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» Liverpool handed another injury boost as Arne Slot hints at Everton starting line-up
Liverpool face Everton in the re-arranged Merseyside derby on Wednesday night looking to bounce back after their surprise FA Cup defeat to Championship strugglers Plymouth Argyle at the weekend
» Arne Slot's FA Cup gamble could get the payoff he wants for Liverpool against Everton
Liverpool face Everton in the last Merseyside derby at Goodison Park and Arne Slot's side are under pressure after their weakened side were embarrassed by Plymouth in the FA Cup
» 'I played in the Merseyside derby - this is why it's the most intense clash I've been in'
Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has opened up on the most intense rivalries that he was a part of during his playing days, ahead of the latest instalment of the Merseyside Derby
» Lisandro Martinez fires back at Man Utd legend Paul Scholes: "He wouldn't survive!"
Lisandro Martinez was a near ever-present for Manchester United before his season-ending injury but has been involved in some dismal performances that have left his side 13th in the Premier League
» 5 options for Mikel Arteta as Arsenal suffer major Kai Havertz injury scare
Arsenal have been hit with another injury hammer blow with Kai Havertz picking up an issue during a warm weather camp in Dubai and Mikel Arteta has been given significant thinking to do
» Vinicius Jr gets last laugh on Man City fans after public response to Ballon d'Or banner
Vinicius Junior was mocked throughout Tuesday's Champions League play-off between Manchester City and Real Madrid, but it was the Brazilian who was celebrating come full-time after being spurred on by City fans' banner of Rodri winning the Ballon d'Or
» Liverpool playing for ultimate Goodison Park bragging rights in final Merseyside derby
Arne Slot's Premier League leaders Liverpool make short trip to Goodison Park for final time knowing win over Everton would rub salt into their hosts' wounds
» Virgil van Dijk's net worth, personal life and OneLove armband criticism
Virgil van Dijk is hailed as one of the best defenders of his generation, so here is all you need to know about his net worth, personal life and more
» Arsenal told they must ditch Ollie Watkins and two targets for 'new Thierry Henry'
Alexander Isak showed exactly what Arsenal are missing when he dismantled the Gunners last week, with Mikel Arteta now being urged to sign the Newcastle striker
» Liverpool news: Reds handed injury update as title rival sends Arne Slot message
Arne Slot's Liverpool have a chance to move nine points clear at the top of the Premier League table with a win at Everton on Wednesday and the manager has provided an update
» 'I snubbed Everton and Man Utd to join Liverpool – one would've been better for me'
Stan Collymore has explained that he came incredibly close to signing for both Everton and Manchester United before he made the move to Liverpool, expressing a touch of regret over his choices
» Liverpool boss Arne Slot’s net worth, family life, strict training rules at Anfield
As Arne Slot prepares for his first ever Merseyside Derby, Mirror Football has a look into the Liverpool manager's life and training methods
» How to watch Everton vs Liverpool – TV channel, live stream, Merseyside derby kick-off
Everton will host Liverpool in the last Merseyside derby at Goodison Park on Wednesday night, with fans in the UK able to tune into the midweek Premier League action
» Arsenal news: Gunners given Harry Kane transfer verdict as bid for striker explained
Arsenal haven't played since their 2-0 loss to Newcastle in the Carabao Cup semi-finals and aren't due to play again until a trip to Leicester City on February 15, giving them a total of 10 days rest
» David Moyes net worth, libel case against Wayne Rooney, Vicki Sparks controversy
From managing Everton to becoming Sir Alex Ferguson’s successor, David Moyes has had a career that has been full of surprises and dramatic events
» Man Utd news: 'Ridiculous' Jadon Sancho slammed as star hits out at critics
Manchester United outcast Jadon Sancho has come under fire over a message he sent to Marcus Rashford, with the duo having both secured loan exits from Old Trafford
» Everton icon let rip after Liverpool ended proud derby record - "The f*** were you doing?"
Duncan Ferguson enjoyed a stellar record in the Merseyside derby when he first played for Everton and was fuming when Liverpool eventually got the better of him
» Paul Scholes tells Man Utd who they need to sign to avoid relegation fight next season
Manchester United have endured a wretched season, with Ruben Amorim winning just four Premier League games, and Paul Scholes believes they urgently need to sign new recruits
» John Stones reveals Pep Guardiola's message to Man City stars after Real Madrid collapse
Manchester City collapsed once again and suffered a late 3-2 loss at home to Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League play-off clash to reach the last 16
» Pep Guardiola's worst Man City fears realised as Real Madrid deal Champions League blow
MAN CITY 2-3 REAL MADRID: Pep Guardiola's men will need to come from a goal down in order to reach the last 16 of the Champions League, as Jude Bellingham popped up with a late winning goal
» Man City unveiled Real Madrid banner - but only one set of fans will be crying next week
Manchester City blew a late lead against Real Madrid to lose 3-2, leaving Pep Guardiola's side with a mountain to climb in next week's return leg at the Bernabeu
» Sergio Aguero loses Man City bet after saying ‘he’d cut off testicles’ if Real Madrid win
Manchester City ended up losing 3-2 to Real Madrid in the first-leg of their key Champions League playoff and legendary striker Sergio Aguero now has a painful forfeit to go through with
» David Moyes believes Everton have to "dream" about closing gap on rivals Liverpool again
Everton host Liverpool in Merseyside derby but boss David Moyes is also thinking about closing the gap long term on their rivals as well as in the game on Wednesday
» Arne Slot sets clear Premier League target for Liverpool and delivers Arsenal warning
Liverpool head to Everton on Wednesday night looking to move nine points ahead of Arsenal in the Premier League title race but he's not concerned about psychological blow for Gunners
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» Even Total Haaland cannot stop Manchester City’s continuing nightmare | Barney Ronay

Pep Guardiola had a plan with his Norwegian striker at the centre, but it was no match for Carlo Ancelotti’s aura

Almost, but also, somehow, nowhere near. For Manchester City this was once again an exercise in how to fall apart. For an hour at the Etihad Stadium, City became a flickering version of their best selves, driven on by a selection of creaking first-choice defensive parts lashed together and made to march four abreast into the sun for as long as their limbs could stand.

