TARA ANSON-WALSH: Liverpool goalkeeper Rafaela Borggrafe has been serving a six-match ban for using racially discriminatory language last summer, boss Gareth Taylor has confirmed. 

Chelsea are cautiously optimistic they will sign an elite centre back this month - and it should not be seen as two fingers being stuck up at Liam Rosenior's predecessor Enzo Maresca.

Leicester City have held talks with FC Como in an attempt to sign Switzerland forward Alisha Lehmann this month.

The '2016' trend has taken over social media this week and American skiing icon Lindsey Vonn took the opportunity to get involved and share a naked throwback from a photoshoot.

Luis Enrique has been heavily linked with the Manchester United managerial vacancy after Ruben Amorim was sacked

Rangers have signed winger Andreas Skov Olsen on loan from Wolfsburg until the end of the season.

Michael van Gerwen won the Dutch derby against Gian van Veen to win the Bahrain Darts Masters as Luke Littler's 21-match winning run came to an end.

Andreas Skov Olsen was considered a coup when he joined Wolfsburg last January before it turned sour. Will he revive his career at Rangers?

BBC Sport looks at a dramatic 24 hours for Crystal Palace as captain Marc Guehi agrees to join Manchester City and manager Oliver Glasner confirms he is leaving in the summer.

Blues targets could come this month or in summer

Van Gerwen let slip 3-0 and 6-2 leads before edging an enthralling contest.

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As Michael Carrick prepares for Saturday’s derby, fans wonder if this is the club’s worst moment – but they are spoilt for choiceManchester United, without a permanent head coach or European football and knocked out of both domestic cups at the first time of asking, are facing another bleak season. In the almost 13 years since Sir Alex Ferguson left, …

Crystal Palace face losing another key player with striker Jean-Philippe Mateta open to a new challenge.

Sir Nick Faldo is returning home following successful preventative open-heart surgery in the United States.

Manchester City have upped the ante in the Premier League title race by flexing their muscles in the January transfer window.

The Africa Cup of Nations has impacted Keith Andrews’ selection since December

Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle was killed in a plane crash last month

Readers respond to Emma John’s article on the difference in attitudes to the game in England and AustraliaEmma John’s perceptive analysis of cricket in Australia is spot-on (England ruthlessly privatised cricket – Australia embraces it with constant public displays of affection, 9 January). I have been visiting Australia for many years – our son and …

The Tokyo Olympic champion has climbed more than 1,200 places back to the world top 10 following the birth of her daughter, Bella“I definitely think I’m a better player now than I was before my pregnancy,” Belinda Bencic says as she reflects on climbing more than 1,200 places up the world rankings since returning to competitive tennis as a new mother. …