Barcelona insisted they had not heard from Lionel Messi that he wants to leave the club, as an emergency board meeting was being held at Camp Nou on Monday. Barca officials, including under-fire president Josep Maria Bartomeu, were due to discuss wholesale changes following the team's...

Lewis Hamilton said he was in a "beautiful" trance on Sunday as he raced to another record-breaking triumph to open up a 37-point lead in this year's drivers' championship at the Spanish Grand Prix. His Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, one of Formula One's greatest pragmatists, agreed, but he...

UEFA is hopeful that the postponed European Championship will go ahead next year with fans able to attend, president Aleksander Ceferin said on Thursday. However, the head of European football's governing body did not rule out the possibility of having to change the controversial format for...

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won Formula One's 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday to end Mercedes' run of domination and become champion Lewis Hamilton's closest challenger. In a race that was dominated by tyre strategy, Hamilton swept past Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas...