Villa manager: ‘most important for us to get Europe again’ Emery says permanent Rashford move ‘difficult to plan’ Unai Emery said Aston Villa must use their agonising Champions League quarter-final defeat against Paris Saint-Germain as fuel to qualify for the competition again quickly. Villa stirred from 5-1 down on aggregate...
Ju Wenjun outclasses rival Tan Zhongyi to retain women’s world chess title
Ju beats Tan 6½–2½ to claim fifth world chess title 34-year-old Chinese grandmaster wins €300,000 Ju Wenjun has once again proven herself the undisputed queen of the chessboard. On Wednesday in Chongqing, the 34-year-old Chinese grandmaster clinched the 2025 Fide Women’s World Championship, defeating compatriot and longtime rival Tan Zhongyi...
Aston Villa fall short of heroic comeback against PSG – Football Weekly
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Mark Langdon and Lars Sivertsen as Aston Villa go out swinging in the Champions League Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today; so close for...
The Spin | In defence of the draw: why Ben Stokes and England should take note
The Bazball win-or-bust mantra has proven successful but it is time for captain to embrace grey in black and white world “A tie is like kissing your sister,” Edward J Erdelatz said to the New York Times in 1954. Erdelatz was the United States Navy’s head football coach and his...
Lois Boisson pokes fun at Harriet Dart ‘deodorant’ jibe on social media
French tennis player suggests Dove ‘collab’ on Instagram Dart apologises for telling umpire Boisson ‘smells bad’ French tennis player Lois Boisson has responded to Harriet Dart’s on-court claim that “she smells really bad” with a social media post that pokes fun at the incident. During a change of ends in...
‘I love this man for saving my life’: Michael Watson’s unbreakable bond with Peter Hamlyn
The neurosurgeon saved the boxer’s life in 1991 and since then the pair have become close friends “This man is my hero,” Michael Watson says simply as he turns to Peter Hamlyn, the neurosurgeon who saved his life and carried out seven operations on the stricken boxer’s brain in the aftermath...
Kia Joorabchian has spent big in the off-season but will it pay off? | Greg Wood
High-profile football agent is out to make his mark in the new Flat season that starts in earnest at Newmarket on Tuesday For more than a quarter of a millennium – 254 years, to precise – Tuesday’s Craven meeting has been the moment when British Flat racing emerges from its...
JD Vance fumbles Ohio State’s national title trophy during White House visit
Vice-president unable to hang on to trophy Buckeyes were celebrating last season’s title win JD Vance, the man entrusted as America’s back-up in times of emergency, may not be the safest pair of hands if Monday’s events are anything to go by. The vice-president ended the Ohio State football team’s...
‘We have to believe’: Emery calls on Aston Villa to produce PSG comeback
Manager wants Villa Park to be ‘a fortress’ on Tuesday Villa trail French champions 3-1 from first leg in Paris Unai Emery urged his Aston Villa players to “write history” by recording a memorable comeback victory over Paris Saint-Germain to advance to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Villa must...
‘Very alarming’: Red Bull hold crisis talks as Verstappen stews over Bahrain F1 GP
Dutchman finished sixth at Sakhir circuit Horner says team need to react ‘very quickly’ Senior figures at Red Bull held crisis talks after the Bahrain Grand Prix finished with a deeply dissatisfied Max Verstappen languishing in sixth place. But the team principal, Christian Horner, admitted there will be no quick...