Pep Guardiola has stated Manchester City desperately need their fans to be noisy for Aston Villa’s visit in Tuesday’s “final” in the chase for Champions League qualification. City are fourth on 58 points, three places but only one point ahead of Villa, with the top five guaranteed Champions League berths. “Every point, every game counts,” … Read more
The Freemasons of Ireland have apologised for hosting an interview between Conor McGregor and the US commentator Tucker Carlson at the organisation’s premises in central Dublin. Philip Daley, the grand secretary of the Irish Freemasons, said the organisation regretted renting its hall for the event last week and would donate the fee to charity. Carlson, … Read more
Leeds United’s long march is almost over. Aided by a vastly superior goal difference, Daniel Farke’s side may yet require a maximum of one more point to rubber-stamp promotion but, depending on the outcome in the evening kick-off at Turf Moor, could be back in the Premier League as soon as Easter Monday night. Not … Read more
The Championship might have to start preparing for Hollywood. A third successive promotion remains firmly in Wrexham’s sights after a near-perfect day for them in League One’s tumultuous automatic promotion race. Who writes their scripts? Trailing second-placed Wycombe by a point before kick-off after three draws in four games, Wrexham’s hopes of a top-two finish … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Chris Wilder starts three traditional strikers – Tom Cannon, Ben Brereton Díaz and Kieffer Moore – in a bid to break down this miserly Burnley defence. That trio come in for Jesurun Rak-Sakyi, Rhian Brewster and Tyrese Campbell, with Jack Robinson … Read more
Mark Williams was forced to dredge up every inch of his Crucible experience to sink rising Chinese star Wu Yize 10-8 and book his place in the last 16 of the World Snooker Championship for the 22nd time in his career. Williams, who turned 50 last month, delivered two near-faultless final frames to hold off … Read more
There is a beautiful book about suffering on Alex Yee’s coffee table in his front room on the outskirts of Loughborough. It’s a massive book about cycling and riding up imposing mountains that look gorgeous in black-and-white photographs even as they bring down almost unbearable pain on those cyclists brave and crazy enough to confront … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Cardiff City: The Welsh side are second from bottom of the Championship table and host Oxford United thisd afternoon. Following Saturday’s dismissal of Omer Riza, Aaron Ramsey has been given the job of keeping Cardiff up with just three games of … Read more
Mattias Skjelmose claimed a shock victory at the men’s Amstel Gold Race as he won a sprint finish against the favourite, Tadej Pogacar, and the Olympic champion, Remco Evenepoel. It was supposed to be a fight between Pogacar – the world champion – and Evenepoel but Denmark’s Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) had not read the script as … Read more
Lucy Bronze delivered a rousing post-match speech on the pitch at the Estadi Johan Cruyff, urging her Chelsea teammates to believe they can overturn a 4-1 Champions League semi-final deficit against Barcelona at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. The Chelsea head coach, Sonia Bompastor, revealed the gist of Bronze’s motivational plea after the heavy loss to … Read more