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⚽️ WSL updates from 12pm BST at Leigh Sports Village ⚽️ Live scoreboard | Send your thoughts to Emillia via email Melvine Malard is not available to face her former club today after suffering a knock in training. The Blues are also without Mayra Ramirez and Manaka Matsukubo. Meanwhile, Jayde Riviere and Emma Watson are absent from the Manchester United squad. Continue reading...

⛳️ Solheim Cup updates from 10.10am BST at Bernardus Golf ⛳️ Live scoring | Ewan Murray’s day two report | Email Scott It was a classic matchplay double whammy. An all-timer. Yesterday evening in the gloaming , with Europe looking likely to take a 9-7 lead into the Sunday singles, Jennifer Kupcho tramlined a 90-footer on 17 before guiding in a 30-footer on the last to pull the rug spectacularly, …

Premier League’s link-up with the Together Against Suicide campaign is dispersing simple, blunt and essential messaging If you watched US television adverts during the World Cup for any length of time one thing just kept leaping out. I’ve mentioned this before here , but it still seems both jarring and significant. Every third or fourth rotation in that endless daytime scroll, in between the Chic…

⚽️ News, discussion and reflection before Sunday’s games ⚽️ This weekend’s fixtures | Mail us your thoughts Let’s take a quick look back at last night, when Arsenal earned a 2-0 win against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light thanks to goals from Bruno Guimarães and Bukayo Saka. Yesterday’s Premier League results Liverpool 0-0 Fulham Crystal Palace 2-3 Ipswich Town Bournemouth 2-2 Brentford Aston …

Arsenal manager angry: ‘This can never be a penalty’ ‘It’s a judo roll from the opponent. Ezri does nothing’ Mikel Arteta’s delight at Arsenal’s latest win was tempered by his fury with the referee John Brooks as the champions triumphed 2-0 at Sunderland on Saturday night. Before Bruno Guimarães gave Arsenal the lead in a tight match that Régis Le Bris’s team were arguably unlucky to lose, David …

Craig Tiley says the US Open is going to become the ‘Disneyland of tennis’, and he means it aspirationally. Here’s what that might look like 15 years from now The year is 2041 and you’ve successfully made it through security and onto the grounds of the USTA Liquid Death National Tennis Center. Myla Rose and Leo Federer are hitting on Practice Court 23 ahead of their first-round match in the US Op…

Manager Tonda Eckert’s future remains in the balance with the FA yet to decide over a suitable punishment Fifty seconds was all it took for the chant to begin. “You know what you are, you know what you are, cheating bastards, you know what you are,” bellowed the Bristol City fans, starting up a cry heard from every away contingent coming to St Mary’s Stadium this season. The Southampton supporter…

Garcia stops Benn 1min 25sec into second round Champion floors challenger with concussive right López, Haney, Stevenson among possible fights Ryan Garcia needed less than four minutes to blow away Conor Benn before turning his sights on the rest of the welterweight division. The 28-year-old American demolished Benn inside two rounds on Saturday night to retain his World Boxing Council championshi…

4th Test: South Africa 43-28 New Zealand De Allende scores early in each half in Baltimore South Africa thrashed New Zealand 43-28 to complete a 3-1 victory in Baltimore in the fourth and final match of the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry Test series. The Springboks, who led the series 2-1 after the opening three Tests in South Africa, produced a devastating second-half display at the M+T Bank Stadium t…

Captain in upbeat mood after emphatic win at Edgbaston ‘We’re in a better place than we were, definitely’ Joe Root said England have “come through the other side of the chaos” after a tumultuous summer ended in a 3-0 series sweep of Pakistan. Stephen Fleming, the new Test coach, is due to arrive in the country on Monday and has meetings scheduled with his captain, as well as the interim coach, Ma…

Rybakina wins 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 despite first-serve problems Overcomes top seed and two-time defending champion Even when long established as a grand slam champion and a conqueror of all surfaces, Elena Rybakina was always considered lesser than the most successful players of her era. She was one of the most devastating shotmakers in the world, a threat to everybody everywhere, but there were always …

Added-time winner from Phillips sinks Norwich Saints hit four; Burnley beaten 3-1 at Swansea Ashley Phillips was the unlikely late matchwinner as Middlesbrough edged a seven-goal thriller, beating Norwich 4-3 at Riverside Stadium. Norwich looking for a third win on the bounce, made the perfect start with 50 seconds on the clock when striker Mohamed Touré hammered in, but within seven minutes Boro…

Swiss wins $150,000 with dominant display in 800m Georgia Hunter Bell second to Kazimierska in 1500m This season has witnessed an extraordinary arms race between three of the greatest female 800m runners in history. But, as so often over the summer months, it concluded with the sight of Audrey Werro going nuclear. There were some in the press seats who wondered whether the brilliant 22-year-old S…

Shelton will become the first Black American man to win the singles title at Flushing Meadow since Arthur Ashe if he can beat Zverez for the first time As Ben Shelton lapped up the explosion of joy and adoration from a full Arthur Ashe Stadium after reaching a grand slam final for the first time, one of his first thoughts was of his paternal grandmother, Regina Ann Shelton, who died this year. Sh…

Leeds manager embraces bravery and is encouraging ambition after leading a remarkable turnaround in fortunes Eleven years have passed since Daniel Farke mounted a magnificent palomino horse and rode round the perimeter of the pitch at Lippstadt, waving farewell to a capacity crowd. It seemed a fun way for the lower-tier German club’s centre-forward turned manager and sporting director to say good…