Marcus Rashford is the next target on Tottenham Hotspur’s transfer wish list this summer 🎯 ✍️ @petehall86.bsky.social reports #THFC #COYS inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Sir Geoff Hurst is the only surviving member of the England team that started the 1966 World Cup final. 60 years after that famous win, he reflects on his career and reveals the incredible bond he shared with Bobby Moore. Read more: trib.al/apX0mM4

Football's staying home in a controversial bid to save licence fee money Read more: trib.al/hcpzHmZ

FREE jumbo World Cup wall chart inside today's The i Paper Plot every team's progress as they chase glory 48 teams Three host nations 16 venues 104 matches One essential jumbo World Cup wall chart FREE in The i Paper today

One 2026 World Cup wallchart to rule them all. Take down the Cézanne from your living room wall. Make space for The i Paper’s (almost) A1 wallchart, which will be published in tomorrow’s newspaper. Don’t miss it. In fact, buy copies for everyone you know. Thanks! @olyduff.bsky.social

🗣️ "I feel liberated. The BBC moved the goalposts, not me" Gary Lineker speaks to @msidouglas.bsky.social about his acrimonious BBC exit, bringing the World Cup to Netflix and his worries over an "unpredictable" Donald Trump 🎙️ #WorldCup inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Our chief football writer @danielstorey85.bsky.social is setting out on an epic road trip across the USA to cover the wildest World Cup in history. Ask him anything about his 7,200-mile, 49-day odyssey: trib.al/kLWoCN0

Former Wales captain Gareth Thomas was the first professional rugby player to openly come out as gay. Now he wants to tackle the hidden drugs crisis affecting the LGBTQ+ community. Read the full interview here ➡️: trib.al/Gv4dKyC

Gareth Thomas: Chemsex left my friend on life support trib.al/xQ6dIKh

Thomas Tuchel has named one of the most contentious World Cup squads in memory Read more: trib.al/uWPLIyA

Hull City are considering legal action over Southampton's "Spygate" chaos 🧑‍⚖️ ⚽️ Exclusive by @msidouglas.bsky.social #HCAFC #SaintsFC inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

"Getting relegated with Tottenham was my lowest point," says Glenn Hoddle. "I was only 18, and we got relegated in 1977. "I’ve supported Tottenham since I was eight years old, and to think I was in a team that got relegated was crucifying for me as a youngster." #THFC

One of the most extraordinary moments in Premier League history - from here, Arsenal win the title. From the London Stadium. #afc #whuars inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

🗣️ "I used to lose two or three pounds every morning. It's a dangerous sport. Mentally, it was tough." Frankie Dettori opens up on why he quit horse racing, surviving a plane crash and rubbing shoulders with football royalty 🏇 Read the full interview here ➡️: trib.al/g2F7by0

"I am forever drawn back to this place," writes @danielstorey85.bsky.social ✍️ Read more ➡️: trib.al/42K5FHb #GTFC

🗣️ "It was the first thing he said to me, actually. We were sat in his office" Rio Ferdinand recalls the best advice from Sir Alex Ferguson, Joe Cole's strange pre-match routine and sharing a room with Roy Keane and Frank Lampard ⚽ Read the full interview here ➡️: trib.al/YZ3bnm5

Opinion | "Dragging thousands of fans from Manchester or Leeds down to London, on the same weekend of the marathon, is way beyond the illogical," writes Pete Hall trib.al/bRpMvJi

Liam Rosenior has been sacked by Chelsea, with assistant Calum McFarlane taking interim charge until the end of the season trib.al/dYPyiUe

🗣️ "Everyone thought I was going to be the next Alan Shearer" Micah Richards talks to @msidouglas.bsky.social about playing up front as a kid, how he wanted to be a manager before he found TV and winding up Roy Keane 😂 Read more ➡️: trib.al/GtjZRYj

"If you purport to care about supporters, you must help all of them," writes Daniel Storey trib.al/WJvZo7I

Thursday's front page: China flexes its muscles in Gulf - as Trump seeks deal with Iran Read the full story: trib.al/Nf3VD5Z #TomorrowsPapersToday

In January, there was talk of protests at Southampton after repeated serious errors. Now they're the form team in the country. A piece on a baffling club, a baffling season and a novice manager coming good. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Why League One proves that English football’s finances are broken. Column. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Leave the football, before the football leaves you. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Arsenal are wobbling because they are making mistakes, but also because they are fighting a tide of self-fulfillment. The storm only whips up stronger... ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

🗣️ "Things weren’t going so well so I said, 'can you sort us out a win in Port Elizabeth?' I don’t think he knew who we were, but he was amazing" Phil Tufnell reminisces on a hostile debut, his favourite roommates and a very unusual night out in Durban 🍻 Read more ➡️: trib.al/5Qeo30S

