Mauro Icardi to Manchester United? And where next for Ivan Toney? Supporters set out their hopes for the month

Top 14 round-up: After three-straight defeats, Corkman's side head into New Year on a high but third red card in recent weeks spoils comprehensive win

Former captain signed for Spurs in 2012 and went on to make 447 appearances for the Premier League club, but had not played since April

'Shaggy' in reflective mood after 4-1 win over 10th seed Damon Heta on Saturday afternoon to make a first-ever quarter-final at Alexandra Palace

Christ the Redeemer was lit up in a Pele shirt among Brazilian tributes to the soccer great on the first anniversary of his death. Pele died of colon cancer at age 82.

League leaders will lose their talisman to the Africa Cup of Nations and must hope Diogo Jota et al step up in his absence

In the moment of her greatest triumph, Spain’s World Cup winner became the focal point of football’s battle against misogyny

Omnipresent Roy Keane will spend the rest of his days lucratively conquering one industry after another

Olympic hopeful Mona McSharry did better than anyone predicted in Tokyo. But increased pressure and expectation plunged her to a personal low she struggled to emerge from. She spoke to Eoghan Cormican.

Before the European window opens we select players likely to be in demand, including a record-breaking Mexico forward

The World Cup, debt, Vera gone, Kenny gone, Rovers, gender, Cork down and Lee Carsley. And there was the obligatory Oireachtas hearing. Football correspondent, John Fallon reflects.

With Mike Catt set to depart in the wake of next year’s summer tour in South Africa, Andy Farrell was on the lookout for a new attack specialist within his Ireland coaching set-up.

Tuilagi limped off early in the second half with a grade three tear and has been told he faces six weeks of rehabilitation, although he does not require surgery.

Doris is well aware of what Ulster are capable of if they are afforded time and space on the pitch.

Come Monday, it will have been exactly a month since the league champions last savoured victory with a 40-29 success over then-table toppers Glasgow at Musgrave Park.

The more you dig, the more you get covered in shit, they say. But this is our hole, and we’ll figure a way out. There’s a crew in this together and we’ve been here before. We know the way out.

'I never saw a Premier League where every game the teams down low and mid-table can beat everyone. There will be a lot of surprises and the thing is to be there'

Williams won a final-set decider to advance 4-3 before making the heavy-handed remark in his post-match interview on Sky Sports.

As they trailed to Jack Harrison’s first half goal, Guardiola’s men were facing the prospect of remaining eight points behind leaders Liverpool only for a spell of characteristic dominance to cut that to five.

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