December 2025

We look at 10 players likely to create headlines next month, including the ‘new Kevin De Bruyne’ Men’s transfer interactive: January 2026 edition While Semenyo would doubtless prefer to be in Morocco at the...

Our cartoonist looks back at the big stories and memorable moments as we wave farewell to another year in football David’s favourite cartoons of 2025 | Buy one here And his latest book, Chaos...

The best and worst of 2025 – featuring devotion in DC, late-night tweeting and the fly that sank a birdie The White House, issuing a communique to reporters covering April’s global market meltdown over...

From long exposures of motor racing to remote-operated cameras at football matches, here’s how our favourite sports images were made Tom Jenkins’s best sport photographs of 2025 How one of the best tennis photos...

Villa have sunk the Gunners’ title hopes in recent seasons but Gabriel’s return ready for Tuesday could be crucial It may be more than six years since Unai Emery left Arsenal but it’s hard...

Leah Williamson made an OBE; four Lionesses are MBEs Torvill and Dean now a dame and a knight Sarina Wiegman has been awarded an honorary damehood after guiding England to back-to-back European titles, in...

Ipswich narrowed the gap on the Championship’s top two with an impressive 2-0 win at Coventry, ending the leaders’ unbeaten home record this season. Jack Clarke opened the scoring after 72 minutes and Wes...

Doing a December double over Derby may have offered Leicester fans some festive cheer but it is unlikely to brook the longstanding resentment against a board whose treatment of staff over Christmas has only...

Villa keep coming from behind, keep winning by the odd goal and keep confounding the numbers. At some point it must stop – but not yet It can’t go on. It makes no sense...

South Africa 3-2 Zimbabwe | Egypt 0-0 Angola Angola face wait to qualify but Zimbabwe out Oswin Appollis scored a penalty in the final 10 minutes to hand South Africa a 3-2 victory over...