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London City Lionesses sack manager Prêcheur while West Ham close on Guarino

London City Lionesses have sacked their manager Jocelyn Prêcheur, with the newly-promoted club sitting sixth in the Women’s Super League table.

European football: Lamine Yamal on target as Barcelona battle past 10-man Villarreal

Kane scores again in Bayern’s 4-0 rout of Heidenheim

Rob Cross eases into World Darts third round while furious Cullen takes aim at Suljovic

Cullen accuses Suljovic of ‘cheating’ during defeat

Liverpool fear Alexander Isak sustained significant injury at Tottenham

Striker hurt by Van de Ven tackle when opening scoring

Hearts tighten grip on Premiership top spot as Shankland strikes to down Rangers

The telling moment was not Stuart Findlay’s header to open the scoring. It was not Lawrence Shankland battering the ball beyond Jack Butland. Instead, the latest indicator that this is a Hearts team of proper substance arrived as they conceded a 95th-­minute and ultimately immaterial goal to Youssef Chermiti.

Arrogant England’s cricket machine collapses like a castle of dust in 11 days

So this is Christmas. And what have we done? The Ashes is over. With two Tests still to come

‘I made such a bond’: Jesse Lingard on life in South Korea and his next challenge

Former Manchester United player discusses culinary and cultural surprises, feeling more mature and how he learned Korean

‘We feel excluded’: expensive tickets and Trump’s shadow dampen World Cup excitement in Mexico

The feeling among fans is anticlimatic as ‘businessmen have appropriated the ball that used to belong to the people’

Come on in, all ye faithful: 18 of the UK’s best mass swims for Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day

Festive sea swims are pure joy – and also blow away the cobwebs, unite communities and raise money for charity. Here are some old (and new) favourites

Bears stun Packers in overtime as Eagles top Commanders to clinch NFC East

Chicago erase 10-point deficit as Love exits concussed

Jake Paul’s artless spectacle robbed boxing of its democratic dream

Netflix’s 300 million global subscribers got just what they wanted: to see a former YouTuber knocked out brutally

Tottenham v Liverpool: Premier League

71 min: Spurs double-substitution: Wilson Odobert and Joao Palhinha on for Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall.