It was not how the script was meant to go for the Blues in their quest for an elusive Champions League trophy As the final whistle blew at the Estadi Johan Cruyff, the frustration on the faces of the Chelsea players shone through. Lucy Bronze chucked her headband on to...
Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Who should be on Arne Slot’s shopping list, Chelsea’s unlikely hero and an angry Ollie Watkins Arne Slot is set to win the Premier League but at the same time knows he needs to make plenty of improvements within his squad this summer. One key acquisition will be a new...
Alexander-Arnold critics ‘ridiculous’ says Slot after Liverpool edge closer
Leaders three points from clinching Premier League title Full-back’s winner was first goal for club with his left foot Arne Slot said it is “ridiculous” to dispute Trent Alexander-Arnold’s commitment to Liverpool after he scored the only goal at Leicester to push his club closer to a 20th league title....
‘It’s better not to talk’: Max Verstappen claims criticism is impossible in F1
Five-second penalty costs Red Bull driver at Saudi GP ‘I cannot share my opinion, it might get me in trouble’ Max Verstappen has implied it is all but impossible to express an opinion for risk of censure by Formula One’s governing body the FIA, when he refused to air his...
Let it out or bottle it up? Does venting emotion harm performance in elite sport? | Sean Ingle
Studies have shown that failing to control feelings has a negative effect on outcomes – but there are exceptions Two scenes from an extraordinary week. The first: Justin Rose, a gentleman in a bearpit as Augusta hollered loud and long for Rory McIlroy. The second: the British tennis player Harriet...
Lucy Shuker: ‘I took up the sport to find me. It wasn’t to be a Paralympian’
Britain’s wheelchair tennis legend shares how the sport helped her accept her disability and her dreams of greater access across the world “There are thousands of people out there that have a disability. Just because you have one doesn’t mean you have to stop living,” says Lucy Shuker as she...
Mark Williams outlasts Wu Yize to make World Snooker Championship last 16
Welshman comes from behind to earn 10-8 victory Chris Wakelin defeats former champion Neil Robertson Mark Williams was forced to dredge up every inch of his Crucible experience to sink rising Chinese star Wu Yize 10-8 and book his place in the last 16 of the World Snooker Championship for...
Onana piledriver wraps up Aston Villa’s thrilling demolition of Newcastle
Nobody seems to have told Aston Villa the season is winding down. At a boisterous, increasingly gleeful Villa Park Unai Emery’s side moved up to sixth in the Premier League with a relentless dismantling of Newcastle, who simply fell away in the second half, conceding three goals in the final...
China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon for first time
Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course. The robots from Chinese manufacturers such as DroidVP and...
Max Verstappen claims Saudi GP F1 pole after Lando Norris hits the wall
Championship leader will start race from 10th on grid Oscar Piastri qualifies second with George Russell third His confidence in the car already wavering, the world championship leader, Lando Norris, now has to cope with another serious blow to his title ambitions after crashing out in qualifying for the Saudi...