Category: Sports

Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes’s side have developed clarity in the final innings and never seem to give up Sports writers love a Churchillian speech that precedes a mind-bending feat. Take three years ago, when word got back that Brendon McCullum had told his England players to “run towards the...

Italian club progress to knockout round with 2-0 win Fluminense complete a full Brazilian contingent in round of 16 Inter Milan scored twice in the last 18 minutes to beat River Plate 2-0 and progress to the knockout stage of the Club World Cup as Group E winners and send...

Ignorance, hubris and exceptionalism have driven a once great football club to the edge of the abyss By Get French Football News Just five days ago, John Textor bounded down the corridors of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. “Victoire, victoire,” he cried as his side, Botafogo, stunned PSG in the...

Three-time Olympic champion hopes to become first woman to crack four-minute mile, but odds are against her Just before 8pm local time in Paris on Thursday, Faith Kipyegon will play her favourite pre-race song, Shakira’s Try Everything, to pump her up. Then, after listening to the hit from Zootropolis, she...

Double champion unlikely to be at SW19 this year but is enjoying helping Britain’s next generation of tennis players Andy Murray has always had a way of creating alchemy on a tennis court. But, even in retirement, he is discovering new tricks. For more than an hour he has little...

‘We’ve got so much quality,’ says England manager England will play Germany in Saturday’s final Lee Carsley is confident that England’s Under-21 side have the belief to retain their European title after Harvey Elliott’s double against the Netherlands secured a place in Saturday’s final. A superb piece of improvisation from...

Irish hooker joins eight other first-timers in matchday 23 Jamison Gibson-Park and James Ryan left out with injuries Eight Ireland players have been selected in the British & Irish Lions starting XV to face Western Force in the first fixture of the squad’s Australia tour on Saturday. The Leinster hooker...

All England Club to recognise retired double champion 2011 statues in Shanghai ‘weren’t great’, says Murray Sir Andy Murray says he is proud that Wimbledon will unveil a statue in his honour at the 2027 Championships – and has faith that the All England Club will come up with a...

With first Test against England in the balance the tourists revealed another of their plentiful flaws The day started with drama and tension and later, for a while, they returned. But the period in between was in its own way equally intriguing, a phase that exposed in the tourists a...

British player wins 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-1 in first round ‘I’m very, very happy to come through that’ Emma Raducanu fought back tears after resuming her Wimbledon preparations by battling back from a set down to beat the US’s Ann Li in the first round of the Eastbourne Open. Amid...