OLIVER HOLT AT HILL DICKINSON STADIUM: The resurrection of Manchester United under Michael Carrick continued on a damp‚ dank Monday evening on the banks of the Mersey when his club found a way to conquer new ground in enemy territory. United's scrappy‚ gutsy‚ hard-fought 1-0 victory was their fifth win in six games since Carrick took charge of the club and lifted them above Chelsea into fourth place in the Premier League. They are now only three points behind Aston Villa‚ who are third. It was United's first appearance at Everton's magnificent new Hill Dickinson Stadium and they did not waste any time breaking their duck here. It felt for a long time as if the match was drifting towards a draw but United ended that impression with a brilliant second-half break-away goal.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Everton host Manchester United at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Chris Wheeler and Nathan Salt reporting from the ground.

OLIVER HOLT: Strikers‚ more than any other players‚ thrive off confidence and Gyokeres is brimming with it now. Instead of being the player who could cost Arsenal the title‚ he might just be the guy who wins it for them.

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OLIVER HOLT: There is something special about JJ Gabriel's talent that marks him out as one of the brightest young stars in the world game.

OLIVER HOLT AT THE GTECH STADIUM: Keith Andrews saw the Brentford equaliser hit the back of the net. He hurtled off the bench and leapt on the shoulders of Jordan Henderson‚ who was waiting to come on. His elation was for his team but his jump of joy may well have been re-enacted a couple of hundred miles to the north in Manchester. Keane Lewis-Potter's 71st minute goal meant two dropped points for Arsenal and signalled the rebirth of a title race that many had declared over when Liverpool went ahead against Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday. But City fought back to win that game and now Arsenal have faltered and Mikel Arteta's side only hold a four-point lead over City with 12 games left to go. City swept Fulham aside the Wednesday night and Arsenal's failure to do the same at the Gtech Community Stadium means the battle has been joined.

OLIVER HOLT: The United hierarchy got something right for once when they turned to Carrick for help. Don't ruin it now just when a sliver of light is appearing at the end of the tunnel.

OLIVER HOLT AT OLD TRAFFORD: An open-air service took place on the Old Trafford forecourt before kick-off to remember those who died in the Munich Air Disaster 68 years ago this week. Thousands stood beneath the Munich Clock and leaden skies and observed a minute's silence. A couple of lines from the Book of Ecclesiastes were read out to a few thousand supporters who had gathered there. 'A time to weep and a time to laugh‚' the words read‚ 'a time to mourn and a time to dance.' The words were beautifully read and beautifully observed. And some did weep as the names of the Busby Babes who perished were read out‚ and all mourned. And then the fans poured into a stadium where they have learned‚ in the past few weeks‚ how to laugh and to dance again.

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OLIVER HOLT AT EMIRATES STADIUM: The steam rose from the players on a grim winter night at the Emirates. The rain fell in a relentless downpour and the cold bit through the padded jackets of the supporters. On the touchline‚ the Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior urged his players on and on. He was so drenched he had to take off his glasses so he could see properly. They had become windscreens without wipers. But when the steam lifted and everyone could see‚ Kai Havertz had scored a late‚ late winner that made the tie safe and Mikel Arteta and his Arsenal side had survived an increasingly frenetic‚ tense and ill-tempered battle of attrition to advance to the Carabao Cup final next month.

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OLIVER HOLT AT THE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM: Jose Mourinho being overcome by modesty. Harry Kane missing in front of goal. Arne Slot getting the credit he deserves at Liverpool. Roy Keane saying something nice about Michael Carrick. Chelsea buying a player over the age of 30. Every single one of them may seem so far-fetched as to be utterly laughable but‚ trust me‚ at half-time of Tottenham's game against Manchester City‚ none of them seemed as absurd as the notion that Spurs might rescue something from a game that had turned into an embarrassment for them. When the half-time whistle went‚ the boos rained down on the Spurs players as they trudged towards the tunnel. Two goals down‚ with the promise of more to come‚ they were heading into the eye of an humiliation. They were steeling themselves for the lampoons that were surely coming their way.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Tottenham welcome Manchester City to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Matt Barlow and Jack Gaughan reporting from the ground.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Leeds host Arsenal at Elland Road in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Isaan Khan reporting from the grounds.

