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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Some further pre-match reading options for you: Share It’s full-time in the Women’s FA Cup and Chelsea have edged past Liverpool to secure a spot in the final, via a stoppage time winner from the in-form Aggie Beever-Jones. They’ll face either … Read more
For the third time in nine seasons, the Scottish Grand National card at Ayr on Saturday could well prove decisive in the race for the National Hunt trainers’ championship, and Willie Mullins and Dan Skelton have 18 and 10 runners respectively as they reprise their battle for the title 12 months ago. Mullins was the … Read more
Rohan Browning and Torrie Lewis upstaged the flashy upstarts of Australian sprinting, claiming their respective 100m national titles in two split-second victories in Perth on Saturday. The women’s final was decided by a three-way photo finish between Lewis, Bree Rizzo and Leah O’Brien. The national record-holder stopped the clock at 11.24s, edging 17-year-old O’Brien by … Read more
Hull KR supporters will need no reminding that in the biggest games, the finest margins matter. But this was another cruel indication of the final steps they are still to take as a team if they are to topple Super League’s very best. There can be no doubting that Rovers have made immense strides in … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature England experienced a mixed international break this month. The Lionesses got off to a flying start, beating Belgium 5-0 at Ashton Gate. However, a disappointing and somewhat disorganised defensive display saw them lose 3-2 in the reverse fixture. The absence of … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Semi-automated offside technology The Premier League is introducing semi-automated offside technology this weekend after non-live testing in the Premier League and live operation in the FA Cup this season, reports the competition’s website. From the Premier League: “Semi-automated offside technology will … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Two slips for Anderson Phillip, Jones and Jennings, vigorous with early morning optimism. And it is justified! The ball after Zaib has fizzed one to the boundary, he slashes at a wide one with iron feet and is caught behind for … Read more
West Ham can defend and attack but not at the same time. They are paying the price for the errors made in the transfer market by their former technical director Tim Steidten. They have an ageing, unbalanced squad and it is not going to be easy for Kyle Macaulay, who has been in charge of … Read more
Heidi Long and Claire Collins have competed against each other at world championships and Olympic Games, so it is testament to the continued allure of the University Boat Race that both describe it as a “bucket-list event”. Having last met in the final of the Women’s Eight in Paris last summer, with Long winning bronze … Read more
Nikola Jokić will average a triple-double for the season, making the Denver star the third player in NBA history to pull off such a feat. It became statistically certain Friday night when Jokić got his fourth assist of Denver’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. That assist was his 700th of the season – so, even … Read more