Reporter notebook: England to stick with 4-3-3 against Senegal but has Gareth Southgate's best XI changed?

Manchester City's issues are mounting up. They have lost three away games in a row for the first time in six years. They are still five points off Arsenal even though the Gunners were beaten at Everton on Saturday. And despite rare public outbursts from Pep Guardiola, they are showing no signs of being kicked into life.

Almost a decade ago, Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund went from German champions and one of Europe's most-feared sides to barely being able to win a match as the German's seven-year spell at the club came to a shuddering halt - so could things be repeating themselves now at Liverpool?. Heading...

All three featured in England's 29-23 loss to Scotland on Saturday and the omission of Youngs, England's most capped men's player, is the second big call from Borthwick in a matter of weeks after leaving out Manu Tuilagi against the Scots. Youngs' omission means scrum-half Alex Mitchell is likely to...

Ask Hannibal Mejbri to name his favourite game since joining Birmingham City and he does not hesitate with his reply. "Stoke," he tells Sky Sports. "I liked that game." His team won 2-1 there in November but it was a symbolic day for him personally. "I did not know this...

A classic case of new manager bounce? "Yes," said Mikel Arteta following Arsenal's 1-0 loss to Sean Dyche's Everton. "But that shouldn't take credit away from Sean and the team. It's one thing to say it and another thing to do it, and they did it today." The Arsenal boss...

"Seven or eight players were not involved in the first goal," said Jurgen Klopp following Liverpool’s early capitulation in their 3-0 defeat to Wolves. "Seven or eight players were not involved in the second goal. But all are affected by it." Mohamed Salah was one of those likely to...

Circumstances dictated Harry Forrester's initial arrival in the USA. Having been frozen out during Pedro Caixinha's seven-month spell at Rangers in 2017, he dropped back into League One for a season with AFC Wimbledon and then made the unorthodox decision to head east to join Iranian club Tractor. The two...

All the top stories and transfer rumours from Monday's papers... Liverpool, Real Madrid and Man City will fight it out to sign Jude Bellingham this summer. West Ham manager David Moyes says England midfielder Declan Rice will command a British transfer record if he ever leaves the London Stadium. Transfer...

Captain Leah Williamson and Chelsea's Fran Kirby return to Sarina Wiegman's 26-player England squad for the Arnold Clark Cup, but there is no place for Aston Villa's Jordan Nobbs or Tottenham's Bethany England. Williamson and Kirby are back in the Lionesses camp after missing out on the last squad through...

Leeds are considering Rayo Vallecano head coach Andoni Iraola, West Brom boss Carlos Corberan and Celtic's Ange Postecoglou along with other candidates to replace Jesse Marsch as head coach. Here Sky Sports News' Tim Thornton reflects on what's next for Leeds, Marsch's time in charge at Elland Road, what went...

Arsenal were made to pay for failing to land any of the strikers they identified as January transfer targets as they were held to a goalless draw by resolute West Ham - the first time the Hammers have taken WSL points off their London counterparts. Jonas Eidevall's side caused a...

The amendments to Steve Borthwick's squad come following their disappointing opening-round defeat to Scotland at Twickenham on Saturday. Exeter Chiefs centre Slade had been out with a hip injury, while London Irish back Arundell had been absent after undergoing surgery for a foot injury. Greenwood: Smith-Farrell combo not England's biggest...

Fly-half Sexton said he had never been more nervous before a game going into Saturday's 34-10 victory over Wales in the Six Nations, which was only his second match in three months. The Leinster back kicked 12 points in Cardiff as Ireland began their campaign in style, with the team's...

Manchester City say they are "surprised" to have been charged by the Premier League with numerous alleged breaches of financial rules. The alleged breaches span a period from the 2009-10 season to the 2017-18 campaign. The club are alleged to have breached league rules requiring provision "in utmost good faith"...

Phoebe Graham says that England's youth and experience gives them a huge chance to win the ICC T20 World Cup and lay to rest the semi-final heartbreak of 2020.... England Women take on West Indies this Sunday in the ICC T20 World Cup Tournament in South Africa. It's England's chance to win the World Cup for the first time since 2009 but first, they will have to beat five-time reigning champions Australia.

David Goodwillie appeared for Radcliffe FC in the Northern Premier League on Tuesday night, despite the club not previously announcing his signature or arrival. Goodwillie, who Sky Sports News has been told has signed for the club in the seventh tier of English football on a short-term deal, was ruled to be a rapist in a civil case in 2017, six years after being initially charged.

The decision of new head coach Steve Borthwick to keep deploying captain Owen Farrell at inside centre with Marcus Smith at fly-half has come under scrutiny following the 29-23 defeat to Scotland in Saturday's Six Nations opener at Twickenham. The former England centre would prefer to see a specialist at...

Luke O'Nien scored a 94th-minute winner for Sunderland in the FA Cup at Shrewsbury last month. The following weekend, he was sent off early on in the home defeat to Swansea. Nothing illustrates the highs and lows of life as a footballer more clearly. There was a time not so...

​​​​Tagenarine Chanderpaul - son of West Indies legend Shivnarine - scored a Test double century against Zimbabwe as he and captain Kraigg Brathwaite shared a national-record opening stand. Chanderpaul made 207 not out from 467 deliveries in West Indies' total of 447-6 declared in Bulawayo, scoring a...

A trio of blistering half-centuries helped England defeat South Africa by 17 runs in a high-scoring Women's T20 World Cup warm-up match in Stellenbosch. Sophia Dunkley, Alice Capsey and Nat Sciver-Brunt all hit quickfire 50s as England ran up a mammoth 246 for seven after being sent into bat. Women's...