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Soccer
Manchester City vs Manchester United Preview
The Manchester derby always carries its own weather system. This one arrives early in the calendar and heavy with consequence. On Sunday 14 September 2025, the Etihad hosts the 197th meeting between the neighbours, each side trying to shake off an awkward start to the season. City opened with a…
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Tennis
US Open Final Preview: Can anyone stop Alcaraz and Sinner?
Since Novak Djokovic’s last major triumph at the 2023 US Open, no one outside Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner has lifted a Grand Slam. Seven straight majors have gone their way, and by Sunday evening in New York it will be eight. They have contested three of those finals directly,…
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Soccer
There is no one like Lionel Messi
Nicky Helfgott from Buenos Aires Lionel Messi in Argentina is the closest thing to a living deity that I have ever seen. I was too young to witness the effects Michael Jackson had on touring cities, or perhaps what Michael Jordan was to Chicago, but Messi unquestionably surpasses them both.…
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Soccer
Champions League Draw Analysis 2025/26: The Definitive Breakdown
The Champions League did its usual draw in Monaco on Thursday, but the script has changed. Once again, like last season there will be thirty-six clubs and just one league table. Eight unique opponents per team. Four at home, four away. No safety net of a gentle four-team group you…
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Soccer
Transfers You Won’t Believe Actually Happened
Football’s transfer market is a museum of oddities. Every summer we gather in front of the glass, pointing at curios that still make us blink. Some are bureaucratic accidents. Some are born of desperation. Some are the kind of left-field moves that sound like a mate winding you up in…
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Tennis
US Open Preview: Will Alcaraz and Sinner continue the Grand Slam streak?
New York is loud again. The subway screeches under Ashe, the night sessions steal the back half of Europe’s evening, and the two best young players in men’s tennis walk in with the same expectation that greeted Federer in 2005 or Djokovic in 2015. For well over eighteen straight months…
