The plan

It is probably fair to say the expectations of Manchester United fans as the team head into their third Women’s Super League season are markedly different to last summer.

Then, Casey Stoney had guided the team to a fourth-place finish in a curtailed first top-flight campaign and recruited the USA women’s national team stars Christen Press and Tobin Heath as they looked to upset the established order at the top of the table and vie for a place in the Champions League. Confidence was high.

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They got off to a blistering start and finished the year top and a win against Arsenal and a 2-2 draw with M…

Nottingham Forest’s owner, Evangelos Marinakis, has warned results and performances must “improve immediately”, in a statement issued to deny Steve Cooper was being sacked.

Forest’s defeat at Leeds on Tuesday left them above the relegation zone on goal difference and extended their winless run to eight games. Cooper was close to dismissal in October before being given a new contract to 2025 and the comments from Marinakis did not appear to close the door on a change of manager. Forest play at Aston Villa on Saturday.

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“No one denies that our club is in a difficult position in the Premier League, but we wish to end the s…

Here we go; the almost impossible task of picking a Roma five-a-side team and keeping most people happy. Roma, like many Italian sides, are a club with a rich history of top-class players who have each brought their own unique skills and styles of play to an adoring public.

I would argue, reasonably confidently, that three of my five selections will not spark much debate. I have chosen only one midfielder, which means legends such as Agostino Di Bartolomei, Giuseppe Giannini and Daniele De Rossi miss out. However, my midfield choice brings energy, dynamism, and a creative spark that I feel would flourish on a five-a-side pitch. I’m confident that if my attacking duo rediscover their old spark, this team would be competitive against any sid…

Bill Belichick and Sean Payton both being winless through two games has never happened. In fact, this is Belichick’s nadir since 2001, when Tom Brady was just a twinkle in his eye. Both coaches are masters of their domain and intense perfectionists. Unfortunately, their respective teams would only be among the league’s best this season if the games were 30 minutes long. Payton’s rep — an offensive guru who won a Super Bowl and manufactured top-10 offenses as efficiently as anyone not named Andy Reid — is still intact. Belichick is arguably the greatest defensive mind in history and the league’s preeminent coach after winning six Super Bowls with Brady executing the Pats’ offenses. This year, between the two of them exists one combined elite team. For the Patriots, naptime …

Yesterday, Jake Paul and former Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson announced that they would be fighting in July at AT&T Stadium and streaming live on Netflix. Paul accompanied the post with a hype video of Tyson training, but the video is from four years ago, not two weeks ago like Paul said when he posted on X. The footage was shot and posted by Tyson before his fight in 2020 against Roy Jones Jr., which ended in a draw. Tyson has not fought in a non-exhibition boxing match since his retirement in 2005. “He’s grown significantly as a boxer over the years, so it will be a lot of fun to see what the will and ambition of a ‘kid’ can do with the experience and aptitude of a GOAT,” Tyson said of Paul in a statement, according to the New York Post. “It’s a full-circle m…

Some people are fans of the Minnesota Vikings. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Minnesota Vikings. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Minnesota Vikings. As always, this is the part where I disclose that I’m a Vikings fan. A stupid, gullible, worthless Vikings fan. Have a seat. This’ll take a while. I have a lot of problems with these people. Your 2016 record: 8-8, which doesn’t even begin to hint at the pain and misery this team… this complete fucking ASSHOLE of a team… put everyone through. Fresh off a division title and with young promise all over the roster, here is what happened: The starting quarterback had his leg explode in a non-contact drill, an injury so severe it n…

Some people are fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Cincinnati Bengals. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group.
Your team: Cincinnati Bengals
Your 2013 record: 11-5. And you're not gonna believe this, but they lost their first round playoff game. I know! CRAZY, RIGHT?! You know how any playoff team gets asked, "Hey, what team would you like to face?" and they're all diplomatic and they say, "Aw shucks, we'll play anyone because we're just that gosh darn competitive"? That's a lie. They want the Bengals. Come playoff time, everyone wants a piece of Marvin Lewis. Every time the Bengals make the playoffs, they look like a team that got swapped in at the last se…

Says Dominic Raiola, after being asked about Packers fans who moon visiting teams' buses, "I get to the stadium too early. I don't see that. But that'd be pretty awesome to see. I don't know if I want to see any of those people naked. They're not in real good shape up there." He adds, "It looks like they live a simple life. They love the Pack and that's pretty much it." Last year, Raiola did this with Dolphins fans. Colorful character! …

It was a bad night for Todd Helton, the cornerstone of the Rockies for 16 seasons, he of the .321 lifetime batting average and 58.7 WAR (good for 11th among active players and higher than Vlad Guerrero, Ichiro, and a slew of others you'd expect to be above Helton). But tonight in Philadelphia, when Placido Polanco came up with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth and chopped a ball to second, Todd Helton seemingly forget how to play baseball. That is to say, he forgot to put his foot on the base, the cornerstone task of a first baseman. He didn't even put up a fight when Alfonso Marquez called Polanco safe. It was hopeless by that point, and Helton knew it. Update: Helton spoke to reporters after the game and admitted he wasn't ready for the throw and didn'…

data-mm-id=”_n8xwasyhy”>Halloween is here and, once again, sports media talents can't let the trick-or-treaters get more attention than them. Costumes were worn across the networks today and they were begging to be judged. Therefore, I not only judged them, I ranked them. 7. Matthew BerryNo one’s getting by me. #HappyHalloween pic.twitter.com/Ej7881kXh0— Matthew Berry (@MatthewBerryTMR) October 31, 2019Unfortunately, not all people are judged equally, and this is what happens when you appear in Avengers: Endgame. I expected better here. This costume by Matthew Berry is also a little out of touch. I knew I had seen these little green toys before, but I couldn't remember just where. This was a hot costume back in the day. Now, well, not so much. Given this "idea,"…