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August 4, 2023
Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Southampton: Championship season kicks off – as it happened
The substitute Che Adams, once of Sheffield United, scored a late goal to give Russell Martin a winning start as Southampton manager
2 min Barry Bannan, who wears No10 for Wednesday, is playing as one as well. That’s a change of role for him.
1 min Peep! Peep! James Ward-Prowse gets the new Championship season under way.
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August 2, 2023
Bairstow stumping to Broad bails: 15 moments that shaped the 2023 Ashes
All five Tests had twists, starting with Ben Stokes’s declaration at Edgbaston through to Stuart Broad’s sting in the bail
At the end of an Ashes series we usually pick the 10 moments, big and small, that shaped the result – but there were so many sliding doors this summer that we could have picked 100. We’ve settled for 15, one for every six that Ben Stokes hit in the series against Australia.
Continue reading...August 1, 2023
Football Daily | USA USA USA wonder what happened to their exclamation marks
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A World Cup presents unique challenges for the dedicated couch potato. How to follow simultaneous games; which time zones can be used, guilt-free, to determine Tin O’Clock; and what to do when your team play a vital game in the small hours. That was the problem today for fans of reigning world champions USA! USA!! USA!!!, whose decisive Group E game against Portugal kicked off at 3am Eastern Time. Just before kick-off, the US Women’s National Team account on social media disgrace X posted a call to arms: “WAKE UPPPPPPPPP!!!!!! IT’S TIME FOR KICKOFF!!!!”
Continue reading...USA 0-0 Portugal: Women’s World Cup 2023 Group E – as it happened
The USA went through to the last 16 with a whimper, and survived an almighty scare when Ana Capeta hit the post in injury-time
Sign up for Soccer with Jonathan Wilson: our free newsletter1 min Peep peep! The US get the game under way.
The anthems As in previous games, some of the USA players didn’t sing. There’s a calm, rational, two-eyed discussion of the subject on Twitter right now.
Continue reading...USA v Portugal: Women’s World Cup 2023 Group E – live
1 min Peep peep! The US get the game under way.
The anthems As in previous games, some of the USA players didn’t sing. There’s a calm, rational, two-eyed discussion of the subject on Twitter right now.
Continue reading...July 31, 2023
Japan 4-0 Spain: Women’s World Cup 2023 – as it happened
Hinata Miyazawa scored twice as Japan produced a classic counter-attacking performance to thrash Spain and win Group C
5 min Spain have started brilliantly. After another hypnotic spell of possession, Carmona drives a cross from the left that just evades the stretching Bonmati, arriving late in the box.
4 min “All seven in the Japan squad who also started in the 2018 U20 final win against Spain - Takahashi, Minami, Nagano, Hayashi, Endo, Miyazawa, and Ueki - are starting today,” writes Jerome Chiu. “Meanwhile, all of the three who also started in the 2022 U20 final defeat against Spain – Ishikawa, Fujino, and Hamano – are on the bench. Hasegawa and Sugita, who both started in the 2014 U17 final win against Spain, are also on the bench.”
Continue reading...Japan v Spain: Women’s World Cup 2023 – live
5 min Spain have started brilliantly. After another hypnotic spell of possession, Carmona drives a cross from the left that just evades the stretching Bonmati, arriving late in the box.
4 min “All seven in the Japan squad who also started in the 2018 U20 final win against Spain - Takahashi, Minami, Nagano, Hayashi, Endo, Miyazawa, and Ueki - are starting today,” writes Jerome Chiu. “Meanwhile, all of the three who also started in the 2022 U20 final defeat against Spain – Ishikawa, Fujino, and Hamano – are on the bench. Hasegawa and Sugita, who both started in the 2014 U17 final win against Spain, are also on the bench.”
Continue reading...July 30, 2023
Play abandoned as Australia chase England target of 384 on day four of fifth Test – as it happened
Stuart Broad hit his last ball in Test cricket for six before rain, the pitch and Australia’s openers frustrated England at the Oval
In a curious move, Todd Murphy is coming on to bowl. The crowd sing Happy Birthday to Anderson. It’s all gone a bit pantomime out here.
81st over: England 395-9 (Broad 8, Anderson 8) Broad survives the first ball, and the first over. Trying to mow the first few balls from Starc but doesn’t connect with any, he turns down a few singles in the process. Last ball incoming… STUART BROAD SMASHES A SIX AND THE OVAL ERUPTS! Has there been a cricketer with more of a sense of his own theatre than Stuart Broad?
Continue reading...July 29, 2023
Stuart Broad reveals retirement with England in charge of fifth Test – as it happened
After England motored to 389-9, a lead of 377, Stuart Broad announced he will retire from all cricket at the end of the match
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2nd over: England 16-0 (Crawley 5, Duckett 9) A quieter over from Hazlewood who is more accurate than Starc. On a good length for the duration, just a nurdled quick single. That first over was quite something. The crowd here are louder and more burbling than they’ve been all Test.
Continue reading...July 28, 2023
England v Australia: Ashes fifth Test, day two – as it happened
Steve Smith took advantage of a run-out reprieve to make 71 and help Australia to a slender lead of 12 at the Oval
The umpires are making their way down the stairs. The crowd around me are clapping their hands and making noise. The players are over the rope and on the field. There’s a great energy about.
Not long to go now. While I’ve got you, any overseas readers with the BBC’s TMS link? Would be a huge help. Ta.
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