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Pressure continues to build on the Gunners’ head coach, while powerful London City Lionesses demolished Spurs Travelling Arsenal fans showed no animosity towards the head coach, Renée Slegers, despite their side’s run of one win in six games all competitions, and the north Londoners slipping 10 points behind Manchester City. Slegers walked over to applaud the 2,000 away fans after the 4-2 defeat …

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Prem Rugby: Bristol 41-26 Northampton Bears win opening two games for first time since 2023 Louis Rees-Zammit may have been denied a hat-trick against Northampton but there is no doubting who stole the show as Bristol maintained their flying start to the season by downing the champions. The Wales winger scored twice, earned the Bears’ late penalty try and, just to make clear that there is more th…

Portugal victory seals place in quarter-finals Greece hold Germany to goalless draw Title-holders Portugal maintained their 100% record in the Nations League with a 2-1 home win over Norway on Sunday to seal a place in ⁠the March quarter-finals, while Manchester City’s problems may have got worse after Erling Haaland limped off for the visitors. Portugal hope their victory at the Estádio Do Dragã…

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…

After working with nearly all of Spain’s World Cup-winning squad in their formative years, the coach is also a huge fan of English football. He’s now pitting his wits against both At the end of a 2-0 defeat by England in Prague, the Czechia coach turned left, walked along the touchline, shook Thomas Tuchel’s hand and said something he thinks he had never said at full-time: “See you soon.” To whic…

England, Australia and India say no space for extra events No new international tournaments until 2031 at earliest The International Cricket Council (ICC) will not introduce a World Club Championship or more international multilateral tournaments until 2031 at the earliest after resistance from England, Australia and India. After informal discussions between the ICC and member boards over several…

Kansas City beat the surprisingly feisty Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. They already look like a very real contender after a lost season in 2025 The rivalry between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders goes back to the formation of the American Football League in 1960, when the Chiefs were the Dallas Texans, and the Raiders resided in Oakland. At no time in that rivalry had both teams f…

The Republic of Ireland’s manager Heimir Hallgrímsson has called on Uefa to keep his side away from Israel in future draws after a pair of fixtures he admitted “has been tough on us all”. Ireland were pegged back to a draw in another tetchy encounter, this time played without fans at TSC Arena in Backa Topola, Serbia. Hallgrímsson did not want to comment on a half-time confrontation, after which …

Former Brighton and Birmingham stopper has his family getting their hands dirty rebooting Leeds club They held a sweepstake in the FC Farsley office. How many fans would come for the first men’s game at their Throstle Nest ground in more than two years? David Stockdale, the owner and first-team manager, was cautious, predicting 140. After all, the old club, Farsley Celtic, played in Buxton for mu…

As LeBron James and other NBA stars wholeheartedly embrace the murk of betting and prediction markets, the San Antonio Spurs’ 22-year-old cornerstone has drawn a refreshing line If the song from LeBron James’s agonizing Polymarket ad is as stuck in your head as mine thanks to the commercial playing during every YouTube video and HBO show (all I wanted to do was rewatch The Leftovers), let Victor …

Barcelona 7-0 Real Madrid Lead at the top stretched to five points Clàudia Pina smashed in four goals as Barcelona demolished Real Madrid 7-0 to secure a five-point lead at the top of Liga F on Sunday over their rivals. The 25-year-old Spain international was in lethal form in front of goal as a dominant Barça won the clásico battle with ease at the Camp Nou in front of over 40,000 fans, continui…

Roosters’ halfback among six debutants in Walters’ Australia squad Isaah Yeo and Isabelle Kelly named men’s and women’s captains Isaah Yeo will delay pectoral surgery to be captain for Australia’s Rugby League World Cup campaign, after coach Kevin Walters announced a 23-man squad that includes Sydney Roosters halfback Sam Walker. Fresh off NRL premiership glory , Walker, who is one of six debutan…

Batter makes 111 against Cricket South Africa Invitation XI Three-match Test series starts in Durban on Friday The indefatigable Marnus Labuschagne has responded to all the hand-wringing over whether he merits a place in Australia’s Test future by just doing what he likes doing best – scoring runs. After a difficult year, the under-pressure 32-year-old chose the most timely moment to score his fi…

Indiana GM said team’s fans were unfairly attacked Former player Brianna Turner says fans are an issue Kelsey Mitchell says some fans do not like her Indiana Fever players past and present have pushed back on an assertion that the team’s fans are not an issue. On Saturday the Fever’s general manager, Amber Cox, defended Indiana’s fanbase after a series of criticisms over their conduct this season…