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Pep Guardiola is a genius as a football coach. Stick a curly, white, horsehair wig on him and, judging by his performance in his press conference on Friday afternoon, he’d make a decent counsel for the defence, too. His scarcely concealed…

There are those who still cling to the idea that English football has never had it so good.  They will say, even in the light of the 115 charges facing reigning champions Manchester City, that at a time when we have turned inwards in so…

There have been false dawns before in the bleak, bleak years since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. A Champions League victory at the Parc des Princes sticks in the mind some time after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had been appointed. That was hailed as…

There is a neighbourhood in Santos called Canal 6. It takes its name from a gully of stagnant water, choked with plastic bags and cans and squares of old carpet.It runs down the middle of the Avenida Coronel Joaquim Montenegro where, at…

Georgia Holt, the mother of singer Cher, has died aged 96.Cher, 76, revealed the sad news on social media, writing: "Mom is gone," followed by a downcast face emoji. Former US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton shared her…

OLIVER HOLT: Antonio Rudiger stood frozen in SHOCK having been showboating not long before… it may be hard to accept that Germany have become also-rans, but the evidence is mountingBy Oliver Holt For The Daily Mail Published:…

Alex Scott does not deserve our censure for making the decision to travel to Qatar to report for the BBC. She does not deserve scorn. She does not deserve cynicism. She is doused with all of those things because some people want to silence…

It was one point last season, if you remember. That was how narrow the gap was. That was the margin by which Liverpool lost the title to a Manchester City team which is owned by one of the richest states in the world, which buys the best…

If Emma Raducanu never wins another tennis match in her life, she will have achieved more than the vast majority of elite players will ever achieve. She won a Grand Slam. She is a US Open winner. She is a history-maker. Last year, she was…

Tiger Woods got a five-minute standing ovation when he limped up to the 18th green on his way to missing the cut at St Andrews on Friday. Phil Mickelson got half-empty grandstands and half-hearted applause in the softening evening sunlight.…