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Talking Horses: freezing weather threatens blank weekend for racing

Constitution Hill is set to be re-routed to Sandown next Saturday after Newcastle falls to snow and frost Racing faces the possibility of a blank weekend due to freezing temperatures and snowfall across the country, with Newcastle’s valuable Fighting Fifth Hurdle meeting on Saturday having already been abandoned on Friday afternoon and early inspections scheduled […]

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The Guardian view on VAR: a slower, longer and fairer game may not be what football fans want | Editorial

Having off-pitch officials who could replay match incidents was supposed to help referees. But technology is changing the sport, critics say, for the worse In football, the video assistant referee (VAR) was brought in to reduce the number of controversial decisions. Many fans, with good reason, think the opposite has happened, despite referees’ intuitive, expert

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