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After the drama of Scotland’s World Cup heroics, the attention switches back to domestic duties.There is a full card to look forward to this weekend with two games live on Sky Sports. We take a look at the big talking points… Can Celtic close the gap on Hearts? Sunday 23rd November 2:30pm Kick off 3:00pm Martin O’Neill and Shaun Maloney remain in charge at Celtic as the club continues the process of appointing Brendan Rodgers’ permanent successor. Celtic have won back-to-back Premiership games by 4-0 and another victory would cut the gap on leaders Hearts to four points, for a…

Nov 21, 2025, 05:00 AM ETKylian Mbappé has reached 75 games with Real Madrid and is in his best form since joining the club, but he still has a long way to go when compared some of Madrid’s most historic goal scorers.Mbappé is the standout player on Xabi Alonso’s team and his goals are the reason why they are top of LaLiga and in the top eight of the UEFA Champions League’s league phase.The 26-year-old France captain is the top scorer in LaLiga, with 13 goals, and the second-highest scorer in the Champions League, with five. However, he has had…

On the latest injury update in his squad…Robbo [Andy Robertson] didn’t train [on Thursday] for private reasons, but he will be with us today. Alisson [Becker] trained last week and this week so he will be able to play tomorrow if things work out well today again.But we do have some issues after the international break unfortunately. Conor Bradley is unable to play [and] Florian Wirtz is unable to play. That’s far from ideal.On whether Alisson will start in goal this weekend…If he’s ready to play, he will start.On the fixture schedule, fitness of new signings and alternating his squad…A…

Beth LindopNov 21, 2025, 04:51 AM ETCloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has said it is “impossible to measure” the impact of Diogo Jota’s death on his team but insists he would never want the tragedy to be used as an excuse for the club’s recent poor form.Liverpool defender Andy Robertson admitted this week he had been “in bits” over Jota’s passing in the build-up to Scotland’s 4-2 win over Denmark which sealed their qualification for next year’s World Cup.The 31-year-old’s emotional interview has prompted discussion…

Cole Palmer has broken a toe in an accident at home and will miss the next three Chelsea games against Burnley, Barcelona and Arsenal.Palmer stubbed his little toe on his left foot against a door. The forward had been set to return to the field after being out since September with a groin injury. Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca says “for sure” Palmer will be unavailable for the games with Burnley, Barcelona and Arsenal.”Unfortunately, he had an accident at home where he hit his toe but it is nothing important – but he won’t be back in the next week,”…

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV fixed a technical glitch on Friday in a Vatican law that became problematic after Pope Francis named the first-ever woman to head the Vatican City State administration.Leo amended the 2023 law to remove a reference that had said the president of the Vatican City State administration must be a cardinal.Francis in February appointed Sister Raffaella Petrini, a 56-year-old Italian nun, as president of the city state. The appointment was one of many Francis made during his 12-year papacy to elevate women to top decision-making jobs in the Vatican, and it marked the first time…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government is taking action against artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, which was launched by a company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz and listed Jewish public figures, officials said.Grok, built by Musk company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, said in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder — language long associated with Holocaust denial.The Auschwitz Memorial highlighted the exchange…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police will arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that has sparked huge protests and forced implicated congressional leaders to step down, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced Friday.Marcos has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption, which has been blamed for substandard, defective or non-existent flood control projects in a poverty-stricken country, long prone to deadly typhoons, floodings and extreme weather in tropical Asia.The president said the arrests were only the beginning.The warrants were issued by the Sandiganbayan, a special anti-corruption court, against former lawmaker Zaldy Co,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a recent Wednesday showered in praise from the vice president and health technology CEOs at a glitzy “Make America Healthy Again” event in Washington, designed to celebrate the health secretary’s successes and the movement he has built.Yet online, a different narrative of his tenure was playing out as a small but vocal group of Kennedy’s supporters and former employees assailed top Trump administration advisers, claiming they were sabotaging him and redirecting MAHA away from its original goals.“MAHA is not MAHA anymore,” Gray Delany, a former Department of Health and Human Services…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — World leaders arrived Friday for a historic first Group of 20 summit in Africa that aims to put the problems of poor countries at the top of the global agenda. But the talks have been undermined by a rift between host South Africa and the United States over a Trump administration boycott.The weekend summit in Johannesburg will be attended by delegations from 18 of the world’s richest and top developing economies — minus the U.S., which has branded South Africa’s hosting a “disgrace ” and won’t participate in the talks.The boycott by the world’s biggest economy and…