By the time Real Madrid scored their first goal of this game on 60 minutes, half of that string‑and‑brown‑paper back four had either gone off or was already limping. Rico Lewis was being twirled around the place by Vinícius Júnior like a child at a wedding reception disco. And half an hour later, as Jude Bellingham scored to make it 3-2 to Madrid, City’s hopes of making the post‑playoff second knockout phase of this competition had narrowed to a fine point.

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» Nottingham Forest beat 10-man Exeter on penalties as Devon double denied

At 11.04pm, at last there was a result, Nottingham Forest avoiding an FA Cup upset against 10-man Exeter City after prevailing from the final fourth-round tie via a 4-2 penalty shootout victory. Neco Williams scored the decisive penalty before Matz Sels, who replaced the injured Carlos Miguel midway through the second half, saved low to his right to deny Reece Cole before Angus MacDonald blasted his spot-kick against the crossbar. It was an absorbing contest – locals craned their necks from the windows of the terraced houses on St James Road to catch a view – but a cruel crescendo for third-tier Exeter.

Forest had a man advantage for 53 minutes after Ed Turns was given a straight red card for a high challenge on Morgan Gibbs-White, 23 of which were in second-half stoppage time after Taiwo Awoniyi suffered a concussion and broken nose. The striker received 12 minutes of medical treatment on the pitch but by the end he was well enough to salute the Forest fans, some of whom will do well to return home by 4am. “He is in a lot of pain but with a smile on his face because he did an amazing job, scoring for us,” said Nuno Espírito Santo, relieved about his side’s progress and the injury prognosis.

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» Sam Kerr eyes Chelsea return ‘within a month’ after being cleared in court
  • Player to return to non-contact training soon
  • ‘I can finally put this challenging period behind me’

Sam Kerr, who was found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment of a white police officer on Tuesday, is expected to be back on the pitch within the next month.

The Guardian understands the 31-year-old Australia captain is close to making her return for Chelsea for the first time since rupturing an anterior cruciate ligament during Chelsea’s warm weather training camp in January 2024, though it is expected that will not come before the international break at the end of this month.

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» Moyes out to close gulf in class as Goodison Park hosts its final derby

Manager admits Everton have fallen further behind Liverpool but hopes to make farewell memorable for fans

David Moyes may well have watched Goodison Park’s final derby from the comfort of his home in Lytham but for Storm Darragh battering the original date in December into submission. A different storm awaits on Wednesday when Liverpool cross Stanley Park one last time intent on silencing taunts about blowing the league at the home of their oldest rivals and containing the fallout from a shock FA Cup exit at Plymouth. There is nowhere else Moyes would rather be than in its midst of it all.

“Strange it was rearranged,” the 61-year-old said, reflecting on the opportunity that has blown his way since the Merseyside derby was postponed on 7 December, the inevitable consequence of 70mph winds. Everton have changed owners and manager since then. A new era in a new stadium begins at Bramley-Moore dock next season and, thanks to three successive league wins under Moyes, Everton have newfound belief in remaining a Premier League club when they get there.

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» Jim Ratcliffe plans 200 more redundancies at Manchester United
  • Club has posted losses of more than £300m in three years
  • Patrick Dorgu the sole arrival in January transfer window

Sir Jim Ratcliffe will make another round of about 200 redundancies at Manchester United, part of a bid to counteract the club’s £300m loss over the past three years.

While Ratcliffe cut around 250 staff in the autumn, he has made the decision due to the club’s stricken finances. United employees are yet to be contacted formally by management regarding their jobs potentially being in danger, but it is believed they are braced for this to occur.

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» Champions League: Guirassy cuts down Sporting, Juventus edge ahead of PSV
  • Dortmund win 3-0 in Portugal; Mbangula lifts Juve
  • Dembélé takes Brest apart to show PSG are contenders

Serhou Guirassy scored one and set up another in Borussia Dortmund’s 3-0 victory at Sporting in their Champions League playoff first leg to put last year’s finalists in the driving seat for a spot in the last 16.

The top scorer in this season’s Champions League headed in his 10th goal of the competition on the hour mark before providing Pascal Gross with a perfect assist to double the lead in the 68th minute.

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» Championship roundup: Leeds rout Watford as Farke hails ‘poetry in motion’
  • Leads win 4-0 away to surge five points clear at top
  • Preston and Coventry boost playoff hopes

Daniel Farke hailed Leeds’s “top level” forwards after the emphatic 4-0 win at Watford increased their lead at the Championship summit to five points.

Dan James opened the scoring in the 20th minute after latching on to a misplaced pass from Edo Kayembe. The Wales winger made it 2-0 eight minutes later when Watford were caught out by a swift counterattack. Manor Solomon saw a shot deflected in for the third before half-time, with Joël Piroe slotting in the fourth midway through the second period after Watford were undone with some quick passing in tight spaces.

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» Rodgers keen for Celtic to use home atmosphere and ‘hurt’ Bayern Munich
  • Scottish side welcome ‘football royalty’ on Wednesday
  • Hosts boosted by Daizen Maeda return after ban appeal

Brendan Rodgers wants Bayern Munich to experience “hurt” at Celtic Park after taking pride in his team’s European improvement this season.

Bayern’s visit to Glasgow marks the first time since 2013 that Celtic will play knockout Champions League football, with Rodgers contemplating his most significant scalp yet. Celtic are the heavy underdogs to see off the German giants over two legs but Rodgers has challenged his players to keep the tie competitive before they head to the Allianz Arena next week. Slovan Bratislava, RB Leipzig and Young Boys have already been defeated at Celtic Park this season, with the hosts unbeaten in their past half-dozen home European games.

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» Espanyol hit back at Barcelona’s Mapi León and say ‘footage is crystal clear’
  • León accused of inappropriately touching Caracas
  • Barcelona player denies the allegations

Espanyol have insisted that the “footage is crystal clear” and dismissed the claims of the Barcelona defender Mapi León after she denied inappropriately touching opponent Daniela Caracas in the crotch area during the city derby on Sunday.

