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• How an Arsenal Champions League loss could benefit the Matildas

  08-04-2025 03:30 via theage.com.au
  
  Australian duo Caitlin Foord and Steph Catley will be desperate to progress to the UEFA Champions League final when they face coach Joe Montemurro’s formidable Lyon side later this month.
  
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• Barcelona v Inter: Champions League semi-final, first leg – live

  30-04-2025 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Champions League updates from the 8pm BST kick-offRead today’s Football Daily | And you can email ScottBarcelona are currently high on life. They’re playing some delightful football. They’ve just won the Copa del Rey, they’re four points clear in La Liga with five matches to go, and the only team who can realistically stop them winning a domestic double are in no fit state, currently preoccupied with the throwing of a season-long tanty. And so it’s not much of a lea
  
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• Jack Draper blasts past Tommy Paul into quarter-finals of Madrid Open

  30-04-2025 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Briton records biggest win of his career on clayStruggling Djokovic pulls out of Italian OpenJack Draper took a significant step forward on his journey to becoming a top clay-court player as he recorded the biggest win of his career so far on the surface, producing a supreme performance to dismantle the 11th seed Tommy Paul 6-2, 6-2 and reach the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open.This victory marks the first time Draper has reached a Masters 1000 quarter-final clay court on clay and it is his fi
  
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• How did Djurgården end up in a European semi-final against Chelsea?

  30-04-2025 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  The Swedish side are clearly underdogs but they are still capable of hurting their Conference League opponentsA visibly moved Bosse Andersson was trying to find the right words after Djurgården had beaten Rapid Vienna 4-1 away to reach the Conference League semi-finals. “I am just bloody proud,” the sporting director said in the end. “Real Betis, Fiorentina, Chelsea and … Djurgården in the semi-finals, that is unbelievable.”He is not wrong. Chelsea, Rea
  
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• James Maddison hungry to repay loyal Spurs fans with Europa League glory

  30-04-2025 18:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Tottenham face Bodø/Glimt in semi-final first leg‘It hurts me a lot that we’re having a poor season’James Maddison wants to reward Tottenham’s long-suffering supporters by winning the club’s first trophy since 2008 and has said a dismal Premier League campaign has made the players more determined to succeed in the Europa League.Spurs host the Norwegian side Bodø/Glimt in the first leg of the semi-final on Thursday after suffering a record-equalling 19t
  
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• NFL fines Falcons’ Jeff Ulbrich $100,000 over son’s prank call to Shedeur Sanders

  30-04-2025 17:33 via theguardian.com
  Jax Ulbrich found QB’s number on father’s iPadAtlanta Falcons fined $250,000 over incidentThe NFL has handed out heavy fines to the Atlanta Falcons and their defensive coordinator, Jeff Ulbrich, over a prank call to Shedeur Sanders during last week’s draft.The league fined Ulbrich $100,000 and the Falcons $250,000 for “failing to prevent the disclosure of confidential information distributed to the club in advance of the NFL draft.” Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Your social life will be non-existent’: Gout Gout coach Di Sheppard on guiding the sprint sensation | Jack Snape

  30-04-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Australian athletics outsider has overcome adversity and backed her own methods to find success as a mentor to a stable of rising starsAs Gout Gout has bounded up the steps towards the summit of Australian athletics, never far away has been his coach Di Sheppard. Their journeys, however, could not be more different.The teenager has arrived in the blink of an eye. The son of South Sudanese immigrants, the Ipswich Grammar student is already a global track star and national 200m champion at 17,
  
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• Jannik Sinner considered quitting tennis during fallout from doping case

  30-04-2025 16:49 via theguardian.com
  World No 1 is set for Rome return after three-month ban‘For a moment, I thought about giving up everything’Jannik Sinner has revealed he considered quitting tennis amid the fallout from his doping case. The world No 1 is preparing to return to the sport after agreeing a three-month ban with the World Anti-Doping Agency over the positive tests he returned last March for a banned steroid.Sinner was initially cleared of blame after it was accepted the substance entered his body via a pr
  
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• Tifo sets tone as Arsenal underwhelm

  30-04-2025 16:43 via theguardian.com
  
  “We want to do something special,” said Mikel Arteta in the buildup to Arsenal’s Bigger Cup semi-final first leg against PSG, urging fans heading to the Emirates to bring their boots, their shorts, their T-shirts and everything but their dinner. “That place has to be something special, something that we haven’t seen.” While it is not known how many spectators heeded the call to go the full John Terry, they were certainly treated to the unprecedented sight of t
  
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• Football Daily | Tifo sets tone as Arsenal underwhelm on their big night in Europe

