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With a broad beaming smile, a swaying ponytail along with an outwardly confident swagger, Safia Middleton-Patel is not hard to spot. She is a goalkeeper, who as all footballers will tell you are a breed apart! Flinging yourself side to side, enjoying diving head first towards a swinging boot of an onrushing forward and taking

Down a long drive, out of sight in the Leicestershire countryside, there is a buzz around a football pitch. Forty players, and various groups of coaching staff, are mingling by a set of dugouts, chatting, swapping their trainers for boots, preparing for training to get under way. It is pre-season; this is not an unusual

Spain once again showed their attacking threat at this European Championships by dismantling Belgium 6-2 to qualify for the quarter-finals. Portugals 1-1 draw with Italy means Spain have reached the last eight with one group stage game to spare – a result which has confirmed Belgiums elimination from the tournament. After thrashing Portugal 5-0 in

Antony, Alejandro Garnacho, Tyrell Malacia, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho have all informed Manchester United they want to leave. As a result, United have delayed their required return date until later in July to allow them time to explore potential solutions further. The rest of the squad will begin reporting back from Monday. If their

Takehiro Tomiyasu and Arsenal have mutually agreed to terminate his contract, with the Japan international continuing to recover from a long-term knee injury. The defender, who made 84 appearances for the Gunners after signing from Bologna in 2021, still had a year left on his contract, with the option for a further year to be

World champions Spain started their Euro 2025 campaign in style as they brushed Portugal aside with a dominant 5-0 win. There was a particularly sombre atmosphere inside the stadium, less than 24 hours after the death of Portugal mens international Diogo Jota – and his brother Andre Silva – in Zamora, north western Spain. But

Ask Andries Jonker to explain the difference between coaching men and women and he reaches back into his past for an example. It is December 2002 and he is assistant manager to Louis van Gaal at Barcelona and cannot believe what he has just seen. Newcastle are the visitors to the Camp Nou for a

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has paid tribute to very special Diogo Jota, after the forward was killed in a car accident in Spain. The Portugal international, along with his brother, Andre Silva, died in a crash in the Spanish province of Zamora after the car in which they were travelling caught fire after a