The club’s next steps, including any decision over whether to take legal action, will be guided by the wishes of Caracas, with the Spanish Liga F yet to make any public statement. León was included in Barcelona’s squad to play the Copa del Reina on Wednesday night.

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» Luis Rubiales tells court he asked Jenni Hermoso if he could kiss her

Former Spanish football federation boss is accused of sexual assault after kissing player at Women’s World Cup

The former Spanish football federation boss Luis Rubiales has told a court that he asked the player Jenni Hermoso if he could kiss her before doing so after the Women’s World Cup victory in 2023.

“I am absolutely sure that she gave me her permission,” Rubiales, 47, told the court in Madrid. “In that moment it was something completely spontaneous.”

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» New Saints issue warning over sales to Saudi Pro League after Al-Orobah deal
  • Star forward Brad Young left Welsh side last summer
  • Club have sought Fifa’s help with £190,000 fee unpaid

Clubs should think twice before doing transfer deals with those in the Saudi Pro League, according to the Welsh side The New Saints, who claim they are yet to receive a penny after selling their star striker Brad Young to the Saudi club Al-Orobah last summer.

Young moved from Wales to the Middle East for a fee of £190,000. TNS wrote to Fifa for help in January after an agreed payment was not made by Al-Orobah. That money has still not been paid, the club say, while a second instalment is now also overdue.

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» Sam Kerr trial: how a drunken night out revealed questions of race, power and privilege

The jury’s verdict to clear the Australia and Chelsea star shows the complexity of cases with a racial charge

It was a drunken night out that ended in an exchange in a south-west London police station. Such incidents are commonplace for officers and rarely garner much furore. But this particular case has captured the attention of football fans around the world.

Sam Kerr, the captain of the Australian women’s football team and Chelsea’s star striker, was at the centre of the incident in the early hours of 30 January 2023. When the charge of racially aggravated harassment was filed against her last year, the hearts of many sports fans around the world sank.

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» Manchester United greats gather to pay their final respects to Denis Law
  • Sir Alex Ferguson led tributes to Law at funeral
  • Former United forward died aged 84 last month

Sir Alex Ferguson led the tributes to Denis Law as football greats paid their final respects to “the King” in Manchester on Tuesday.

An exquisite footballer and a brilliant man, the much-loved former Manchester United and Scotland forward died aged 84 last month. Law remains the only Scottish player to have won the Ballon d’Or and no man has scored more goals for the national team. Sir Kenny Dalglish is joint top with him on 30 goals and was among the mourners as Law was remembered in the heart of the city on which he left an indelible mark.

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» Chloe Kelly left out of England squad but Nikita Parris returns after two years
  • Kelly moved to Arsenal from Manchester City in January
  • Brighton winger recalled for Spain and Portugal games

Sarina Wiegman said Chloe Kelly “hasn’t played enough” to warrant a call-up for England’s Nations League fixtures against Portugal and Spain but Nikita Parris has returned for the first time in two years.

Kelly, who scored the winner in the final of the 2022 Euros, has been ­omitted after only starting one game this season for Manchester City, prompting her deadline-day loan to Arsenal in January to keep her Euro 2025 ambitions alive.

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» Real Madrid’s Bellingham settles thriller to leave Manchester City on ropes

Pep Guardiola had made the point that it was “impossible” to control Real Madrid’s front four. You can only hold out for so long against them, the Manchester City manager suggested. They tend to find a way. This Madrid victory was built on their cut and thrust up front, the slickness of their bursts, the sheer speed of them.

For a good while, it felt as though Erling Haaland would be the story; another striker who is not in the business of being shackled. The City No 9 had drawn blanks in all four of his previous Champions League ties against Madrid. He had a point to prove and he proved it, twice putting his team in front, the second for 2-1 coming from the penalty spot after Phil Foden, on as a substitute, had been fouled by Dani Ceballos.

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» Football Australia commits to supporting Sam Kerr but stops short of endorsing Matildas captaincy
  • Governing body stops short of endorsing leadership role with team
  • Player’s long-standing endorsement deal with Nike remains intact

Football Australia has pledged to “reflect” with Sam Kerr “on learnings” from her London court case, which ended on Wednesday morning with a verdict of not guilty relating to a charge of racially aggravated harassment.

But the governing body stopped short of endorsing her to return as the team’s captain, as the nation remains divided over whether she should continue in the role.

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» Football Daily | Marcelinho Paraíba: the busy Brazilian managing two clubs at once

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Across a playing career that lasted a quite astonishing 29 years, the Brazilian footballer Marcelinho Paraíba represented enough clubs to fill two different golf bags, including spells of varying length and distinction at well known European outfits such as Marseille, Wolfsburg, Hertha Berlin and Trabzonspor. Capped five times for his country and nicknamed after the state in which he was born to distinguish him from the plethora of other Marcelinhos who seem to roll off the jogo bonito assembly line with monotonous regularity, the 49-year-old midfielder represented 26 different teams as a player but crucially never attempted to line up for two separate clubs at the same time. Marcelinho the manager, however, is a far more ambitious man and in the space of 24 hours over the weekend was unveiled as the new Mister of two different teams, from two different divisions in two different Brazilian states.

I don’t think it was wrong. We thought that Viní was the winner that year. It doesn’t mean we don’t respect Rodri because he is a fantastic player” – Carlo Ancelotti insists it was completely normal behaviour for Real Madrid to collectively throw their toys out of the pram and boycott the 2024 Ballon d’Or.

Thanks to Alexandra Topping for her emotional article about Goodison Park (yesterday’s Still Want More, full email edition). It moved me to tears. As a 63-year-old Falkirk fan, I can still remember being lifted over the turnstile as a child by my dad at our former ground, Brockville Park. Indeed, when he passed away a couple of years ago at the age of 90, I began my eulogy at his funeral by recounting those days and then reassuring those present that, as lifelong Falkirk fans, they could relax as I was used to crying in public, which I then duly did” – Gary McGregor.

