Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature There’s 20 minutes or so remaining at the City Ground in the big early kickoff and Scott Murray is all over it for us. Share Preamble Welcome to another Saturday clockwatch – and what a glorious springtime Saturday this is (in … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Why not get in touch? What are your thoughts on the 7-1 bench? Or perhaps you want to tell me about something else, like your favourite The Clincher film that you’ve just made up? Send all this and more to my … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Preamble To fans of a certain vintage, this particular fixture means one thing above all else. Rear-view mirror, Andy, rear-view mirror! Anything today as cheeky, saucy, controversial and/or flat-out hilarious as Gary Crosby’s famous March 1990 winner, and we’ll be doing … Read more
Nikola Jokić produced 31 points, a career-high 22 assists and 21 rebounds as the host Denver Nuggets rallied after losing a 21-point lead and beat the Phoenix Suns 149-141 in overtime on Friday. Jokić logged the first 30-20-20 stat line in NBA history. He notched his 29th triple-double of the season and 159th of his … Read more
For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the collection of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, silver at the world championships two years ago and now, finally, she has gold. Bos is the new world champion of her sport, turning in the fastest times in Friday’s final two runs … Read more
Alessia Russo has had an intense 10 days. She has been a key player in a gutsy, resilient and energy‑draining performance in England’s 1-0 win over Spain and then part of Arsenal’s astonishing Women’s Super League fightback from two goals down to beat West Ham 4-3. England needed the win against the world champions, but … Read more
Five years on from an other-worldly Cheltenham festival which unfolded in the shadow of Covid-19, in front of packed stands that would soon become emblematic of the country’s hesitant stumble into lockdown, one of Britain’s most popular sporting events once again finds itself at a crossroads, after sharp declines in attendance in the last two … Read more
“You’re asking for specialists throughout the team,” Gary Neville said recently of the wing-back system. Which presumably came as news to Daniel Muñoz, who before becoming one of the Premier League’s leading wing-backs had never actually played the position before. Of course Muñoz – a winger in his youth – always had a strong sense … Read more
US president Donald Trump created a task force Friday to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globe’s premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when his on-again, off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent. “I think it’s going to make it more exciting,” Trump said of playing … Read more
The former England captain Stuart Pearce is recovering in hospital after suffering a medical emergency on a transatlantic flight. The former Nottingham Forest and Newcastle full-back, who is 62, was taken ill on a flight from Las Vegas to the UK on Monday. He had visited the US to watch the Super League match between … Read more