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It should be the best of times for Nottingham Forest but the great expectations of securing an historic Champions League spot risk making it the worst if they miss out. A Murillo mistake gifted Everton victory in stoppage time as the pressure started to show at the City Ground. The Brazilian centre-back lost the ball … Read more
Celtic could be crowned Premiership champions on Sunday following a 5-1 hammering of Kilmarnock at Parkhead. Brendan Rodgers demanded better from his players following the shock 1-0 defeat at bottom side St Johnstone last weekend and with only 11 minutes played his side were two goals to the good through a terrific strike from midfielder … Read more
Substitute striker Muhamed Tijani scored an 88th-minute winner as basement side Plymouth dealt a huge blow to Sheffield United’s automatic promotion hopes at Home Park. Tijani scored from 12 yards out after United failed to clear Bali Mumba’s dangerous cross and the ball fell kindly to the striker. Ryan Hardie cancelled out Jesurun Rak-Sakyi’s 44th-minute … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature A reminder that qualifying begins at 5pm. Stay tuned until then. Who fancies pole in Bahrain? Share Practice: Oscar Piastri and McLaren were quickest in practice in Bahrain. The Australian was was 0.668 seconds faster than Lando Norris and 0.834 secs … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Fighting talk from Aoife Wafer. She told Sarah Rendell that “Ireland want to shake England up a bit” and shock the favourites in Cork. Well worth your pre-game perusal. Share France 42-12 Wales The early kick-off in this third round of … Read more
When the race car driver Aurora Straus first began competing professionally aged 16, she was the only female racer on the tracks in North America. Unsurprisingly, her entry into the male-dominated world of motorsports was not without its sexist challenges. In one incident, while she was being filmed for a documentary, she returned to her … Read more
Rewind one year, to when Manchester City were top of the Women’s Super League and Manchester United were trundling towards a fifth-placed finish, at a time when Marc Skinner’s contract was soon ending. If you were told then that one of the Manchester women’s teams would have changed their manager by the time a derby … Read more
A goal and an assist and a captain’s display that wrenched the contest from Crystal Palace: here was an afternoon to revel in the sublime talent of Kevin De Bruyne. At 33, he is in the autumn of one of the great careers, but on a sun-dappled east Manchester afternoon De Bruyne illustrated, yet again, … Read more
Chelsea kept their hopes of a quadruple alive after beating Liverpool in dramatic fashion to book their place in the Women’s FA Cup final. A 94th-minute header from Aggie Beever-Jones broke the visitors’ hearts after Olivia Smith had given them an early lead. Late goals in both halves, however, from Erin Cuthbert and then Beever-Jones … Read more
An hour into her first national team assignment of the season, the forecast for Katie Boulter was grim. Down a set and a break against a cunning opponent, the British No 1 had been junkballed into oblivion and defeat drew near. Her recent difficult form and her lack of confidence in the surface beneath her … Read more