We see your FA Cup and Scottish Cup giant-killings (yesterday’s Football Daily) and raise you the Canadian equivalent. Cavalry FC play at an equestrian arena in Calgary, Alberta, and didn’t exist as recently as 2018. We were drawn to face Mexican giants Pumas Unam in the Concacaf Cup this past Thursday. The first leg had to take place 700km away from said arena in slightly warmer Langford, British Columbia, as current temperatures in Calgary hover around -20C. Most Cavalry fans couldn’t make the journey. We won” – Jonathan Alphonsus.

Having started supporting home-city club Newcastle United in 1953, I abandoned them after the last takeover. All I’ve got left are Berwick Rangers, once the only English team in the Scottish League and currently not far off the bottom of the Lowland League. A framed certificate of my loyalty-proving 25 £1 shares in the Borderers hangs on my toilet wall” – Nigel Robson.

Hoping to be the first of 1,057 pedants to tell David Fryer (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) that Grantham Town’s most likely destination is the United Counties League Premier Division North, known for sponsorship reasons as the GCE Hire Fleet Limited United Counties Football League Premier Division North. With 11 points to safety and an extra game played, you might need to get used to it” – Alan Terlep (and no others).

The size of the goals on Hackney Marshes (yesterday’s Memory Lane, full email edition) were as much of a lottery as the number of players you’d have at kick-off or what time the ref might turn up. It all depended how much rubbish was in the metal holes and how far down you could push the goalposts. The more rubbish, the higher (and more precarious) the crossbar. And the better the excuse when you got beaten from distance” – Dan Ashley.

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» Bunny Shaw abuse fallout, League Cup and FA Cup drama – Women’s Football Weekly

Faye Carruthers is joined by Suzy Wrack, Sophie Downey, and Sanny Rudravajhala to discuss Bunny Shaw, Chelsea and City’s League Cup final showdown, and a dramatic FA Cup weekend

On the podcast today: Manchester City’s Bunny Shaw is subjected to vile racist and misogynistic abuse, leading to her absence from the League Cup semi-final. The panel discusses how football can better protect its players and the broader impact of such incidents.

Elsewhere, Chelsea and Manchester City set up a League Cup final showdown and Crystal Palace made history by reaching the FA Cup quarter-finals. Plus, we break down the Women’s Champions League draw as Chelsea and City prepare for four meetings in 12 days.

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» ‘Not acceptable’: Slot demands derby response from Liverpool after Cup exit
  • Liverpool face Everton at Goodison Park on Wednesday
  • Head coach admits error over his Plymouth lineup

Arne Slot has described Liverpool’s FA Cup defeat by Plymouth as unacceptable and demanded a response in the final Merseyside derby at Goodison Park.

Liverpool would go nine points clear at the top of the Premier League with victory at Everton on Wednesday but head into the game under a rare cloud after the Cup shock at Home Park. Slot did not spare his players from further criticism for the performance on Sunday when previewing his first encounter with Everton, and dismissed the idea that exiting the FA Cup could have its merits.

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» US U17 soccer team registers 22-0 win over US Virgin Islands in World Cup qualifying
  • Columbus Crew forward Chase Adams scored 10 goals
  • Win sets new record for a largest US victory margin

The United States opened expanded Concacaf qualifying for the Fifa Under-17 World Cup with a record victory for the country at any level, crushing the US Virgin Islands 22-0 on Monday night as Chase Adams scored 10 goals.

Captain Maximo Carrizo registered four goals in the game at San Jose, Costa Rica while Chance Cowell and Jude Terry netted two each. Pedro Guimaraes, Ramiz Hamouda, Jamir Johnson and Kellan LeBlanc claimed one goal apiece.

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» David Squires on … Liverpool’s sacrificial offerings meeting their end in Plymouth

Our cartoonist on the shocks, heroes, wondrous own goals and missing teeth of the FA Cup fourth round

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» Plight of Reading shows how football fans’ dreams can easily spiral into a death vortex | Jonathan Liew

The Dai Yongge Show continues: eight seasons and counting at Reading. It is the soap opera no network can seem to cancel

And by our tennis balls shall you know us. And by our clown outfits and face paint shall you know us. And by our carefully worded media releases and painstaking analysis of tribunal documents shall you know us. And by the gigantic billboard we hired outside the train station shall you know us. Anyway, what we’re saying is: you know us. As for the next step … yeah, we’re working on that part.

“Ripped apart while the world watches” reads the aforementioned billboard outside Reading station. But is the world actually watching? Beyond the RG postcodes it was hard to identify too many concentric ripples from the news last week regarding another mysterious takeover bid for the club apparently falling through. It’s hard to drum up much interest in A Thing Not Happening, particularly when the transfer window is closing and the big beasts of the Premier League demand to be talked about at all times.

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» How did Manchester City earn €4.7m more than Aston Villa in Champions League group stage? | Philippe Auclair

The revamped competition was supposed to ‘sustain domestic leagues’ but the sums involved are more likely to distort European football even further

The cynics were wrong. It was not about staving off the threat of a breakaway Super League for a few more seasons by offering Europe’s top clubs a face-saving version of it. The new, expanded format of the Uefa Champions League would enable “more teams and therefore more coaches and players to compete in more competitive games on the European stage“. The “common purpose“, Uefa reminded us, was “to sustain domestic leagues”.

However, now that the first phase of the revamped Champions League is over, if the numbers are different (more games, more goals, more money), the story they tell, that of a competition remaining a closed shop for most, is not. The same forces dominate the European football landscape as they have done for close to two decades. None of the continent’s behemoths failed to qualify for the second stage of the tournament, despite the talk of “increased jeopardy” and Manchester City’s best efforts to engineer a self-inflicted shock to what is essentially a self-perpetuating system. The only “change” there has been is a further consolidation of the old order.