🗣️ "I won't let Jason beat me at Monopoly - I make sure he doesn't get all the good properties" In an exclusive interview, Dame Laura Kenny reflects on motherhood, London 2012 and competitive date nights 🎲 Read the full interview ➡️: trib.al/jfPwfTg

“People think when you’ve been there for a long time, when you’ve got to 50 caps or whatever, you’re sitting there and you think you’re undroppable. No one’s undroppable" trib.al/gfu4Alo

"The transformation has been nothing short of miraculous," writes Matt Majendie trib.al/WvkAaA3

EXCLUSIVE | Declan Rice says the way people talk about Arsenal's set pieces is “confusing”, insisting the team’s success comes from detailed planning and execution. He also shares his thoughts on being tipped for the Ballon d'Or: trib.al/w6LQs0z

When Ben Foster first met Ryan Reynolds, he realised something quickly: the Hollywood star didn't know much about football - and didn't pretend to. Sometimes the smartest move in football isn't knowing everything - it's knowing when to step back. Read more ➡️: trib.al/7x4KDiE

'Nothing has changed', says former Lioness Lianne Sanderson at the London Football Awards. After Benfica's Gianluca Prestianni admitted to using racial language towards Vinicius Jr in their Champions League knockout play-off, Sanderson shared what she thinks needs to change.

Chloe Kelly has been honoured with a one-of-a-kind Barbie, the first ever England women's football Barbie from toy company Mattel

"Birmingham City have monumentally grand designs - but this super project now feels more fragile," writes @danielstorey85.bsky.social ✍️ Read more ➡️: trib.al/KgHRU7q #BCFC

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cuts have been blamed for leaving former Man Utd players without medical care 😮 ⚽️ Exclusive by @petehall86.bsky.social #MUFC inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

The British skeleton rider reveals all on why his medals are scratched already, meeting Jurgen Klopp and winning double gold with a badly injured shoulder trib.al/rvunwu7

In another universe, Muir might have been a history-maker for Team GB at these Winter Olympic Games trib.al/fTq3Pwg

Opinion | "For the second week in a row, a shockingly brittle England fell apart almost as soon as their opponents’ foot was placed on their throats," writes Hugh Godwin trib.al/qWP3yeZ

Zoe Atkin made it Britain’s greatest ever Winter Olympics by grabbing bronze in the delayed halfpipe final trib.al/TyfuZIT

This season was Brighton’s biggest chance yet to bruise the noses of the elite on a consistent basis. It is ending with serious doubts about the manager and growing questions over recruitment. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Shame on Jose Mourinho for his despicable gaslighting of Vinicius Jr. ✍️ @kevingarside.bsky.social #UCL inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

England's 2003 World Cup winning captain opens up about working a 'normal' job, the losses that haunt him and who he considers his greatest teammate trib.al/JUMFb6t

The Score - club-by-club review of the Premier League weekend: - Bournemouth's fresh attack - Summerville the dual-threat winger - Leeds the floodlight kings - Are Brighton drifting? - Nothing is working at Newcastle inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

🚨 The Score 🚨 ⚽️ Arsenal's big issue ⚒️ West Ham's dual threat 😢 Poor Harvey Elliott @danielstorey85.bsky.social gives his verdict on every #PremierLeague team after Gameweek 25 👇 inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

There really are no winners in the aftermath of Alexander Isak’s acrimonious transfer saga. Eddie Howe's feeling the pinch most. He's not under pressure, but his CEO's bold claims show just how far Howe is from meeting Newcastle's ambitious goals. inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

Leicester City are facing their rock bottom and they don't even know when the news will land. Brutal change is needed, but will it come..? inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

"How better to epitomise football’s slow dance with late-stage capitalism than such a farce," writes @danielstorey85.bsky.social ✍️ Read more ➡️: trib.al/BFaqcNP #SaudiProLeague

🚨 The Score 🚨 ⚠️ Newcastle's Howe error 😄 Man Utd's happy habit 🗣️ Moyes has a point @danielstorey85.bsky.social gives his verdict on every #PremierLeague team after Gameweek 24 ⚽️

🗣️ "We put on a brave face and sometimes we don't want to show people anything. For me, that was hard." Sir Mo Farah speaks on the highs and lows of his career, the Enhanced Games and which player from his beloved Arsenal would make the best Olympian. Read more ➡️: trib.al/QQgGIAZ

"Football is at its most entertaining when it contains surprise. A 15-pass, 45-second move that literally ends up back where it started is the antidote to entertainment," writes @danielstorey85.bsky.social ✍️ Read more ➡️: trib.al/cxCNHRK #PremierLeague #Championship