i to sportsday. am katherine downes. coming up i am katherine downes. coming up on the programme... farewell to forest. with the team sliding down the table, steve cooper has been sacked. england post their highest score in t20 internationals against the west indies. under the hammer — australia's pace pair starc and cummins break records as they spark a bidding war in the ipl auction. hello there. thanks forjoining us. the nottingham forest manager steve cooper had been living on thin ice, with just one win in the last three months. they had been difficult to beat at home this season, but not in recent weeks, and defeat to tottenham at the city ground last friday night proved to be cooper's last game in charge. the former wolves and spurs manager nuno espirito santo has been in talks with the club and his appointment is expected to be confirmed shortly.

colin hazleden has more. yes, well, there are moments at football clubs, sporting institutions, when boards, when owners know exactly what needs to be done — whether a manager should stay and fight or whether they should be asked to move on and make room for the next person through the doors. that has not been the case here at forest. it has not been obvious. and the reason is the connection steve cooper had built with this club and with its fans — picking them up at the bottom of the championship, taking them to the premier league, getting them to stay in the premier league against the odds. what he's done is given whole generations of fans a connection and experience they've never actually had before. that's how far you've got to go back, how special it has been. and that is why there's been the delay, because one win in 13, not even won since bonfire night, that would have done for most managers long ago. but the owner evangelos

marinakis has held on until tonight to pull the trigger, in the wake of defeat here against spurs. and now it's about what their decision means. we're pretty sure the new manager will be nuno espirito santo, the man who worked his own little miracles at wolves, getting them to european competition two seasons running. but it will represent a real change of tone here at the city ground. you can expect less training ground bon ami, less closeness to the players, a much more olympian view of how football clubs should be managed. it'll be interesting to see if he can build a connection with these supporters here, but the decision has been made, the change has come. whether it's a good change for forest, well, that, we'll have to wait and see. colin hazleden, at the city ground for bbc news. as is often the case, the rumours have been swirling for a while. so is it the right decision to sack cooper now? here is the former nottingham forest and wales striker rob earnshaw. of course i'm going to say

that he deserved a little bit of time, because i understand the situation, i understand what's been going on, how he is and he battles behind the scenes that he's been battling this season, especially the last...probably month. so i think probably in the last month, i think extra pressure�*s been on — on him, on what's happening with the club, on the results — but at the end of the day, it has been coming because we've kind of felt it. i think he's had time and he's had a lot of time — he's had a couple years at the club — but i think, inevitably, in thesejobs and because of the results, it was coming. it was kind of inevitable, but at the same time, listen, this is steve cooper, who's come in and, in the two years, has gained absolute love and admiration from everybody, including last week, at the 5—0 loss at fulham, and the fans were singing and chanting his name. so itjust shows you the love

and admiration and the respect that this man has given over the last two years. on the pitch, some dramatic quarterfinal matches in the efl cup in england. three matches taking place, with chelsea snatching a dramatic penalty shoot—out victory against newcastle united at stamford bridge. callum wilson had given the visitors the lead in the first half, but mykhailo mudryk�*s injury time equaliser sent the game to a shoot—out, where kieran trippier and matt richie's missed penalties sent chelsea through. in the other two games, fulham beat everton 7—6 on penalties after it finished 1—1 at full time, while championship side middlesbrough beat league one�*s port vale 3-0. liverpool take on west ham in the last quarterfinal on wednesday. manchester city beat urawa red diamonds to set up a meeting with south american champions fluminense in the final of the club world cup on friday. pep guardiola's side dominated throughout and went ahead

through an own goal. mateo kovacic added city's second before portugal midfielder bernardo silva added city's third before the hour mark. brazil's fluminense had beaten al ahly 2—0 in the first semifinal played on monday, and city's victory ensures the 13th meeting between the champions of europe and their south american counterparts in the showpiece match since 2005. to play this final, you have to do incredible things, mainly to win the champions league. and once we are here, it's a trophy you play maybe once in a lifetime, against fluminense, brazilian team, south american, so...experienced, a lot of quality. we saw yesterday in short spaces how good they are. but, yeah, we are there. now, tomorrow, we start to see fluminense, try to see them and, yeah, try to do a good

performance and win the title. some of the world's best cricketers have been going under the hammer in dubai, and records have been tumbling in the indian premier league auction. teams have been building their squads for next year's competition, and a month after they won the world cup against india, two australian fastbowlers have become the most expensive players in ipl history. mitchell starc sparked an intense bidding war. gujarat titans and kolkata knight riders went head—to—head, and eight years after his last appearance in the ipl, kolkata got their man for a record £2.3 million. that came just a few hours after sunrisers hyderabad paid £1.9 million for the australia captain pat cummins — that was a record fee for a brief time. the previous record was held by england's sam curran when hejoined the punjab kings for £1.85 million. he'll play for them again next year, and he'll bejoined

