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Swansea City sack head coach Luke Williams after dismal run of form

  • Swans 17th in Championship after seven losses in nine
  • Chairman says change needed to lift team on the pitch

Swansea City have sacked their head coach Luke Williams after seven defeats in his last nine league matches, prompting the Championship club to cancel an eagerly awaited fans’ forum scheduled for Tuesday.

Williams departs after a bruising run of results and a difficult January transfer window, with the club missing out on several targets having sanctioned the sale of their long-serving captain Matt Grimes to playoff-chasing Coventry. Among supporters there is growing dismay at the running of the club.

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2025 NASCAR Cup Series entry list for Atlanta spring race

The NASCAR Cup Series treks to Atlanta Motor Speedway to race in the Ambetter Health 400 on Sunday (3 p.m. ET, FOX, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). RELATED: Weekend schedule Here\\\"s a look at the full entry list for Sunday\\\"s event: (i) equals ineligible for driver championship points

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Ruben Amorim’s Manchester United are a mess, with issues starting at the top | Jonathan Wilson

The optimism that greeted Jim Ratcliffe’s arrival as owner has given way to even more disappointment, with Sunday’s defeat at Tottenham the latest example

Covering Manchester United these days feels a little like being a character in Silent Witness: every week you end up writing a postmortem. Their Sunday defeat at Tottenham was an engaging if bitty affair that finished 1-0 largely because the low quality of defending on show was compensated for by the low level of attacking. It was fun in its way, but it didn’t feel a lot like Premier League football.

It also meant United dropped to 15th in the table, having won just four of 14 league games under Ruben Amorim. Under Erik ten Hag this season, United were taking 1.22 points per game; under Amorim that’s down to 1.00. Nobody was under any illusions about the scale of the task he was taking on, but four months after Amorim took the job it would be very difficult to identify any concrete signs of progress. There has been the resilience of the performance in the league at Anfield, in the FA Cup at the Emirates, and not a lot else.

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