Footballer Luis Suarez may have taken one too many bites at the World Cup, but tennis grunters and eye gougers have also been banned, Robert Hume reports

The most famous afro in world football is no more.

Liverpool last night completed the signing of defender Dejan Lovren from Southampton on a long-term contract for a "significant fee’" thought to be in the region of £20 million (€25.3m).

Manchester United defender Chris Smalling is confident he can slot perfectly into Louis van Gaal’s first-team plans this season.

Didier Drogba said he couldn’t turn down the chance to work with Jose Mourinho again after agreeing a one-year deal at Chelsea yesterday.

Compared to Louis van Gaal’s honeymoon, Kimye’s went unheralded.

West Ham’s preparations for the new Premier League season have been thrown into turmoil after striker Andy Carroll announced he is to undergo surgery on an ankle injury.

Rory McIlroy’s physical transformation — not to mention an even more important mental change — has been remarkable over the past four years and he was back at it yesterday when he made one of his regular trips to GlaxoSmithKlein’s Human Performance Laboratory in London.

Having been battered from pillar to post for his failures in last summer’s transfer window, Ed Woodward’s promise of a fluid budget for the new Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal represents a rigid dichotomy between the approach under David Moyes, even if such grand promises could easily become the sword Woodward falls upon.

With the transfer deadline looming, Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois - who has been heavily linked with a switch to Real Madrid - failed to report for training as doubts over his future at Stamford Bridge intensified.

Maurizio Sarri knows even winning trophies is no guarantee of a lengthy stay at Chelsea.

Unai Emery is relishing the challenge of beginning his Arsenal tenure against reigning Premier League champions Manchester City today.

It's back!

Now that the transfer window has closed for Premier League clubs, let's look at who the clubs brought in and let go over the summer.

Fantasy Premier League is finally back, and it won't be long before we will finally learn if all that time spent ruminating and tinkering with our teams was actually worth it.

Roy Keane has urged sports fans of all codes to move on from the controversy over the venue for the Liam Miller tribute game in Cork next month and focus on making it a sold-out event for the ages.

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Salah a one-season wonder or the real deal?

Roy Keane hardly had the words out of his mouth when Gary Neville said yes.

Gary Neville had already spent the morning talking Premier League but, like any good full-back who spends the 90 minutes motoring up and down the sideline, there was no sign of him flagging come the resumption after lunch.