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The Premiership’s away zone trial was barely 12 minutes old when a member of the security staff felt the need to intervene. Perhaps he had taken exception to the dozens of schoolkids in the Gloucester section lambasting Saracens’ No 10, Fergus Burke, with: “You’re just a shit Owen Farrell.” Maybe he did not appreciate the … Read more
Mikel Arteta will have spent more arduous Easter Sundays attempting to hunt hidden chocolate eggs. Aside from a few minutes of brief concern for Bukayo Saka’s raked achilles – an incident for which Leif Davis received his very early marching orders – this was as undemanding an afternoon as the Arsenal manager could ever have … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Team news Barcelona (4-3-3): Coll; Battle, Paredes, León, Brugts; Bonmatí, Guijarro, Putellas; Graham Hansen, Pajor, Paralluelo Subs: Font, Roebuck, Fernàndez, Torrejón, Pina, Rolfö, López, Engen, Caño, Schertenleib Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Hampton; Bronze, Björn, Bright, Baltimore; Walsh, Cuthbert; Rytting Kaneryd, Kaptein, Beever-Jones; Ramírez … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Still no Harry Winks in the Leicester squad. Van Nistelrooy does not like chatting about it after reports Winks was originally omitted having fallen out with the Dutchman over a demand to stay at the training ground once a week rather … Read more
Barry Hoban, the British cycling Icon and eight-time Tour de France stage winner has died aged 85. Hoban was a pioneer of cycling in the UK in the 1960s and 70s and blazed a trail for cyclists such as Mark Cavendish and Geraint Thomas. Born in 1940 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Hoban cut his teeth for … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Team news Ipswich (4-2-3-1): Palmer; Tuanzebe, O’Shea, Greaves, Davis; Morsy, Cajuste; Johnson, Enciso, Clarke; Hirst.Subs: Walton, Woolfenden, Chaplin, Jack Taylor, Burgess, Delap, Luongo, Godfrey, Boniface. Arsenal (4-3-3): Raya; White, Saliba, Kiwior, Zinchenk; Rice, Merino, Ødegaard; Saka, Trossard, Martinelli.Subs: Neto, Tierney, Partey, … Read more
On 12 April a new club played its first game in Russia’s football pyramid. A healthy enough crowd gathered at Novokolor Arena in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, 20 miles from the border with Ukraine’s occupied territories, encouraged by a slick buildup on social media. They watched “Zarya Luhansk” begin their slog through the Third League, the fifth tier of a … Read more
The perils of going too early. We should know by now that no game in this competition is ever dead until it is dead, so common is the comeback these days. But when Bath, league leaders, had the bonus point by the half-hour mark – and a 26-10 lead to go with it – we … Read more
Nat Sciver-Brunt is being lined up as the next England captain by the new coach, Charlotte Edwards. The Surrey all-rounder has been identified as the outstanding candidate to replace Heather Knight, who stepped down last month after England’s Ashes whitewash in Australia. Sciver-Brunt is on maternity leave after the birth of her son this month … Read more
The abuse and hate messages I received for doing a TikTok dance live on the BBC after Wales’s defeat by England was crazy. On Instagram I received a few DMs saying: “You’re an embarrassment, what do you think you’re doing?” That doesn’t affect me because we get criticism all the time for different things: losing … Read more