SATURDAY 3—FRIDAY 9 JANUARY 2026

Football: Aston Villa’s “remarkable turnaround” When Aston Villa ...

The Player of the Tournament at the last e d ition of the Africa Cup of Nations looks back on the fi n al and how close he came to becoming a champion w ith Nigeria

Sport editor Michael Potts on the best of the week’s action on TV and radio

Whether it was the formation of the Premier League in 1992 or the World Cup expanding to 48 teams this year, a competition rebrand always seems to ruffle a few feathers. That was certainly the case 10

Two points: that’s how close Max Verstappen came to equalling Michael Schumacher’s feat of winning five consecutive Formula 1 world championships, despite having fallen more than 100 points behind in