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Pep will bide his time over new signings

MANCHESTER CITY are open to waiting until the end of August to land a new midfielder but Pep Guardiola claimed that the Premier League champions will refuse to be held to ransom.

Championship
Blackburn 4 Derby 2: Szmodics’ big impact

SAMMIE SZMODICS showed how much Blackburn will miss him if Ipswich take him to the Premier League this month.

Championship
Preston 0 Sheffield Utd 2: Super Blades cheer Wilder

SHEFFIELD UNITED boss Chris Wilder hailed a ‘fresh beginning’ for the club as his side got their Championship season up and running at the first time of asking.

International Football
So, can he emulate Gareth and land job?

STEPPING up from his role as England Under 21s boss, Lee Carsley becomes only the eighth caretaker manager in England’s 152-year history. He is in decent company, too, given the man he is replacing (at least for now), Gareth Southgate, took a similar path and ended up taking the top job. Not everyone has made such a success of their temporary stint, though. Mail Sport runs through the Three Lions’ best, and worst, interim bosses…

Football League
The verdict of Mail Sport’s writers who support EFL clubs

How my team will do: We could finish bottom or top. If the squad remains as it is now, the former is on the cards. Replicate last August’s shrewd moves in the transfer market and anything is possible.

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By Ann Packer, 800m gold, Tokyo 1964

They said the 800m wasn’t for ladies in my day… just imagine telling Keely that!

CONGRATULATIONS to Keely. That was just fantastic. With all that pressure, she delivered and showed she was in a different class.

Sir Clive Woodward

English rugby has sold its soul by renaming Twickenham. How HAS it come to this?

IN what is proving to be a wonderful summer of sport, the decision to rename Twickenham the Allianz Stadium feels like an almighty blow. It is one I was surprised and saddened to learn about.

Ian Herbert

Bolton refugee Cindy Ngamba shames every hate-filled thug who seeks to divide Britain

AT 4pm on Sunday, from the seclusion of the five-star holiday retreat in Cyprus where he is evading arrest, the racist attention-seeker Tommy Robinson tweeted about Bolton, fuelling the kind of disorder there which is shaking so many of our communities to the core.

Matt Barlow
Pic Andy Hooper/Daily Mail

Oliver Holt

It’s tragic that innocent boxers are collateral damage in a political war between liars and charlatans

AMID all the joy and exultation of the Paris Olympics, amid the beauty and splendour, a tragedy is playing out in front of our eyes here, too. On Sunday morning at the Parc des Expositions, not far from Charles de Gaulle Airport, they staged its second act.

Matt Barlow
Pic Andy Hooper/Daily Mail

Riath Al-Samarrai

These Games are a triumph - in spite of spineless Olympic chiefs

THEY all want to see Simone Biles. On Thursday, her night of wonder and redemption at these Olympics, that meant a few well-known names turned up. Zinedine Zidane was there at the Bercy Arena, so too Bill Gates and Steph Curry, and what a performance it was, just as they knew it would be.

Ian Herbert

A receding hairline, baggy shorts and a lived-in face… 1924 hero Liddell was an Olympic champion in the purest sense

YOU’LL find the framed image of him just inside the door at the beautiful little exhibition about the 1924 Paris Olympics, up the hill from the stadium where he ran to 400 metres gold.

Matt Barlow
Pic Andy Hooper/Daily Mail

Oliver Holt

Crowd could only mourn as the King of Clay’s Paris swansong became a sad last dance

THEY streamed out of the metro station at Porte d’Auteuil, past the battalions of police cars, down the tree-lined avenue, past the Jardin des Serres and into the grounds of Roland Garros to see the king in his kingdom one last time.

Formula One

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Formula One
Pole star Norris expects win

IF you believe the next sentence amounts to the entire truth, you will believe anything. ‘It’s not like all of a sudden I need to do it and prove a point — I don’t.’

Formula One
Stop playing video games, Max told

MAX VERSTAPPEN has been ordered to pull the plug on his late-night gaming sessions following a disappointing display at the Hungarian Grand Prix last weekend. Verstappen, 26, was up until the early hours on race day in Budapest, competing in virtual races online before stuttering to a fifth-place finish. He has now gone three races without a win for the first time since the 2021 season.

Formula One
Lando: I don’t need to act like an idiot

LANDO NORRIS insisted last night he does not need to ‘act like an idiot’ to beat Max Verstappen to the world title.

Racing
Moore hired for Inspiral tilt

Racing
Robin Goodfellow best bets

THE booking of Billy Loughnane aboard JARRAAF (NB) (pictured) in the Shergar Cup Sprint at Ascot (3.20pm) is a huge positive and he has strong claims of following up his recent course and distance success.

Racing
The Wizard of Odds

ADAAY IN DEVON (NAP) (pictured) is a dual Listed winner and has also been placed twice in Group Three company this year, including at Ascot. She won her only previous start in a handicap.

Racing
Break-out star Loughnane, 18, heading Down Under

BILLY LOUGHNANE will spend the winter in Australia to gain more valuable experience and build the momentum behind his burgeoning career.

Racing
Purosangue primed for Cup tilt

THE Stewards’ Cup (3.35) is the highlight on the final day of the Goodwood Festival and PUROSANGUE (NAP) should go close for trainer Andrew Balding.

Racing
Superstar Speech is talk of Goodwood

WILLIAM BUICK could not take the smile off his face but nobody could blame him after his belief in a superstar was vindicated.

Boxing
Game’s up for wiped-out Wilder after brutal knockout

TYSON FURY admits that the mighty blows with which Deontay Wilder kept knocking him down during their epic trilogy have taken years off his life.

Boxing
Best wishes sent to Woods following her freak accident

JOHN Terry and Jill Scott led the well-wishes to Laura Woods after the presenter suffered nasty facial injuries in a freak accident on holiday.

Olympics
Today at the Olympics in 60 seconds