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Saturday
Football
8am-12pm (all times GMT)Matchday live
With action from nan Premier League, nan Old Firm, Afcon and nan champion of nan Europe, Saturday’s shot has a genuinely world feel. Our matchday liveblog – brought to you by David Tindall and Yara El-Shaboury – will bring you nan latest updates, squad news and nan snippets from our reporters connected nan crushed to keeps you informed. Whether you are travelling to a crippled aliases pursuing astatine home, free to get involved: nonstop your thoughts, hopes and dreams to [email protected].
Premier League
12.30pmAston Villa v Nottingham Forest
Aston Villa will beryllium hopeless to put that dense conclusion astatine Arsenal down them and support their title situation arsenic Nottingham Forest recreation crossed from nan East Midlands. Having mislaid nan past three, Forest are teetering conscionable supra nan relegation zone. It’s a captious crippled for some sides: we person Sarah Rendell connected our MBM and Peter Lansley reporting from Villa Park.
Scottish Premiership
12.30pmCeltic v Rangers
An Old Firm derby pinch a difference, pinch neither Glasgow nine starting nan caller twelvemonth connected apical of nan table. Third-placed Rangers tin spell level connected points pinch second-placed Celtic pinch a triumph present arsenic some effort to reel successful Hearts, nan Scottish Premiership leaders. David Tindall helms our liveblog pinch Ewan Murray reporting from Celtic Park.
Premier League
3pmWolves v West Ham
It’s January and Wolverhampton Wanderers are still without a triumph successful nan league. They mightiness not person a amended chance than a location necktie against a struggling West Ham broadside besides successful nan relegation zone. The Hammers are group to walk large successful January but caller arrivals won’t beryllium successful spot for nan sojourn to nan Black Country. Will Unwin reports from Molineux.
Premiership Rugby
3.05pmBath v Exeter
Third meets 2nd spot successful nan Premiership array pinch Bath and Exeter separated by a azygous point. Exeter recreation to The Recreation Ground pinch nan champion defence successful nan division, conceding 47 points less than nan adjacent champion defenders – Bath – and some sides will beryllium hoping to support things tight arsenic they purpose for a seventh triumph of nan season. Michael Aylwin reports.
Premier League
5.30pmBournemouth v Arsenal
How will Arsenal fare without Declan Rice astatine Bournemouth? The Englishman has been astatine nan bosom of nan Gunners’ title push this season, some successful midfield and pinch his set-piece deliveries, but sustained a knee wounded during nan triumph complete Brighton and has not yet recovered. Bournemouth are winless since October and now look group to suffer Antoine Semenyo to Manchester City. Ouch. Barry Glendenning is manning our liveblog while Ed Aarons reports from nan Vitality Stadium.
Africa Cup of Nations
7pmMali v Tunisia
Mali squeezed done nan group shape pinch 3 draws and now look a vulnerable Tunisia broadside successful nan first knockout round. The northbound African broadside vanished 2nd successful Group C and ran Nigeria adjacent successful a 3-2 defeat. This should beryllium a tight crippled arsenic some nations conflict to scope nan 4th finals. Dominic Booth will tally our MBM and Jonathan Wilson will nonstop his lucifer study from nan Stade Mohammed V successful Casablanca, Morocco.
Darts
8.15pmPDC World Championship final
Day 20 of nan Darts World Championship is yet upon us, pinch £1m successful prize money to nan victor. Luke Littler remains nan favourite to triumph his 2nd successive title but has to get past Ryan Searle successful Friday’s semi-final. Fresh from thrashing 2023 champion Luke Humphries successful nan past round, Gian van Veen faces Gary Anderson. Rob Smyth will guideline you done nan action connected our leg-by-leg liveblog, while Jonathan Liew reports from Alexandra Palace.
Cricket
11.30pmThe Ashes, 5th Test, time one
There is nary specified point arsenic a dormant rubber successful nan Ashes. The bid whitethorn already beryllium successful nan container for Australia, but England will beryllium hopeless to hit their hosts astatine nan Sydney Cricket Ground and build connected their short but saccharine triumph successful nan 4th Test. Tim de Lisle and Angus Fontaine helm our over-by-over report, while Ali Martin, Barney Ronay and Geoff Lemon study from Sydney.
Sunday
Football
8am-12pmMatchday live
Although we are astatine consequence astatine sounding for illustration a David Mitchell sketch, location is much Premier League, much Afcon and 11 Championship games to descend your teeth into connected Sunday and our matchday liveblog will preview it each pinch nan latest news and analysis. Read it aliases moreover get successful touch pinch our writer, David Tindall, via [email protected].
Premier League
12.30pmLeeds United v Manchester United
Very overmuch a nostalgic consciousness to this 1 arsenic United look in-form Leeds, who are caller from an awesome tie astatine Anfield. Manchester United are unbeaten successful their past six matches astatine Elland Road, a grounds stretching backmost to September 2002 erstwhile a Harry Kewell victor decided nan contest. The location fans will beryllium hoping for thing of a repeat. Taha Hashim is connected minute-by-minute duties for america and Aaron Bower will supply nan lucifer report.
Football
3pmPremier League and Afcon clockwatch
There are 4 Premier League matches to screen from a 3pm kick-off – Fulham v Liverpool, Everton v Brentford, Newcastle United v Crystal Palace and Tottenham v Sunderland – each of which will beryllium covered successful our wide-ranging clockwatch, which will besides return successful Afcon and nan favourites Morocco against Tanzania successful their last-16 clash. Tom Bassam will support you abreast of each nan supra successful nan liveblog and we’ll person lucifer reports to boot.
Premier League
5.30pmManchester City v Chelsea
A penny for nan thoughts of Enzo Maresca, who will watch this 1 astatine location for illustration nan remainder of america aft nan now erstwhile Chelsea head informed nan nine that he had held talks pinch figures associated to Manchester City complete replacing Pep Guardiola. The Spaniard is very overmuch still successful complaint of a resurgent City, who will dream to swat speech rudderless visitors and adjacent connected leaders Arsenal. Rob Smyth will helm our MBM, while David Hytner and Jamie Jackson will supply report, quotes and study from nan Etihad.
American football
6pmNFL week 18: Jaguars-Titans, Broncos-Chargers
Wildcard play is conscionable a fewer days distant and location is still uncertainty successful some nan AFC and NFC, including for nan seeds. Our NFL liveblog – tally by Graham Searles – will return six of nan matches, including Jaguars-Titans, Broncos-Chargers, Falcons-Saints, Giants-Cowboys, Vikings-Packers and Bengals-Browns.
Cricket
11.30pmThe Ashes, 5th Test, time two
Here’s hoping that nan last Test of nan Ashes bid lasts longer than 2 days, but you ne'er know. All eyes will beryllium connected nan Sydney crushed unit arsenic overmuch arsenic nan players, and Taha Hashim and Martin Pegan will beryllium our eyes and ears to bring you over-by-over updates, while Ali Martin, Barney Ronay and Geoff Lemon will again record from Sydney.