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» Women’s FA Cup: talking points from the weekend’s fifth-round action

Khadija Shaw returns with a goal, Arsenal avoid an upset and Rugby and Wolves make the most of fifth-round ties

Khadija Shaw provided a defiant response to those who subjected her to horrific racial and misogynistic abuse last week - by scoring an important goal on her return to the Manchester City squad. The striker withdrew from Gareth Taylor’s squad before Thursday’s League Cup semi-final against Arsenal to protect her mental wellbeing. Shaw, who had been out with injury for over a month until the end of January, came off the bench at half-time and scored City’s third in the 3-1 win against Leicester less than 15 minutes later – her first goal since 8 December. “I think that will give her a lot of confidence,” said Taylor, who knows his side’s season will hinge on a remarkable four meetings with Chelsea in the space of 13 days next month – starting with the League Cup final on 15 March, and followed by a two-legged Champions League quarter-final either side of a WSL meeting. Emillia Hawkins

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» Plymouth fan savours a second win over Liverpool, 69 years after the first

Lifelong Argyle fan Jed Griffiths was at Home Park for the victory over Liverpool in 1956 and Sunday’s FA Cup shock

As snapshots of a lifetime spent following Plymouth Argyle, two wins against Liverpool, almost 70 years apart, stand out for Jed Griffiths. Few among the Home Park faithful attended both but Griffiths, a proud member of the Green Army since 1953, was there for the 4-0 win on 11 February 1956 in the old Second Division, his beloved club’s previous defeat of Liverpool. As for the FA Cup fourth-round giantkilling on Sunday, when the Championship strugglers sank the Premier League leaders, it was “one of the highlights of my footballing life”.

In 1956, Griffiths was a schoolboy at Devonport High school, watching the game from the old “Pop Side” of the old Home Park. “No seats in those days,” he says. “We were opposite the grandstand, and we younger kids would get passed down the front, and we hung on the railings for a closeup view.”

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» History, memory, grief and belonging: my bittersweet Goodison farewell

Evertonian Alexandra Topping – knowing that the famous old ground’s time was running out – made a final pilgrimage with her nine-year-old son

It’s the sound of Goodison Park that gets you. The deep rumble of feet pounding on planks when a blue shirt walks to the corner flag, a thundering drumbeat that vibrates through the legs, up into the torso, direct to the heart. It’s the staccato clatter of wooden seats flipping skyward as a player runs down the wing. The chants started in the belly of lower stands which spill out into the air in swirling eddies, echoing disjointedly around the ground.

It’s the sound of my childhood, the sound of my teens and a specific sound that – at the end of this season – will not be heard again. Everton Football Club are leaving Goodison Park – their home for more than 130 years – and moving to a state-of-the-art 52,888-capacity stadium at Bramley-Moore dock, on the banks of the Mersey.

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» Mbappé fires equaliser as Real and Atlético share spoils in Madrid derby

The match that was billed as a battle of the superheroes ended without a winner, all set up for a sequel instead. Kylian Mbappé and Julián Álvarez had looked out from Madrid’s front pages on the morning of the city derby, the media turning Marvel Comic, and they will probably be there on Sunday too but this isn’t over. The man they liken to a Mutant Turtle and the striker they call The Spider scored one each as another derby finished 1-1, leaving these two great rivals first and second in La Liga, a single point between them, left to fight another day.

Between them Mbappé and Álvarez had already scored 37 goals in their debut seasons; on a night that took a while to get going but did eventually become a real contest if certainly not a classic, they took that to 39. Atlético started in the ascendency then Real were revived.

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» Atlanta United break MLS record to sign striker Emmanuel Latte Lath
  • Former Middlesbrough striker signs through 2028
  • $22m fee is largest outlay for a player in league history

Atlanta United announced the splash signing of speedy Ivory Coast striker Emmanuel Latte Lath on Tuesday.

Atlanta reportedly paid an MLS-record $22m transfer fee to Middlesbrough, breaking the mark of $16.2m that FC Cincinnati spent in November to acquire forward Kevin Denkey from Belgium’s Cercle Brugge.

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» European football: João Félix’s debut goal eases Milan into Coppa Italia semi
  • Tammy Abraham also nets twice in victory over Roma
  • Real Madrid progress in Copa del Rey after late winner

João Félix scored on his debut and Tammy Abraham netted a double against his parent club to earn Milan a 3-1 win over Roma in their Coppa Italia quarter-final at the San Siro on Wednesday.

Abraham, who joined Milan from Roma in August on a season-long loan deal, put the hosts in front with a header in the 16th minute before punishing his old teammates again three minutes before the break. The Roma substitute Artem Dovbyk pulled one back nine minutes into the second half, before Félix came off the bench and netted in the 71st minute, two days after his arrival on loan from Chelsea. Milan, five times winners of the Coppa Italia, will meet either Inter or Lazio in a two-legged semi-final.

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» Batalla’s double penalty save allows Rayo Vallecano to dream of Europe | Sid Lowe

A chaotic and dramatic end to Friday’s 1-0 win at Leganés extended Rayo Vallecano’s unbeaten run to eight matches

The ball was in play for just four seconds during the last 11 minutes of another Madrid derby but that was enough, every emotion packed into eight touches and 100 freeze-frames on a cold Friday night across the motorways to the south of the city. The difference between triumph and disaster was a fine line painted white and a goalkeeper in green. Leganés were suddenly, unexpectedly lifted up and handed a lifeline, only to be knocked down, lifted up, knocked down, lifted up and knocked down again. Rayo Vallecano, meanwhile, were taken on the same journey in the other direction, eventually left standing, celebrating something they couldn’t imagine before and wouldn’t imagine now.

“Very mad,” the Rayo striker Sergio Camello called it. All of it: the fact they, the club who have only played European football once and thanks to fair play, had just won 1-0 and were sixth and the way they got there, how close they had been to having it taken away again, everything unfolding so fast feelings couldn’t catch up. “I can still feel the fright,” the manager Iñigo Pérez said. “You play football for years, watch it, even start coaching, and think you’ve seen it all. But this is something that’s never happened to me.” What had happened shouldn’t have, he said, an epic end his team could have avoided, but it was better this way, Augusto Batalla performing a miraculous rescue by saving a last-second penalty.

