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Henry Slade: ‘I felt I was in my prime before the World Cup – not to go was gutting’

All the Exeter Chiefs player wants for Christmas is to continue his fine form and put himself in contention for the England squad Henry Slade is sitting in reception at Sandy Park wearing a Christmas jumper with a fire-breathing dinosaur on the front. The Exeter’s squad’s festive meal is about to start and the mood […]

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Struggling Ten Hag both architect and victim of Manchester United’s crisis | Daniel Harris

Manager has been badly let down by absent owners making poor decisions but is not blameless for the club’s malaise Manchester United have long been renowned as great telly. But where, under Alex Ferguson, they were the Sopranos – aggressive, full of attitude and surprisingly sensitive – in the Post-Fergie Wilderness YearsTM they are Casualty:

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QPR’s Martí Cifuentes: ‘I’m an optimist. I don’t have any magical recipe’

Catalan is used to proving doubters wrong and is applying lessons from Johan Cruyff in his push to keep club in the Championship “In life and football there’s always some kind of risk, isn’t there?” Martí Cifuentes says. The Queens Park Rangers manager is thinking about his unusual journey and remembers the difficult early days

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Free to watch, relegation, midweek: how rebooted European Super League would work – video

A new version of the European Super League would stream all its matches for free and introduce promotion and relegation, its creators have said, as plans were announced to revive the breakaway project. On Thursday a judgment from the European court of justice found that Uefa’s and Fifa’s rules for authorising new international competitions had

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