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As ‘the pressure of the haircut’ enters the game’s lexicon, the extent to which football revolves around winning and losing games appears to be fading “I don’t care about his haircut at all,” Matheus Cunha said this week. “I don’t really look at other people if they need to go to the hairdresser or not,” […]

The first four Grade One favourites at the festival are British horses but the Irish battalions are ready for battle The first four Grade One favourites at Cheltenham next month are stabled in British yards. So are three of the top six names in the Gold Cup betting. From a safe distance on the British

Ireland second row Joe McCarthy says the squad still have belief and admits the penalty he conceded in the loss to France was his “poor judgement”.

Before Thursday’s Uefa Nations League draw in Brussels, BBC Sport NI takes a look at Northern Ireland’s potential opponents, including the Republic of Ireland and Scotland.

Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing Follow us over on Bluesky | And get in touch: mail Tanya Lizzy Yarnold, who won skeleton gold for Team GB in 2014 and 2018, is on pundit duty for the BBC and was asked about the decision to expel Heraskevych from the Olympics.

The Clarets’ remarkable first-half fightback keeps alive their slim hopes of Premier League survival, but where does it leave Crystal Palace?

Martin O’Neill hails Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s impact after the former Arsenal and Liverpool midfielder nets a crucial winner on his Celtic debut.

BBC Scotland examines the lie of the land in the Scottish Premiership title race.

WSL presenter Alex Scott and pundits and fellow Lionesses legends Fara Williams, Ellen White and Steph Houghton make confessions about each other, and reveal who they would sign, bench and sell in a five-a-side team.

The Nations League does not carry the prestige of other competitions, but Thursday’s draw still carries huge importance to Scotland and the Tartan Army.