Can you name every team in the 2026-27 Europa League?

Teams from 22 different countries will be present and we’ve given you 15 minutes to name them all. Your only clue is the country where they play their domestic football. If this gives you a taste for another challenge…

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FC Copenhagen Women have a ‘startup-like’ brand. Now they need results

For Denmark's most successful men's club, with 16 league titles, it marked the realisation of their desire to establish a women's team, through collaboration with the existing FC Damsø, and an ambitious project with aims…

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Can you name all 12 clubs Andy Cole played for in his career?

But can you remember every club he turned out for? Cole was at his peak in the mid-to-late 1990s, playing for two clubs that, at the time, were battling it out at the top of the English top flight. But after leaving the…

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Way-too-early 2027 Six Nations predictions for each team

Now he stood over one more penalty, from long range, with the clock showing red and eighty thousand voices somewhere between a scream and a held breath. Everything came down to this. Five months of a championship that…

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“If I was in charge of England, I’d try to buy Jack Willis out of his contract, bring him back to England and make him captain”: Former England captain Will Carling on the Willis brothers, Henry Pollock and making headlines on and off the pitch

The man who led his country more successfully than anyone, before or since. A friend of the late Princess Diana, sacked for calling his bosses “old farts” when demanding the game be run more professionally.Who better to…

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Southgate ‘hardly watches’ football and does not envisage Premier League return

Southgate, who has moved away from football since stepping down as the manager of the England men's team after defeat by Spain in the Euro 2024 final, said he had not attended a game since watching his boyhood club…

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Newcastle boss 'relishing' Scarlets challenge

But for someone like McFarland, vastly experienced within the United Rugby Championship and its previous incarnations from coaching spells with Connacht, Glasgow Warriors and Ulster, he is aware of what his team faces…

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Crawley signs Kent extension after losing England deal

The 28-year-old has agreed the new deal three days after his central contract was not renewed when the England and Wales Cricket Board released its updated list. Crawley has not featured in a Test since the final game of…

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Spain bids for Rugby World Cup with Nou Camp final

The Spanish Rugby Federation says it aims to deliver the "best World Cup in history", connecting the tournament to 700 million Spanish speakers worldwide. If Spain's bid is successful, the revamped Nou Camp is in line to…

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The jaw-dropping Mesut Ozil solo goal that’s still not talked about enough

That is until Mesut Ozil picked up the ball in the dying minutes of a Champions League tie in November 2016. Ozil was the very definition of a fantasy footballer at his peak, able to spot gaps thinner than a supermodel’s…

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