Ireland's home straight to World Cup starts with Pumas

As they return to the Aviva Stadium in the Nations Championship on Friday night, it feels something of an anomaly that a team who have inflicted so much hurt on Ireland over the years have never beaten them in Dublin.…

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Wisden Women's Cricket Weekly Podcast: Why haven’t England closed the gap to Australia? A new era at the ECB & the WBBL starts with a bang

Also on the episode , Finch, Katya and Lauren look back on the vast array of changes that have happened in the women's game over the past 20 years, as well as getting an insight into what it's like to deliver bad news to…

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Chess: Magnus Carlsen returns for Budapest battle before Sindarov targets classical crown

This will be followed by the Gukesh Dommaraju v Javokhir Sindarov Fide World Championship match in Geneva between 24 November and 12 December, featuring 14 games of classical chess ­followed, if needed, by rapid and…

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Scotland can be best and worst team in world - Dempsey

They have had three near misses in a row under Gregor Townsend. Three wasted opportunities to beat the Kiwis for the first time ever. "There's no magic pill," says Jack Dempsey, recently of Glasgow Warriors but now of…

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Can you name Man Utd’s XI from Sir Alex Ferguson’s first game in 1986?

Do you know the names on his first teamsheet? Long before he was knighted, Ferguson arrived at Old Trafford to turn around the dormant giants’ fortunes. Ron Atkinson had been sacked and in came Ferguson, fresh from his…

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Hamilton admits he’s “really struggled” with F1’s tyres since 2022 size change | Formula 1

The Mercedes driver holds the record for most pole positions and scored his 105th last weekend. However only two of those have come in the five seasons since then – and both came by a margin of less than a hundredth of a…

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A vibes-based Power Ranking of the 10 World Cup teams

And a pair of tri-series gave us enough action to shake up the lower half of the rankings. Like the last time , we’ve only ranked the top ten teams, as the remaining four spots at the event will be decided through…

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Jones - the smiling wind-up artist who refuses to fade away

You never quite know what is coming. A compliment, a cutting observation, a verbal grenade. Sometimes all three, invariably delivered with that mischievous smile. Jones belongs to a disappearing generation of coaches who…

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Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

"Pereira out, Lampard in" they daubed on a wall at Goodison Park when it appeared Vítor Pereira was in line to replace Rafael Benítez in 2022. Alarmed by fan protests, the Everton board opted instead for Frank Lampard…

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‘In moments of pain, football comes together’: Spain says goodbye to Jesús de Miguel

Silence accompanied the funeral cortege as its made way from the funeral home to the parish church of San Miguel Arcángel carrying Jesús de Miguel Alameda, "Demi", the Tenerife striker who died after an on-field…

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