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Jose Mourinho has been appointed as Tottenham’s new manager following the sacking of Mauricio Pochettino.

Mauricio Pochettino has left Tottenham Hotspur.

A window into the bright new future we want to give our children and our children’s children. A world free of confusion, controversy and injustice. A world that no longer relies on Martin Atkinson.

Daniel Storey looks at what we learned in the Premier League this weekend.

Tottenham, who travel to Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday, began the job of saving their season with an encouraging 5-0 Champions League victory over Red Star Belgrade that answered Mauricio Pochettino’s prayers and provided genuine hope of a revival.

Daniel Storey looks back at the weekend's action.

Liverpool began the defence of their Champions League crown on a losing note as Dries Mertens’ penalty and Fernando Llorente’s injury-time strike handed Napoli a 2-0 victory.

Mauricio Pochettino wore the smile of a proud man after his Tottenham team somehow escaped with a point from the Etihad, but beneath that was the stark realisation that his club is in danger of being left behind in the Premier League arms race.

Tottenham appear to have done good business this summer as Mauricio Pochettino completed the signings of Giovani Lo Celso and Ryan Sessegnon to go along with Tanguy Ndombele, prompting comparisons with three of the most dramatic transfer days in the club’s history — but they have not all ended well.

A man who threatened to kill gardaí and rape their children when he blitzed a Garda station with a series of abusive calls from Australia has been jailed for almost four years.

A man telephoned gardaí from Australia and threatened to rape and kill a number of them and their children and then mocked their dead colleague killed in the line of duty.

By the time you read this article, London’s 2019 senior football championship season may be over.

Football does not have rules but instead laws which govern what is allowed on the field of play.

A “lesson in efficiency”, is how Hugo Lloris described Liverpool’s win over Tottenham in Madrid, and while the Frenchman cannot be sure if he will play in another Champions League final, he maintains Spurs are learning all the time.

Liverpool's final performance never hit the heights of earlier in the competition, but few Reds fans will care after an early Mo Salah penalty and late Divock Origi strike saw Tottenham beaten 2-0 in Saturday evening’s far from classico Champions League final at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid.

Kerry made hard work of seeing off Clare in heavy conditions to book a Munster final spot against Cork in three weeks’ time.

There was a cursory meeting of Arsenal and Tottenham supporters at Frankfurt Airport on Thursday morning, one side beating a retreat from Baku, the other en route to the Champions League final in Madrid.

He stands one game from a Champions League winners’ medal in Madrid this evening but the Brazilian midfielder Fabinho also takes to the field against Tottenham as exhibit A for the argument that there may be no better man manager in the modern game than Jurgen Klopp.

Lost, amid the sublime composure of £75 million Virgil van Dijk, the fan-pleasing marauding runs of full-backs Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson and the promise of Joe Gomez, stands Joel Matip, the forgotten centre-half who may have as big a say in tomorrow’s Champions League Final as any Liverpool star.

Liverpool and Tottenham fans have been urged not to try to find spare tickets for Saturday night's Champions League final, amid a police clampdown on touts selling fakes.

Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano stadium hosting the Champions League final was an impossible dream which could still have an unhappy ending.

Few cities in the world have football stirred into their daily lives quite as much as Madrid - but even the Spanish capital will be tested when Liverpool and Tottenham fans arrive for the 2019 Champions League final.

Reminiscing about Liverpool’s greatest European heroes takes you on a journey of some of football’s most iconic names

Jurgen Klopp took two minutes of his first press conference as Liverpool manager to play down the urgent demand for silverware, but he could not help setting himself a target.

Sadio Mane, arguably one of Europe’s most feared strike threats, heads to Madrid on Saturday with Liverpool supporters hoping his next return to the Spanish capital is not of a more permanent variety.

Arsenal supporters were warned to be careful what they wished for when they hounded Arsene Wenger out of the club a year ago.

Jurgen Klopp takes Liverpool back to the biggest stage in European club football on Saturday, desperate to rid himself of an unwanted record but confident in one fact.

Tottenham have handed "indefinite" bans to three supporters who tried to sell their Champions League final tickets on a secondary ticketing platform.

It is among the great sources of regret in professional football, the lost connection between players and fans.

A modest proposal: Uefa should now do the decent thing and cancel this year’s Champions League final.

Tottenham will play Liverpool in the Champions League final after a 3-2 semi-final second-leg win over Ajax gave Spurs an aggregate victory on away goals.

Liverpool are through to the Champions League final after beating Barcelona 4-0 in the semi-final second leg at Anfield to win 4-3 on aggregate.

If Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s new-look Manchester United needed a calibration to measure how far they have come since Jose Mourinho departed then this match, despite the result, should leave them standing tall.

Virgil van Dijk, a player who has had much to do with Liverpool’s success so far this season, faces Porto tonight with the defender admitting that there is no margin for error in his team’s quest for glory on two fronts.

Since mind games aren’t what they used to be, let’s give thanks for the ingredient that can make this title race great: Liverpool’s ‘12th Man’, writes Larry Ryan

It may not have been quite as dramatic or memorable as that Steven Gerrard goal almost 14 years ago to the day but, as Mohamed Salah clinched Liverpool’s place in the Champions League knockout stages, this important victory certainly carried echoes of that famous night.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists last season’s devastating Champions League final defeat did the club no harm at all, writes Carl Markham

The only time Ryan Giggs came up against Ireland as a player, he was reduced to playing a bit part in history.

Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler is convinced that Mo Salah’s annus mirabilis in his debut season at Anfield was no one-off.

Arsenal, Manchester City, and Chelsea are on high alert after Cristiano Ronaldo’s buyout clause at Real Madrid was reduced from €1bn to €120m.

Egypt boss Hector Cuper has kept Russia guessing over whether or not he will be able to unleash “one of the best players in the world” on them in St Petersburg tonight.

There have been some remarkable stories in the World Cup over the years but this one you really couldn’t make up.

Uruguay captain Diego Godin bristled at the suggestion that his team might resort to a physical approach to neutralise Egypt forward Mohamed Salah on his return from a shoulder injury in their World Cup opener today.