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* Keeper leaves Adelaide United for record fee for A-League player * 23-year-old to be understudy to Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez Australian goalkeeper Joe Gauci has sealed a dream move to Aston Villa, amid a rush of transfer activity in the Socceroos’ Asian Cup camp. The Premier League side have reportedly broken the transfer fee record for an A-League Men player heading overseas to secure Adelaide United’s Gauci on a deal until 2028. Continue reading...

* Phillips took press conference at 2.30pm then sacked at 6.45pm * Club say investment in players has not matched results Brighton have sacked Melissa Phillips after 10 months as head coach. The Seagulls sit 10th out of 12 in the Women’s Super League, six points above bottom-placed Bristol City, but are in the quarter-finals of the League Cup and fifth round of the FA Cup. The 36-year-old joined Brighton last April and helped the club avoid the drop above relegated Reading. Phillips’ exit is a shock, with the head coach having conducted the club’s pre-match press conference at 2.30pm, for their game against Manchester United on Sunday. The announcement she was leaving arrived at 6.45pm. Continue reading...

* Winger has denied allegations of violence against women * Ten Hag wishes Sancho good luck and declines to elaborate Erik ten Hag has claimed off-field issues are to blame for Antony’s underwhelming form. The Manchester United winger has been accused of more than one act of violence against women, all of which he denies. Antony is yet to score or make an assist in 21 appearances this season, the Brazilian’s form causing the manager to drop him on more than one occasion. Continue reading...

The towering defender is back at ease in the Australia camp for their Asian Cup campaign following a difficult period at club level Harry Souttar stands out in Australian football. Not just because he’s more than 2 metres tall, either. Ever since scoring a brace on debut in a World Cup qualifier against Nepal, the towering Scottish-born defender has become just as much a constant in the hearts and minds of Australian fans as he has the starting XI of coach Graham Arnold. That’s to say nothing of an internet culture that gives him insight into this growing affection. Continue reading...

The tournament kicks off again this weekend – test your knowledge with our Africa Cup of Nations teasers By Richard Foster for The Football Mine Continue reading...

One of the few teams not affiliated to a men’s side can sense momentum building as they prepare for Shaw, Hemp and co The Women’s FA Cup fourth round brings in the Women’s Super League clubs and among the nine ties that feature top-flight teams, one stands out as different. Manchester City face a trip on Sunday to Durham, a rare team in the game’s upper echelons without any affiliation to a men’s side. A second-tier club since their formation in 2014, Durham are known for a cult-like fan following and the ability to pull off cup shocks, including against Manchester United and Everton. Since the recent boom in popularity of women’s football, Durham have struggled to keep pace with some Championship rivals who benefit from an association with a men’s team. But they have never faced a relegation battle and continue to punch above their weight, often being competitive against WSL opponents in the FA Cup and Continental Cup. Continue reading...

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Football Daily is a broad church with 1,057 readers scattered around various parts the world. Many to be will be fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with the name or work of Jonathan Gullis, the Conservative member of parliament for Stoke-on-Trent North and human equivalent of that viral clip starring an irate chimpanzee flinging lumps of its own excrement at curious zoo-goers standing outside its enclosure. Despite being a lowly backbench MP, this former teacher first entered the national consciousness when a clip of him behaving at his most simian in his designated House of Commons seat during Prime Minister’s Questions became a symbol for Tory arrogance, cruelty and indifference towards poverty. With a majority of 6,286 to defend at the next election, it’s a seat Gullis is fully expected to lose, due in no small part to a series of often barely coherent and ill-conceived pronouncements opposing immigration, free school meals, the B...