ARSENAL 2-3 MAN UNITED - OLIVER HOLT AT THE EMIRATES: It is a while since The Emirates has been like this. It is a while since frustration gripped it and angst overcame it and fear stalked it. The crushing anxiety that accompanies the anticipation of old failings had stayed away from Arsenal's home this season but now it is back. And it may not go away again. What Sir Alex Ferguson called Squeaky Bum Time has come early to this part of North London. When Matheus Cunha scored Manchester United's winner three minutes from the end of normal time‚ the frustration of the Arsenal supporters boiled over. The ground became a tortured vision. A forest of hands pointing‚ a sea of heads shaking‚ a cacophony of angry voices yelling.

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OLIVER HOLT AT OLD TRAFFORD: There have been a number of false dawns at Manchester United over the last 13 years‚ a number of occasions when it felt as if the cloying‚ demeaning‚ desperate purgatory of the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era might finally be drawing to a close. The night when they won the Europa League under Jose Mourinho in Stockholm in 2017 was one of those moments. The night at the Parc des Princes in March 2019 when they overturned a first-leg deficit to beat PSG in the Champions League Round of 16 was another. Maybe this will just be another of them. Maybe this afternoon of glorious pandemonium at Old Trafford and the giving of thanks for a magical 90 minutes in which United played Manchester City‚ their tormentors for much of the last decade‚ off the park will be a prelude to more misery.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Manchester United host Manchester City at Old Trafford in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Ian Ladyman and Chris Wheeler reporting from the grounds.

OLIVER HOLT AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: In the build-up‚ everything went beautifully. Liam Rosenior‚ Chelsea's new coach‚ stared out from the front cover of the programme for this Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Arsenal‚ looking thoughtful and studious and confident in a smart jacket and a casual shirt on the occasion of his first match in charge at Stamford Bridge. If body language is important‚ then Rosenior struck all the right notes. As his players walked back to the tunnel after their pre-match warm-up‚ Rosenior was waiting for them on the touchline‚ shaking hands with every one of the squad as they passed him‚ and his backroom staff‚ too. Then‚ when the stadium joined in a minute's applause for former Chelsea left-back Eddie McCreadie‚ who died this week‚ Rosenior beckoned all the substitutes to join him and his staff on the touchline to pay tribute to a legend of the club.

OLIVER HOLT AT FRATTON PARK: This was football without the mute button. This was football unsanitised. This was football‚ raw and testing‚ and ragged and exposed at one of the most evocative and atmospheric grounds in the country. This was a place where Pompey Sailor Kevin strutted around the pitch before the start in a sailor suit‚ holding up a sign reading 'Play Up Pompey'‚ and gently riling the visiting supporters in their section behind one of the goals.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Portsmouth welcome Arsenal to Fratton Park in the FA Cup‚ with Oliver Holt reporting from the grounds.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Charlton host Chelsea at The Valley in the FA Cup‚ with Oliver Holt reporting from the grounds.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as leaders Arsenal host champions Liverpool in the Premier League at the Emirates with Oliver Holt‚ Isaan Khan and Lewis Steele eporting from the ground.

OLIVER HOLT AT THE LONDON STADIUM: In the bitter cold of an aast London night‚ the walk from Stratford tube station through the sleet across the winter wasteland of the Olympic Park‚ to the unloved bowl of the London Stadium‚ had rarely felt bleaker than it did on Tuesday night. There were rumours that 15‚000 tickets had been sent to resale sites by disillusioned West Ham United fans and inside the arena that once hosted Super Saturday‚ the swathes of empty seats suggested the home supporters were treating this as a Terrible Tuesday. And so it came to pass.

