Amid the sprawl of headlines calling for Julen Lopetegui to be sacked by Real Madrid on Sunday, Diario AS ran an online poll: who is more guilty, the coach or the club president? 

Just over 80,000 replies were credited - almost 17,000 more than had attended the Santiago Bernabeu the day before - and 86 per cent of them answered Florentino Perez. 

Lionel Messi is expected to be out for three weeks with a fractured right arm but his last contribution was to help send Barcelona back to the top of La Liga on Saturday.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has once more criticized the Nations League, comparing the tournament to watching opera every night or having world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua box week in week out.

Ons Jabeur made history on Friday when she became the first Tunisian woman to reach a WTA final by seeing off Latvian fifth seed Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.

Lewis Hamilton topped the times by more than a second ahead of his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in Friday's rain-hit opening practice for this weekend's United States Grand Prix.

Manchester United have been fined a total of 15,000 euros (£13,200) by UEFA for the late kick-off to their Champions League match against Valencia earlier this month caused by the hosts being caught in traffic.

Patrick Mouratoglou, the coach at the center of Serena Williams' infamous U.S. Open final meltdown, on Thursday called for on-court coaching to be allowed at all events.

A relaxed Lewis Hamilton talked more of his love for pancakes and America on Thursday than clinching a fifth world title in this weekend's United States Grand Prix.

The 33-year-old Mercedes driver, who needs to outscore rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari by eight points to secure this year's championship, evaded all invitations to talk of glory or his place in the pantheon of Formula One history.

Fernando Alonso heaped praise on Lewis Hamilton and omitted Sebastian Vettel on Thursday when he was asked to name his five greatest Formula One drivers of all time.

AC Milan striker Gonzalo Higuain said on Thursday he was not bitter despite being "kicked out" by Juventus after superstar Cristiano Ronaldo's arrival last summer.