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You have to admire the optimism. Every time a new manager is unveiled at the City Ground, Nottingham Forest’s owners talk up their enthusiasm and desire for the project. They speak in glowing terms about having the right man in place to take the club back to the Premier League. And then, before too long, reality bites. Martin O’Neill is next. The former Ireland manager…

MELBOURNE ARENA — By the end of what may have been Andy Murray’s final appearance at the Australian Open, he had nothing left to give. For four hours, the hobbled champion went toe-to-toe against the in-form player of the moment, Roberto Bautista Agut. He recovered from two sets and a break down, wrestling control of the exchanges. The scenes in Melbourne Arena were electric.…

Your second wildcard bullet is in the chamber, Fantasy Premier League fans. Do you a) exercise patience and wait until your squad is ravaged with injury? Or b) recklessly pull the panic trigger and re-haul your squad in a desperate – and likely hopeless – attempt to make up ground up on your mini-league rivals? You've chosen the latter, haven't you? Well, make the…

Manchester United to go unbeaten for the rest of the season? Just 12-1. Whether you like the odds or not they reflect the steep improvement brought about by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and perhaps a little of that more intangible quality: optimism. The victory over Tottenham at Wembley was United’s sixth on the spin since Solskjaer replaced the old malcontent Jose Mourinho, a run already…

Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! Wow, can you believe it’s week 23 in the Premier League? Yes, another jam-packed few days of top-flight English football to take in with all 20 sides in action. We get going on Saturday lunchtime with Wolves hosting Leicester in the 12:30pm offering – a clash that the…

Luis Suarez to Liverpool (2011) Liverpool’s signing of Suarez for £22.8m in January 2011 was overshadowed by the sale of Fernando Torres and arrival of Andy Carroll on the same day. Yet while Carroll was a major flop at Anfield, Suarez went on to become one of the club’s most successful players of the Premier League era. The Uruguay international scored four goals in…

Early signs suggest Ralph won’t wreck it Southampton were in dire straits before Ralph Hasenhuttl’s arrival in December. Winless in 10 Premier League games before Mark Hughes got the boot, that run had included defeats to fellow strugglers Fulham and Cardiff City. But the South Coast club have made sustained progress since the Austrian gaffer’s arrival. And Saturday’s victory at Leicester City finally saw…

Latest odds for the Old Trafford hotseat Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is now the frontrunner to get the Manchester United job on a permanent basis, according to our latest odds. Solskjaer is currently in charge at Old Trafford until the end of the season. He’s now 6/4 to get it full-time after overseeing six wins from six games since replacing Jose Mourinho. The most recent…

Odds and review of the NBA action Another week down as the season prepares itself for the annual jaunt across the Atlantic and rocks up in London on Thursday. There’s been some cracking matches played in the English capital and now it’s the turn of New York Knicks and Washington Wizards. Both sides are looking to put a string of wins together in the…

LONDON STADIUM — As soon as he strikes the ball, he knows he has scored. This might be Declan Rice’s first senior goal, but he knows well enough that nothing can stop the path of his curled shot. He runs to the corner flag with both arms raised, followed by a hoard of teammates desperate to congratulate the young man. In the stands around…

Leeds United owner Andrea Radrizzani has apologised to his Derby counterpart Mel Morris for the “spygate” row which overshadowed the two clubs' Championship match on Friday night. Marcelo Bielsa admitted before the game that he had sent a member of his coaching staff to watch a closed training session at Derby's Morley Road training ground on Thursday after the Rams reported a suspicious looking…

There was a clip doing the rounds on social media over the weekend of a boy of around 10 years old witnessing a Premier League football ground for the first time. The wonder and incredulity on his face as he clapped eyes on the yawning expanse of the stadium where his heroes would soon be running around (Stamford Bridge, as it happens) was touching.…

History is full of famous liberators. The self-styled Liberatores (“et tu, Brute?”) who murdered Julius Caesar, not to know that he would be resurrected just over two millennia later as a Brazilian goalkeeper and would win the treble with Inter Milan. Simon Bolivar, Jose de San Martin and the fantastically named Bernardo O’Higgins, who led the liberation of South America from the Spanish Empire…

Carvalhal and Rowett also in frame to succeed Karanka Our traders have installed Slavisa Jokanovic as the favourite to replace Aitor Karanka at Nottingham Forest. There’s been plenty of backing for the ex-Fulham boss, who leads the way at 4/7. Jokanovic knows what it takes to secure promotion from the Championship, having taken up Watford and the Cottagers. Carlos Carvalhal, Gary Rowett, Leonardo Jardim…

Betting preview and odds for Championship tie Derby County will be out for revenge tonight, as they face a Leeds United side who strolled to a 4-1 win in the reverse fixture at Pride Park in August. Plenty has changed since then, with Marcelo Bielsa’s side now sitting atop the Championship table. They could extend their lead over Norwich City to five points here…