Manchester City will start next season in the familiar role of title favourites after refusing to rest on their laurels once again

Another major, another chance for one player to make history by winning the US Open to complete a career grand slam.

There's the presence of a new world number one and increased yardage on the 11th and 15th holes.

Lewis Hamilton says winning a record eighth world championship would be “mind-blowing” – and he is ready to fight in order to make that happen.

Even the original architect of Euro 2020, former UEFA president Michel Platini, accepted it was “perhaps a bit of a zany idea”.

Almost as soon as Bryson DeChambeau became US Open champion, attention turned to the next major in this most unusual of seasons.

From the so-called ‘Massacre’ in 1974, to Fuzzy Zoeller’s mock surrender in 1984 and Geoff Ogilvy’s shock victory in 2006, Winged Foot has a history of providing plenty of drama when it hosts the US Open.

Liverpool fans may still be waiting for the party Jurgen Klopp promised them to celebrate last season’s long-awaited Premier League success, but they will begin the new campaign among the favourites to win another title.

The 107th Tour de France will be an edition like no other. Riders will sign on in face masks before much-reduced crowds, racing under the looming threat they might not make it to Paris at all in these unique times.

Big IFA wages, beef export deals, BSE, BDGP, bills for superlevy... year of Bs