Sport

Canada’s sports minister Adam van Koeverden has attached an unusually political hope to the 2026 World Cup: that co-hosting the tournament with the United States and Mexico can help rebuild the atmosphere around North American trade negotiations. The three...

West Ham’s fight for Premier League survival carries a balance-sheet consequence as severe as the sporting one. The club’s latest accounts showed a £104.2 million loss, and relegation could force more than £100 million in player sales as revenue...

For the first time since the Champions League entered its modern era, viewers in the United Kingdom are set to find the final unavailable on free-to-air television. Arsenal’s meeting with Paris Saint-Germain in Budapest will sit behind TNT Sports...

Levante’s late push toward La Liga safety has become one of the season’s most improbable coaching stories. Luís Castro arrived in December with a career built far from Spain’s biggest stages and inherited a club that appeared trapped in...

The final weekend of the Women’s Super League produced the familiar mix of celebration and uncertainty that now accompanies elite women’s football. Manchester City had already secured the title, yet Khadija Shaw’s two goals in a 4–1 win over...

The admission by refereeing chief Howard Webb that Manchester United’s goal against Nottingham Forest should have been disallowed is another reminder that technology cannot remove judgment from football. Bryan Mbeumo handled the ball before Matheus Cunha scored in United’s...

Brazil’s decision to take Neymar to the 2026 World Cup is both nostalgic and pragmatic. At 34, more than two years removed from an anterior cruciate ligament tear, the country’s all-time leading scorer has been selected for a fourth...

The regulatory action against former footballer and union executive Darren Wilson has reopened an uncomfortable question about how institutions built to protect players manage power and money behind the scenes. A Charity Commission inquiry found serious financial mismanagement at...

Tottenham’s battle to avoid relegation has pushed the club into a place that few expected, where a single point at Stamford Bridge could matter more than reputation, history or aesthetics. Roberto De Zerbi, appointed only five matches earlier, has...

Arsenal’s narrow victory over Burnley was less a performance of champions than a test of whether a team carrying championship pressure could survive its own nerves. Kai Havertz’s first-half header, created from a Bukayo Saka corner, supplied the only...