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» NWSL agrees to $5m settlement to resolve player abuse inquiry
  • Settlement creates $5 million fund for NWSL players
  • Players went public with allegations of abuse in 2021

The NWSL has agreed to create a $5m fund to compensate players who experienced abuse and implement reforms to resolve investigations launched by attorneys general for New York, Illinois and Washington DC after players came forward with allegations of harassment and sexual misconduct.

Players from across the US top-flight National Women’s Soccer League went public in 2021 with allegations of misconduct by coaches and officials dating back over 10 years.

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» Rose faces thorny spell at Leipzig as Berlin blank follows European exit | Andy Brassell

Champions League return is far from secure for a side that was fortunate to escape Union match with a point

Sometimes it’s best to live in relative ignorance in order to keep your eyes on the prize. To focus, to shut out the outside noise, to not be distracted. Marco Rose doesn’t function like that.

“I take full responsibility for that first half,” the RB Leipzig coach said bluntly after Saturday’s uninspiring goalless draw at Union Berlin. Part of that demeanour is nurture is much as it is nature. Rose was born in Leipzig, yes, but more crucially had six years in the Red Bull organisation at Salzburg, from taking charge of the under-16s to the first team, before building his Bundesliga career at Borussias Mönchengladbach and Dortmund. He knows what the drill is. Ambition is total and there are clear consequences for falling short.

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» Two games, two hat-tricks: Ousmane Dembélé cannot stop scoring for PSG

The 27-year-old has scored 11 goals in six games this year – including hat-tricks in his last two matches

By Eric Devin for Get French Football News

It’s all going to plan. It just took a little longer than expected and there were plenty of setbacks along the way. Ousmane Dembélé was considered a panicked ​b​uy when Barcelona ​signed him from Borussia Dortmund in 2017 to replace Neymar. Given the deal made him the second most expensive footballer in history, he failed to live up to the hype.

After a disappointing time in Spain he returned home to France last summer, again taking Neymar’s place​, but this time at PSG. Dembélé had a disappointing first season ​in Paris, scoring just six goals in 40 appearances. But the 27-year-old is finally delivering on the promise he showed when he burst on to the scene with Rennes nearly a decade ago.

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» Walker and Tomori partnership shows promise as Milan hold firm in derby | Nicky Bandini

Draw in Milan derby suited nobody but the English duo showed they may be the answer to defensive frailties

Sérgio Conceição said last week that he was sick and tired of this transfer window. “A month is far too long,” he argued. “It has not been positive on an emotional level for many of our players.”

The counter-point arrived in the Milan derby on Sunday night. Starting at right-back for the Rossoneri was Kyle Walker, signed on loan from Manchester City a fortnight after he had informed the Premier League champions of his desire for a move. He was outshone on his debut by the man inside him at centre-back, Fikayo Tomori, who has spent this entire window being linked with transfers elsewhere.

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» Dynamo get Union, USMNT starlet Jack McGlynn in first-of-kind MLS transaction
  • 21-year-old made his USMNT debut in January
  • Intra-league move is the second-ever made using MLS’s new cash transfer rule

Houston Dynamo FC acquired Philadelphia Union midfielder Jack McGlynn in the first cash-for-homegrown player trade in Major League Soccer history on Monday.

The Union will receive $2.1m in guaranteed money and also retain a sell-on percentage of any future transfer. The club also could acquire an additional $1.3m if McGlynn meets designated performance milestones.

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» Police footage shows officer dismissing Sam Kerr claims before arrest – video

A jury found the Chelsea footballer not guilty of racially aggravated harassment after she called a police officer 'stupid and white'. Police bodyworn camera footage, released during the trial, showed PC Stephen Lovell dismissing her claims and calling her 'little missy' as she and her partner Kristie Mewis were giving their version of events to him. Kerr explained that she had felt they were 'taken hostage' by a taxi driver as he locked the doors and drove them to a police station after she vomited out the vehicle window.

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» Luis Rubiales tells court he asked Jenni Hermoso if he could kiss her – video

The former Spanish football federation boss Luis Rubiales has told a court that he asked the footballer Jenni Hermoso if he could kiss her before doing so after the Women’s World Cup final in 2023.

Rubiales is accused of sexual assault and then attempting to coerce Hermoso, with the help of three other former football federation officials, into publicly saying the kiss on the lips at the awards ceremony in Australia had been consensual. He has denied the charges, saying the kiss was consensual, while Hermoso has said it was not.

The ensuing scandal eclipsed Spain’s first Women’s World Cup victory and spurred efforts by Spain’s female players to expose sexism and achieve parity with male counterparts

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» 'A big disappointment': Slot reacts to Liverpool's shock FA Cup exit – video

The Liverpool manager, Arne Slot, said there 'wasn't a lot to be happy about' after his team's loss against Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup fourth round. 'Credit to them. Good gameplan. They worked incredibly hard,' Slot told reporters in the post-match press conference.

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» Player sent off after removing corner flag due to puddle on pitch – video

A Watford Women's player was sent off after she, about to take a corner, removed the flag due to a puddle and was told by the referee to return it. Annie Rossiter did so before taking it out again and receiving a red card following an exchange with the official. Watford ultimately lost 3-2 to Lewes in their National League Southern Division game. 'I feel like the game was probably spoiled by some officiating decisions,' said Watford head coach Renée Hector

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» An FA Cup shock shouldn’t unhinge Liverpool, but football isn’t logical

Plymouth showed the world’s oldest football competition still has life but Arne Slot won’t be too worried despite his team winning just five of their last 11 games

It was, it has to be acknowledged, a much-changed Liverpool lineup. Of the 11 players who began Sunday’s FA Cup fourth-round match at Plymouth Argyle, only Luis Díaz had made more than 10 league starts this season and only three others had made more than five. Even allowing for that, Plymouth’s victory registers as one of the great shocks of recent times, only the fourth time the leader of the Premier League has ever gone out of the competition to lower-division opposition.

