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⚽️ Premier League updates from the 8.15pm GMT kick-off⚽️ Live scores | Tables | Follow us on Bluesky | Email ScottThat version of Bubbles with the bouncy bassline ends, the whistle goes, and Manchester United get the ball rolling. A roar from all four corners.The teams are out! West Ham United sport their famous claret and blue, while Manchester United wear their second-choice kit of “snowflake … with flashes of purple and lilac.” A rare old noise at the London Stadium ahead of a fixture that delivers, one way or another, more often than not. We’ll be off in a minute! Continue reading...

⚽️ Latest updates from the Premier League and beyond⚽️ Live scores | Tables | Follow us on Bluesky | Email WillI do still write Leroy Rosenior and need to correct myself.Liam Rosenior looks chipper. Continue reading...

Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | BriefingFollow us over on Bluesky | Get in touch! Mail GeoffOoooh, Ariane Raedler of Austria, eighth in the individual event, nails 1:35.65, a time that would’ve been good enough for bronze; she takes the lead, giving Katharina Huber, her partner, a chance in the second portion.Miradoli of France lays down a quicker time than she did coming 16th in the individual downhill, 1:37.37; I guess she’s used to the course now. Our big names, though, don’t come out for a while: Goggia, who took bronze in the individual event is ninth, Aicher who claimed silver, is doing the slalom portion, and Johnson is 14th with Srobova, Vlhova’s partner, going 28th and last. Continue reading...

Arsenal and Manchester United face familiar opponents in a revamped competition that has so far proven more competitive The next phase of the new Women’s Champions League format gets under way on Wednesday and Thursday, when the four playoff first legs take place. Arsenal and Manchester United are among eight teams vying to join Barcelona, Lyon, Chelsea and Bayern Munich, who automatically qualified for the quarter-finals as the top four in the league phase.As in the men’s competition, a switch from a group stage to the league format has been made. However, with the UWCL group stage having been introduced only for the 2021-22 season, there was scepticism about a change coming so soon, with the group stage viewed as a big step forward and in its relative infancy. Continue reading...

The wait for a first medal goes on but the camp believe they have several aces to play, especially in the skeletonStill the wait goes on. When Britain arrived in Milano Cortina there was heady talk of the country having one of its “most potent ever teams” for a Winter Olympics. So far, though, Team GB is still firing blanks.It is not for the want of trying. Kirsty Muir missed out on a freeski slopestyle bronze by 0.41 points. Mia Brookes came impossibly close to making the biggest trick in Olympic big air snowboard history. While Britain’s mixed curlers, having coasted regally through the group stages, their mojo went awol when it mattered most. Continue reading...

Luger shares ‘remembrance is not a violation’ messageOfficials will allow racer to wear black armband insteadUkrainian athletes have stepped up their defiance of International Olympic Committee rules banning them from protesting against the Russian invasion while in competition, amid growing anger over a decision to ban a “helmet of memory” for the ­country’s war dead.On Tuesday evening the ­skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych revealed that he had continued to use the helmet, which shows athletes killed during the war, during his practice runs in Italy in defiance of the IOC. Continue reading...

‘People should spend more time supporting him’Itoje restored as England captain for Six Nations matchSteve Borthwick has called on Scotland supporters to lay off Gregor Townsend before the Calcutta Cup on Saturday, pointing out that his opposite number is his nation’s most successful coach of the professional era.Townsend is under huge pressure after the defeat against Italy in Rome last weekend came after he bizarrely claimed a report he had agreed to take over at Newcastle Red Bulls after the 2027 World Cup was a ruse designed to distract his side before they welcome England to Murrayfield. Continue reading...

American wastes strong downhill leg from JohnsonSlalom standout missed out on medals in 2022Raedler and Huber win gold for AustriaMedal table | Live scores and schedule | ResultsMikaela Shiffrin extended her Olympic slump with a fourth-place finish in the new team combined event at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday after partner Breezy Johnson led the opening downhill leg.Shiffrin, the most successful World Cup racer of all time with a record 108 victories –71 of them in slalom, also a record – has now gone seven straight Olympic races without a medal. Continue reading...

Vote next month after FA board approves radical planNew playoff format would begin as soon as next seasonEFL clubs will next month vote on an expansion of the Championship playoffs to six teams after being given approval to pursue the radical change by the Football Association’s board.The Guardian has learned that the 72 EFL clubs were on Tuesday invited to an extraordinary general meeting on 5 March, when the vote will take place on a new playoff format that would begin next season. Continue reading...

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Very few football fanbases have experienced a more dramatic decade than supporters of Coventry City. Nine years ago, the club slipped into League Two in front of four-digit crowds at the cavernous Ricoh Arena. They managed to rebound under Mark Robins, despite constant uncertainty under owners Sisu, and a spell in exile at Birmingham City’s ground for their Championship return in 2020. Three years later, a playoff final between two comeback clubs went the way of Luton, on penalties. And last season, the chief suit, Doug King, decided to replace Robins with Frank Lampard, an unpopular decision justified by a push for promotion that ended in an unlucky playoff semi-final defeat to Sunderland.Re: ‘Late but well worth it’ (yesterday’s last line, full email edition). Hold-ups on the line. An agonisingly slow tube journey. Dad and I arriving at Brisbane Road well after kick-off on 8 September 1962. Proudly kitted out in my blue scarf knitted by mum, with my blue rattle carpentered by dad (yes, we played in blue then). Barely time to grab a rosette, a hot dog and a bag of roast chestnuts. ‘Hurry up son,’ says the friendly turnstile man. ‘You don’t want to miss this one.’ Nearly 25,000 standing fans crammed into the tiny ground, but generously parting to allow us to move nearer the pitch. Still 0-0 at half-time, Denis Law kept at bay. Floodlights now casting lengthening shadows in the smoky, onion-scented air, cigarettes twinkling across the pitch. Eighty-nine minutes, still no score, then Orient winger Terry McDonald grabs the goal that consigns him to the local pantheon and Matt Busby’s boys to a 1-0 defeat. We may have ended up one-season wonders, but what a day that was” – Max Maxwell.Erling Haaland, Patron Saint of First World Problems, was right to dedicate the win at Anfield to long-suffering City fans cheering ‘week in, week out’ (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition). To put their almost-18-month trophy drought into context, a child born the day they won the 2024 Community Shield would today have only marginally more hair and decorum than Ian Holloway” – Rowan Sweeney.Mike Kilner was the only person who bothered to write a letter (yesterday’s Football Daily letter) and still didn’t win letter o’ the day. Maybe if this letter is published and wins the letter of the day, he can live vicariously through me” – Nigel Sanders. Continue reading...