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Six Nations updates from Cardiff; kick-off 4.40pm GMT Sign up for The Breakdown newsletter | Email LeeGarbisi boots us underwayOfficials today: Continue reading...

⚽️ Premier League updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-off⚽ Live scores | Tables | Follow us on Bluesky | Email TimHow bad were Arsenal in midweek? Not as bad as the other English teams in the Champions League. Their 1-1 draw at Bayer Leverkusen didn’t look good at the time but turned out to be the best result of the round by a PL club, equal with Newcastle (1-1 v Barcelona) and arguably better because Arsenal will be at home for the second leg. But quite a few Arsenal fans seem to feel their team are a bit jaded: it will be interesting to see if Havertz, Calafiori and Madueke can galvanise them.The sun is shining in north London. But maybe not for long – the Met Office says there’s a 20pc chance of rain in Highbury between 6 and 7pm, rising to 30pc in the hour after that. Continue reading...

Wearside will always be a special place for James Milner. On Boxing Day 2002 he scored his first Premier League goal for Leeds here, at the age of 16 years and 356 days. Who, back then, could possibly have imagined that the 40-year-old Milner would have been back at the Stadium of Light on Saturday as an impressive part of Fabian Hürzeler’s Brighton midfield?He played the entire game too, helping guide the 33-year-old Hürzeler’s team to their first win at Sunderland since 1981 as Régis Le Bris’s injury-hit side could find no riposte to Yankuba Minteh’s fortuitous second-half winner. Continue reading...

Burnley and Bournemouth played out a tepid goalless draw at Turf Moor that does little to help either team’s Premier League ambitions.The Clarets managed just a fourth clean sheet in the league this season but remain eight points adrift of safety with only eight games left, while Bournemouth are now unbeaten in 10 matches but really needed three points to boost their European hopes. Continue reading...

Harry Kane has goal disallowed on returnSerie A leaders Inter drop more pointsBayern Munich came from behind and finished the match with nine players in a 1-1 draw at Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday, allowing Borussia Dortmund to close to within nine points of the Bundesliga leaders. Luis Díaz, who scored the equaliser following Aleix García’s opener, was sent off in the 84th minute for a second yellow card. Nicolas Jackson had received a red card in the 42nd minute.Leverkusen took the lead in the sixth minute after Montrell Culbreath stole the ball off Díaz and fed it to Patrik Schick, who set up García on the edge of the box. The midfielder slotted home with a deflected shot. The hosts defended well to contain Bayern, and frustration showed when Jackson was sent off before halftime for a late challenge on Martin Terrier.This story will be updated Continue reading...

Ireland 43-21 ScotlandAndy Farrell’s side run in six tries in dominant displayIn sporting vernacular Scotland have long looked on Dublin as a ‘hard place to go’. Roughly an hour’s flight time from Edinburgh, they get to stay in a decent hotel, play in a relatively modern stadium with good facilities, against modestly resourced opponents, and in conditions they could never describe as alien. Despite this comforting familiarity, ever since Dan Parks nailed a touchline penalty at Croke Park in 2010 to scuttle Ireland’s triple crown voyage they have associated this fixture with trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube wearing oven gloves.On it goes. Faced with the losing run in the fixture hitting a dozen, Scotland did their best to change the narrative. On a bright and bracing day in front of a full house, paying crazy money for the privilege, Scotland played their part in an enthralling game for no reward. Ireland’s bonus point win gives them a triple crown in a season where that prize exceeds its usual merit. Continue reading...

Police find suspect after incident near courseThird round began on time despite delaysPolice have captured a man who they say killed two people on Friday night about a mile from TPC Sawgrass. The incident led the Players Championship to delay opening the gates to the public for the third round by a couple of hours.The St Johns County sheriff, Rob Hardwick, said the suspect, whom he identified as Christian Barrios, shot two people multiple times about 10:30pm on Friday in the parking lot of Walgreens in a domestic violence situation. The store is located about a mile away from the course.This report will update Continue reading...

Natalia Arroyo, Marisa Ewers and Maggie Murphy are savouring their autonomy in the club’s major roles and are aiming high amid tough challenges“After you,” Marisa Ewers says, as we walk through a doorway on the ground floor of Aston Villa Women’s fresh-looking dedicated women’s facilities at the club’s Bodymoor Heath training ground. It soon becomes clear that Ewers is hoping to open doors figuratively as well as literally by inspiring other female players to follow her and embark on a career in the boardroom.The former midfielder ended her career at Villa in 2022 and has progressed to become the club’s director of women’s football. As they prepare to dedicate Sunday’s home league game against Manchester City to International Women’s Day, it is noticeable that Ewers is alongside several other women in senior leadership roles at Villa. The club welcomed Maggie Murphy as managing director earlier this season and in Ewers, Murphy and the head coach, Natalia Arroyo, Villa are a rarity in having those three specific roles all filled by women, even before mentioning executive board members such as the chief people officer, Lisa Bailey, the head of football administration, Sharon Barnhurst, and the general counsel, Victoria Wilkes. Continue reading...

Four-time world champion eighth in qualifyingFailed to finish in the points in sprint raceMax Verstappen condemned his Red Bull’s performance as having reduced his efforts to a matter of “survival” in merely trying to complete a lap in Shanghai.From the off the four-time champion had not been happy in the buildup to Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, dismissing his car on Friday as undriveable and saying: “We have never had anything this bad.” Continue reading...

As top teams land in New York for world sevens this weekend, the Olympic star discusses her uniquely American story and her sport’s search for the spotlightOn Saturday, World Rugby’s HSBC SVNS lands in New York – well, New Jersey – for two days at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, a short ride from downtown Manhattan. The governing body will be watching keenly, as two days of traditional warm-weather sport are held at the end of a north-eastern winter. In New York/New Jersey on Thursday, it snowed.The men’s US Eagles are not playing, having lost their place at the top table. But the Eagles women have hopes of a home-soil win after a third-place finish last week in Vancouver, beating France in a thriller after a narrow loss to New Zealand. Coach Emilie Bydwell’s team are third in the season standings, set for Championship tournaments in spring and summer. Continue reading...