As their quietly charismatic 42-year-old Bosnian coach Miron Muslić pointed out afterward, it was a day that will go down in Plymouth’s history, that will be recalled for generations, as a one-off result more impressive than anything they achieved in reaching the semi-final in 1983-84. It was Liverpool’s ninth defeat to lower-league opposition this century but, in terms of the scale of the shock, it felt perhaps most akin to their exit against non-league Worcester City in 1959 when they were a second-flight club, a defeat that precipitated the decline that led to Phil Taylor making way for the great Bill Shankly.

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» Postecoglou undone by tactics and injuries but fans reserve ire for Levy | John Brewin

As Spurs’ head coach ploughs on, he has no choice but to use his best young players during damaging run of defeats

The midfield press was non-existent, Morgan Rogers carving past white shirts before releasing Jacob Ramsey to shoot. The goalkeeping of Antonin Kinsky bordered on appalling but the travelling Tottenham fans who filled Villa Park’s North Stand had another culprit for the opening goal.

It usually takes longer than 57 seconds to be voiced but “Daniel Levy, get out of our club” – or variants thereof – will be heard at every Tottenham game until, well, Daniel Levy gets out of Tottenham. Or, far more unlikely, he changes his approach to spending the club’s money.

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» No homegrown superstar mythology will help Marcus Rashford at Aston Villa | Barney Ronay

No other footballer presents such an obvious mismatch between celebrity status and actual on-field performance

Watching Sky Sports News this weekend it was hard not to feel a rush of sympathy for Flex, the YouTube pundit and transfer‑chat expert. Flex seems like a nice bloke. He’s clearly well informed on players and clubs. He seems to genuinely care about this stuff.

On this occasion, however, he was thrown a genuine hospital pass, asked to stand next to a vast picture of Marcus Rashford’s head and talk about, well, basically, the entity that is Marcus Rashford. What is it? Is it good? What can it do? What do you think, Flex, about all this? Basically, Flex, just say Marcus Rashford words.

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» Plymouth Argyle bring the magic in the FA Cup - Football Weekly

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Wilson and Troy Townsend as Plymouth Argyle put a stop to Liverpool’s quadruple dreams

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On the podcast today; Liverpool finally meet a tough opponent as the team bottom of the Championship, Plymouth Argyle, deservedly beat them 1-0 at Home Park to halt Liverpool’s hopes of achieving a quadruple.

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» Moving the Goalposts | Meet Club YLA – the Club Brugge women’s team doing things differently

Belgian club has its own name, unique brand and the freedom to develop a philosophy away from just winning

Club YLA are fourth in the top division of the Belgian Women’s Super League, which is exactly where they finished in 2023-24. Catching the current leaders Leuven and the multiple champions Anderlecht is a long-term goal but this is a club doing things a bit differently.

The club is the women’s team of Club Brugge, led by the chief executive Guillian Preud’homme, with its own unique brand created in cooperation with the Dutch company Studio Dumbar in order to attract new supporters, boasting its own merchandise range with different colours to the men.

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» Georgi Kinkladze at Boca? European stars who played in South America | The Knowledge

Plus: lethal shots on target in high-scoring games, no goals of the month, a Botafogo correction and more

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“We’re well used to seeing established internationals from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay et al plying their trade in Europe’s top leagues, but are there any examples of the opposite: Europeans enjoying an extended spell playing in South America while also turning out for their respective (top) nations?” asks Ian Clover.

It remains incredibly rare for a high-profile European player to move to South America at or near their peak. The most famous, at least in this country, might be Manchester City legend Georgi Kinkladze. In the summer of 1994, a year before moving to City from Dinamo Tbilisi, Kinkladze spent a month on loan at Boca Juniors. It was effectively a trial after he was spotted by Boca’s scouts while playing against a Boca team during another trial with Atlético Madrid. Kinkladze got to share a dressing room, and occasionally even a training pitch, with his idol Diego Maradona, who was serving a drugs ban after USA 94.

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» David Squires on … karmic realignment for Arsenal against Manchester City

Our cartoonist on the Gunners achieving a higher state of zen in their 5-1 humbling of the Premier League champions

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» Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action

Chelsea grind out another win, City look shaky at the back and Terland haunts Spurs once again

Manchester City have now conceded three times as many goals as Chelsea and twice as many as Arsenal in the WSL this season after their high-scoring defeat to the Gunners on Sunday. In the absence of the captain, Alex Greenwood, City have conceded 12 in their last four league games, and when asked how his side could improve defensively, the manager, Gareth Taylor, said it was a question that “everyone needs the answer for,” adding: “We are shipping goals at the moment. We can’t deny that Alex [Greenwood] not being there is really difficult. I think Rebecca [Knaak] has done well but it’s a big step up. We’ve not been able to really refresh the backline at all, so those guys are consistently playing. We just need to improve and get better.” TG

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» Golden Goal: John O’Shea for Manchester United v Arsenal (2005)

The Irishman enjoyed a ‘Cantona moment’ during a a fiery encounter at Highbury exactly 20 years ago

Before the goal, before the game even, there was the tunnel. It’s the moment that stands largest exactly 20 years on, romantic to those who hanker for the days of ill-fitting kits and a bit more pre-match needle; glorious to those who say We Used To Be A Proper Country.

Enter Roy Keane, undeterred by the claustrophobia of the Highbury corridor, finger-pointing and letting rip: “We’ll see you out there … shouting your mouth off, you, every week, you.” Drop in some bleeps. Patrick Vieira is at the other end, taking the heat for having a pre-match pop at Gary Neville. The referee/headteacher, Graham Poll, transforms into a yucca plant, calming Keane until it’s time. Out there they go.

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» Women’s Champions League tie predictions after the quarter-final draw

Will holders Barcelona find a way past Wolfsburg to set up a semi-final against either Chelsea or Manchester City, and can Bayern stop Lyon?

