Chelsea academy graduates usually have a couple of well-trodden pathways – breakthrough, loan, first team. Or breakthrough, loan, sale. The Blues have moved on more than 40 homegrown players in the past decade, and made ยฃ315m from selling academy-developed talent in the last four seasons alone – ยฃ100m more than Manchester City. But their latest…
Matthew: We keep with the same formation that has failed us consistently since November. Five wins in 32 league games is the sort of form that doesn’t give you any leeway. You can change personnel but it’s the formation that needs to change. Which he’s shown he won’t. Thanks for the cup, Jimmy, but times…
There have been nine previous Women’s World Cups but only three nations have lifted the trophy – New Zealand (six times), England (twice) and the United States (once). England have played in eight finals but only won two of them, in 1994 and 2014. Canada lost on their only previous appearance in a final, falling…
He was one of those umpires to whom mishaps would occur. Bad light would always seem to come when Dickie was umpiring. At Headingley the whole ground flooded one time because of a problem with the drainage system. Dickie Bird was umpiring. He didn’t give a lot out, especially lbws. He was always quite safe…
Jacklin considered himself a winner, always striving for improvements. In 1969 he became first Englishman in 18 years to win The Open. He followed that in 1970 by clinching the US Open. The only other Englishman to win both is Jim Barnes, in the 1920s. But six of his seven Ryder Cup appearances ended in…
After all the talk of a Bethpage “bearpit” in the build-up to this week’s Ryder Cup, Monday’s opening exchanges between the captains in New York could not have been more cuddly. While the home fans are expected to bring a spikiness to Bethpage, Europe skipper Luke Donald and his US counterpart Keegan Bradley will deliver…
1: Aitana Bonmati (Barcelona, Spain) 2: Mariona Caldentey (Arsenal, Spain) 3: Alessia Russo (Arsenal, England) 4: Alexia Putellas (Barcelona, Spain) 5: Chloe Kelly (Manchester City, Arsenal, England) 6: Patricia Guijarro (Barcelona, Spain) 7: Leah Williamson (Arsenal, England) 8: Ewa Pajor (Barcelona, Poland) 9: Lucy Bronze (Chelsea, England) 10: Hannah Hampton (Chelsea, England) 15: Sandy Baltimore…
Poppy Maskill won gold, Bethany Firth silver and Georgia Sheffield bronze as Great Britain clinched the top three places in the women’s S14 100m backstroke at the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore. Returning to global competition following the birth of her daughter, Firth led into the turn, but Maskill, who won gold at the…
James O’Connor has been many things to many teams over many years. He started out as an Australian prodigy, a Wallaby at 18, who was seen as a “once-in-a-generation talent”. Then there was the ‘bad boy’ who arrived in the English Premiership in 2013 with London Irish and then departed to play in Europe. There…
Mark Allen survived a spirited comeback from China’s Zhou Yuelong to win the English Open in a final-frame decider and claim his first ranking title in 19 months. Northern Ireland’s Allen led Sunday’s final in Brentwood 6-2 and 7-3 before Zhou roared back to win five consecutive frames and lead for the first time. Former…
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