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⚽️ WSL updates from 4.30pm BST ⚽️ Read Moving the Goalposts | Follow us on Instagram WSL half-time scores The five 2pm games will resume any second now. These are the half-time scores: Aston Villa 0-0 Crystal Palace Brighton 2-1 Charlton Everton 1-1 Birmingham Tottenham 0-3 London City Lionesses West Ham 0-1 Chelsea Continue reading...

Ty France’s ninth-inning drive hits roof cable Brewers go on to win NLDS opener 3-2 Brewers manager Pat Murphy credited the team’s legendary late broadcaster Bob Uecker for an unlikely boost in the ninth inning to help preserve a 3-2 victory over visiting San Diego in ⁠the opener of their playoff series on Saturday. With one out in the ninth and the Brewers clinging to a one-run lead, San Diego h…

Investment from Red Bull and scrapping of relegation give breathing-space for English rugby union’s northern light to develop a playing style ‘that doesn’t send people to sleep’ One of the key features of grown-up team sports the world over – in other words, all of them apart from football – is the separation of the professional game from the amateur. This means that at some point in the hierarch…

From PSG’s Ibrahim Mbaye to Brazil’s next hope, we select some of the most talented players born in 2008. Check the progress of our classes of 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 … and go even further back . Here’s our Premier League class of 2025 Continue reading...

As he prepares to face his home nation, the Canada manager reflects on his adopted country’s soccer, its prime minister, and its place in the world Peak leaf hasn’t yet arrived in Montreal but the bursts of gold and butterscotch up on the hill that gave this place its name still mushroom out by the hour. Sitting in a glass-panelled hotel mezzanine at the foot of Mount Royal, Canada men’s coach Je…

First win of season for Dutchman after long rain delay Heartbreak for Russell as power units struggle in weather Max Verstappen won a chaotic Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia with a dominant drive for Red Bull, his team’s first win of the season, beating the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli into second. The Italian’s teammate and title rival George Russell was forced to retire with five laps to go leavin…

Updates on the big race in Paris (3.05pm), news and more Get in touch! Send your thoughts to Greg here 12.31pm Qatar Prix Marcel Boussac betting Green Empress - 7/4 Allela - 7/2 Data - 6/1 Queen Of The Day - 15/2 Miss Miniver - 10/1 Spirit Tango - 10/1 Ibelieveicanfly - 14/1 So Lovely - 33/1 40/1 bar Race odds provided by Oddschecker Continue reading...

Second seed loses to 34th-ranked player from Czechia Top seed Elena Rybakina also lost in Beijing Aryna Sabalenka was swatted aside in straight sets by 34th-ranked Nikola Bartunkova in the third round of the China Open on Sunday, leaving the event without its top two seeds. Czech player Bartunkova, 20, sent down four aces to beat the former world number one 6-4, 6-3 in one hour and 35 minutes. “I…

The Bantams faced Reading after manager left for Preston – but could his replacement be in the opposing dugout? It was a bruising start to the week for Bradford City when news filtered through to the players that Graham Alexander had stepped down as manager. They were top of the League One table and his departure was a sudden and unexpected blow for a side that had started to let imaginations run…

Allowing children in after a ban on adult fans was wrong in the extreme but on the pitch England showed genuine class So … can we play another World Cup, then? Can we just undo and rewind? Forget whatever it was you thought you saw in Atlanta . We’re actually ready now. Although not, repeat not, if any part of this involves playing football in front of 6,000 excitable children, the combined effec…

The rightwing media mogul has lost ground to the likes of Pat McAfee and Joe Rogan. He’s hoping his new venture can recapture some headway When Maga media blowhard Clay Travis offered $2m to Colin Kaepernick last week to appear on the daily talkshow he hosts with former CIA analyst Buck Sexton, it represented the culmination of a years-long obsession on the right with the onetime NFL star. In Tra…

Coach Noureddine Ould Ali is staying positive despite a difficult situation at home and tough opponents at the Gulf Cup The Yemen national coach, Noureddine Ould Ali, chose not to reach for a good old-fashioned football excuse after his team’s 1-0 loss to Qatar in the Gulf Cup on Saturday, despite a clear penalty not given their way. The defeat meant the Reds crashed out of the eight-team regiona…

This was an occasion on which Scotland dare not stumble. By the time Kieron Bowie smashed home a seventh minute opener against a North Macedonia side not without its troubles to seek, it was already clear they would not. Bowie afforded Sébastien Pocognoli his first goal as the Scotland manager. Later, the Belgian had his maiden victory confirmed. Anything else, against such a dismal level of oppo…

PM’s contortions over the Manchester City verdicts have landed him with an early test of what he wants to stand for. Realpolitik, or real values? It’s coming for you. It’s coming for you. Oh Andy Burnham, the hugely problematic relationship between principle and realpolitik in post-cash Britain. It’s coming for you. We are going all in on football chat these days, aren’t we? Football populism, fo…

Grand Final: Warrington 10-23 Wakefield Trinity are champions for first time since 1968 Wakefield Trinity completed one of the most remarkable sporting fairytales of modern times after defeating Warrington Wolves to win their maiden Super League title and first major trophy for almost 60 years. Wakefield, a Championship club as recently as two years ago, are now champions of England for the first…