Category: Sports

Drama-biopic starring Steve Coogan will reignite a row that split Irish football fans but there are good signs for its artistic merit Watching the teaser trailer for Saipan before its cinematic release later this summer called to mind that episode of Friends in which it is revealed Joey leaves his...

Irish hooker on forging alliances with sworn enemies and the challenge of getting ‘four different nations connected’ The best way to sum up the unique dynamic of a British & Irish Lions tour is to consult a player experiencing it for the first time. “It’s mad how fast you can...

Mealamu and Umaga’s slam-dunking of the Lions captain was typical of the game’s wild west years but it proved a watershed – and the hurt still lingers Brian O’Driscoll is sick of talking about it. Tana Umaga says anyone still asking needs to put it behind them. But here we...

By standards of their most entertaining team in decades, this was one of the more humdrum of stunning victories Now, I know what you’re thinking. Truth is I’ve thought the same way myself. India scored five centuries, their fielders dropped six catches, and missed two other opportunities besides. Their best...

Striker starts in absence of suspended Nicolas Jackson Chelsea into last 16 with composed 3-0 victory over ES Tunis It must be tough to play free-flowing football when it feels as if the game is being staged in an airless hotel room and nobody knows how to turn off the...

Stop Tessa Wullaert and you stop Belgium? Improving side will hope to prove they are more than a one-woman team This article is part of the Guardian’s Euro 2025 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 16 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews...

Opener with the rock star hair played his understated role to perfection to tilt the first Test in India’s favour Just 10 balls had been delivered on this fourth day, England had started brightly and had been buoyed by the wicket of India’s captain. For the batters a time perhaps...

London club want £65m for Cameroon forward Chelsea’s Christopher Nkunku another option Manchester United have made an improved offer of £60m to Brentford for Bryan Mbeumo, with the west London club holding out for an overall deal of £65m. Brentford value the 25-year-old in the same bracket as Matheus Cunha,...

Wing shown red card in defeat by France England play three Tests in Argentina and US Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has been included in England’s squad for the summer tour of Argentina and the US despite a suspension that rules him out of two of the three fixtures. Feyi-Waboso was sent off...

First woman in the role replaces Thomas Bach ‘We are guardians of the Olympic movement’ Kirsty Coventry has promised to change lives and inspire hope during an official ceremony to mark her taking over from Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee. The 41-year-old from Zimbabwe, who in...