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Mikel Arteta discovered that playing your best goalkeeper can be a good idea as his side recovered from cup exits with late win in Lisbon There was a temptation to fixate on the moment when Arsenal won this game with a goal that could change their season. Mikel Arteta had urged his players not to panic, not to sink away with hopes of a quadruple long gone, and Kai Havertz got the memo. Gabriel Ma…

Allrounder on track to be fit to lead side in T20 World Cup in the UK Lucy Hamilton and Chloe Ainsworth added to CA women’s contract list Australian selector Shawn Flegler concedes the decision to hand Sophie Molineux the national team captaincy would need to be reassessed if she continued to be troubled by serious injuries. Molineux’s extensive injury history meant eyebrows were raised when Cric…

The heavyweight from Dagestan now lives in Canada and describes Saturday’s opponent as the ‘professor’ of boxing “This guy is the professor,” Arslanbek Makhmudov says of Tyson Fury as he looks forward politely to their fight on Saturday night at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. There is none of the usual bluster and malice of heavyweight boxing as the huge Russian from Dagestan shows consider…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Arne Slot tries his best not to choke up when he talks of last year’s meeting between Liverpool and PSG. “I hope every fan around the world was hoping this game wouldn’t stop because it was incredible,” he blubbed in March 2025. His team had just lost on penalties to the soon-to-be Bigger Cup winners. “It was the best game of football that I was…

From exposed anxieties to unexpected heroes, this weekend’s cup contests papered over a weird three-week Premier League break Sign up for our World Cup newsletter Live in a World Cup host city? Tell us your stories The soccer calendar has been particularly quirky this year. There’s always an international break in March, but because this year’s edition involved World Cup qualifying playoffs, most…

Kirby’s class helps stun Arsenal, Palmer shows leadership potential for Chelsea and teenager Shaw makes her mark for Liverpool Securing their Premier League status for another year remains a priority for West Ham and Leeds this season, so the eight changes Nuno Espírito Santo and Daniel Farke made between them for this tie, which developed into a drama-drenched classic, was understandable to a de…

Southampton continued their Championship charge as they thrashed Wrexham 5-1 to replace the Welsh side in the playoff places. Fuelled by their stunning weekend FA Cup quarter-final triumph over Arsenal , Tonda Eckert’s in-form side flew out of the traps at Stōk Cae Ras with early goals from Kuryu Matsuki and Flynn Downes, having already hit the woodwork twice. Continue reading...

“This is why you guys come to these games,” Vincent Kompany had said, and here especially. For the quality, the chaos, and the goals, the noise, the drama and the history that invades every moment, even when it seems to be finally left behind. Another wild night at the Santiago Bernabéu seemed to have set up for another barely believable finish, another of those crazy comebacks, but in the end Ba…

The defending champion is ‘a lot more relaxed’ but ‘just as motivated’ this year after finally winning at Augusta On the Tuesday of last year’s Masters, Rory McIlroy dined with Justin Rose in the clubhouse at Augusta. He arrived right around the time that all the guests at Scottie Scheffler’s champions dinner were having cocktails on the balcony. “I was pulling up Magnolia Lane,” McIlroy says. “A…

American faded to finish joint-fifth last year at Augusta ‘I am working on irons, building irons, building a driver’ Bryson DeChambeau has revealed the latest strand to his career: golf club manufacturing. The two-time major winner used pre-tournament media duties at the Masters to explain he is making his own clubs, in what marks a stark departure from elite golfers working in tandem with equipm…

Wirtz denies Liverpool ‘gave up’ in defeat to Man City Isak could return off bench after four months out injured Arne Slot has warned Liverpool will suffer another emphatic defeat should they switch off against Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Wednesday evening but believes his toiling team can save their season by going “toe-to-toe” with the European champ…

Most of what has gone wrong this season can be put down to poor recruitment – but the manager must share the blame Even when the fixture list was revealed last summer, it was perhaps predictable that the middle of March would represent the crisis point for Newcastle. If they had reached the Champions League quarter-finals and won the Tyne-Wear derby at St James’ Park, a lot of other frustrations …

Northern Irishman bristles at suggestions he has peaked as he returns to Augusta with the same intensity as always It was an opening which depicted more than a decade of toil. “I’d like to start this press conference with a question,” said Rory McIlroy. “What are we all going to talk about next year?” The wait was over. McIlroy had not only won the Masters , not only ended an 11-year wait for a f…

A sold-out crowd of 18,006 electrified Madison Square Garden on Saturday night when the New York Sirens hosted the Seattle Torrent, setting a new US attendance record for women’s hockey Continue reading...

Bucharest hospital confirms his death after heart attack Coach led team to Euro ‘84 and won multiple club titles Mircea Lucescu, the Romanian football great who was a serial trophy winner as a player and a coach, has died aged 80. Lucescu’s death was confirmed by Bucharest university emergency hospital on Tuesday. He had been taken to hospital after reportedly having a heart attack on Friday morn…