The proposal was presented at a shareholders’ meeting on Monday by WSL Football – the company that assumed control of the top two tiers from the Football Association in August 2024. The FA will now meet to formally sign off the changes, which must be implemented before 31 July. This is seen as a formality […]
Johnny Sexton says he was not surprised to see a record number of Ireland players selected in the British and Irish Lions squad, but accepts “everyone has their own opinion”. Lions head coach Andy Farrell, who has also been Ireland boss since 2019, picked 15 in his initial 38-man squad for the Australia tour and
Big things have been expected of McIntosh at the Olympics since she won the 50m prone rifle world title in 2018 and the World Cup final the following year. World Cup and European titles have followed, but returning empty handed from Paris after failing to reach the final in any of the three disciplines she
Salernitana have requested the second leg of their Serie B relegation play-off against Sampdoria be postponed, after players and staff were admitted to hospital with food poisoning. The Italian club have formally requested a postponement after 21 of the travelling party became ill as they flew back from Genoa after losing Sunday’s first leg 2-0.
Gurney was speaking on Monday as he prepared to head for home and admitted there was no time for wild celebrations on Sunday night. Following victory over South Africa on Saturday, the pair had to come through matches against the Republic of Ireland and Germany earlier on Sunday, before beating Wales in the decider. It
The battle to be the British women’s number one is an intriguing sub-plot which will continue over the grass-court season. Emma Raducanu replaced Katie Boulter as the nation’s leading player following her run to the Queen’s quarter-finals. Raducanu has climbed one place to 36th in the world, with Boulter dropping five places to 39th after
Gjert had no background in athletics, but the former logistics manager poured himself into constructing a gruelling high-mileage programme to turn his seven children into a family band of elite middle-distance contenders. Gjert’s public advice to Jakob after that 1500m gold in Berlin was to celebrate with a glass of warm milk and head straight
Let’s start with the most impressive of all Gill stats: he has the second-best one-day international batting average of all time (59), sandwiched between the Netherlands’ Ryan ten Doeschate (67), who is on the India coaching staff for this tour, and Kohli (58) himself. Maybe it’s unfair to draw comparisons in Test cricket just yet,
What the events of the past week or so in Pennsylvania might also have taken away are questions over MacIntyre’s place in at the summit of the game. He might have started the season’s third major 20th in the world rankings, but few outside his homeland readily reached for his name among their lists of
Nepal qualified for last year’s T20 World Cup and came within a whisker of beating South Africa, who went on to reach the final. Under the guidance of new coach Stuart Law they are bidding to reach both the 2026 T20 World Cup and the 50-over version in 2027 and are currently in Glasgow for
