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• Sticking with Martin O'Neill would be a matter of convenience for Celtic... and it's a path club must avoid if they want to show they've learned from their mistakes24 May 2026, 3:34 pm
  As they slowly dispersed from Hampden and made their way back to the buses, cars and trains, many Celtic fans would have attempted to encapsulate the season which had just ended.
  
• Premier League final day LIVE: Tottenham vs Everton and West Ham vs Leeds headline survival battle as Arsenal celebrate title, Guardiola says goodbye and SIX other games24 May 2026, 3:33 pm
  Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score, team news and updates from the final day of the 2025-26 Premier League as Arsenal are crowned champions at Selhurst Park.
  
• Gabby Logan picked ahead of Kelly Cates and Mark Chapman as BBC's new Gary Lineker for the World Cup final: INSIDE SPORT24 May 2026, 3:32 pm
  Gabby Logan is set to become the BBC's first female anchor of a World Cup Final, Inside Sport understands.
  
• Michail Antonio rips into ex-West Ham boss Graham Potter for 'never actually getting to know me' before he was forced out of the club - and reveals details of 'terrible' contract he refused to sign24 May 2026, 3:23 pm
  Potter took over West Ham in January 2025, but was sacked by the club in September as they languished in the bottom three of the Premier League table and just after Antonio left.
  
• SHANE McGRATH: What a near hour long ding dong with Martin O'Neill on the phone taught me about this natural born winner...24 May 2026, 3:22 pm
  In October 2018, Shane McGrath had the experience of a 55 minute phonecall with Martin o'Neill... an experience he has never forgotten
  
• The overhead-kick hero! Bolton win promotion to the Championship with best goal of the play-offs so far - but not without VAR controversy for a hair-pull in 4-1 win over Stockport24 May 2026, 3:19 pm
  GETHIN HICKS AT WEMBLEY STADIUM: The ball hung in the air for what felt like an eternity before falling to Bolton Wanderers' Sam Dalby, standing on the six-yard box.
  
• Alex Scott in tears on final episode of Football Focus - as fans lay into the BBC's 'woke' show which was scrapped due to huge decline in viewing figures after 52 years on air24 May 2026, 2:32 pm
  It was reported last month that the show would be scrapped by the BBC at the end of this season amid a decline in viewing figures over recent years.
  
• Southampton fans hit out at 'deafening silence' over club's handling of Spygate24 May 2026, 2:31 pm
  The Saints were expelled from the Championship play-offs by an independent disciplinary commission last week following Daily Mail Sport's explosive revelation that they had spied on rivals.
  
• Arne Slot lets Mohamed Salah start his last Liverpool match despite calls to BAN 'selfish' departing hero after attacking his own manager24 May 2026, 1:57 pm
  Mohamed Salah will get his big Liverpool farewell today - with manager Arne Slot allowing him to start despite the departing 'Egyptian King' dropping a 'grenade' on the team.
  
• Tottenham captain Cristian Romero makes dramatic u-turn by returning to England to watch his side's relegation decider after jetting off to Argentina to watch his boyhood team play instead!24 May 2026, 1:11 pm
  Tottenham skipper Cristian Romero has returned to London in a dramatic u-turn ahead of the final day of the Premier League season. 
  
• Richard Keys bids farewell to Premier League football with emotional 'end of an era' post celebrating his 34 years next to fellow shamed ex-Sky Sports broadcaster Andy Gray - with duo to return to UK after leaving jobs in Qatar24 May 2026, 12:35 pm
  Richard Keys has posted an emotional farewell to Premier League football ahead of his impending return to the UK at the end of the season.
  
• Inside the Kroenke Blueprint that ended Arsenal's title drought: A 'total reset' in 2019, the vital meeting Mikel Arteta was trembling over, Josh Kroenke's cheeky rebuke of Stan and pre-Atletico speech... and what's next including stadium expansion24 May 2026, 11:45 am
  What happened? How did the Kroenkes go from hated to hailed? Daily Mail Sport has spoken to a variety of well-placed sources to reveal all the key moments in a 19-year journey to the top.
  
• 'This is the People's Club - and Seamus is a man of the people': Coleman's Everton team-mates and staff reveal his untold stories, from secret hospital visits to paying scouts' bills, how he ran the dressing room and a rant that saved them from relegation24 May 2026, 11:43 am
  Leighton Baines, David Moyes, James Tarkowski, James McCarthy, Dominic Calvert-Lewin reveal what makes Seamus Coleman an Everton legend as he prepares for his final game for the club.
  
• A 'minor miracle', a Sunderland conspiracy and a bottle of cognac: Those who've survived the agony of a final-day relegation battle reveal how to pull off a Great Escape24 May 2026, 11:27 am
  From David Pleat running on the pitch and Bradford shocking Liverpool to Bryan Robson's Greatest Escape, these are the stories of how to survive the ultimate nailbiter of a final-day relegation battle.
  
• Donny van de Beek suffers another career setback as he is RELEGATED from LaLiga with Girona's star-studded squad, including Marc-Andre ter Stegen and fellow ex-Man United star24 May 2026, 11:07 am
  Less than two years later, the Catalan club have been relegated from the Spanish top flight following a dramatic final day to return to the second tier for the first time since 2022.