On top of a desperately poor run in the Guineas, the uneasy favourite for today’s Epsom Derby – City of Troy, last year’s champion two-year-old – will have to overcome the ‘coffin box’ draw of stall one. Only Adayar (2021) and Oath (1999) have won from that stall since starting stalls were introduced in 1967.
More teams, more games, a single league structure: this is how Europe’s top men’s club competition will look in 2024-25
Dortmund’s path to the Champions League final at Wembley has been something of a fairytale. Standing in the way of their happy-ever-after ending are 14 times winners Real Madrid.