How will Afcon impact Premier League teams?

Wales lose on penalties to Japan and, after beating Gibraltar, defeat against Northern Ireland means it is their final opponents who triumph in the inaugural Cwpan Gary Speed. In a developmental competition like this, though, results are secondary. “The tournament is first and foremost about Gary and making sure we put on a fitting tribute…

There are two doubles wildcards available for the tournament at Queen’s, and one is reserved for a team which includes a former world number one, a Grand Slam champion of the past 10 years or a current top-30 player. WIlliams has never liked the word retirement, preferring instead to say she was “evolving away” from…

For Arteta, it won’t matter that his side are not producing free-flowing football – the Gunners just want to get over the line and lift a trophy this season. They are having to produce results without a number of key players, who are injured. Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Jurrien Timber and Riccardo Calafiori were unavailable…

Macclesfield chairman Rob Smethurst says he feels like his side “won the FA Cup” with their third-round win over holders Crystal Palace on Saturday – and admitted he was “first on” as fans invaded the pitch at full-time. The Silkmen beat their Premier League opponents 2-1 despite ranking 117 places below them, creating the biggest…

If City are cleared of the more serious charges, Guardiola’s legacy will be viewed as secure. But if the club is found to have broken financial rules, many will conclude that the wrongdoing helped City to spend more money on better players, and to lay the foundations which Guardiola then built on to achieve so…

Ricky Hatton won 45 of his 48 professional bouts during a 15-year boxing career, and was world champion at light-welterweight and welterweight. He last fought professionally in 2012, though had planned to return to the ring in October. Nicknamed ‘the Hitman’, Hatton established himself as a hugely popular fighter with character inside and outside the…