O’Sullivan OUT of World Snooker Championships to ‘most talented snooker player I’ve ever seen’ April 26, 2023 Seven-time world snooker champion Ronnie O’Sullivan’s hopes of an eighth world title will need to wait another year after “The Rocket” was dumped out of this year’s competition at the quarter-final stages. O’Sullivan led Luca Brecel 6-2 and 10-6 but the Belgian fought back to win seven consecutive frames and take the quarter-final 13-10. The Brit [...]
Epsom Derby moved to avoid clash with Manchester derby FA Cup final April 26, 2023 Horse racing’s iconic Epsom Derby flat race will start earlier than originally scheduled to avoid a clash with the FA Cup final. Both events will take place on Saturday 3 June with the Derby being run at 1:30pm followed by the FA Cup at 3pm. The FA Cup final had been set to kick off around [...]
‘Players will be rightly angry’: Football at loggerheads over plans for a salary cap April 26, 2023 Plans to implement a salary cap in European football have received an immediate backlash, with unions accusing the game’s governing bodies of ignoring the views of players. Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin revealed this week that talks had begun on introduce a cap in order to stabilise club finances and improve competition, and that “everybody agrees”. [...]
Arsenal can draw on spirit and lessons of Anfield 1989 against Manchester City April 26, 2023 A young team who took the league by storm but lost their lead in a late-season wobble that left them facing a must-win trip to their title rivals, the perennial champions – Arsenal fans of a certain vintage may recognise parallels between this campaign and 1989. Following costly draws against Liverpool, West Ham and Southampton [...]
Bairstow smashes 97 off 88 on return to cricket ahead of Ashes April 25, 2023 Jonny Bairstow fell just short of a century as the wicketkeeper returned to action for the first time since August ahead of this summer’s Ashes. The Yorkshire middle-order player broke his leg in a freak golfing accident last year having made over 1,000 runs and six centuries in 2022 prior to the fall. Bairstow – [...]
Former Manchester City connections give Arsenal belief for title showdown April 25, 2023 Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta believes the trophy-winning experience of Gabriel Jesus and Oleksander Zinchenko can give them a vital edge in their Premier League title showdown with their former club Manchester City on Wednesday night. The north Londoners were quick to pounce when City made Jesus and Zinchenko available last summer and the combined £75m [...]
Think Deeply about Romantic’s chances despite tough draw April 25, 2023 BETTORS would have left Sha Tin races on Sunday feeling sorry for themselves, with only two favourites obliging on the 10-race programme and a host of long-priced winners causing mayhem along the way. If that wasn’t bad enough for the local racing enthusiasts, the mid-week meeting at Happy Valley takes place on the infamous ‘C+3’ [...]
Fast pace set to ensure Lor’s Invincible becomes King April 25, 2023 IT WILL be interesting to see how the Benno Yung-trained Son Pak Fu copes with stepping up in class for the first time in the Incheon Handicap (2.45pm) over six furlongs. The four-year-old has been a revelation since the start of the New Year, winning his last three races in emphatic style when hardly coming [...]
Worcester Warriors set to lose P Share amid sale to Atlas Consortium April 25, 2023 Troubled former Premiership rugby club Worcester Warriors are set to lose their “P Share” imminently, even if their sale is finalised next week, say administrators. The side’s future has been in doubt since entering administration in September, and preferred bidder the Atlas consortium has been told it must complete a buyout by 2 May. In [...]
Manchester United sale: Will bidders call the Glazers’ bluff? April 25, 2023 Five months after Manchester United’s owners, the Glazers, fired the starting pistol on a potential sale, bidding is finally expected to draw to a close on Friday. The Glazers’ bankers, the Raine Group, surprised some earlier this month by extending the process to a third round of offers for the 20-time English champions. It has [...]