Coverage of the afternoon session on day 12 at Alexandra Palace in London, featuring four second-round matches, played over the best of five sets. Callan Rydz put in a near perfect performance in the corresponding session last year when producing a three-dart average of 105.31 in a 4-0 win over Dimitri Van den Bergh, which only saw him surrender 4 legs in total
What's On
22 Dec
PDC World Darts Championship (Darts)
22 Dec
Fulham v Nottingham Forest (Premier League)
Coverage of the Premier League match at Craven Cottage. Fulham emerged victorious from both encounters between these teams last season, winning 1-0 at the City Ground and then 2-1 in front of their own fans after Emile Smith Rowe and Calvin Bassey scored either side of an equaliser from Chris Wood.
23 Dec
PDC World Darts Championship (Darts)
Coverage of the afternoon session on day 13 at Alexandra Palace in London, featuring four second-round matches, played over the best of five sets. With the second round almost at an end, it remains to be seen whether any international qualifiers will make it through to round three and follow in the footsteps of Jeffrey de Graaf and Paolo Nebrida, who were the only players to progress that far last year.
26 Dec
Manchester United v Newcastle United (Premier League)
Coverage of the top-flight match at Old Trafford. A 2-0 victory here last season saw the Magpies triumph over the Red Devils in a league game at Old Trafford for only the second time since 1972 - and condemned their hosts to a third straight home loss for the first time in 45 years.
27 Dec
PDC World Darts Championship (Darts)
Coverage of the afternoon session on day 14 at Alexandra Palace in London, featuring three third-round matches, played over the best of seven sets. It has taken a long time to get to this stage as part of the new expanded format, and the players participating will hope to put on the kind of show that saw last year's third round commence with two matches that went to a final set, with Luke Woodhouse and Jonny Clayton claiming 4-3 wins over Damon Heta and Daryl Gurney, respectively
27 Dec
Nottingham Forest v Manchester City (Premier League)
All the action from the match at The City Ground. Forest claimed a 1-0 win here in last season's corresponding fixture thanks to Callum Hudson-Odoi's 83rd-minute strike, and they will be looking to emulate that outcome against a City side that are hoping to challenge for the title but have suffered several defeats on their travels this term.
27 Dec
Chelsea v Aston Villa (Premier League)
Coverage of the Premier League match at Stamford Bridge. The side playing at home came out on top in each of the games between these teams last season, with the Blues claiming a comfortable 3-0 triumph here courtesy of goals from Nicolas Jackson, Enzo Fernandez, and Cole Palmer.
28 Dec
PDC World Darts Championship (Darts)
Coverage of the afternoon session on day 15 at Alexandra Palace in London, featuring three third-round matches, played over the best of seven sets. Last year's tournament featured a back and forth encounter between Ryan Joyce and Ryan Searle in round three, with the former eventually coming out on top after taking a 2-0 lead, getting pegged back to 2-2, then going back up 3-2 before seeing the tie leveled again at 3-3, and finally clinching the match 4-3 to move on to round four
28 Dec
Sunderland v Leeds United (Premier League)
Coverage of the Premier League match at The Stadium of Light. These sides were involved in a seesaw Championship encounter when they met here last season, with Chris Rigg putting the hosts 1-0 inside 10 minutes, only for Joel Piroe and Junior Firpo to produce a reversal of fortunes and put the Whites 2-1 up, before Firpo turned from hero to villain by scoring an own goal in the 90th-minute to give the Black Cats a share of the spoils in a 2-2 stalemate.
28 Dec
Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League)
Coverage of the Premier League match between the London rivals at Selhurst Park. A first-half goal from Jean-Philippe Mateta was enough to gift the Eagles a 1-0 win in the corresponding clash last term, and they followed that by winning 2-0 at Spurs in the reverse fixture later in the campaign.