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There’s no winter break for our football team, who talk you through all of the latest talking points in the Premier League, including the aforementioned mid-season rest, which hasn’t gone done well in all quarters.

Joe Townsend also talks to Sporting Life football journalist George Pitts, Sky Bet's Dale Tempest and Sporting Life football editor Paul Higham about the future of the FA Cup, and replays in particular, after Premier League teams again criticised that cup competition for adding to their fixture congestion.

There are still four Premier League games going ahead this week, and our team dissect each one of them and their talking points, the wider issues around the game and give you their predictions and betting tips.

Ed Chamberlin joins host Joe Townsend, Sporting Life racing editor David Ord and racing expert Matt Brocklebank to reflect on the action at last week’s Dublin Racing Festival and ahead to Super Saturday at Newbury.

Where are we now with the Unibet Champion Hurdle and Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup, how good is Rachael Blackmore and who steps in for the Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup ride on Delta Work?

Then there’s Altior, Native River and the small matter of a maximum field Betfair Hurdle to preview before Ed heads to celebrate his birthday with a small but select party.

Player and pundit Paul Nicholson is our star guest on the opening darts podcast of 2020 as he looks ahead to the new Premier League season with our tipster Chris Hammer and host Ben Coley. As well as running through every player and fixture for Thursday night’s action in Aberdeen, Paul also discusses his experience of Q School and shares his thoughts on the latest hot topics in darts including changing equipment and losing weight!

0-5mins : Peter Wright incredible start to 2020 including the Masters and importance of a good start to the year

5mins –10mins Paul’s Qualification School reflections and his potential idea for reform

10mins-15mins : Michael van Gerwen and the struggles of changing darts

15mins-19 mins : Peter Wright and whether his tinkering can now end

20mins – 24mins : Gerwyn Price

24mins- 27mins: Gary Anderson

27mins – 31mins: Rob Cross and issues of losing weight

31mins- 34mins: Players knowledge of the statistical and tactical side of the game

35 mins – 39 mins: Nathan Aspinall

39mins – 44mins: Glen Durrant

44mins-48mins : Daryl Gurney

48mins-51mins : Premier League ‘Challengers’

51mins-61 mins : Night one preview: Smith v Durrant, Anderson v Gurney, MVG v Wright, Aspinall v Henderson, Price v Cross

62mins till the end: Night one trebles

Host David Ord is joined by Matt Brocklebank, Paul Higham and Chris Hammer to preview a wonderful weekend of sport.

They take a look at the weekend action in the Premier League including Manchester City’s trip to Tottenham on Sunday. The best bet though is at Old Trafford on Saturday – and spoiler alert – isn’t the home side.

They preview the feature action on both sides of the Irish Sea as the Dublin Racing Festival Betway Scilly Isles Novices' Chase take centre stage while we have selections for the Guinness Six Nations, PDC Masters and Super Bowl LIV

The Sporting Life trio of Tom Carnduff, Billy Lumsden and Aidan Smith sit down to talk all things Sky Sports Fantasy Football.

We review how the loading up of Liverpool players has gone over the past two games as well as looking ahead to the next round of fixtures.

There's new players welcomed into the Premier League so we dissect the price tags and assess if any have caught our eye.

All that and much more.

The National Hunt season came alive last weekend at Cheltenham Trials Day and it gets even better this weekend with a stellar line-up anticipated for the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown.

Ed Chamberlin joins Sporting Life’s Ben Linfoot and host Joe Townsend to look ahead to races like the Irish Gold Cup, Irish Champion Hurdle and Dublin Chase with superstars like Kemboy, Presenting Percy, A Plus Tard, Chacun Por Soi and Honeysuckle in action.

The team also reflect on the key points from trials day, including Paisley Park and Santini, and also discuss Tiger Roll’s likely Grand National handicap rating and Jonjo O’Neill Jr’s spare ride on Native River in the upcoming Denman Chase at Newbury.

Joe Townsend is joined by Sporting Life football editor Paul Higham, football journalist Tom Carnduff and Sky Bet's Dale Tempest for the latest episode of the Sporting Life Premier League Weekly Podcast.

The panel preview the best of the weekend's Premier League action, discuss Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp's controversial plans for their FA Cup replay with Shrewsbury and look at the deals that have been done, might get done, and need to be done before the transfer window closes.

Join Paul Higham, Jacob Barnor, Ross Williams and Matthew Temple-Marsh as we preview Super Bowl LIV between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.

We make our big game predictions for the NFL showpiece in Miami, pick out who we think will win the Super Bowl MVP award and examine just how the big game will be won and lost.

Will it be the San Francisco 49ers defence or the Kansas City Chiefs attack that wins the day? Is Patrick Mahomes an unstoppable force and is Jimmy Garoppolo being wrongly overlooked?

With top stats, facts, tactics and tips we've got every angle of Super Bowl 54 covered along with our best bets for the 49ers v the Chiefs.

We talk racing and football in our latest Best Bets Podcast, as we provide our free tips.
The racing team preview Trails Day at Cheltenham and Sky Bet Chase day at Doncaster, and the football teams select their tips for an intriguing day of FA Cup fourth round action.

Join Paul Higham, Ross Williams and Matthew Temple-Marsh as we run through the main talking points from the NFL season and review all the best and worst of the campaign.

We take a quick look at the Super Bowl match-up but also look back at who have been the top stars from the season and who have been the biggest disappointments.

We’ll get the latest news from around the NFL with Sky Sports News’ Richard Graves as he prepares to fly out to Miami, including Eli manning’s retirement and the new Las Vegas Raiders.

Finally we have a quick take on the Super Bowl before out big preview drops next week.