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Updates from the men’s premiership decider at Accor Stadium Kick-off time in Sydney is 7.30pm AEDT/6.30pm AEST Any thoughts? Get in touch with an email The first wave of Knights successes came against a backdrop of uncertainty about what a post-industrial future might mean for the steel city. Two decades on, for better or worse, working-class Newcastle is now safer, more confident and outward-loo…

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…

Latest news before Nations League fixtures Share your thoughts with John via email Spain continue to march on , with Lamine Yamal hitting his straps. Lamine Yamal had scored after 104 seconds at Wembley and 70 in Seville, as Spain defeated England and Croatia. And the silly thing was that here, his goal might have come even sooner. Fifteen seconds in, the first frisson of excitement went round th…

F1 updates from 8am BST in Sepang Verstappen ends pole wait | And mail Yara Tyres: Tyre degradation has been one of the big talking points throughout the weekend, and with the rain threatening to shake things up, it is worth taking another look at what could prove crucial if the track starts to dry. The circuit’s naturally abrasive surface is already putting plenty of stress through the tyres, wh…

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…

Lamine Yamal says he feels like Superman or Spider-Man sometimes, and Spain’s fans are starting to wonder if he just might be. There is something comic book hero about what the teenager is doing right now, some unexplained super power swelling inside him. For the third consecutive game he scored inside six minutes, curling in another outrageous goal as Spain completed their World Cup homecoming i…

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…

The spaces can stand both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice At half-time in the 2014 League Cup final, Sunderland led Manchester City 1-0. Yaya Touré equalised with a casually brilliant 30-yard clip 10 minutes after the break, and City went on to win 3-1. City, we now know from the independent commission, were at the time involved in a prol…

Fans staged protest during pro-am tournament Desmond escorted off St Andrews course by security Celtic’s principal shareholder Dermot Desmond had tennis balls thrown towards him during his visit to the Alfred Dunhill Links golf tournament at St Andrews in a protest from fans. The 76-year-old – who has been criticised by supporters for an apparent lack of progress on the pitch – was taking part in…

Fernandes: ‘there are no divisions in the national team’ Ronaldo left team camp last week in selection row Bruno Fernandes has said Cristiano Ronaldo remains “the greatest symbol” of the Portugal team, despite his decision to walk out on the squad this week. Ronaldo said on Wednesday he had left the team camp after the Portugal coach, Jorge Jesus, said he would not start against Denmark. Portugal…

Prem Rugby: Bristol 41-24 Northampton Bears win opening two games for first time since 2023 Bristol overcame a nasty-looking head injury to the England centre Benhard Janse van Rensburg to clinch an impressive victory over Northampton and maintain their flying start to the season with Louis Rees-Zammit in fine finishing form, helping himself to a double. Van Rensburg received lengthy treatment an…