Gary Neville has expressed concern for EFL players whose contracts are set to expire this summer who will face a real problem finding new clubs as a result of the huge financial problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Half of Premier League's clubs will push to see the season ended by the traditional June 30 deadline at Friday's shareholders' meeting, even if all games are not completed.

Former Tottenham and Liverpool director Damien Comolli has raised fears over the safety of players if football returns behind closed doors during the coronavirus pandemic, asking: 'What happens if someone dies?'

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admits he feared being sacked if he was not given the time to rebuild his squad.

Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea has reaffirmed his commitment to the club.

Ed Woodward has offered assurances that Manchester United plan to be 'highly competitive' in the transfer market - even if their spending power is hit by coronavirus.

The coronavirus lockdown has given many of us time to polish off odd-jobs and tie up loose ends, but finally finishing a sticker collection you started 41 years ago is among the more novel.

May 1, 2005 is a date for the history books – a day when everything changed for FC Barcelona as a 17-year-old Lionel Messi scored his first official goal for the Catalan club.

It's a rare sight football fans never want to see: one of their own wearing a rival club's shirt.

Arsenal's legendary captain Tony Adams has voiced his concern that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang could become the latest high profile star to quit the club this summer.

Football fans in need of a fix this weekend should look no further than the story of Corinthian FC of London and a match in Brazil delayed by 100 years.

Former Schalke player Hiannick Kamba has reportedly been found alive and well in Germany, four years after his death.

Players and coaching staff at LaLiga side Eibar have released a statement revealing fears of a fresh coronavirus outbreak ahead of a planned return for the competition next month.

Former Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez believes Lionel Messi can continue at the top level for five to seven years.

Welcome to the Evening Standard's LIVE coverage as the coronavirus crisis continues to heavily impact sport across the globe.

Watford join Brighton and Aston Villa in publicly disclosing opposition to neutral venue plans

After a decade of marriage, one Hollywood couple has decided to call it quits. E! News can confirm Grey's Anatomy star Caterina Scorsone and her husband Rob Giles have decided to go...

Third of workers at factory in Tipperary test positive, while McDonald’s supplier forced to temporarily halt production

An outbreak of Covid-19 among workers in a meat factory in Tipperary has raised fears that the virus is spreading through abattoirs and meat-processing plants in Ireland.

Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on agriculture, Brian Stanley, told the Irish parliament last night that 120 workers at the Rosderra Meats plant in Roscrea had tested positive for the virus. He also said that of 350 workers at the plant, up to 140 were off sick last week. Rosderra is the largest pork-processing company in Ireland.

Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals

The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the global temperature.

In a worst-case scenario of accelerating emissions, areas currently home to a third of the world’s population will be as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara within 50 years, the paper warns. Even in the most optimistic outlook, 1.2 billion people will fall outside the comfortable “climate niche” in which humans have thrived for at least 6,000 years.

Jock Palfreeman warns systemic corruption could see him returned to a Bulgarian jail for the rest of his life, and he condemns the influence of the far-right over Sofia's political establishment.

Health authorities in Western Sydney want shisha smoking phased out over fears it causes cancer, saying research shows 45 minutes of smoking flavoured tobacco from a water pipe is the equivalent of smoking 100 cigarettes.

Signing off after 30 years at the ABC, award-winning reporter Margot O'Neill writes about the thrill of the big scoop and gives an insight into the grinding slog of investigative journalism.

A solicitor who offered pro-bono legal advice at the Splendour in the Grass festival in 2018 tells a public hearing of a "military-style" operation, which saw shopkeepers and bar staff among those strip-searched by police.

Of more than 5,000 strip searches conducted by NSW police in the past financial year, less than a third found any illicit drugs, new data shows.

Pilots are still hungry for the thrill of flying a Grumman Tracker more than 30 years after they last launched it off the back of an aircraft carrier.

Forty years ago Peter Smith died after being punched on a night out in Sydney but only now will his sisters get to the bottom of what actually happened and why police closed the case a day after his death.

A jury hears how a woman who was allegedly gang raped by prominent Chinese actor Yunxiang Gao, and a producer, in a Sydney hotel room begged the men to let her go.

A court hears how a woman had a "chunk" of her tooth fall out after treatment, in a case against two people accused of posing as registered dentists.

A Vietnamese man carrying four kilograms of pork-filled mooncakes has been turned away from Sydney Airport after failing to declare he was carrying food.

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The ‘Pose’ actor is spreading joy.

Lime landed a $170 million investment round led by Uber and also promoted one of its top executives as CEO, Lime said Thursday. Under the deal, Lime will take over ownership of Uber’s scooter and bike business JUMP and the two companies will feature each other’s app on their respective service, Lime said.  San Francisco-based Lime also promoted its global head of operations and strategy Wayne Ting as CEO. Ting joined Lime in 2018 and previously spent five years at Uber as its Northern California…

The annual Game Developers Conference, a professional gathering of close to 30,000 interactive industry professionals, has been called off just two weeks before the 2020 edition was to launch due to fears of a coronavirus pandemic.

Uncertainty has City Section coaches questioning whether football can be played this fall, so Garfield coach Lorenzo Hernandez recommends playing in spring.

Gogglebox paid tribute to one of its best-loved stars, June Bernicoff, who died earlier this week, bringing viewers to tears

Two years ago, Yaya Toure played his final game for Manchester City after a brilliant 316 appearances for the club.

Niall Quinn was an £800,000 signing from Arsenal, while Gabriel Jesus arrived from Palmeiras for £27million.

The Bank of England said the economy could contract by as much as 3% in the first quarter.

A report published in The Lancet appeared to show there was a link between Covid-19 and a deadly syndrome that affects some children.

Celebrations will be very different during the coronavirus lockdown.

The US President, never one to relish global leadership, is now brushing off his most pressing domestic duties as well, writes David Lipson.

Moorabool Shire Mayor David Edwards says he fears his council is being shut out of any decisions around the dumping of contaminated soil from the West Gate Tunnel project.

This season's bushfires have "rewritten the rule book" as ecologists fear more than 80 per cent of the world heritage-listed Blue Mountains have been lost.

After a shaky start, Australian shares closed sharply higher, but were dragged down by the big four banks, as investors weigh up the impact of COVID-19 on dividends.

Under siege from much cheaper rivals and with lenders unwilling to support it, pay TV operator Foxtel is increasingly looking like a threatened species.

A new report estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic will likely last 18 to 24 months.

Canada's trade deficit widened to more than $1.4 billion in March, as the COVID-19 pandemic dragged down both imports and exports to their lowest levels in years.