what it calls “the most significant broadcast partnership ever for women’s football” in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The new five-year deal begins from the 2025-26 season and the Women’s Professional Leagues Limited (WPLL) says it will enable supporters to watch every game from the top league of women’s professional football in England live. Sky Sports will show up to 118 matches as part of the agreement with 78 of those exclusive to the subscription broadcaster including every game on the season’s closing weekend. The BBC...

WSL agrees ‘significant' new broadcast deal with Sky Sports and BBC

The majority of Manchester United fans are in favour of building a new stadium at Old Trafford, a study conducted by the club has found. A task force chaired by Lord Sebastian Coe and including mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham and former club captain Gary Neville among others, was established earlier this year to explore options for the future of the club’s home, including either redeveloping the existing structure or building a new stadium entirely. A deadline of December 31 has been set to deliver a report outlining the task force’s final recommendations for the project. Ahead of...

Hugo Lloris has revealed the concerns Tottenham Hotspur players had with the club’s decision to allow an all-access documentary to follow them during the 2019-20 season. The six-part All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur followed the team for the duration of that campaign, a year where manager Mauricio Pochettino was sacked and replaced with Jose Mourinho. It also covered the club’s first season at their new stadium and took in the shutting down of football entirely following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Spurs had reached the Champions League final the previous season, a...

Roberto De Zerbi has offered to leave his position as Marseille head coach if he is deemed to be “the problem” behind the club’s struggles at home. Marseille currently sit second in the Ligue 1 table but defeat to newly-promoted Auxerre left De Zerbi’s side six points behind leaders Paris Saint-Germain having played a game more. They have won only once at the Stade Velodrome this season with the 3-1 reverse on Friday night a second defeat in succession in front of their own fans. “If I’m the problem, I’m ready to leave. I’ll leave the money and...

Jose Mourinho has been fined and must serve a one-match ban following his reaction to Fenerbahce’s win over Trabzonspor. The former Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid manager celebrated Sunday’s 3-2 away victory — won by a 112th-minute Sofyan Amrabat goal — with an attempted knee slide in front of opposition supporters. He later said his team had played “against the VAR and against the system” and that VAR official Atilla Karaoglan was “drinking Turkish tea” instead of watching the game. Mourinho was unhappy with the award of two penalties to Trabzonspor and was...

Bruno Fernandes offered his support to Alejandro Garnacho after the Manchester United winger appeared to celebrate his goal against Leicester City in a muted fashion. The 20-year-old rounded off the scoring of a 3-0 win with a superb curling effort from outside the box before appearing to cut a celebratory run towards the home fans short. Fernandes, who scored the first of the afternoon at Old Trafford, was later seen talking with the Argentina international at full-time. GO DEEPERMan United 3 Leicester 0: Fernandes stars as Van Nistelrooy leaves positive mood for Amorim Garnacho has scored...

Lamine Yamal has been withdrawn from the Spain squad for the upcoming Nations League fixtures with an ankle injury that is expected to keep him out for two to three weeks. The 17-year-old missed Sunday’s La Liga defeat to Real Sociedad after picking up what the club called a “strong bruise” in the win over Red Star in the Champions League on Wednesday. “He has been undergoing treatment over the last few days, but the discomfort persists,” the club said. “The player is out and his progress will determine his availability.” A club statement on Monday...

A man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of Adam Johnson has been re-bailed until January. Nottingham Panthers player Johnson, 29, died after being cut in the neck by a skate during a Challenge Cup match against the Sheffield Steelers on October 28 in what his club labelled a “freak accident”. A man was arrested on suspicion on suspicion of manslaughter in November 2023. He was later bailed and has now been re-bailed until January 20, 2025. South Yorkshire Police detective chief inspector Benjamin Wood said in a statement on Monday: “We have been working...