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The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend’s action Subscribe to get our editors’ pick of the Guardian’s award-winning sport coverage. We’ll email you the stand-out features and interviews, insightful analysis and highlights from the archive, plus films, podcasts, galleries and more – all arriving in your inbox at every Friday lunchtime. And we’ll set you up for the weekend and let you know our live coverage plans so you’ll be ahead of the game. Here’s what you can expect from us. Try our other sports emails: there’s daily football news and gossip in The Fiver, and weekly catch-ups for cricket in The Spin and rugby union in The Breakdown. Living in Australia? Try the Guardian Australia’s daily sports newsletter Continue reading...

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The 100 best male footballers in the world 2025
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The 100 best male footballers in the world 2025

Ousmane Dembélé becomes our seventh winner as he beats Lamine Yamal into second and Vitinha into third on our list of the best players on the planet Premier League dominates list | How every judge voted | Our methodology | The top 100 female players for 2025 2024 edition | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 Continue reading...

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‘I enjoy when things get tough’: Alessia Russo on Arsenal’s trophy quest, family pride and staying focused
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‘I enjoy when things get tough’: Alessia Russo on Arsenal’s trophy quest, family pride and staying focused

In an exclusive interview, the England forward explains she is ‘locked in’ for the Gunners’ Champions League quarter-final against Chelsea Alessia Russo is happy and it shows. The 27-year-old is playing some of the best football of her career for Arsenal and England. She has 15 goals and six assists in 29 games for her club this season, is the leading scorer in the Champions League before the first leg of the quarter-final against Chelsea on Tuesday, and has four goals in six games for England since her equaliser in the Euro 2025 final. “Whenever you’re happy in life and in your club environment, it breathes on to the pitch,” she says. “I do feel in a really good place. I feel super calm and I’m just enjoying my football. Continue reading...

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Salah springs to life and plays retro Mo in his own tribute act for Liverpool | Barney Ronay
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Salah springs to life and plays retro Mo in his own tribute act for Liverpool | Barney Ronay

The Egypt forward led Galatasaray a merry dance for 17 second-half minutes to Anfield’s delight Welcome back, Mo. The old place has missed you. How many more of these are we going to get? It would be incorrect to say this was Mohamed Salah’s night at Anfield. It was instead Mohamed Salah’s 17 second‑half minutes, although these were the decisive 17 minutes in this Champions League tie, and one of those interludes at this ground where a kind of voodoo descends, the night goes a little wonky and ghosts flicker at the edge of things. Continue reading...

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Raheem Sterling still searching for Feyenoord form after De Klassieker flop
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Raheem Sterling still searching for Feyenoord form after De Klassieker flop

Former England forward started against Ajax but failed to make an impression and was hooked early on by Robin van Persie When the moment came, Raheem Sterling ran out of road. At long last a few yards of space had opened up and here, advertised by a spike in the decibel level around De Kuip, was an invitation to attack the Ajax right-back Lucas Rosa. There was no doubting what his mind intended to do: go around the outside, skitter along the byline and execute in the manner that has defined a largely brilliant career. For a split second the muscle memory seemed enough but Rosa’s angles were perfect and the legs had no way of compensating. Just as he had in a tighter spot before half-time, Sterling could only dribble the ball off the pitch. Four minutes later, he would be exiting it for good. Feyenoord had gone a goal down in De Klassieker to a drab, workmanlike Ajax and the unfortunate truth was that there was only one place to look. Continue reading...

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