The Guardian

Coming third in the World Cup was really not a disaster, and Saturday’s rout of Croatia and building the team around Jude Bellingham are good signs Move fast and fix things. It has been a fine week so far for Thomas Tuchel as he attempts the cyclical task of soldering together not just an England team, but a way of looking like one, all the while being battered by the to-and-fro conflicting winds…

Only a few days ago Craig Bellamy suggested Wales had blown Nations League A4 wide open with a hand grenade but here Danny Ward detonated it to gift Denmark a penalty and Rasmus Højlund the chance to earn a slender victory from the spot. Until that moment of madness, after 73 minutes, Ward had kept Wales in the game, his best stop a sublime right-hand save to prevent Gustav Isaksen a headed opene…

Updates on the action kicking off after 9pm UK time Taylor lifts Colts to victory in London Share your thoughts with Graham via email It’s GOOD! Dolphins 0-3 Vikings 7:55, 1st quarter W Reichard 47 yard field goal (2-2) Indianapolis Colts 30-13 Washington Commanders (1-3) (0-4) Tennessee Titans 18-24 Baltimore Ravens (3-1) (2-2) New England Patriots 29-26 Buffalo Bills (3-1) (1-3) New York Jets 1…

Elfyn Evans becomes first British winner since 2001 Oliver Solberg’s hopes shattered by tumble down bank ⁠Elfyn Evans ended years of heartache, and a quarter-of-a-century wait for Britain, by finally winning the World Rally Championship title with Toyota after a dramatic season ⁠finale in Sardinia on Sunday. The ⁠Welshman had been ​championship runner-up five times in the last six years but emerg…

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…

Manchester City came from behind twice to win an absorbing, six-goal thriller 4-2 and continue their 100% winning start to the Women’s Super League season while heaping further pressure on Arsenal and their head coach Renée Slegers. The defending champions, helped by Kerstin Casparij scoring a screamer with her very first touch of the ball after coming on as a second-half substitute, stretched th…

Saracens 17-21 Sale Jibulu, O’Flaherty and Bamber among Sale try-scorers After a deeply disappointing opening weekend this was much more like it from Sale’s perspective. Committed and cussed from start to finish, the Sharks ultimately deserved this unexpected success over a Saracens side who seldom made it beyond second gear, even against opponents who were reduced to 13 at one stage in the first…

Winning rider Barzalona hails ‘exceptional horse’ Stud beckons over bid for unprecedented third win It was a very different, distinctly brutalist Longchamp that last saw a colt go back-to-back in the Arc, and 48 years on from Alleged’s second victory in 1978 with Lester Piggott holding the reins, the uber-modernist new grandstand rose to acclaim its first legend here on Sunday as Daryz produced t…

Owner has put in £10m but seven victorious players at Old Trafford were in the Championship two years ago and stayed at Trinity It may seem quite obvious to suggest there is plenty Super League can learn from its newest champions but as Wakefield Trinity’s dreams came true after beating Warrington 23-10 at Old Trafford on Saturday evening, it was easy to ponder just how transformational a moment …

Antonelli and Hamilton led the criticism in Sepang Race delayed for 53 minutes after software problems Formula One’s drivers issued a damning condemnation of the sport’s current engine regulations that caused the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia to open with farcical scenes of cars stopping on track and unable to accelerate because of software problems in the electronics that control the engines. R…

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…

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…

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…