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• Alan Shearer hits out at decision to schedule just ONE Premier League game on Boxing Day: 'What's the world coming to?26 December 2025, 11:42 am
  In years gone by Boxing Day has been the favourite day of the footballing calendar, with fans across the country tucking into their festive leftovers as a day of action unfolds.
  
• Eddie Howe calls on Newcastle owners to end 'limbo' over stadium and training ground projects - as he lays out 'game-changing' target for 202626 December 2025, 9:50 am
  CRAIG HOPE: The head coach admits he is unlikely to be in charge by the time those projects are finally delivered, but believes progress would be a signal of standards being set.
  
• Who's the biggest football club in England? We've got the definitive proof at last and have ranked every team from biggest to smallest - now see where YOUR club ranks26 December 2025, 9:22 am
  Daily Mail Sport has gone scientific, burying our heads in the data to come up with a definitive ranking of the 92 teams in the top four divisions of English football. Now find out where your team ranks.
  
• Can Frank Lampard maintain Coventry City's incredible start, who will edge ahead in the play-off race - and the managers in need of some festive cheer: The Championship's big talking points ahead of Boxing Day26 December 2025, 8:00 am
  The most anticipated time of the Championship season is here as teams embark on a hectic run of four games in just nine days from Boxing Day.
  
• Predictor picks: Find out who our expert is backing this Christmas... and play the game with £1,000 up for grabs26 December 2025, 7:00 am
  Where would we be without our glut of Premier League action over Christmas? The games are now coming thick and fast - and it's time to play Predictor!
  
• Inside story of the summer that rebuilt Manchester United: How a players' charter, F1 data guru, Ruben Amorim's rulebook, training ground revamp and supercharged transfer operation turned them from 'toxic' to a rising force26 December 2025, 2:00 am
  DAILYMAIL+ BEST OF 2025: United opened the doors to a new-look Carrington in August, the latest step in a revolution under Sir Jim Ratcliffe that has brought transformation and turbulence.
  
• John Robertson dead at 72: Tributes pour in as legendary ex-Nottingham Forest and Scotland star passes away25 December 2025, 11:24 pm
  Robertson was part of the iconic Forest side which won the First Division and two European Cups among other trophies under Brian Clough in the 1970s and '80s.
  
• Kobbie Mainoo is BLOCKED from Man United loan exit: Ruben Amorim tells 'future of the club' to 'wait' despite relationship being at breaking point25 December 2025, 10:48 pm
  CHRIS WHEELER: Mainoo is desperate to move away from Old Trafford next month after it emerged that the 20-year-old's relationship with his boyhood club is at breaking point.
  
• Eddie Howe is right to challenge Newcastle's owners about the club's new ground and training facility - here's why they risk being left behind without swift progress, writes CRAIG HOPE25 December 2025, 10:30 pm
  CRAIG HOPE: Eddie Howe was right to call for progress on Newcastle's off-the-field projects - and not because their tangible existence will one day aid him directly.
  
• Legendary Sky Sports News presenter quits after working her last shift on Christmas Day - after 27 years as the channel's 'First Lady'25 December 2025, 9:10 pm
  Tributes have been paid to a 'pioneer' of sports broadcasting after she signed off on 27 years of presenting on Sky Sports News with her final shift on Christmas Day.
  
• Mohamed Salah faces backlash from Muslim fans after Liverpool star shares latest Christmas tree photo - though he is absent25 December 2025, 9:00 pm
  The Liverpool and Egypt star has made it an annual tradition to share a Christmas tree photograph and message despite his Muslim faith.
  
• John Robertson changed Nottingham Forest forever - and he was an unlikely hero who Brian Clough transformed into a European conqueror, writes IAN LADYMAN25 December 2025, 8:31 pm
  IAN LADYMAN:To this day the Malmo right back probably doesn't know quite how it happened. The stocky, unremarkable bloke on the left side of Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest team was not quick.
  
• Robertson was a modest Super Tramp from Viewpark who made the extremely difficult look totally natural, writes Hugh MacDonald25 December 2025, 8:17 pm
  They can speak in wonder of the beaches of Rio, but two wingers who thrilled Europe and beyond can trace their origin story to an outpost in Lanarkshire.
  
• Man United outcast Andre Onana drops major transfer hint as he gives honest verdict about life on loan in Turkey25 December 2025, 5:06 pm
  Onana doubled his salary when he joined Trabzonspor on loan in September, just two years after arriving at Old Trafford for £47million.
  
• William Saliba opens up on desire to end Arsenal's five-year trophy drought after reaching Carabao Cup semi-final - as Gunners star gives verdict on fixture congestion25 December 2025, 5:05 pm
  MATT BARLOW: William Saliba promised Arsenal will fight on four fronts to turn a dominant first half of the season into silverware.