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Looking back at the footage now, Trent Bridge, 22 June 2009, the players of Yorkshire CCC about to walk out on to the field to face Nottinghamshire in the late evening sunshine, it is hard not to feel a sense of English cricket’s own Zapruder film being spliced into place. Every act, every cutaway, every […]

As Anthony Joshua walks to the ring at the 02 in London on Saturday night, to face the relatively limited American Jermaine Franklin, it will be more than two years and three months since he last had his hand raised in victory. In December 2020, on a bleak winter night in the midst of Covid […]

Tottenham managing director of football Fabio Paratici has agreed to take an immediate leave of absence. Spurs’ season was thrown into further chaos on Wednesday when it was revealed Paratici’s ban in Italy had been extended worldwide. Paratici was handed a two-and-a-half-year ban from the game in January after his former club Juventus, where he […]

Everton’s ability to continue as a going concern would be plunged into doubt in the event of relegation from the Premier League, the club’s latest set of accounts have revealed. The bleak assessment, contained in the Everton directors’ report and from auditors Crowe UK LLP, came on Friday when the club announced losses of £44.7m […]

It has been a Premier League season of distractions, pop-up windows and one vast and disorientating hiatus. Exactly 34 weeks have passed since Arsenal kicked things off with a Friday night trip to Crystal Palace, a week before temperatures in London hit 34 degrees, four months before Lionel Messi was draped in a propaganda cape […]

Cristian Stellini has been here before: a press conference now and then when Antonio Conte was unavailable; sometimes preparing to lead Tottenham into a game. But not like this. Not as the man in charge for a significant period – 10 Premier League matches to be precise, when the Champions League qualification push will be […]

UK Athletics will proceed with plans to exclude athletes who have gone through male puberty from its female events from Friday but will continue to explore the creation of an open category for transgender competitors. The governing body issued a new “principle statement” setting out its approach, following on from World Athletics setting out its […]

Graham Potter has suggested that Anthony Barry’s move to Bayern Munich could be delayed until after a potential Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and the German champions. Bayern are in talks with Chelsea over the assistant coach, who wants to join Thomas Tuchel’s staff. But the clubs are some way apart on compensation and an […]

LESS BRIMSTONE, MORE TREACLE Following Lord Ferg and Cardinal Wenger’s canonisation earlier this week, the regrettable phrase “future Hall of Famer” will soon become Premier League parlance. (Todd Boehly likes this). Saturday’s lunchtime game is a crunch meeting of two managers who will eventually join those forebears within what is presumably a commemorative house of […]

Red Bull still hold all the cards going into this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix but for their team principal, Christian Horner, it is the next round in Azerbaijan that is of greater concern. In Melbourne Horner bluntly dismissed plans to hold a sprint race in Baku as “ludicrous” given the risk of cars crashing on […]

William Haggas managed to get Adeyybb, the 2020 Champion Stakes winner, into the 2018 Lincoln off a mark of 99, so Al Mubhir, another lightly-raced four-year-old who progressed steadily at three, will be on most shortlists for Saturday’s renewal of the historic Doncaster handicap that launches the new Flat season on turf. He is just […]

Barcelona’s vice-president Rafael Yuste has said the club have been in contact with Lionel Messi about a possible return. Messi made a tearful farewell to Barcelona in 2021 after the club were unable to offer a new deal amid major financial woes and his contract at Paris Saint-Germain expires this summer. Barça have made little […]

Rob Edwards did not have long to dwell on the disappointment of falling victim to Watford’s infamous impatience earlier this season. His reputation as one of the brightest young managers in English football had survived his experience of working for the Pozzo family. After all Edwards had been in charge for only 10 league games […]

Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie have split from the coach Andy Young after quitting a training camp in South Africa. Both athletes returned to the UK to train at Loughborough after a falling out with Young and it has now been announced that they have split with the coach just 15 months before the Olympics […]

As far as Zach Mercer is concerned there is not even an argument. “A lot better,” he says, when asked to compare himself with the person and player who left Bath for Montpellier two years ago. “I feel like I’ve developed massively by playing in France. I wanted to be comfortable with being uncomfortable and […]

Russian and Belarusian players will be allowed to compete at Wimbledon and the British grass-court tournaments this year after the All England Club (AELTC) and the LTA jointly opted to reverse their bans on players for this season’s events. After being banned from competing at all British tour-level events in 2022, this year Russian and […]

The construction of Everton’s new 52,888-seat stadium is running months behind schedule, a Guardian analysis suggests. Documents filed by Everton as part of the stadium’s public planning submissions – combined with the club’s latest published drone footage of the construction site – indicate that the project is at least three months late, according to experts […]

As Lucy Staniforth left Manchester United’s training ground for the final time a nagging voice inside her head suggested she might be about to step off the edge of the world. Fast forward three months from that watershed January moment and the midfielder, now at Aston Villa, feels on top of it. “When you’re at […]

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The former England captain Michael Vaughan has been cleared of using racist and/or discriminatory language and bringing the game into disrepute by the ECB’s Cricket Discipline Commission. The decision of the three-person panel, which met to hear the case in London this month, was announced on Friday. Vaughan had been accused of telling a group […]

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