OLIVER HOLT AT THE ETIHAD: When Liam Rosenior takes over at Chelsea this week‚ he will inherit a club that sits 17 points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal and is level-pegging with Manchester United in a struggle for the last place in the top five that is a contest between two of the three most dysfunctional clubs in the division. The other is West Ham. The top five does not concern them. He will discover a club marshalled superbly by U21 coach Calum McFarlane in his caretaker role‚ a coach who will be able to say he was the equal of Guardiola on his first venture to a Premier League touchline.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Manchester City welcome Chelsea to the Etihad in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Jack Gaughan and Kieran Gill reporting from the grounds.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Liverpool welcome Leeds United to Anfield in the Premier League with Oliver Holt reporting from the ground.

OLIVER HOLT AT THE EMIRATES STADIUM: Arsenal have waited too long for a shot at the Premier League title to let a fairytale get in the way of their dreams. Aston Villa had turned up in north London on Tuesday night on the back of a surge of victories that has revived memories of Leicester City's miracle Premier League triumph a decade ago. But they left with their ambitions shattered and their 11-game winning run brought to a brutal end by an Arsenal side that survived a difficult first half and then crushed their opponents.

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OLIVER HOLT AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: The sign on the back row of the Stamford Bridge press box shows a picture of a man sitting down with a red line drawn through him. 'Back Row Seating is Prohibited‚' the sign says. Two minutes before kick-off‚ Enzo Maresca took his seat there. For the next 90 minutes‚ Maresca went through agonies in that seat as an Aston Villa side that is the irresistible force of the Premier League executed a classic rope-a-dope on his Chelsea team and moved right back into the heart of the title race with Arsenal and Manchester City. After being totally outclassed by Chelsea in the opening 45 minutes‚ a second half triple substitution by Villa boss Unai Emery changed the game.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Aston Villa travel to Stamford Bridge to take on Chelsea in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Kieran Gill reporting from the grounds.

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OLIVER HOLT: When Arne Slot took over at Liverpool before the start of last season‚ he pressed pause on the period of transition that usually takes place at a club when a great manager like Jurgen Klopp leaves.

OLIVER HOLT AT STAMFORD BRIDGE: No one ever forgets where they were the first time they saw Lionel Messi play live. In my case‚ it was here in west London on a Wednesday night in February 2006. Messi was still only 18 that night when he came out in the colours of Barcelona . He had long hair‚ magic feet and an unmistakable aura of greatness.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Barcelona take on Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the Champions League ‚ plus action from the other games‚ including Marseille vs Newcastle and Manchester City vs Bayer Leverkusen - with Oliver Holt‚ Craig Hope‚ Kieran Gill and Jack Gaughan reporting from the grounds.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Arsenal welcome Tottenham to the Emirates Stadium in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Ian Ladyman and Isaan Khan reporting from the grounds.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as England host Serbia at Wembley in a World Cup qualifier game‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Ian Ladyman and Craig Hope reporting from the grounds.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Manchester City host Liverpool at the Etihad in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Ian Ladyman‚ Jack Gaughan and Lewis Steele reporting from the grounds.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Manchester City host Borussia Dortmund at the Etihad‚ whilst Newcastle welcome Athletic Bilbao to St James' Park in the Champions League‚ with Jack Gaughan and Oliver Holt reporting from the grounds.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Liverpool welcome Real Madrid to Anfield as Tottenham play host to Copenhagen at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the Champions League‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Ian Ladyman and Matt Barlow reporting from the grounds.

Spence and Micky van de Ven stole the headlines when they blanked Frank‚ refusing his handshake and leaving him alone on the turf. A worrying sign‚ as Oliver Holt has written. Now‚ an expert lip-reader has told the Daily Mail what Spence said as he vented at his boss and damaged the team's image of unity.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Chelsea host London rival Tottenham at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Kieran Gill reporting from the ground.

OLIVER HOLT: For two decades‚ the criticism aimed at Arsenal for their attempts to play beautiful football has been so withering it turned some players into stone and left them broken and in ruins.

OLIVER HOLT: The Premier League and their principal broadcast partners‚ Sky Sports and TNT Sports‚ represent an axis of greed that is laying waste to the traditions of English football that millions of supporters hold dear.

