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Coutinho did not feature in Liverpool’s season opener against Watford with a back injury ruling him out of the trip to Vicarage Road.

India had multiple players to thank for for their commanding position in the third Test. Mohammad Shami was lethal in his first spell (6-1-15-2) of Lanka’s first innings while Kuldeep Yadav, who added 62 runs for the eighth wicket with Pandya in the afternoon, claimed for 4/40.

Manchester United opened their 2017/2018 Premier League campaign with a comprehensive 4-0 win over West Ham.

At the end of the day, Kevin Kisner led the championship at seven under par, having dropped three strokes over his last three holes.

Newcastle United welcome Tottenham Hotspur to St James’ Park in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon, in a game that could be hard to call. “[Arsene] Wenger has the capacity to decide to give contracts and do whatever he wants to do as he’s been there 22 or 23...

Mourinho’s magical second season: Since 2002 when he intruded on our consciousness, Jose Mourinho has coached four major clubs before his current job at Manchester United and, in each of these four clubs – FC Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid –...

“If the remaining 25 percent don’t arrive I will not moan, just go with everything I have to try to win every match we play”.

“We finished the contracts of five or six players and in the last six or seven years Manchester City didn’t buy full-backs, so we had to buy full-backs”.

Twenty teams would be competing in the 2017/18 Premier League, with the top seventeen teams from the last season, and three teams promoted from the Championship playing in the top English professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992.

Nothing epitomises summer short-termism more than West Ham’s decision to spend a reported £36 million on four players with a collective age of 119 years.

The New York Yankees couldn’t touch Eduardo Rodriguez Friday night, but they had no trouble against Addison Reed and Joe Kelly. Then the magic arrived.

Neymar is officially available to play, according to French soccer’s governing body, which confirmed on Twitter that the final paperwork to complete his world-record transfer from Barcelona had been received from Spain on Friday.

They finished without a trophy in third place, having not challenged champions Chelsea whatsoever past the turn of the year.

Jamie Redknapp thinks Manchester United will be guaranteed to win the Premier League title if they sign Gareth Bale from Real Madrid.

City have spent more than £200m on a squad revamp following last season’s underwhelming campaign.