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Updates from 4.30pm (GMT) kick-off at the Emirates Stadium Get in touch: email John and follow us on BlueSky Arsenal: Misa, Fox, Williamson, de Almeida, Batlle, Little, Stanway, Baum, Maanum, Foord, Russo. Subs: van Domselaar, Borbe, Wubben-Moy, Catley, Smith, Reuteler, Hinds, Holmberg, Cooney-Cross. London City Lionesses: Earps, Fernandez, Perez, Leon, Pattinson, Geyoro, Arques, Diani, Putellas,…

Match kicks off at 3.10pm (all times GMT) Quiz of the week: records, rancour and rivalry Share your thoughts with Daniel via email Australia have reshuffled their side following last weekend’s heavy defeat by England , with Carter Gordon returning at fly-half after recovering from a broken leg. The former rugby league recruit replaces Ben Donaldson and forms a half-back partnership with Ryan Lone…

Updates from the opening game in Turin, starts 2pm Get in touch: email Tom and follow us on BlueSky First set: Zverev* 1-2 Jódar (*next server) Jódar hits a lovely forehand winner to take control of the game at 15-0 and looks pretty nerveless as Zverev tries to get on the front foot. A backhand winner down the line from the 20-year-old at 40-15 seals it. Continue reading...

Secures top-two finish at DP World Tour Championship McIlroy finishes on -10 as Tyrell Hatton wins event Rory McIlroy edged out Eugenio Chacarra to claim a record-equalling eighth Race to Dubai title with a second-place finish at the DP World Tour Championship, where Tyrrell Hatton sealed a five-shot victory. Spaniard Chacarra had held a slender 533.93-point lead over Masters champion McIlroy goi…

As he passes Kenny Dalglish’s appearance total, it is important to remember that it is the left-back’s journey that sets him apart Andy Robertson may not be Scotland’s greatest player, but he is indisputably their finest captain. It counts as sacrilege, even to generations who have watched Kenny Dalglish only on YouTube, to reputationally place Robertson above the Liverpool hero on the basis of a…

Midfielder needed a break ‘to come back stronger’ James Trafford selected to start in goal for England Declan Rice has admitted he had an “average” World Cup at the end of a gruelling season and needed time out during the international window in September and October in order to return stronger. The Arsenal midfielder believes the break has served its purpose, having produced starring performance…

As much as the sandpaper soap opera continued to deal in alternative facts on Sunday, recollections of this second one-day international are unlikely to differ. For Tom Banton and Gus Atkinson, architects of an emphatic 135-run victory for England that levelled the series, it was unquestionably a match to remember. Banton was sublime after England were asked to bat first, unfurling a crisp 121 fr…

Seismic victory in Cardiff was cathartic and though Steve Tandy urges caution, maybe the ‘Welsh problem’ can be fixed So that’s that fixed then. Wales are back, and all is right with the world. Suddenly the dysfunction at the union, the financial plight, the disputes, the emptying stadiums, the defeats – oh, the defeats – feel a very long way away. The All Blacks have been beaten. Seventy-three y…

Dana White’s company squeezes fighters, bullies journalists and toadies up to Trump. But it has also given neglected Olympians a path to money and fame that didn’t exist before it If you don’t like what is being said, change the conversation. Amid the wreckage of an epic midterm beatdown, the diminished president of the United States spent part of last week channeling another Donald when he publi…

Australia 32-12 New Zealand Reece Walsh stars in dominant win for Kangaroos Australia’s dominance of the Rugby League World Cup continued with a fourth successive title, as the Kangaroos proved far too strong for New Zealand in a one-sided final in Brisbane. No nation has beaten the Australians in a Rugby League World Cup since the Kiwis in the 2003 final. The expectation pre-match was that the t…

The former England centre-back answers your questions on Diego Maradona, Bobby Robson and on staying in strange places “Have you made up all these on your own?” asks Terry Butcher, sitting in a London office in the week he is presented with his England legacy cap. It turns out dozens of Guardian readers want to pick the brains of a much-loved centre-back who was feted en route to a World Cup semi…

Clubs with wealthy proprietors can maintain a loss-making operation but things can be more complex when the supporters carry the can When you walk up from Haydons Road train station to Plough Lane there is a blue AFC Wimbledon billboard that reads “Fan owned football”, directly opposite the site of the old Plough Lane stadium where there are now blocks of flats. There is a memorial to the old Wim…

Jillaroos retain their crown with dominant 34-10 win over Kiwi Ferns Jamie Chapman scores hat-trick before the break in Brisbane In northern Australia, they call this time of the year “the build up” – a sub-tropical rise in heat and pressure where dark clouds roil and minds melt before the heavens open. At Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium, it was Australia’s Jillaroos who brought the storm, dominating …

The Ben Paulin-trained JP McManus-owned winner of Cheltenham’s feature race was ridden by Harry Cobden Heading away from the stands now, Atomic City has passed Tiny Riot but is still second-last. Down the back, Magnetude has taken over in front, all bar Tiny Riot covered by three lengths behind. Continue reading...

Russian teen beats American 6-3, 6-4 at Indian Wells French Open champion, 19, assures world No 2 ranking The rise of Mirra Andreeva has seemed inevitable ever since she burst on to the tour as a precocious 15-year-old more than three years ago, but this week, six months after her maiden grand slam triumph at Roland Garros, she has taken another massive step forward in her career. The 19-year-old…