OLIVER HOLT AT THE GTECH COMMUNITY STADIUM: When they were kings‚ when they were rulers of England and Europe‚ when they carried all before them‚ Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah‚ looked to Jordan Henderson as their leader‚ the captain who drove them with a relentless hunger that never dimmed. Van Dijk and Salah have stayed at Anfield and won fresh honours but on Tuesday night‚ the odyssey on which Henderson embarked two years ago brought him up against the friends and teammates he won titles with for the first time. Henderson's travels have taken him to Al-Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia and to the once mighty Ajax of Amsterdam and there were times before he arrived at Brentford in the summer when people thought his career was fast ebbing away.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Brentford welcome Liverpool to the Gtech Community Stadium in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Lewis Steele reporting from the ground.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ teams news and updates as Liverpool welcome Manchester United to Anfield in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Lewis Steele reporting from the ground.

Thomas Tuchel is walking a tightrope with England fans - like many of his predecessors - but here's why he might just be the exception‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

England will travel to next year's World Cup with genuine hopes of making the final - and now the squad debate begins after 5-0 thrashing of Latvia‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as England host Wales at Wembley in a friendly clash for the October international break‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Ian Ladyman and Jack Gaughan reporting from the ground.

Jude Bellingham in an England shirt screams entitlement - if he wants back he'll have to prove to Thomas Tuchel he's a team player‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Arsenal crawled over the line in their 2-0 victory over Olympiacos as much-changed Gunners nearly pay the price for wasted chances‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest scores‚ team news‚ and updates as Arsenal vs Olympiacos and Monaco vs Manchester City headline the action in the Champions League‚ with Oliver Holt‚ Isaan Khan and Jack Gaughan reporting from the grounds.

Lionel Messi: Almost all over - or back into the light? OLIVER HOLT watches the GOAT and speaks to those around him as World Cup doubts emerge

Liverpool survive late scare to keep up perfect record as Jack Grealish-inspired Everton come up short in Merseyside derby‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Liverpool host Everton at Anfield in the Premier League‚ with Lewis Steele and Oliver Holt reporting from the ground.

OLIVER HOLT: When Erling Haaland smashed the record for the quickest player to reach 50 Champions League goals on Wednesday night - just 49 games for the relentless Norwegian - it sparked a debate about where Manchester City 's lethal forward stands in the list of all-time great strikers.

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Chelsea travel to Bayern Munich in the Champions League ‚ with Oliver Holt and Kieran Gill reporting from the ground.

Why Michael Owen could not have been more wrong with his criticism of Harry Kane‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Man United's chaotic embarrassment is getting worse: A rudderless team without leaders and a manager looking like a lame duck. Don't bet on Ruben Amorim lasting to 2026‚ writes OLIVER HOLT‚ after Manchester derby circus

Why Thomas Tuchel will not pander to the egos of Jude Bellingham‚ Cole Palmer and Co‚ writes OLIVER HOLT - as second-string stars take their chance in Serbia

Thomas Tuchel rose again as England delivered emphatic response to the discontent surrounding his management with a masterful display in 5-0 win over Serbia‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

England's dull and turgid 2-0 win over Andorra was a tough watch‚ writes OLIVER HOLT - and provided ample reason why fans mourn the lack of Premier League football every international break

OLIVER HOLT: It was two weeks ago‚ at a stadium in Hamburg‚ when an issue that haunts the FA's stewardship of the England football team but which has remained largely in the shadows‚ burst into the public domain for the first time.

OLIVER HOLT: Newcastle will never be a top tier club as long as football's elite stay away - so is it a bone-saw thing?

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Liverpool host Arsenal at Anfield in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Lewis Steele reporting from the grounds.

Newcastle 2-3 Liverpool: This almost felt too cruel after the humiliation Newcastle have endured this summer‚ writes OLIVER HOLT...

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Newcastle host Liverpool at St James Park in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Craig Hope reporting from the grounds.

Man United are nothing more than mid-table mediocrity - fixing their team is like playing whack-a-mole as familiar issues haunt them again in 1-1 draw with Fulham‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the score‚ team news and updates as Fulham host Manchester United at Craven Cottage‚ with Oliver Holt and Chris Wheeler reporting from the ground in west London.

