Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period

Everton’s great lost talent of the 90s tells Donald McRae about the drinking culture that enveloped him as a teenager, his time in jail, struggles with depression and how he got clean

Manchester City face substantial sanctions from the Premier League after an independent panel found they had broken rules over financial fair play

Fifa council members will demand that Gianni Infantino include the failed World Cup sell-off plan and the Folarin Balogun affair in his proposed external review of Fifa’s governance

The fast bowler won the Ashes and two World Cups but those successes were punctuated by long spells out with injury

Prime minister says measure is discriminatory when fans of other sports are not similarly restricted

Plus: the longest waits for 0-0 draws, more early replica kits and champions with the smallest ground

It is a symbol of the connection between the fanbase and club, but there is a growing fear executives would prefer stadiums full of one-off tourists

Our cartoonist on Manchester United’s billionaire joint-owner showing a startling lack of self-awareness

Cryotherapy chambers and other practices in the elite game have little evidence behind them, says Dr Claire-Marie Roberts, a top performance director

Family is determined to ensure her ‘legacy lives on’ three years after the Sheffield United player’s death Olivia Cusack says her sister, the late Maddy Cusack, is on her mind every single day and she is determined to ensure her “legacy lives on” three years after the former England youth international midfielder’s death. Olivia, together with family and friends of Maddy, walked 29 miles from Bramall Lane, Sheffield United’s home, to their family’s home in Horsley, near Derby, on Saturday to raise funds and awareness. Maddy’s loved ones are still enduring a “frustrating and confusing” wait for answers about the circumstances surrounding her death on 20 September 2023. Continue reading...

Brydon Carse will not face any charges after Derbyshire police dropped an investigation into an alleged assault by the England player last month

Oxford United have been forced to abandon a new range of American sports-influenced merchandise given its jarring association with one of the aircrafts hijacked on 11 September

Discussions are already under way to change the layout of Formula One’s newest circuit after driver condemnation of the Madring during its inaugural Grand Prix

Mauricio Pochettino says Chelsea should be stripped of their 2016-17 Premier League title for financial rule breaches and the honour retrospectively awarded to Tottenham

Anti-immigration protesters gathered outside a Portsmouth hotel were forced to cancel their demonstration after discovering the Pakistan Under-19 cricket team rather than a group of asylum seekers wer...

A Surrey club match in 1776 near the Thames was the scene for the first time cricket employed its holy trinity

The retired second-row tells Donald McRae about his recovery from addiction, depression and incarceration to find a new life as a meditation teacher

Striker talks to Emanuele Giulianelli about life in the UAE, problems with the Azzurri and the ‘special feeling’ of playing for Manchester City

Callum McGregor opened the scoring in the first half to give Celtic a 4-0 aggregate lead but LASK fought back to win 5-4 on aggregate after extra time

Our cartoonist looks back at the big storylines and fresh looks as the English top flight swung back into action

A social media video showed the England and Durham bowler being apprehended by police outside a Derby nightclub, but he was released without charge

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Supporters held banners in support of women as others expressed conflicted feelings at SCG double-header

Fifa’s general secretary, Mattias Grafström, has been approached by senior figures in African federations about standing against Gianni Infantino

Uefa and Concacaf are considering a combined tournament featuring all 96 European and North and Central American and Caribbean countries

Our cartoonist on the nine fresh faces in club dugouts and their potential impact as they begin work

The Fifa chief operating officer, Kevin Lamour, has been sacked after openly criticising Gianni Infantino’s ill-fated plan to sell parts of the World Cup to private investors

The rider’s union, the CPA, are ‘furious’ with safety measures on Tour, two days after the death of Finlay Tarling following a collision at the Volta a Portugal

Keely Hodgkinson’s coach and the BBC commentator Steve Cram have led a chorus of concern about high ticket prices causing lower attendances at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham

Our cartoonist welcomes the EFL back, with returning characters and a look at what it’s like as an exiled supporter

Brazilian excels at winning free-kicks and conjuring results from them, which is why the champions were willing to spend big

Guardian journalist Ewan Murray and Sky Sports Golf commentator Ewen Murray on being mixed up by irate fans and ‘canteen commandos’

‘There is no way back for him’ says the NFF president as Infantino battles for support around the world

Uefa is not standing down in its fight with Fifa, saying ‘conditions have not been met’ for it to call off its current boycott of competitions

A document has shown how Fifa staff were involved in the European breakaway and that the global governing body was prepared to sideline member associations

Cycling legend tells Donald McRae about the reality of living with stage 4 cancer, fundraising with Miguel Induráin and why Andy Burnham could be key to his ambition of helping others with similar dia...

The 50th anniversary is the perfect time to remember 50 of the most famous – and infamous – attempts at the Czech’s chip

European nations are to withdraw letters of support for Gianni Infantino, with an appetite to ensure the Fifa president is quickly removed from his post

Gianni Infantino is facing a rebellion from members of the Fifa Council who are attempting to force an extraordinary general meeting that could develop into a leadership challenge

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Uefa’s decisive call for a boycott and declaration of no confidence must be the opening salvos in a concerted push to dethrone the game’s global leader

Gianni Infantino ‘has lost the confidence’ of Uefa following his aborted project to sell off the World Cup to private investors, European football’s governing body has said