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Tournament was due to take place from 25-28 June Louisiana expects LIV to return incentive funding The LIV Golf event scheduled to be played in Louisiana in June has been postponed, state officials said on Tuesday. News of the postponement comes less than two weeks after LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil said the breakaway circuit’s 2026 season would proceed as planned amid reports that the series was at…

Fifa will not require squad to get approval of Taliban Afghan Women United was formed after 2021 takeover Fifa has given permission for Afghan Women United , a squad composed of refugees scattered around the world in Australia, the Middle East and Europe, to represent Afghanistan in official competitions without requiring the approval of the Taliban. In a significant regulation change to be appro…

Al-Ahli won for the second successive year, but few outside Jeddah will remember proceedings fondly As far as head-butts in major finals go, it wasn’t quite Zinedine Zidane in 2006 , but Zakaria Hawsawi’s lunge forwards in Saturday’s AFC Champions League Elite final connected with Tete Yengi’s jaw and dropped the stunned Australian, almost a foot taller, to the ground. With the score 0-0 between …

Sánchez plays long game for McFarlane, Southampton can take heart, Arteta tries to gain edge and Isak will come good One moment from their FA Cup semi-final to Chelsea will haunt Leeds. When Tosin Adarabioyo stretched for a through ball and couldn’t quite get there, quarter of an hour in, everything seemed to slow down. There was Brenden Aaronson with just Robert Sánchez to beat, with the chance …

Has there ever been a game of football quite like this? On a luminous, thrilling, slightly crazed night at the Parc des Princes Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich produced something that felt like a different category of human activity altogether. There were nine goals in Paris, the most ever in a Champions League semi-final first leg, the end result a largely arbitrary 5-4 lead for PSG ahead …

The Championship’s automatic promotion race will be decided on Saturday. Ipswich’s hopes of killing Millwall’s and Middlesbrough’s chances stone dead were dashed at St Mary’s though this pulsating draw also did for Southampton. A second half of bedlam had Cyle Larin score a goal that looked to have dashed Kieran McKenna’s hopes of completing the job before the weekend. Jack Clarke’s lashing finis…

Ifab has not mandated the change for other competitions Decision follows Prestianni and Afcon final controversies Any player who covers their mouth when confronting an opponent or who leaves the pitch in protest at a refereeing decision will receive an automatic red card at this summer’s World Cup. In a regulation change approved by the International Football Association Board (Ifab) ahead of Thu…

Captain confident team can handle pressure and learn Havertz unavailable but Eze part of Arsenal’s squad Martin Ødegaard has accepted that Arsenal will remain open to criticism until they shed their nearly-men reputation and is confident the club are primed to do precisely that this season. The captain cut a convincing figure on the eve of Wednesday night’s ­Champions League semi-final first leg …

From preparation to game mode, the upkeep of Wembley’s pitch is carried out to an astonishing level of perfectionism Karl Standley and his assistant Cameron Hutcheon have gathered in their usual spot in the south-west corner of Wembley Stadium clutching hot cups of tea. Standley is a coffee devotee but on matchdays, as a nod to his mum, who enjoys a brew whatever the temperature, he mixes things …

Five frames in a row give Murphy 5-3 first session lead Robertson leads Higgins; Vafaei level against Wu Shaun Murphy fought back against the defending champion, Zhao ­Xintong, to lead 5-3 after the opening session of their World Snooker Championship quarter-final at the Crucible. Zhao had started with a break of 122 and soon moved 3-0 ahead. Former champion Murphy – who won his second-round matc…

City face crucial games on 13 May, 16 May and 19 May Alternative date for Palace game has been chief problem Manchester City are understood to be frustrated after being left facing three decisive fixtures in the space of seven days next month. City’s match against Crystal Palace, which was postponed from 21 March owing to their participation in the Carabao Cup final, has been scheduled for Wednes…

The current season has become a meme-war without end, an endless rolling wall of gloat and taunt in which players and managers must try to block out the noise In his new book, Saved, Gianluigi Buffon talks about feeling crushed by nerves even at the peak of his playing career. The day before the 2006 World Cup final Buffon and Gennaro Gattuso walked past the French squad after training and were i…

France remain on track for grand slam showdown with Red Roses, whose injury-hit squad depth is being tested Ireland sent out mixed messages from their camp before their game with France on Saturday: was this a revenge mission for their Rugby World Cup quarter-final exit or not? The head coach, Scott Bemand, had denied it but the captain, Erin King, admitted the World Cup game had added some “veno…

After recent seasons with a defined bottom three, a handful of nervous clubs are aiming to beat the drop to the Championship Sign up for the World Behind The Cup newsletter It was a good weekend for Nottingham Forest, although perhaps not as good as it looked like it might be on Friday night. That evening, when they handed Sunderland their record defeat at the Stadium of Light, winning 5-0 , Fore…

The men’s game thrives on big rivalries but with the world No 2 missing through injury, the prospects of another top-10 player stepping up appear bleak Jannik Sinner is not a man for great displays of emotion, but not even the world No 1 could maintain his poker face this time. In the aftermath of an arduous opening win in Madrid on Friday, Sinner learned of the most significant news of the year …