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The best of the week

25 for 2025
Unmissable sporting events over the next 12 months

The alternative 2024 sports awards
Quotes, gaffes and animal cameos

Photo essay
Tom Jenkins’ best sport images of 2024

David Squires on …
Football's headline-grabbing acts from 2024

The Breakdown awards
Best rugby matches, players and quotes of 2024

LeBron James at 40
NBA’s brightest star stares down the dying of the light

Comment and analysis

Paris Olympics were great, so why not hold summer Games every two years?

Sean Ingle

The average sports fan is increasingly a big-eventer and there is a risk of the Games losing out in the attention economy

Age of tactical ideologues is over as Spain dominates new era

Jonathan Wilson

Are modern stars still cut out for panto season? Oh yes they are

Emma John

Watch and listen

'What happened there?'
The best of the amazing world of sport 2024

From animals interrupting to athletes fighting, here is a look back at some of 2024's most entertaining sporting moments

Today in Focus
How Britain fell in love with darts

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Coming up this weekend

Our live coverage begins at 8pm (all times GMT) on Friday night, as we bring you leg-by-leg updates of the PDC World Darts Championship final between Michael van Gerwen and Luke Littler at Alexandra Palace. Then it's off to the SCG for day two of the final Test between Australia and India.

On to Saturday and we head to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium at 12.30pm for Spurs v Newcastle in the Premier League. At 3pm, Manchester City v West Ham headlines our football clockwatch before we wrap up the day's top-flight action with minute-by-minute updates of Brighton v Arsenal (5.30pm). We're back in Sydney at 11.30pm when Australia and India square off for day three of that fifth Test.

We have two Premier League offerings on Sunday: Fulham v Ipswich at 2pm before the weekend's standout match, as floundering Manchester United head to Anfield to take on league leaders and fierce rivals, Liverpool, at 4.30pm. And our live coverage wraps up with day four of Australia v India from 11.30pm. Enjoy!

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