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On paper, a trip to a West Ham side scrapping to avoid relegation looked the toughest of Arsenal‘s last three fixtures. It was a game Arteta’s men needed to win to avoid letting City back in but they struggled to break the Hammers’ stubborn resistance. The game was still goalless when West Ham midfielder Matheus…

Two-time champion Carlos Alcaraz will miss this year’s Wimbledon because of an ongoing wrist injury. The world number two withdrew from last month’s Barcelona Open after sustaining the injury to his right wrist in the first round. The 22-yeaar-old Spaniard subsequently pulled out of the French Open, where he is the two-time defending champion, to…

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…

The independent disciplinary commission has three people, with the chair usually being a King’s Counsel (KC). They sit with two side members who are lawyers, barristers or mediators. It is expected to be a virtual hearing but it could take up to 24 hours for the verdict to be made public. If guilty, options open…

It seemed fitting that Arsenal have one hand on the Premier League trophy thanks to a 1-0 win – of their past four league matches, all victories, three have ended with that score – with the Gunners conceding just once in their past six. They have conceded the fewest goals in the league (26), while…

Pittsburgh quarterbacks coach Tom Arth said Rodgers has a “ferocious competitive spirit” but still has “so much fun” playing the game. “He plays the game like he’s still 10 years old running around in the backyard,” added Arth. Rodgers began his NFL career in 2005 when he was selected by the Green Bay Packers in…

Mohamed Salah’s social media post asking for Liverpool to return to playing “heavy metal football” is discussed on the latest episode of The Wayne Rooney Show. Former England captain Rooney says he would have the forward “nowhere near the stadium” for Liverpool’s final Premier League match. READ MORE: Liverpool must return to heavy metal football…

Elversberg will become one of the smallest clubs ever to play in the Bundesliga after securing promotion with a 3-0 win against relegated Preussen Munster. Goals from Bambase Conte and David Mokwa put Elversberg in control after 15 minutes on Sunday, before Mokwa scored his second midway through the second half to wrap up a…

BBC Sport pundits Mark Schwarzer and Dion Dublin believe Bryan Mbeumo using his arm to trap the ball to his side to help better control Diego Dalot’s cross in the build-up to Matheus Cunha’s goal, gave Manchester United an “completely unfair advantage” in their 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest in the Premier League. MATCH REPORT:…

“I got stabbed on the shoulder first”, he tells BBC Sport. “I remember jumping over the table, jumping over the chairs. I was just running down the corridor, telling people, ‘there’s a guy with a knife, run, I’ve been stabbed, run, run, run’. I was screaming. I think I was the first person that got…