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Nations League updates from the 7.45pm BST kick-off Live scoreboard | Follow us on Instagram and TikTok We interupt the Manchester City news cycle to bring you live coverage of a football match: England v Spain in the Nations League, aka the World Cup final that wasn’t. U over it yet, hun? It’s been 73 days since England’s grisly collapse against Argentina, and it’s not getting any better with ag…

Defending champions win 1-0 at pointless Charlton Alex Greenwood fires in only goal from a free-kick Manchester City maintained their perfect start to the Women’s Super League season with a 1-0 win at Charlton. Alex Greenwood scored a fine free-kick in the 36th minute, which proved enough to give the defending champions a fourth successive WSL victory. This story will be updated Continue reading.…

Exeter 24-45 Gloucester Ben Loader also scores two tries in bonus-point win Gloucester are determined to make significant progress up the Prem table this season and here was a hugely promising first step. The Cherry and Whites had a bonus point on the board before half-time on a breezy afternoon in Devon and had more than enough in the tank to defend a 14-point interval lead and secure a morale-b…

WXV: England 26-19 New Zealand Interception score arrives with clock in the red If anyone thought a noise at Twickenham would not reach the decibel levels of the full-time whistle of the Rugby World Cup final last year then they were firmly wrong. Zoe Harrison’s last-gasp winning try against New Zealand was met with ear-bursting cheers and brought 59,871 fans to their feet with their hands in the…

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Sébastien Pocognoli grimaced on Friday when recalling his playing debut for Belgium. Alessandro Del Piero and Italy discovered favourable opposition when preparing for the 2008 World Cup. Pocognoli will also look back, in time, at his maiden game as the head coach of Scotland. Blue skies, a dainty stadium in Ljubljana and a second half display that provided glimpses of optimism about Scotland’s w…

Scheduled press conference and training session delayed Irish FA admits ‘players shared different views’ The Republic of Ireland’s Nations League fixtures with Israel will go ahead after players voted on Saturday for the matches to be played. The scheduled press conference before Sunday’s first game – which is being played in Debrecen in Hungary – was delayed until Saturday afternoon, raising dou…

With Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii on the wing and a bench packed with forwards, coach Les Kiss is hoping he has a formula to topple the Springboks The weight of the occasion is almost enough to tip the great red continent into the Indian Ocean. Sunday night’s clash between the Wallabies and South Africa in Perth marks a year from the start of the home World Cup, which will kick off with the Wallabies pl…

Mercedes driver leads from pole to win by 1/10th sec Brition’s 11-second lead cut by safety cars George Russell took a dominant victory from pole to flag at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to give his world championship hopes the shot in the arm they required. His Mercedes teammate and title leader Kimi Antonelli delivered a strong comeback to claim fifth from 16th on the grid, but the British driver c…

Harlequins 17-33 Bath Argentinian full-back scores stunning try on counter Last season’s top two kicked off the season in opposition to last season’s bottom two. Bath duly completed the expected, joining Northampton with a bonus-point win to open their account. The team the Saints succeeded as champions last season travelled to the Stoop to remind Harlequins how much more they have to work on if …

Noel Gallagher, fan and Oasis star, ‘shocked and sad’ David Bernstein: a fine is ‘not sufficient’ if appeal fails Manchester City’s manager Enzo Maresca posted a cryptic message on social media reading “I know nothing” after the club was found guilty on virtually all counts of breaching Premier League financial rules. News broke on Friday that City had been found guilty on almost all of more than…

The idea of 16-year-olds like Cavan Sullivan playing for the USMNT was once unfathomable – until Mike Slivinski, Mark Jonas and Nelson Vargas appeared in a 1991 friendly If 16-year-old Cavan Sullivan takes the field for the US men’s national team in the coming days, he will join a list of youngest-ever US players that has no shortage of recognizable names. At the top is onetime phenom (turned cau…

Fighter blames feud between rival promoters ‘He’s cost us the biggest fight in boxing history ’ Tyson Fury insists his blockbuster showdown with Anthony Joshua is in doubt because of a feud between rival promoters Eddie Hearn and Dana White. The standout British heavyweights of their generation have agreed to fight in Cardiff on 11 December and are scheduled to face off at a press conference in L…

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious Earlier this week, news broke for the first time that Senegalese Division II Kentucky State women’s basketball player Aminata Seck was abducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Louisville’s Mu…

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