Category: Sport

Hope Powell has stepped down as manager of Brighton Women after their 8-0 home defeat by Tottenham on Sunday. The former England Women manager joined the club in July 2017 and led them to their best Women’s Super League finish of sixth in 2021. The hammering by Spurs left Brighton second-bottom with one win and […]

Jürgen Klopp has said judgment should be reserved until the end of the season on whether Liverpool have reached the end of a cycle and need rebuilding. Liverpool are closer on points to the bottom of the Premier League than the top four after winning four of 12 Premier League games this season, with Saturday’s […]

The Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has backed Max Verstappen in criticising some of Sky Sports’ Formula One coverage. Verstappen and Red Bull boycotted Sky at the Mexican Grand Prix to register their unhappiness with comments regarding the Dutch driver’s controversial title-winning race at Abu Dhabi last year. Verstappen won in Mexico City on […]

With all due respect to Australia, where the Melbourne Cup is due to stop the nation at around 4am GMT on Tuesday, the attention of the racing world this week will focus squarely on the Kentucky bluegrass, and the 14 Grade One events that make up the 39th running of the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland […]

Courtney Lawes has been ruled out of England’s opening autumn international against Argentina, forcing Eddie Jones to appoint a new captain for Sunday’s fixture, but Jonny May has made a shock return to the squad and could face the Pumas. Owen Farrell, who is also undergoing the return-to-play concussion protocols has been included in England’s […]

A Labour MP has called on the Premier League to help stamp out chants about the Hillsborough disaster, saying it has a “duty of care” to the survivors of the 1989 tragedy. Ian Byrne says chants about the disaster aimed at Liverpool fans have become “incessant” and are now a weekly occurrence, and urged the […]

Australia started their night in Brisbane needing to pulverise Ireland. There were no two ways about it: not in the fourth of five matches in the T20 World Cup group stage, with the chunk of net run rate that the hosts needed to make up on England. Midway through the night that chance was there […]