hello and welcome to sportsday. by thrashing manchester city. wins a seventh world cyclocross title. hello and welcome to the programme. we're starting with football, and a fascinating day in the premier league including at arsenal where they stunned

5—1 to close in on leaders liverpool. to quickly re take control with 4 more goals including two the 17—year—old ethan nwaneri. so a lot to like for arsenal who are now six points behind constantly in the position that we just played. together, the the score we got in the manner that we got, it makes it very, very special and not everything has

do, what we have done during 60, 65, 70 minutes. starting steady in the first couple of minutes. the rest was a really good game for our side. but that is my feeling. tottenham ended a four—match losing run in the league with a much needed 2—0 win at brentford. an own goal and a late goalfrom pape sarr gave their first premier league win of 2025 puts them up to 14th, we knew we need that today. of players is not easy. coming here is not easy. they make you defend whether you want to or not because they have a lot of balls in the box —

set pieces, throw—ins, crosses. i thought the lads handled it awfully well. they got first contact when we needed it. if we weren't getting first contact, we were challenging all the time. the other way so really proud of the players. and they could have scored many more. manager ruben amorim. a hard season. and you feel it — the players are trying. we try different things to improve the game, of momentum, it is hard, especially at home, but we need

straight after halftime, especially the two minutes set after halftime and at the opposite we scored from a set play but overall i think the players — as we were talking at halftime — we had two or three big chances in the first half "be patient. "stay in the structure. "always keep the belief." is officially now an aston villa player for the rest after being frozen out by united.

leaders celtic won 2—1 at motherwell, scoring in the first minute of play, celtic are ten points ahead of rangers with a game in hand. six matches and plenty of action. the early game between manchester city and arsenal was a seven—goal thriller which went the way of arsenal. everton thrashed leicester. it was the milan derby in serie a where inter came from a goal down to salvage a 1—1 draw. tijjani reijnders put ac milan ahead on the stroke of halftime after inter had two goals disallowed for offside,

it was a huge match for the former manchester city and with england manager thomas tuchel watching to cricket now. of the series. they'd already lost the series but they were thrashed including 135 runs from abhishek sharma off 5a balls — the highest t20 score ever by an indian batter. the series 4—1. they played a fantastic batting innings. i have played quite a lot of cricket and i think credit to abhishek sharma. that is as clean a ball striking as i have ever seen.

he played fantastically well. you sit down and think "what more could we have done?" they played brilliantly well. credit to us for sticking in there and fighting back i think with the batting — i've played in a few games like this — and it generally goes one of two ways. was that day. you are going to chase that down. and surprise yourself, or it does not work. and you are desperate to do well and execute that. it's been a poor couple of days for england, in the ashes.

but she doesn't feel the accusations of a lack the perception and reputation of england women's cricket positively and for them to be role models and to inspire fans this group of players care deeply about playing for england. there is learning — of course there is learning — that we have got to do, and as i mentioned, we have

and canter took full advantage at the first extra hole are so many things during the season that you can play your way into, and i am personally very motivated in the world cyclocross championship in france. lap while trying to close the gap on the dutchman. van der poel�*s seven world titles equals the record set he could go one better on home turf in the netherlands.

is a unique discipline best described as a cross between road cycling, mountain biking the race was super hard. also, technical. also, the sun was getting lower, so it was super tricky conditions. britain's zoe backstedt recovered from a crash world title in france, winning the race by 39 seconds ahead of marie schreiber. that is it from me. there is more on the bbc website. well, for many of us,

it was a fine second half of the weekend, with plenty of blue sky and sunshine on offer on sunday. and there's more winter sunshine around as we head through the first full week of february too. and then it will turn colder and drier, with some overnight so this is monday morning, then. blustery for the western isles, for northwest scotland, some brightness across eastern scotland, a nice slice grey — but with lighter winds, admittedly, across east anglia and southeast england.

those weather fronts just gradually sink further southwards and eastwards. 12 degrees celsius. but as we head through monday night, then ourfronts really too cloudy, too windy, too wet for some to see any some of our temperatures will even be in double figures. and eastwards, introducing chillier—feeling air behind it northwest england, down through western wales up nicely here. there will be some sunshine. england. this is the colder air, of course, digging in behind

cooler air — marked in blue here — starting to push in, and that's going to be with us as we head through the rest so a drop in temperature by day and also by night with overnight frosts. bye—bye for now.

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