by one of his england team—mates, chris woakes. he cost the punjab kings £400,000. and harry brook, who had a poor ipl with sunrisers in this year's edition, has seen his value plummet by almost a million — delhi capitals picking him up for a snip £380,000. here is test match special�*s henry moeran on those figures for starc and cummins. extraordinary figures. and we've come to expect this from the indian premier league. starc and cummins will actually be earning more in that window of ipl cricket than they do from their central contracts with australia. and we did sort of expect that there could be some big figures for those fast bowlers, because, well, a couple of reasons. one, it is a month to the day since australia lifted the world cup in ahmedabad, so they've been very much in the focus of indian cricket, those two highly successful fast bowlers, and also the old adage that bowlers win you tournaments while batsmen perhaps win you headlines, and so teams do look for those bowlers that can take wickets, bowl those awkward overs

at the start and end of an innings, and we knew that cummins and starc would be likely to be quite high on the list of all those teams looking to try and sign those fast bowlers. there was a 4—way bidding war for mitchell starc, and as he was watching on, he would have been thinking, "goodness me, what am i going to be able to afford "with this ridiculous amount of money?", really, when you look at it, in the context of cricketers�* earnings. it is an astonishing figure for him and it is, i think it's fair to say, life—changing. good christmas for pat cummins coming up. that's henry moeran speaking to us there. england have beaten the west indies by 75 runs to take their five—match t20 series to a decider. phil salt smashed 119 off 57 balls, the highest score by an england men's batter in t20s, as they set a mammoth total of 267—3. in response, the windies were all out for 192, andre russell's 50 the only standout score for them. the series decider is also in trinidad on thursday.

not so very long ago, england goalkeeper mary earps has been voted bbc sports personality of the year for 2023. earps was of course the lionesses�* standout player as they reached a first world cup final earlier this year and was named the best goalkeeper at the tournament, claiming the golden glove. england cricketer stuart broad was second, with world heptathlon champion katarina johnson thompson third. it is the second consecutive year a women's footballer has won the award, after arsenal and england's beth mead won it last year. i think us as lionesses, and obviously united as well, we've had an incredible couple of years, but this is just... yeah, wow! it's not been the easiest journey, and i definitely wouldn't be where i am today without a number of incredible people in my corner, so finally i just want to say thank you to them. yeah, the last two years have been absolutely unbelievable. i've done more than i could ever imagine, and to that, i'm truly incredibly grateful,

so thank you very much. congratulations to mary earps. finally, the route to perform the 79th edition of cycling's la vuelta was announced in madrid on tuesday. it will start in the portuguese capital lisbon on august 17, and the tour of spain will conclude in the spanish capital madrid on september 8. among the 21 stages will be ten new departure points, six new finish lines and a lot of really tough climbing, it certainly looks like. that is it from us for now. you can get all the latest sports news from the bbc sport app or from our website. but from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, for now, have a very good evening. bye— bye. hello. wintry weather does not feature heavily in our forecast between now and christmas day, but cloud, wind and rain will.

on the earlier satellite picture, you can see this stripe of cloud that brought rain in the south on tuesday. then a zone of clear skies not lasting long. more cloud rolling in from the atlantic, in association with a warm front, bringing a rather grey and quite damp wednesday in many locations. also quite a windy day out there, so any early brightness across england and wales will be replaced by cloud spreading from the north and the west with some outbreaks of rain. northern ireland and scotland just having a generally grey and cloudy day with some bits and pieces of rain and drizzle. it's going to be a breezy or indeed a windy day, but a mild one for most. just a little bit colder in the far north there in shetland. and then through wednesday night, extensive cloud cover, some mist and murk, splashes of rain, heavier rain pushing into scotland and the winds really picking up. gales likely across northern scotland, but we could see gales developing elsewhere by the start

of thursday morning. it's going to be a mild start to thursday but a really windy start to the day, with this deep area of low pressure passing to the north of the uk. this frontal system bringing cloud and a little bit of rain as it slides just a touch further southwards. behind that, some sunny spells, but some showers which could be wintry over high ground in scotland. and it is going to be very windy. particularly gusty conditions to the east of high ground — say, to the east of the pennines, northern and eastern parts of scotland. we could in places see gusts of 70 to 80 miles per hour, very rough seas and maybe even some coastal flooding around some north sea coasts. temperatures, well, just 2 degrees by the middle of the afternoon in lerwick, 12 there for cardiff and plymouth, so staying mild in the south. quite a messy weather picture for friday. it looks like we'll see a band of rain trying to push northwards and eastwards. that could run into some cold air to provide a bit of snow over high ground in scotland.

temperatures are 4 degrees in aberdeen, 12 for london, 12 for plymouth. now, mild air will win out for most of us over the weekend and as we head towards christmas day. just a little bit colder in the north. and it is over higher ground in the north of the uk, particularly in scotland, where we do have the chance of a little bit of snow.

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