There are no easy games come the quarter-finals of the Champions League but Arsenal will raise an eyebrow at getting the kindest route to the final of the three English sides. Madrid are the youngest team in the tournament, Real Tacon having been absorbed into the club as the women’s team in 2020, and they have reached the last eight for the second time. They are second in Liga F, five points behind Barcelona, who beat them 5-0 in the Supercopa final at the end of last month. Madrid added the Brazilian defender Yasmim in January to strengthen their backline. Arsenal, the only English team to have picked up European honours, when they won the title in 2007, are in their 16th quarter-final, a record they share with Lyon. Under Renée Slegers the Gunners have lost only twice this season, to Chelsea in the WSL and against Manchester City in the semi-final of the League Cup on Thursday. The addition of Chloe Kelly, on loan from City, and the USA defender Jenna Nighswonger has added a little depth as they attempt to go one step further than in 2023, when their injury-hit side narrowly missed out on a place in the final to Wolfsburg.

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» Straight to penalties? Greed is football’s real shortcoming, not extra time | Jonathan Wilson

Shootouts are the least bad way the game has found to settle drawn matches, but they should be a last resort

So Uefa is considering doing away with extra time, at least in the knockout stage of the Champions League, another grand old tradition swept away as the arc of history bends towards the generation of revenue for the already wealthy. This is the way of the world and so it is the way of football, all that is great and glorious about the game desecrated to produce more content to be sold.

But first, a caveat, an increasingly necessary one as middle age hurtles by. Is this about age? Are our responses to extra time conditioned by our formative years? My first FA Cup final was 1982, a drab game enlivened by Glenn Hoddle putting Tottenham ahead after 110 minutes and Terry Fenwick heading an equaliser five minutes later (Spurs then won the replay). The Schumacher-Battiston World Cup semi-final in Seville came six weeks later: at 90 minutes it was 1-1, by the 98th minute it was 3-1 to France and by the end it was 3-3 and West Germany had won on penalties. The following year’s FA Cup final also went to extra time as Manchester United drew with Brighton; although there were no goals in the added 30 minutes, there was the drama of Gordon Smith’s late miss.

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» What becomes of diehard football fans who stop going to matches?

Why do once avid supporters drift away? I went in search of five former matchgoing fans to find out

By Donald Walker for Nutmeg magazine

What becomes of the broken-hearted? Or perhaps more to the point, what becomes of the scunnered, the disillusioned and the bored? For many of us bitten by the football bug, it’s often a lifelong condition, almost like a kind of malaria: manageable but prone to sudden, intense flare-ups, and impossible to cure.

But sometimes diehard supporters stop going to matches after years or even decades of faithful attendances. Why? Death is an obvious reason, or having to work on a Saturday, increased family responsibilities, poor health, the cost of living, moving away from the area, taking up a competing pursuit, falling out with friends, taking the huff with the club directors, or quite simply becoming fed up with football.

It’s Saturday and the sun is shining
Perhaps a visit to RSS Discovery
A step back in time, into history
Yet I’m not happy
You almost feel that Captain Scott is standing there
But he’s not the Robert Scott I long to see.

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» Total Bruno sucks Arteta’s side into turf war and leaves them beaten and bruised | Jonathan Liew

Bruno Guimarães inspires Newcastle to the Carabao Cup final by honing in on Arsenal’s breaking points

Bruno Guimarães is writhing on the turf. Could be trouble, this. He almost seemed to spin through the air as Myles Lewis‑Skelly clipped him. Landed awkwardly. Still down. Clutching his calf, and maybe his rib too? The Newcastle physios crouch expectantly at the touchline. Eddie Howe wears a concerned expression. Referee Simon Hooper brandishes a yellow card.

At this, as if suddenly possessed by a bolt of divine grace, Guimarães slowly rises from his slab and accepts the benedictions of his teammates. Less than 45 seconds later, he will be sprinting at full pelt towards the edge of the Arsenal penalty area and playing an outrageous no‑look pass to Joe Willock with the inside of his heel. Miraculously, Bruno Guimarães has cheated death again.

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» The 100 best male footballers in the world 2024

Rodri has beaten Vinícius Júnior and Erling Haaland to top our ranking of the most talented players in the world this calendar year

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» Rodri stands tall on top of the world after year of glory and pain

The Manchester City midfielder becomes the sixth player to top our ranking of the world’s best 100 male footballers

One of the worst things about seeing Rodri in agony on the pitch against Arsenal in September – and the subsequent news that he had ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament – was that in the buildup to the injury he had criticised the workload being put on players. It was as if he knew something bad was about to happen.

In April, after an epic 3-3 draw at Real Madrid the Manchester City and Spain midfielder said: “I do need a rest.” He added: “Let’s see how we speak, how we live the situation. Sometimes it is what it is. I need to adjust. It [rest] is something we are planning, yes.”

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» The 100 best female footballers in the world 2024

Aitana Bonmatí finishes top of our rankings for a second consecutive year, with Caroline Graham Hansen second and Sophia Smith third

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» Aitana Bonmatí on top of the world again but England close gap on Spain

The Spanish midfielder wins for a second consecutive year on a fast-moving list that sees 15 players appearing for the first time

Aitana Bonmatí emulates her Barcelona and Spain teammate Alexia Putellas and takes back-to-back wins in the Guardian’s 100 best female footballers in the world list.

The double Ballon d’Or winner received votes from all 99 of this year’s judges, finishing 667 points clear of her club teammate Caroline Graham Hansen, the Norwegian climbing to her highest ranking after a superb individual year for both club and country.

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» Next Generation 2024: 60 of the best young talents in world football

From Franco Mastantuono to Estêvão, we select some of the most talented players born in 2007. Check the progress of our classes of 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 and look at the editions from further back

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» Next Generation 2024: 20 of the best talents at Premier League clubs

We pick the best youngsters at each club born between 1 September 2007 and 31 August 2008, an age band known as first-year scholars. Check the progress of our classes of 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019and look at the editions from further back

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» Next Generation 2023: 60 of the best young talents in world football

From Warren Zaïre-Emery to Endrick, we select some of the best players born in 2006. Check the progress of our classes of 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018

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