Category: Sports

Fofana’s first of two bookings was for fouling Hannibal Burnley: ‘There is no place for this in our society’ Hannibal Mejbri and Wesley Fofana have both been racially abused on Instagram in the wake of the former’s Burnley side drawing 1-1 at Chelsea after the latter was sent off. Hannibal,...

Select committee says ‘late’ decision to overturn exclusion of fans ‘did little more than inflame tensions’ The government’s response to West Midlands police’s ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was “clumsy”, “late” and “did little more than inflame tensions”, a group of MPs has found. A report by the home...

Manchester City are timing their title run-in perfectly, to give Pep Guardiola a fine chance of a seventh title in a decade and to break Arsenal’s hearts yet again. For fans of each team squeaky posterior time is officially entered. For the neutral the final 11 matches for City and...

‘Given the opposition too many points,’ says head coach ‘We have let everyone down,’ admits Ellis Genge Steve Borthwick says England have only themselves to blame for their steep decline in this season’s Six Nations. After his side’s record humbling by Ireland on Saturday, Borthwick said his side are being...

Great Britain 6-9 Canada Mouat’s side take silver after falling short in last end The cruel truth is that sometimes the silvers you win are more like golds you lost. After four years of thinking about this Olympics, and 11 days of competing in this Olympics, there is no doubt...

Trainer Nicky Henderson shocked by Southwell victory ‘We will have to think long and hard about his future’ The mercurial career of Constitution Hill took a dramatic upward turn on Friday as the 2023 Champion Hurdle winner turned his belated Flat debut into a procession up the Southwell straight, coming...

Hughes and Eichel spark US rout of Slovakia MacKinnon scores late to send Canada through Border rivals to meet for men’s hockey gold The United States and Canada men’s ice hockey teams will play for the gold medal on Sunday’s final day of the Milano Cortina Games after both teams...

Rooney claimed coach lacked ‘aura’ to manage club ‘Jürgen Klopp and me both won the league’ Arne Slot has responded to Wayne Rooney’s claim that the Liverpool head coach does not have the “aura” to manage the club by pointing to his Premier League title success last season. Rooney questioned...

Bravery on display has been inspirational, but behind the glamour and the glory it’s the humanity that captivates us Milano Cortina has been the first Games where I’ve been around town, not just being whisked from the sliding centre to the athletes’ village. It has given me the chance to...

Fourth-tier team, the lowest-ranked left in the competition, and their Cup-winning manager are hoping to stun Birmingham Old-school sweet dispensers stand tall pitchside at the Bauvill Stadium, almost as if watching the action. Behind them, Bobby’s bar is bustling and above the club logo on a wall behind one of...