Football Articles | Mail Online

• 'Sky Sports are misguided - they risk alienating their audience': TV legend JEFF STELLING speaks out on his old employer's influencer strategy on the launch of his podcast25 January 2026, 12:34 pm
  EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY LUKE POWER: It's 04:30 on a winter morning and Stelling's alarm pipes up. He's up at the first beep. What did you expect from one of football's most exuberant men?
  
• Crystal Palace vs Chelsea - Premier League LIVE: Latest score, team news and updates as the Eagles host Liam Rosenior's side plus Newcastle vs Aston Villa and Brentford vs Nottingham Forest25 January 2026, 12:33 pm
  Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for Sunday's 2pm games featuring Crystal Palace vs Chelsea, Newcastle vs Aston Villa and Brentford vs Nottingham Forest.
  
• How Arsenal expose the dysfunction at Man United: RIATH AL-SAMARRAI on huge difference in transfers, a self-loathing brand of nostalgia - and the way to walk out of the wasteland25 January 2026, 11:30 am
  Beyond a pair of underwhelming strikers purchased at vast cost in the summer, there is little or no common ground between Man United and Arsenal in 2026.
  
• One Man United defender features in the backline but which two players join Bukayo Saka in the front three? Stats boffins reveal combined Arsenal vs Man United XI25 January 2026, 9:00 am
  Manchester United will be looking to build on last weekend's dramatic derby day victory when they head to the Emirates this Sunday.
  
• It's going to take more than a couple of injuries for anyone at Tynecastle to lose heart in pursuit of history25 January 2026, 7:00 am
  If anyone knows how to debunk the old adage that the bookmakers never lose, it's Tony Bloom. As a pro gambler, Bloom earned both his reputation and fortune by regularly outmanoeuvring them.
  
• Aberdeen flop Jesper Karlsson is just the latest foreign import to find that Scottish football hits different25 January 2026, 7:00 am
  Hailed as some kind of market masterstroke at the end of August, Jesper Karlsson has now left the building - with no sign of any great torrent of tears over his departure.
  
• In a breathless Scottish season of uncertainty and mayhem, one thing is for sure... shambolic Celtic deserve to end up empty-handed25 January 2026, 7:00 am
  Win at Tynecastle today in the biggest game of the campaign so far and their players and management will disagree, but the blunt truth is that Celtic deserve absolutely nothing from this season.
  
• Arsenal keep tabs on Real Madrid youngster, Fulham offer £28m for PSV Eindhoven striker - and Bayern Munich the latest side to eye up Chelsea defender: TRANSFER WINDOW WATCH25 January 2026, 7:00 am
  The transfer window is open and here are today's developments from Daily Mail Sport's Simon Jones. 
  
• Liverpool's 'staggering' substitute blunder: Jamie Redknapp hits out at Reds stars after failure to replace injured player left them with 10 men for SEVEN MINUTES, allowing Bournemouth to score crucial second24 January 2026, 11:37 pm
  Jamie Redknapp has criticised Liverpool's 'amateur' handling of the situation following Joe Gomez's injury, with a seven-minute spell playing with just 10 men proving costly.
  
• Emotional Laura Woods beams as she is awarded an honorary doctorate in front of fiancé Adam Collard back at her old university, 18 years after she graduated24 January 2026, 11:26 pm
  Laura Woods was all smiles this week as she returned to Kingston University to collect an honorary doctorate in recognition of her 'outstanding contribution to journalism'.
  
• Premier League winner makes January transfer window's most bizarre move as he signs for team fighting relegation in Kazakhstan24 January 2026, 11:25 pm
  In one of the most bizarre transfer moves this month, a former Premier League winner has moved to a relegation-threatened side in Kazakhstan.
  
• Ole's olive branch: Solskjaer contacts Michael Carrick after he beat him to the Man United job24 January 2026, 11:09 pm
  Michael Carrick has revealed that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been offering his support since he beat his old friend to the Manchester United job.
  
• Harry Kane is brutally MOCKED by Augsburg after they stunned Bayern Munich in one of the Bundesliga's biggest shocks to end Vincent Kompany's 'Invincible' hopes24 January 2026, 10:55 pm
  Vincent Kompany's side looked on course for another routine home victory when Hiroki Ito put Bayern ahead midway through the first half at Allianz Arena.
  
• Newcastle boss Eddie Howe sends pointed message to Premier League rivals and will 'stretch every ounce of energy and effort' from his squad24 January 2026, 10:30 pm
  CRAIG HOPE: Eddie Howe says restrictive financial rules only sharpen his desire to 'upset the status quo', reminding his rivals that football is played on grass and not a spreadsheet.
  
• Why Viktor Gyokeres is struggling at Arsenal: The mistakes Swede keeps making, how a clash of styles is hurting 'confidence player', the missing ingredient from his time at Sporting Lisbon and Mikel Arteta's verdict on hit-and-miss striker24 January 2026, 10:12 pm
  Even when he scores, things just aren't going Gyokeres' way right now. The last thing you need as a misfiring striker trying to justify a £64million price tag is a team-mate showing you up.