Category: Sport

Georgia have a chance for revenge. The rematch is set, and it’ll decide the College Football Playoff national championship. After a pair of easy wins in the semi-finals on Friday night, the Crimson Tide and the Bulldogs – the only two teams to be ranked No 1 in the AP Top 25 this season – […]

One can only hope the Arteta residence has thick walls. Arsenal’s manager, who had said he would “need a big room” before watching this fixture from home, must have been clawing at them after an unruly, fractious affair his players deserved to win. The fact they left with nothing owed to a five-minute tailspin of […]

Arsenal were left nursing a sense of injustice after VAR decisions contributed to their dramatic 2-1 defeat against Manchester City, with their assistant manager, Albert Stuivenberg, suggesting they had been denied a “clear penalty” when Martin Ødegaard was challenged by Ederson in the first half. Stuivenberg was overseeing Arsenal in the absence of Mikel Arteta, […]

L’Homme Presse continued his progression with a splendid round of jumping as he dominated his rivals in the Paddy Power Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham on Saturday. The Grade Two contest, registered as the Dipper, had attracted a strong field with some promising types taking part in The Glancing Queen, Come On Teddy and Millers Bank. […]

Alex Sanderson, Sale’s director of rugby, has urged the Sharks to build on their 26-18 bonus-point win against Wasps as they look to get back into the play-off race. Sale had won only three of their first nine games in the Premiership but were too strong for Wasps as they ran in four tries to […]

New year, new dawn? As it turned out, not quite. For a long time, it seemed that history might be made at Vicarage Road on Saturday – a first clean sheet for Claudio Ranieri as Watford manager, his first Premier League clean sheet for three years and three days. Watford have had five managers since […]

A strange and unfamiliar noise swirled around the Emirates Stadium at full-time. Strewn across the turf in red and white was the human rubble of a crushing injury-time defeat. Takehiro Tomiyasu and Ben White were out cold. Thomas Partey, hand outstretched, helped them up. And as Arsenal’s exhausted players slowly winched themselves to their feet, […]