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Nov 7, 2026 - Sports

Spaniard may feel some of Old Trafford’s allure when he goes there on Sunday but he is right in wanting to stay at the club with brighter prospectsOn Sunday afternoon, shortly before 4.30, Unai Emery will leave the tunnel at Old Trafford and walk along the touchline towards the bench. Will he glance around the grand old stadium – faded and leaking though it may be in parts – and think that he could have a part in restoring the club to former glories? Will he look at the home bench and imagine himself sitting there – or perhaps more plausibly, scuttling up and down in front of it – as the first Manchester United manager since Sir Alex Ferguson to land a league title?Perhaps not. Emery is, after all, in “advanced talks” to extend a contract at Villa that already runs to 2029. However frustrating he may find the habitual summer churn, he is good at managing it. He feels the right fit for Villa, and that is arguably the most important factor in determining success. Yet all elite managers share a robust self-belief and there is a paradoxical sense that the worse the situation gets at United, the more appealing the job becomes. Continue reading...

Nov 7, 2026 - Sports

Wait long enough and results will come to reflect performances. Manchester City may have won their first seven league games of the season but they always looked vulnerable, and now have lost three in a row. Nottingham Forest may have been second bottom but, other than the twin curses of missing chances and giving away daft goals, they seemed to be playing reasonably well. Put the two together and the outcome was a dramatic regression to the mean. It turns out the stats were right, after all.Liam Delap scored twice to remind people just what a good striker he can be. Oliver Glasner, after last week’s anger, can breathe a little easier in his job. And Enzo Maresca remains a paradox, a manager obsessive about control whose teams always seem oddly susceptible to direct running. Continue reading...

Nov 7, 2026 - Sports

Jay Stansfield earns Birmingham 2-1 win against SwanseaCardiff stage remarkable fightback to beat Burnley 5-4Jay Stansfield grabbed a late winner to fire Birmingham top of the Championship with a 2-1 win against 10-man Swansea.Stansfield struck three minutes from time after a Christoph Klarer own goal had cancelled out his first-half opener for Birmingham. Continue reading...

Nov 7, 2026 - Sports

Utah's win over BYU on Saturday is the latest evidence that Morgan Scalley's program won the split with Kyle Whittingham.

Nov 7, 2026 - Sports

FOX Sports' RJ Young offers up three takeaways from Utah's 28-20 win over BYU on Saturday.