More silverware for Chloe?

Two Lionesses are in the frame to be named the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year after England won Euro 2025.

Sarina Wiegman’s side beat Spain in a dramatic penalty shootout to retain their European title.

Pre-tournament favourites Spain led through Mariona Caldentey’s first-half header but Alessia Russo’s second-half equaliser took the final to extra-time and then penalties.

England missed their first spot-kick – Beth Mead’s effort saved after her first had to be retaken due to a double kick – but Spain then missed three in a row, with Hannah Hampton saving two.

Chloe Kelly, who scored the winner in the Euro 2022 final win at Wembley, struck home the decisive penalty to spark bedlam among England fans in the stadium and watching on from back home.

Moments after England lifted the trophy, Kelly was installed as the second-favourite to win the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award.

Betfair spokesperson Sam Rosbottom said: ‘Chloe Kelly is the new second-favourite to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award after scoring the winning penalty for England in the Euro 2025 final.

‘Hannan Hampton is also in the mix after saving two penalties to help England win the tournament. Kelly and Hampton are joined by fellow Lionesses Lucy Bronze and Leah Williamson who are among the outsiders to win the award.’

Despite the Lionesses’ historic success, Rory McIloy remains the favourite to win Sports Personality of the Year after he completed the career Grand Slam by winning the Masters earlier this year.

By winning at Augusta, McIlroy became just the sixth man – and first European – in history to win all four majors.

World darts champion Luke Littler and Formula One driver Lando Norris are also contenders for SPOTY following impressive rises in their respective sport.

Littler etched his name into darting history by becoming the youngest ever PDC World Championship winner at the start of the year.

The 18-year-old won the World Matchplay on the same day England retained their Euros title to complete darts’ triple crown.

‘Football is chaos’ – but England come through yet again

England’s path to Euro 2025 glory was far from straightforward but the Lionesses delivered when it mattered most to retain the trophy they first lifted in 2022.

Penalties were also required in the quarter-finals and Wiegman’s side recovered from missing four spot-kicks to beat Sweden.

The Lionesses were minutes from exiting in the semi-finals against Italy before Michelle Agyemang scored a dramatic 96th-minute equaliser and Kelly scored late in extra time.

After coming from behind yet again to beat favourites Spain in the Euro 2025 final, Wiegman said: ‘I can’t believe it!

‘We said we can win by any means and that’s what we have shown again today. I am so proud of the team and the staff. It is incredible.

‘I just can’t believe it. I have a medal around my neck and we have a trophy. It has been the most chaotic tournament on the pitch – all the challenges we had on the pitch against our opponent.

‘From the first game it was chaos. Losing your first game and becoming European Champions is incredible. Football is chaos.’

England star Ella Toone added: ‘Amazing feeling. I felt all the same emotions as I did back then [at Euro 2022].

‘We worked so hard, winning a tournament for your country – there’s no better feeling. We deserved that and we should be so proud of ourselves.

‘There were times when people thought we were down and out but we never did. We had that belief in the squad that we were going to come out and win.

‘That’s the quiet confidence we have in ourselves. Amazing feeling. We’re going to enjoy the night. I love a party, I’m a Tyldesley girl of course I love a party!’

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Ryder Cup legend Nick Faldo has named the top five golfers in history after Rory McIlroy’s sensational Masters victory.

McIlroy beat Ryder Cup teammate Justin Rose in a play-off to win his first Masters title and finally complete the career Grand Slam.

The 35-year-old missed a par putt to win the Augusta tournament in regulation but recovered to birdie the first play-off hole and pip Rose to glory.

McIlroy had been chasing a career Grand Slam for over a decade, having won The Open and PGA Championship in 2014, three years after securing his first major at the US Open.

By achieving golfing immortality, McIlroy became just the sixth man – and first European – to clinch the career Slam following Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tiger Woods.

He remains one short of Faldo’s Slam tally but the three-time Masters champion insists McIlroy has already achieved more than him.

Faldo in fact rates McIlroy as one of the top five golfers in history along with the aforementioned Hogan, Nicklaus, Player and Woods.

‘It’s a whole different kettle of fish nowadays. He’s done way more than me,’Faldo told The Times. ‘He’s won 29 times in America.

‘Of the all-time greats, I’d put him fifth. Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack [Nicklaus] and Tiger [Woods]. Rory is right there.

‘No discredit to Gene Sarazen, but that was a completely different era. I’ve hardly seen any footage of him, but achieving the grand slam puts you in a different category.’

Having ‘shaken the Masters monkey off his back’, McIlroy can go on to win ‘multiple more majors’, according to Faldo.

‘He obviously got off to a flyer with those first four majors,’ the 67-year-old said. ‘I remember I said then he might be really disappointed to only win ten majors or he will be ecstatic to win five.

‘Tiger [Woods] and [Ben] Crenshaw both had big gaps [also 11 years] but only won one more. Rory is 35, he’s as fit as a fiddle, and you’ve got to believe he’s really shaken the monkey off his back.

‘I would’ve thought it’ll set him free and he might be the unique one to go on and win [multiple] more majors.

‘I did get teary because I kind of know that walk off 18 and realising what he’d done, people don’t appreciate the workload that has gone into that physically, technically, mentally.

‘You spend thousands of hours and hit millions of balls to reach your goal, and a heck of a goal it was.’

Faldo has known McIlroy for more than two decades and first realised he was a ‘special’ when they played a practice round at Carnoustie in 2007.

‘I had this thing called Team Faldo and I took six or eight of them to California,’ he added.

‘James Heath was the best amateur, Ollie Fisher was there. Rory was like third back then, but I remember I played with him in a practice round at Carnoustie [in 2007].

‘It was chucking it down with rain and he put all his waterproofs on and then he made that famous follow through and I went, “Wow, that’s different”. That was the first time [I knew he was special].’

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