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Start in Perth: 10.20am local/1.20pm AEDT/2.20am GMT Day one report | Ashes top 100 | Series omens | Mail Geoff Have we all got our breath back? That was an absolutely nonsense, absurd, bizarre opening day: 19 wickets in a Test day in Australia that only contained about 70 overs. Can nobody remember how to bat anymore? Was the pitch too difficult? The answer is no, not really, because some player…

Manager optimistic he will be backed by board ‘Invest cleverly and we want to do it smart’ Thomas Frank has said Tottenham are not close to emulating Arsenal by spending £100m on one player. Spurs have experienced a period of change after September’s removal of Daniel Levy as chair and the decision by the Lewis family, who own the club, to put a new leadership team in place. Plans to expand the b…

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Coach’s assistant in tough time at Feyenoord sees parallels with issues his former boss needs to deal with at Anfield Just over five weeks after Arne Slot’s Feyenoord had lost a tight Conference League final by a goal to Roma in 2022, they suffered a 7-0 home defeat by Copenhagen in their first pre-season friendly. Some of the Dutch club’s internationals were on holiday, seven of their starters f…

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Bath centre replaces Fraser Dingwall Itoje: ‘He has a bit of a swagger the way he plays’ Max Ojomoh has been backed to bring his swagger to England’s pursuit of an autumn internationals clean sweep after he was a late call-up following more injury disruption to Steve Borthwick’s side. Ojomoh has been thrust into the No 12 jersey for a first Twickenham start in place of the injured Fraser Dingwall…

As little as a decade ago it would have been unthinkable that an American institution such as Disney would have chosen to hitch its wagon to F1 The remarkable nature of the transformation in Formula One’s fortunes in the United States could not have been better illustrated than by the incongruous sight of Mickey Mouse and an assortment of his Disney pals leading a gang of enthusiastic fans on a w…

Manchester United centre-forward out for a ‘few weeks’ Mbeumo and Diallo in line for Afcon trip in December Ruben Amorim has revealed Benjamin Sesko’s knee injury will rule him out of action for “a few weeks” but Manchester United’s head coach is hopeful the striker can return before he loses Bryan Mbeumo and Amad Diallo to the Africa Cup of Nations. Sesko sustained the injury after coming on as …

Grade One-winning jockey makes brief return to England but is enjoying the ‘perfect’ racing scene across the Channel A familiar face made a fleeting return to the weighing room to Ascot on Friday as the multiple Grade One-winning jockey Bryony Frost paid a flying visit from her new home in France, and while her French has not improved significantly after 18 months riding there, her way with words…

Club are bottom of the Premier League and winless, but new head coach is delighted to be back In a cosy room off the reception at Wolves’ Compton training base, Rob Edwards is reminded he is back talking at the top table where, nine years ago, he struggled to conceal his excitement at being in caretaker charge of the club. “Was that when I had to sort of say I didn’t want the job and had to be re…

Record scorer for Norway’s age-group sides discusses his World Cup hope, being frozen out at 15 and fake tickets heartbreak at Anfield Liverpool against Aston Villa on 18 January 2014. It was impossible to measure the excitement in an seven-year-old from Norway making his first pilgrimage to Anfield. Inside was the promise of watching his favourite player, Daniel Sturridge, and the rest of a free…

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Defender ‘out for weeks’ and will now have further scan Ødegaard the only injured player set to return for Arsenal Mikel Arteta expects Gabriel Magalhães to be out for weeks with the thigh injury sustained on international duty and admitted losing “the leader of our backline” was a blow to Arsenal’s title aspirations. The Brazil defender was sent back to Arsenal for treatment after picking up the…

Defeat in Paris will complete a rare winless European tour and mean Joe Schmidt’s side finish 2025 as, statistically, the worst ever Wallabies As recently as August, the Wallabies humiliated rugby’s No 1 side, back-to-back world champions South Africa, in Johannesburg. They then smashed the pride of the northern hemisphere, the British & Irish Lions, in Sydney. By going all-in and not settling fo…

Presenter Ives was breezy, while Cook fronted everything like the last ceremonial horse of some dying cavalry unit You know what they say. Never judge a pitch until both teams have batted really badly on it. You know what they say. Over here you bat long, bat hard, bat short, bat soft. You know what they say, the Ashes in Australia is all about a hybrid maverick production with a fan-first identi…