Category: Sports

Sportspeople’s reluctance to open up is understandable given the unforgiving environment but doing so could help You see it all the time these days. Players with their hands over their mouths at the end of matches, masking even the most banal of pleasantries from prying eyes. Not wanting to say...

Presenter expected to host his last Match of the Day on Sunday and will not front 2026 World Cup coverage Gary Lineker is expected to announce he is leaving the BBC on Monday after apologising for amplifying online material with antisemitic connotations, the Guardian understands. The Match of the Day...

Eberechi Eze is too good for Palace, Morgan Gibbs-White is pushing for a call-up and is 2025 the year of the underdog? Why would your fan-favourite player, scorer of That Historic Wembley Goal, in peak form under an excellent manager want to leave? Why would anyone be OK with it?...

Home favourite wins 6-4, 6-2 at Foro Italico Paolini is first Italian to win women’s singles in 40 years Jasmine Paolini became the first home winner of the Italian Open for 40 years with a dominant victory over Coco Gauff. The 29-year-old, who reached the final of the French Open...

Wednesday’s all-English Europa League final in Bilbao is a huge game that shows football still has a sense of humour The best thing about football is what a silly, mercurial game it is. You can have all the money or political clout in the world. You can put in place...

Australian escapes for remarkable solo win Home hope Ulissi ousts Primoz Roglic from maglia rosa Luke Plapp of Team Jayco Alula won stage eight of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday with a formidable solo effort on the 197km ride from Giulianova to Castelraimondo while Diego Ulissi became the first Italian...

Chelsea’s head coach admits first season ‘not perfect’ while Manchester United’s Marc Skinner wants ‘something special’ from defending champions After 465 matches and 2,445 goals, a record 514 clubs have been whittled down to two. On Sunday Manchester United and Chelsea will face each other in the Women’s FA Cup...

Former coaches and teammates reflect on the Leicester striker’s singular journey to the pinnacle of the game Where to start with the wiry teenager turned Premier League icon who once worked 12-hour shifts in a carbon-fibre factory? Perhaps at the beginning of an extraordinary career, his release by Sheffield Wednesday...

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri edges Max Verstappen by 0.034sec Yuki Tsunoda walks away after Red Bull flips in crash On a circuit marked in the past by tragedy, qualifying in Imola for the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix gave a stark, frightening reminder of how dangerous Formula One remains and what a knife-edged...

Sound the tram bells, unleash the smoke plumes from the Tasty Jerk shack – Crystal Palace have finally won a major trophy As the final whistle was blown at Wembley there was a moment that seemed to stretch out and become frozen in time. The Crystal Palace players collapsed where...