Arsenal have a squad bursting with talent and it wouldn't be a surprise if they win the title after 5-0 thrashing of Leeds‚ writes OLIVER HOLT - Max Dowman is only 15 but symbolises the optimism coursing through the club

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates Leeds travel to the Emirates to take on Arsenal in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Isaan Khan reporting from the grounds.

The Alexander Isak claim that just isn't true - and the glorious opportunity Newcastle's Saudi owners now have: OLIVER HOLT

Everton were relentlessly outplayed by a clever‚ fluent‚ flowing Leeds side‚ writes OLIVER HOLT after debutant Lukas Nmecha nets...

Follow Daily Mail Sport's live blog for the latest score‚ team news and updates as Leeds host Everton at Elland Road in the Premier League‚ with Oliver Holt and Aadam Patel reporting from the grounds.

Chelsea's 'World Champions' badge is a piece of pound shop tat that is an affront to their legends of 2012 - here's what it tells us about Todd Boehly's club‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Give me the drama and subtlety of women's sport over the boring‚ money-driven Club World Cup‚ writes OLIVER HOLT‚ after Lionesses Euros triumph

I've had enough of Newcastle fans whining about losing Alexander Isak - here's why the Saudi fanboys have no right to complain when he leaves‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Our modern game owes so much to Gazza... it's sad to see him grow more fragile by the day‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Diogo Jota played football with joy and an utter absence of spite - it made him stand out in the hurly-burly of the modern game‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Man United have at last grown bored of indulging spoilt brats such as Alejandro Garnacho. It's a sign of progress‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Chelsea and Manchester City playing in the USA? Get used to it‚ writes OLIVER HOLT - our game is being colonised by Americans

Why my padel date with Thomas Frank convinced me the Brentford boss perfect for Spurs‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Spurs pluck defeat from the jaws of victory by sacking Ange Postecoglou‚ writes OLIVER HOLT‚ all the joy from a magic night in...

Tottenham are a joke no more as they lose their flaky identity to win the Europa League. But Man United are an embarrassment to themselves‚ their fans‚ Sir Alex Ferguson and English football‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Tottenham and Manchester United's Europa League final is glory or bust for the Premier League's damned‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Liverpool fans can jeer Trent Alexander-Arnold if they wish - but Eric Dier's classy Bayern send-off was so special‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Liverpool are back on the perch that Sir Alex Ferguson knocked them off. The tectonic plates of sport have been shifted‚ writes OLIVER HOLT at Anfield

I've been to all 92 Football League grounds - these are the five WORST‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

England were dull and turgid - very little has changed since the end times of Gareth Southgate's reign‚ writes OLIVER HOLT as Thomas Tuchel's side labour to 3-0 win over Latvia

Thomas Tuchel will take no prisoners or passengers when it comes to Phil Foden and Marcus Rashford... his wingless wonders are scared of the touchline and patience is already running thin‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

If we yearned to discover in England's 2-0 win over Albania what type of boss Thomas Tuchel is going to be‚ we did not get the answers - but it was still encouraging‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Roy Keane is wrong - here's why Mikel Arteta CAN lead Arsenal to the title next season‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Arsenal looked like a team that knows their attempt to win the Premier League was over some time ago‚ writes OLIVER HOLT as 1-1 draw at Old Trafford leaves Gunners 15 points adrift

Liverpool were distinctly second best against an outstanding PSG team but they survived thanks to the brilliance of Alisson... then they took their one chance‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Millwall must own their horror tackles and vile chanting rather than shooting the messenger by banning the Press‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Arsenal's hopes of the title have now expired after a dreary display at Nottingham Forest‚ writes OLIVER HOLT

Liverpool dismissed City with an ease that was contemptuous. Everyone knows the title race is over now‚ writes OLIVER HOLT as Reds go 11 points clear after 2-0 win at champions

Perfect quickly turned to awful for Pep Guardiola as Real Madrid cut Man City to pieces‚ writes OLIVER HOLT as Kylian Mbappe nets hat-trick in Champions League mauling

Seven Mail Sport writers receive nominations for 2025 Press Awards - with columnists Oliver Holt and Ian Herbert in the running for Sports Journalist of the Year