Jude Bellingham presents a tactical conundrum for new manager Xabi Alonso. In his first season at Real Madrid he was fantastic, scoring 23 goals in 42 games while playing in an advanced midfield role to help Real Madrid to the 2023-24 La Liga and Champions League titles. Last term he was pushed deeper and wider...
The next game of ‘backyard cricket’ between the Ahmed brothers promises more drama than their first T20 Blast meeting. England international Rehan Ahmed managed just a single off the bowling of younger brother and Notts Outlaws spinner Farhan in Leicestershire’s victory at Grace Road on Thursday evening. It was the solitary run scored by the...
Alcaraz emulated his childhood hero Rafael Nadal – a record 14-time champion at Roland Garros – by winning his fifth major at the exact same age of 22 years, one month and three days. Sinner, meanwhile, is the youngest man to reach three consecutive Grand Slam singles finals since 14-time major winner Pete Sampras in...
They will be brothers in arms at Oakmont – but there is also a serious rivalry as well. The two Weavers have played together for the Suffolk county team and Max made a notable mark of his own by winning the 2023 Welsh Amateur Championship in Newport. “We always said that if one of us...
Benn admitted to two failed tests but insisted he was innocent of intentional doping and suggested it may have been because of contamination. He was provisionally suspended from fighting in March 2023. After a lengthy saga, during which the ban was lifted then reintroduced following appeals by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) and the BBBofC, Benn was...
Chris Slegg & Olivia Demetriades BBC News, London Row360/The Boat Race Company James Doran and Luca Ferraro (l-r) are competing in their third Boat Race on Sunday This Sunday sees the 170th men’s and 79th women’s Oxford and Cambridge boat races take place on the Thames. Crews will battle it out over a 4.25mile stretch...
Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Getty/Hulton Archive Gatwa has appeared in Barbie and Sex Education, and is about to star in his second season of Doctor Who Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been cast in a new play as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced. Born With Teeth will explore the...
The teams once again meet in their opening match of this year’s World Cup in England, giving Saturday’s Six Nations fixture even more significance. “There’s always niggle in Scotland and Wales games, no matter what sport, whether it’s a male or female sport,” said former Scotland hooker Brown. “There’s such close proximity both in geography...
After weeks of Donald Trump’s threats to “take back” the Panama Canal, the White House has ordered the military to come up with an assortment of plans to make the president’s imperial fantasy a reality. According to NBC News, which first reported on the directive, the plans range from increasing military partnership with Panama to...