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Fifa president Gianni Infantino says the Club World Cup is “already the most successful club competition in the world”, despite widespread criticism of the tournament. Infantino, who has led world football’s governing body since 2016, claims the competition has generated more than $2bn (£1.5bn) in revenue, which he says is worth “$33m (£24m) per match”. As a result, he believes …

Chelsea have already made more than £80m from their Club World Cup adventure but they can achieve something priceless against Paris Saint-Germain. This goes beyond gaudy gold badges and money in the bank. The season with no end is almost over, the final of the tournament that nobody asked for is here and while Chelsea have no intention of getting …

With pre-season now set to be cut significantly, Maresca has used the competition to experiment with a new system. Against Flamengo he switched to a formation utilising more traditional full-backs and with Cole Palmer playing as an inverted winger, just as he did under previous boss Mauricio Pochettino. That ended in a disappointing 3-1 defeat and attracted criticism, although they …

Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds. In 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 mission brought Mars into American living rooms, where TV sets showed fuzzy black-and-white images of a cratered landscape. The spacecraft took 21 complete pictures — the first …

There are two major decisions facing Chelsea for Sunday’s Club World Cup final against all-conquering PSG. The first has to do with Moisés Caicedo and his twisted ankle, which appears to be mending but probably not mending fast enough. Do we risk starting him? Should we risk starting him and potentially aggravating the injury? Is a hobbled Caicedo a better …

After a 16-month absence, former World No. 1 Venus Williams is returning to action on the Hologic WTA Tour. The 45-year-old American superstar accepted a main-draw wild card into the WTA 500 Mubadala Citi DC Open in Washington, D.C. Main-draw play at the hard-court event kicks off on Monday, July 21. “I’m excited to accept a wild card to the …

Having both won major European trophies at the end of the 2024–25 campaign, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain now have the chance to claim world champion status. PSG secured their first ever Champions League title in May, before which Chelsea had won the Europa Conference League to cap an encouraging first season under Enzo Maresca. Both sides have flexed their muscles …

There is just one game left in the season in which Paris Saint-Germain finally won the first Champions League in their history to complete a historic treble and that game is the Club World Cup final, but Luis Enrique says it has not been his best. He was better, he claims, when he lost. Besides, the PSG coach said, Manchester …

Humanity’s future can look pretty gloomy. From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in constant danger of being wiped out – and, in many ways, it is. Over the past three years, I have interviewed hundreds of experts working to prevent Doomsday, from eminent scientists and engineers …