Aston Villa have begun discussions with Uefa’s club financial control body over a financial settlement after being found in breach of the European governing body’s squad cost ratio rules (SCR) last season. Under Uefa regulations clubs in European competition were required to keep spending on player wages and fees to 80% of revenue last season, … Read more
Ja Morant got in trouble again for aiming an imaginary gun to celebrate three-pointers, so he has gone to a different make-believe violent way to mark a long-distance shot. The Memphis Grizzlies leading scorer, who was fined $75,000 recently for mimicking pointing a long gun after a basket from outside the arc, acted like he … Read more
“The tactical side is the easier part of the job because it’s like mathematics,” says Renée Slegers. “The challenging part is the people, in a positive way; that’s where the most energy goes, and I think that’s right.” The Arsenal manager is on a sofa in her office, relaxed and open as we talk about … Read more
Lachie Kennedy became the second-fastest Australian over 100m with a time of 10 seconds flat in the open’s heats at the national championships in Perth on Friday. His performance followed two times of 9.99s by 17-year-old Gout Gout the previous day that went unrecorded due to tailwinds amid a series of searing 100m runs at … Read more
Fin Smith, the England fly-half, clearly remembers the day he first met Northampton teammate George Hendy. Smith was seven and unimpressed by the elevation of a precocious six-year-old to his age group team at Shipston-on-Stour RFC. Even then Hendy was hard to miss. “This lad turned up with bright orange hair and his legs put … Read more
Bozy’s Dungeon never had a fixed address. For years it was tucked two blocks from the clattering El train in North Philadelphia, past strips of weathered rowhouses and corner stores. These days it sits in a quiet residential stretch of the Great Northeast. The location and sign on the door might change, but inside, it’s … Read more
Thursday night was another blot on the André Onana copybook after the goalkeeper’s two errors meant Manchester United left Lyon on level terms in their Europa League quarter-final. In the buildup the former United midfielder Nemanja Matic described the Cameroonian as “one of the worst goalkeepers in Man United’s history” – and Onana failed to … Read more
Preamble Yesterday was all about 44-year-old Justin Rose’s wonderful 67, the first chapter of what could become the greatest romantic story ever written by anyone from north-east Hampshire (providing we leave Jane Austen out of this). Hartley Wintney’s finest couldn’t right the nearly-man wrongs of 2007, 2015 and 2017, could he? Perhaps. Fingers crossed. Let’s … Read more
This time last year Truro City were simply trying to limp through the season, in the middle of a ludicrous grind of 10 National League South games across 20 days. This exact week 12 months ago brought four matches, a period that could have been a Craig David 7 Days remix: Torquay United on Monday, … Read more
Ruben Amorim said he is “really confident” in André Onana despite Manchester United’s No 1 making errors that handed Lyon both their goals in the first leg of Thursday’s Europa League quarter-final. Onana’s first mistake allowed Thiago Almada’s 25th-minute free-kick to bounce in. The second, in the last moments of added time, featured a weak … Read more