Jim White

It takes a lot of coffee to-go, in order to go to Castle Hot Springs. Expectations were high as five of us convoyed the 40 miles (the last 7 of which is dirt and gravel) to this oasis tucked in the sheer canyons that guide the Agua Fria River to the depths of Lake Pleasant. Our mission today was to make contact with these remote humans and understand their ways.

Jim White After Thursday's shambolic defeat at Stamford Bridge Manchester United 's Erik ten Hag accepted his side's chances of qualifying

This was the Safety First National, the National for Wimps, less a steeplechase, more a procession. Or at least that was the reaction of online critics before the first running of the country's most popular horse race under its new restricted rules.

We have traveled to Sicily in search of the ‘Holy Grail’ of caffeine. And we have hit the jackpot (so to speak). Whether it’s standing to throw back a shot of espresso or lingering for an hour over a cappuccino, coffee here is a way of life. Four espressos a day keeps the doctor away!

Nathaniel Dye was once an ultra-marathon runner before his illness - Telegraph/David Rose

Clare Balding at Wimbledon This summer, Clare Balding will be busier than a dozen busy people.

Dave Kitson, who wanted to be a travel writer, is on a mission to get locals playing football in Nauru - Paul Grover for the Telegraph

Dave Kitson is about to embark on a somewhat unexpected footballing journey. In July the former Reading, Stoke and Oxford striker is heading off to one of the most isolated places on earth: the tiny Micronesian state of Nauru. His role: to get the locals playing football. Which, given that the island boasts just one quarter-sized pitch and almost the entire landscape has been horribly scarred by a generation of phosphate mining, is likely to prove no easy task. Not to mention the fact that 70 per cent of the 12,000 inhabitants are clinically obese and more than 40 per cent of them have type two diabetes. According to the Global Obesity Observatory, Nauru is just behind American Samoa in terms of national obesity.

Watching on from Rotterdam, Arne Slot will have learned much from Liverpool’s performance at West Ham. Here are the key issues he must deal with:

It is that time of year, when you draw the curtains against the afternoon light, sit down on the sofa, switch on the telly and, several hours later, find you are still there, bewitched, bewildered, ever so slightly bothered.