Rafael Nadal was confirmed as the year-end world number one for the fifth time after the ATP released its season-closing rankings on Monday.The Spaniard did not make it beyond the group stage of last week’s ATP Finals in London but Novak Djokovic’s failure to reach the semi-finals meant Nadal closed the year with 9,985 points, 840 clear of the Serb. ...

Former Union of European Football Association (UEFA) president, Michel Platini has slammed the use of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology, the introduction of which he has always opposed, as a total nightmare, in an interview on Italian television. “It would take half an hour to explain why it doesn’t solve problems,” the former France international told the “Che tempo che ...