Category: Sports

This squad aren’t just throwing away the series, they’re messing up the minds of the young cricketers I try to coach The cracks are starting to show with this England team and with the narrative we’ve been fed for three years after another defeat. Their identity of always taking the...

There were no answers to Chelsea’s search for consistency here. Instead they supplied more evidence that they lack the resilience for a Champions League tilt that may now have to be tackled the hard way. This damaging late defeat completed a grim week on the road and had implications for...

Philadelphia Eagles 19-22 Los Angeles Chargers (OT) Eagles quarterback throws four interceptions Super Bowl champions lose third game in succession Cameron Dicker kicked a go-ahead 54-yard field goal – one of his five in the game – and Tony Jefferson intercepted Jalen Hurts in overtime at the one-yard line, lifting...

Brendon McCullum’s regime may be unravelling but there is rarely any suggestion of what to do next and how the team can be improved Overprepared. Overconfident. Overblown. Over there. And now just over. We know how this goes from here, don’t we? We know this cycle. The days since England’s...

Head coach also insisted he is not ‘weak’ amid row Egyptian left out of squad for game at Inter Arne Slot has cast further doubt on Mohamed Salah’s future at ­Liverpool by admitting that he has “no clue” whether the forward has played his last game for the club. The...

This year’s London Marathon winner deserves credit for offering more than enough proof he is clean while setting a new standard for other athletes to follow Last week the world’s best marathon runner, Sabastian Sawe, looked me straight in the eye and told me “doping is a cancer”. Then he...

For Manchester United, a soothing return to winning ways to avert any sense another mini-crisis was brewing. Victories are scarcely this comfortable, even if Ruben Amorim’s side needed to navigate the briefest of scares when Wolves equalised with half-time looming. United turned on the style after the break, the manager...

Club gets boost for development of Racecourse Ground, but move comes months after it received £14m state aid The Wrexham AFC owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have sold a stake in the company to the US private equity investors Apollo, less than three months after the football club was...

Fly-half labels change a ‘backward step’ for sport ‘Unfortunately I think it’s changed how everybody plays’ The Gloucester fly-half Ross Byrne believes international head coaches could convert second-rows into wings for the next men’s Rugby World Cup in 2027 to capitalise on the crackdown on escort defenders. Last October World...

McLaren were the obvious choice for team of the year but Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari were a big disappointment while Williams exceeded expectations Lando Norris had gone into the season as favourite and he emerged on top after a gruelling contest. Securing his maiden world drivers’ title was no easy...