Carsley does not pretend to be someone he is not either. He is genuine and honest, with excellent man management skills, traits similar to Southgate who he worked so closely with, having joined his staff for Euro 2024. He brings the balls out for the warm-ups, not a usual responsibility for the head coach, but...
In the past 22 years, the other England openers to score hundreds in the fourth innings of a Test have ended up with knighthoods. Duckett now has a better average at the top of the order than both Sirs Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss. Arise, Sir Ben of the Buckett Hat. “My mindset personally was...
“There is a saying ‘never waste a crisis’, and that judgement against Saracens was a big springboard to enhance the whole system,” he says. He now has an ocean of data to dive into. Copies of players’ contracts, image rights deals and other employment arrangements are sent to Rogers within 14 days of being signed....
The era of the ‘Big Three’ may be coming to an end – but the threat has not disappeared. Players born in the 1990s were restricted to just two Grand Slam singles titles between them as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic diced up the major prizes for more than two decades. Two players...
A 16-year-old has set up a dance school to give back to the community that made her feel welcome after arriving from Romania a decade ago. Maria, who moved to Devonport in Plymouth when she was six, has been running AMR Street Dance for six months while balancing her studies at college. She said she...
McIlroy is desperate to wear the famous Green Jacket, but can you want it too much? “That’s a very good point,” said Smith. “All of this is said without me ever having spoken to Rory, I couldn’t comment as to how accurate my views on the situation are. “But looking at it from outside the...