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• PSG vs Arsenal - Champions League final LIVE: Latest score, team news and updates as defending champions stand between the Gunners and their first European triumph30 May 2026, 3:28 pm
  Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score, team news and updates as PSG take on Arsenal in the 2025-26 Champions League final at the Puskas Arena in Budapest.
  
• USA name Tim Ream captain for the World Cup - as two star men are both snubbed in massive call30 May 2026, 3:27 pm
  The decision was confirmed on Saturday morning and is a major step as Mauricio Pochettino prepares his team for the tournament as host nation.
  
• Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard gives his verdict on Arne Slot's 'shock' sacking - and reveals whether he's open to managerial return30 May 2026, 3:21 pm
  With it looking like the Reds would opt to stick with the Dutchman on the back of a more-than-disappointing season, they opted to pull the trigger on Saturday and are now on the hunt for a new boss.
  
• Scotland 4-1 Curacao: Scots have plenty cause for concern as Lawrence Shankland stops Hampden World Cup send-off becoming a damp squib30 May 2026, 3:16 pm
  Thank heavens Lawrence Shankland found his shooting boots just before the hour and gave 10-man Curacao what for.
  
• Kevin Keegan, 75, cuts upbeat figure as he makes first public appearance since his cancer diagnosis - and jokes: 'I'm still alive!'30 May 2026, 2:47 pm
  The former England and Newcastle United manager joined presenter Pete Graves to advertise their appearance at the Tyne Theatre, scheduled for Sunday evening.
  
• SCOTLAND RATINGS: Steve Clarke's men savour Hampden send-off but which players took their chance to shine, who looks set to lead the line and does boss have ANY idea of his best defence?30 May 2026, 2:39 pm
  Scotland got the World Cup send-off Steve Clarke so badly wanted as an excited Hampden crowd cheered their heroes to a 4-1 win over the island nation of Curacao.
  
• Budapest braced for biggest police operation in the city's history as 10,000 ticketless fans are set to arrive for Arsenal's Champions League final showdown with Paris Saint-Germain30 May 2026, 2:37 pm
  Each club has been allocated 17,000 tickets, but police are estimating around 10,000 more will descend on the nation's capital without a ticket.
  
• Why Liverpool - 'not a sacking club' - changed their mind on Arne Slot: What figures behind the scenes think of need for a rebuild, a failure to learn from errors - and how it's come as a shock to the players30 May 2026, 2:36 pm
  LEWIS STEELE: Just 12 months on from winning the Premier League title and looking formidable, nobody foresaw a scenario unfolding whereby Arne Slot would be anything but the right man for the job.
  
• Only THREE Arsenal stars make the cut and Bukayo Saka misses out: Stats boffins reveal combined PSG vs Arsenal XI ahead of the Champions League final30 May 2026, 2:31 pm
  On Saturday, Mikel Arteta's men look to become the first Arsenal team to ever win the Champions League , as they take on holders Paris Saint-Germain in Budapest's Puskas Arena.
  
• Will Arsenal add the Champions League to their Premier League title - with holders PSG in their way? Daily Mail Sport's experts predict the final30 May 2026, 2:06 pm
  The Champions League final is upon us to conclude the domestic season, and Arsenal are hoping to add to their Premier League glory and win the competition for the first time ever.
  
• Liverpool SACK Arne Slot after end of season review: Reds squad left surprised by decision as Andoni Iraola emerges overwhelming favourite to take the reins at Anfield30 May 2026, 1:20 pm
  The Reds finished fifth in the Premier League this season, only just qualifying for the Champions League after a record-breaking £415million transfer spend in the summer.
  
• An eight-hour delay, speaking fluent Spanish, qualities that impressed new boss and club's cunning plan to bag Marcus Rashford on the cheap: How Barcelona granted Anthony Gordon's childhood wish30 May 2026, 1:14 pm
  After spending most of the day in a hotel waiting for bureaucratic snags to be ironed out, Anthony Gordon became Barcelona's sixth most-expensive signing ever on Friday night.
  
• Ibrahima Konate's exit is yet another kick in the teeth for Liverpool - and now more may follow him. No wonder sources tell LEWIS STEELE that Virgil van Dijk is so upset with the constant stream of departing stars30 May 2026, 1:12 pm
  The summer transfer window felt similar to a must-win game for Liverpool and, by losing Ibrahima Konate before we are even in June, it feels like they've gone 1-0 down in the first minute.
  
• AC Milan hold meeting with Oliver Glasner over replacing sacked manager Massimiliano Allegri - as Italian giants plan huge summer overhaul involving former Man United boss30 May 2026, 12:42 pm
  Glasner has left Crystal Palace after winning the FA Cup, the Community Shield, and most recently the Europa Conference League.
  
• Arne Slot took Liverpool to the top of the tree but he deserved sacking for failing to stop their disastrous decline, writes IAN LADYMAN30 May 2026, 12:30 pm
  There was a certain symmetry about Arne Slot being relieved of his job at Liverpool in the hours before Arsenal were about to play in a Champions League final.