Category: Sports

⚽ News, buildup and discussion before the day’s action⚽ Relevant link here | And email us with your thoughts In other WSL news this week, Rick Passmoor became Leicester City head coach on a permanent basis after a successful interim period. Passmoor signed a three-year deal with the Foxes and...

Residents have complained about post-event behaviour RFU wants to stage more events to fund expansion The Rugby Football Union has proposed using “anti-pee paint” that would leave public offenders “covered in their own urine” to ease residents’ fears over plans to increase the number of music concerts staged at Twickenham....

The Guardian’s fans’ network on the opening stages of 2025-26: their toughest opponents, biggest setbacks and tips for the next manager sacked Story so far Top of the table, looking down at our rivals, despite still not really firing on all cylinders … it’s early days, but we’re struggling to...

Hull KR 24-6 Wigan Wigan denied third successive title As Joe Burgess raced away in the final moments to put the seal on an unprecedented season in Hull KR’s 143-year history, it was difficult to know where to look first as decades of frustration poured out all around Old Trafford....

Phil Dowson has Fin Smith, Henry Pollock, Alex Mitchell and Tommy Freeman available again and eager to make up for last season’s 33-0 defeat It does not feel like a coincidence that the Prem’s first derby weekend of the season marks the return of most British & Irish Lions players...

Sale 57-5 Newcastle Alex Sanderson’s side 31-0 up at half-time with five tries There will come a time to truly judge the credentials of a Sale side whose solitary title success came nearly 20 years ago, but Friday night was not it. Not against a Newcastle team who surrendered so...

Hull KR have taken two of Wigan’s crowns this year and stand in the way of Matt Peet’s team at Old Trafford It is not just the walls of Wigan ­Warriors’ plush Robin Park training complex that are draped with the ­historic moments of rugby league’s most famous club. Almost...

Four decades ago Mike Gatting lamented 30-game schedule and while improvements were made, players will be weary of gruelling season ahead A meteorologist would say that England’s winter will start this year at midnight on 1 December; an astronomer would point a few weeks later to the 21st, perhaps even...

Precise, the 5-1 favourite for next year’s 1,000 Guineas, took the feature on day one of the Future Champions weekend Aidan O’Brien is within sight of his own record of 28 Group One wins in a calendar year after Precise, the new 5-1 favourite for next year’s 1,000 Guineas, took...

Daniil Medvedev is one of a growing number of leading players who say that the balls have become unpredictable and are affecting their game It did not take Daniil Medvedev long to realise he was in serious trouble at the French Open. As he tried to find a way past...