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Updates from the Premier League 3pm kick-offs and beyond Live scoreboard | Read Football Daily | Send Taha an email Ooooooh, a bit of late drama at Leicester in the Championship. The hosts were 2-0 up but Jed Wallace has equalised for West Brom with a calm finish after gorgeous through ball from Cédric Kipré. You can feel the nerviness at the King Power. Hello, hello, hello and welcome to the lat…

The stadiums have been built and 8m tickets sold. Can the notoriously pessimistic French public’s enthusiasm for the Games catch up? In a live television interview under the steel and glass roof of Paris’s Grand Palais – the centrepiece of this summer’s Olympic Games – Emmanuel Macron set out his ambitions for the country’s athletes in much the same way he might outline a political manifesto. The…

Manager says team must toughen up if they are to win the title Klopp takes hope from return of key players from serious injury Jürgen Klopp has admitted Liverpool have become “too easy” to play against and must toughen up if they are to stand any chance of winning the Premier League title. Klopp’s side travel to Fulham on Sunday in third, two points behind Manchester City and below Arsenal on goa…

Manager forgives Garnacho and says: ‘We move on’ Wilcox leaves role as Southampton’s director of football Erik ten Hag has denied claims of ­factions within his Manchester United squad, while attempting to put a line under a string of recent controversies. On a day when Jason Wilcox was confirmed as United’s technical director, joining from Southampton, Ten Hag sought to further cool waters after…

Wada accepted contaminated kitchen explanation Head of US Anti-Doping calls it ‘stab in back of clean athletes’ Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned drug TMZ months before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, it has emerged. However, they were cleared to compete at the Games after the World Anti-Doping Agency accepted an explanation from the Chinese authorities that the kitchen at …

Women’s Six Nations updates from the 2.15pm BST kick-off Zoe Aldcroft interview | And you can message Luke via email The Red Roses continue to bloom. England are three from three in the Women’s Six Nations and victory against Ireland today will potentially set up a grand-slam decider against France next week – provided Les Bleues defeat Wales tomorrow. More worryingly from an Irish point of view,…

WCL updates, 12.30pm BST kick-off at the Estadi Olímpic Sign up for Moving the Goalposts | Drop John an email Those teams: For Chelsea: Lauren James is back from injury, while Millie Bright is in the matchday squad for the first time since November after recovering from a knee injury. Guro Reiten is also on the bench. Melanie Leupolz, Erin Cuthbert, Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and Mayra Ramirez all c…

Tunde Onakoya, who beat previous record of 56 hours, hopes to raise $1m for children’s education in Africa A Nigerian chess champion has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after playing the game nonstop for 58 hours. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1m for children’s education across Africa from the world record attempt, which took place in Times Square in New York. Continue readi…

Hamilton knocked out in Q1 and 18th after error World champion follows sprint win with first in qualifying Max Verstappen took pole position for the first Chinese Grand Prix since 2019. It was business as usual for the world champion but Lewis Hamilton endured a shocker in Shanghai, knocked out in Q1, the seven-time champion will start Sunday’s race 18th on the grid. It was a stark turnaround for…

County Championship updates from day two’s action And you can post BTL or mail Tanya with your thoughts Though the rain continued to fall around the country, the Dukes ball returned with a sparkle – taking 72 wickets in the day. Nottinghamshire (193), Durham (244) and Yorkshire (159) were all bowled out by shortly after tea, Lancashire (146) following soon afterwards. Continue reading...

Coventry fans will travel in numbers for their FA Cup semi-final on Sunday – a reflection of their long-serving manager’s impact When Jürgen Klopp announced in January he would leave Liverpool at the end of the season, it was not just the news itself that seemed strange. The shock, the communal widening of the eyes, was in part because, with the shelf life of managers shorter than ever, rarely do…

The ‘Tyneside Terror’ on his journey from child snooker prodigy to losing his tour card, before returning to the top at the Crucible Gary Wilson was no longer folding crispy pancakes at the frozen food factory but he was a taxi driver when his long struggle to establish himself as one of the world’s best snooker players seemed an impossible dream. “That was the point where I started thinking: ‘It…

An Irish-trained horse has not won one of the most coveted prizes in UK jumps racing since Queen Victoria was on the throne In the spring of 1869, Queen Victoria was approaching the halfway mark of what would eventually be a 64-year reign, Sir Henry Morton Stanley was preparing to head for Africa to seek out Dr Livingstone, and a horse called Huntsman won the third running of the Scottish Grand N…

Micah Richards laughing uproariously behind a lighted TV plinth? That’s the kind of noise football is being distilled into Before anybody knew anything at all, around the same time a series of speculative bronze-age books were being encoded as the foundation of much organised human society, there was a theory that everything in the world was made from one substance. There were different combinati…

The former Arsenal and Spain midfielder, now 38, is loving playing for his home club Real Oviedo in the second division The day Spain’s history changed for ever , Santi Cazorla scored in the shootout. He scored on his Recreativo de Huelva debut in 2006, the first of 143 goals going back 18 years, got his last for Arsenal in front of 59,962 at the Emirates in autumn 2016, and netted a 96th-minute …