Villarreal player charged in July with five counts of rape Former Arsenal midfielder denies all the charges The footballer Thomas Partey has been charged with two new counts of rape relating to an additional woman who came forward to police with the allegations in August last year. Partey will appear...
Football must reject Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cynical, self-serving electioneering | Barney Ronay
Tax exile has already proven himself a terrible club owner; now his ill-informed diatribe about immigration has poured fuel on wider flames Well I, for one, am shocked. Shocked to learn that a tax-exiled English expat who made his billions squeezing chemical plants doesn’t have liberal, let alone accurate, views...
Winter Olympics briefing: Heraskevych’s helmet dispute raises tough questions
The controversy over the IOC’s decision to bar the Ukrainian from competing has cast a long shadow over the Games The Winter Olympics have been presented as a stage for unity – a place where nations set aside conflict, athletes chase excellence, and the world gathers in a shared celebration...
Australia v Zimbabwe: T20 World Cup cricket – live
Updates from the R. Premadasa Cricket Stadium in Colombo Any thoughts? Email Martin 1st over: Zimbabwe 4-0 (Bennett 4, Marumani 0) Ben Dwarshuis makes a fine start on his return to the XI as he has the ball moving off the deck and he carves through Brian Bennett several times....
Chloe Kim thwarted in bid for Olympic halfpipe three-peat by South Korea’s Choi Gaon
Choi wins snowboard halfpipe title with third run American star takes silver behind strong first round The snowfall coming down on Livigno Snow Park on Thursday night helped produce one of the bigger Olympic upsets in snowboard history, as Chloe Kim’s bid to become the first rider to win three...
England left with no margin for error after defeat by West Indies at T20 World Cup
Group C: West Indies 196-6 bt England 166 by 30 runs Rutherford smashes 76 and England splutter in chase West Indies are making Group C look plain sailing, England are all at sea. Like, by and large, the ball (unless it was arrowing towards a fielder), England’s pursuit of a...
French biathlete guilty of fraud wins Olympic gold while scammed teammate comes 80th
Julia Simon holds finger to lips as she crosses line Simon found to have spent €2,000 on rival’s credit card An athlete convicted of committing credit card fraud against one of her national teammates has won an Olympic gold medal for France in the women’s 15km biathlon, beating her victim...
British stables beware: Ireland’s green tide is ready to roll into Cheltenham
The first four Grade One favourites at the festival are British horses but the Irish battalions are ready for battle The first four Grade One favourites at Cheltenham next month are stabled in British yards. So are three of the top six names in the Gold Cup betting. From a...
Super League returns and, 30 years on, it’s going back to the future
New arrivals York and Toulouse see a return to a 14-team format that includes former champions Bradford Bulls Thirty years on from Super League’s debut night in Paris, British rugby league’s premier competition returns on Thursday evening with a bang – and if you look closely enough, there are more...
Do the Strand: the Manchester United haircut guy exposes our lust for content | Jonathan Liew
As ‘the pressure of the haircut’ enters the game’s lexicon, the extent to which football revolves around winning and losing games appears to be fading “I don’t care about his haircut at all,” Matheus Cunha said this week. “I don’t really look at other people if they need to go...