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Real Madrid v Arsenal: Champions League quarter-final, second leg – live
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025

Champions League news, 8pm BST kick-off (first leg: 0-3)Live scoreboard | Read today’s edition of Football DailyJude Bellingham on the task aheadTonight’s winners will play Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-finals, with the first leg at home of 29 or 30 April and the second leg in Paris a week later. Continue reading...

Inter v Bayern Munich: Champions League quarter-final, second leg – live
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025

Champions League news, 8pm BST kick-off (first leg: 2-1)Live scores | Football Daily | Get in touch! Email Michael There is another game going on tonight, just in case you didn’t know.Wait … there are two! Alas, all matches are not created equal. Continue reading...

The Spin | In defence of the draw: why Ben Stokes and England should take note
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025

The Bazball win-or-bust mantra has proven successful but it is time for captain to embrace grey in black and white world“A tie is like kissing your sister,” Edward J Erdelatz said to the New York Times in 1954. Erdelatz was the United States Navy’s head football coach and his side had just drawn 0-0 against Duke University. “No one asked the mild spoken navy coach to explain,” the report adds. Well, quite. But sister or not, everyone knew what he meant.Erdelatz’s unique take on the merits or otherwise of not winning are ingrained in American sports where a Lombardian win-at-all-costs mentality prevails. Try explaining Test cricket to an American sports fan, they say, with a wry chuckle – the fact that two teams can battle it out for five full days and in the end, there is not necessarily a winner. Good luck, they smirk. Adelaide 1961? You may as well be describing the plot of Christopher Nolan’s Memento to a toddler. Old Trafford 2005? More chance of a cider-addled bee getting to grips with quantum theory. They do not get it, be gone with your quaint English ways, five days and no winner. That’s crazy, man. Continue reading...

Newcastle v Crystal Palace: Premier League – live
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025

Premier League news, 7.30pm BST kick-offLive scores | Read Football Daily | Email TahaI’m looking forward to the battle of the centre-forwards. Jean Philipe-Mateta had a quiet first half of the season after returning from Olympic duty with France but has nine league goals since the start of 2025. Alexander Isak has gone a whole two games without a goal, which simply means he’s due: the Swede has 20 goals in the league this campaign. He won’t pass Mo Salah on 27, but Erling Haaland, on 21, is there for the taking.Alan Pardew is on punditry duty for Sky, having managed both teams. Let’s hit the dance floor: Continue reading...

Field Of Gold lights up Flat season by racing to Guineas favouritism
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025

Craven Stakes winner market leader for first colts’ ClassicSecond key success in five days for Juddmonte operationIt is 21 years since the winner of Newmarket’s Craven Stakes followed up in the 2,000 Guineas over the same course and distance two‑and‑a‑half weeks later, and 34 years since Mystiko took the Free Handicap at the Craven meeting – a Classic trial that no longer exists – and went on to become the last grey to win the first colts’ Classic.Every statistic, though, is in the queue to be broken, and John and Thady Gosden’s Field Of Gold is the new 7-2 favourite to snap both sequences at once after a convincing success in the Craven Stakes here on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Four-stage 2025 Women’s Tour of Britain set for northern England and Scotland
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025

Race will start in Dalby Forest and finish in GlasgowLotte Kopecky expected to defend titleThe 2025 women’s Tour of Britain will go ahead in northern England and the Scottish Borders in early June, despite speculation that this year’s event was in difficulty.Buoyed by news that the men’s and women’s Tour de France will start in Britain in 2027, this summer’s four-day women’s race will start in Yorkshire on 5 June and end in Glasgow four days later. Continue reading...

Hampshire’s Keith Barker cleared to return in July after failed drug test
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025

Barker tested positive in what he says was ‘genuine error’All-rounder reveals he ‘feared for the loss of my career’Hampshire’s Keith Barker has said he “feared for the loss of my career” during a nine-month wait to learn his punishment for a failed drug test caused by what he described as “a genuine administrative error”.Barker has been cleared to return to professional cricket on 4 July, 12 months after he was told he had tested positive for the prohibited substance indapamide, which he had been prescribed to treat high blood pressure, and provisionally suspended. The length of his ban was decided last month and announced on Wednesday, one week short of 11 months after he took the out-of-competition test. Continue reading...

Lois Boisson pokes fun at Harriet Dart ‘deodorant’ jibe on social media
Posted on Wednesday April 16, 2025

French tennis player suggests Dove ‘collab’ on InstagramDart apologises for telling umpire Boisson ‘smells bad’French tennis player Lois Boisson has responded to Harriet Dart’s on-court claim that “she smells really bad” with a social media post that pokes fun at the incident.During a change of ends in Tuesday’s match at the Rouen Open, Dart asked the umpire: “Can you tell her [Boisson] to wear deodorant because she smells really bad?” Her comments were picked up by a courtside microphone and quickly attracted attention and criticism on social media. Continue reading...