  30-04-2025 16:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!“We want to do something special,” said Mikel Arteta in the buildup to Arsenal’s Bigger Cup semi-final first leg against PSG, urging fans heading to the Emirates to bring their boots, their shorts, their T-shirts and everything but their dinner. “That place has to be something special, something that we haven’t seen.” While it is not known how many spectators heeded the call to go the full John Terry, they wer
  
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• RFU ‘old farts’ council could be scrapped in radical governance shake-up

  30-04-2025 16:15 via theguardian.com
  Will significantly strengthen chief executive’s positionProposal expected to go down badly among rebelsThe RFU council – the decision-making body infamously dubbed “57 old farts” by Will Carling – is likely to be scrapped in a radical governance shake-up following Bill Sweeney’s survival as chief executive last month.In a move that would significantly strengthen Sweeney’s position and represent the biggest change to the structure of the organisation in r
  
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• Advantage PSG after first leg at Arsenal – Football Weekly

  30-04-2025 16:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Philippe Auclair and Nicky Bandini as Arsenal try and lick their wounds after they failed to gain an edge at home against PSG in the first leg of their semi-final clash in the Champions LeagueRate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.On the podcast today: Paris Saint-Germain win 1-0 at the Emirates Stadium. The French champions stunned Arsenal ear
  
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• Williams beats Higgins in final-frame shootout to make World Snooker semis

  30-04-2025 15:41 via theguardian.com
  Welshman seals 13-12 victory over four-times winnerO’Sullivan extends advantage over Si Jiahui to 7-2 Mark Williams held off a superb fightback from fellow former winner John Higgins to triumph in a last-frame decider and reach his eighth World Championship semi-final at the Crucible.The veteran duo, who have won seven world titles between them, were locked at 8-8 at the end of their second session before Williams put himself on the verge by taking all four frames on Wednesday’s resu
  
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• Arsenal are talking the talk after PSG loss but can they walk the walk in Paris?

  30-04-2025 15:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Mikel Merino says team have the quality, motivation and mentality to turn Champions League semi-final on its headThe fighting talk comes as standard. Arsenal are down after Tuesday night’s 1-0 home defeat against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-final first leg but not out.“This team … you can never give up on us,” Mikel Merino says. “Because I think we proved that we are always going to fight until the end. We have the technical quality and most im
  
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• Marinakis relinquishes controlling interest in Nottingham Forest for next season

  30-04-2025 15:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Shares put in blind trust to comply with ownership rulesMarinakis also owns the Greek club OlympiakosThe Nottingham Forest owner, Evangelos Marinakis, will not have a controlling interest in the club next season before the club’s probable return to European football.Marinakis, who also owns the Greek club Olympiakos, has placed his shares in a blind trust in order to comply with Uefa regulations on multiclub ownership, which state no individual is allowed to control two clubs that are comp
  
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• Darts world championship semi-finalist Andy Jenkins given 11-year ban for fixing

  30-04-2025 14:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Player suspended for betting on 88 matches‘If you fix matches you face serious consequences’Former World Championship semi-finalist Andy Jenkins has been handed an 11-year ban and £17,580 fine for match-fixing in darts.Jenkins was found guilty of fixing 12 Modus Super Series matches between 22 February 2002 and 5 July 2023 and also passing information on to bettors. Continue reading...
  
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• When will Mam return to the Broncos?

  30-04-2025 13:57 via smh.com.au
  
  Darren Lockyer and Ezra Mam discuss when Ezra Mam will return to the Brisbane Broncos.
  
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• How Wrexham and Birmingham City’s US owners got one step from the Premier League

  30-04-2025 13:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Tom Brady, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s celebrity status isn’t the only thing that led their clubs to the ChampionshipIt’s been over four decades since Wrexham were last in the second tier of English football and a lot has changed in that time. (A lot has changed in four years, never mind four decades.) Four years ago, Wales’ oldest soccer club were at a non-league nadir. Now, they are preparing for life in the Championship, propelled to three straight promotions by
  
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• NBA playoffs: Haliburton’s ‘disrespectful’ father sparks fracas as Pacers seal Bucks’ fate

  30-04-2025 13:39 via theguardian.com
  John Haliburton apparently swore and waved towelPacers seal beat Bucks in OT to seal playoff seriesGiannis Antetokounmpo has criticized Tyrese Haliburton’s father as the aftermath of Bucks-Pacers playoff series descended into a heated confrontation.Haliburton sealed the Pacers’ 4-1 series victory with a lay-up in overtime that gave them a 119-118 victory on Tuesday night. In the ensuing celebrations, Antetokounmpo says Haliburton’s father, John, approached him and waved a towel
  
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• Gus backs Des to fix the Titans' problems

  30-04-2025 13:22 via smh.com.au
  
  Phil Gould reveals why he does not believe Des Hasler will be axed as head coach of the Gold Coast Titans.
  
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• ‘Disrespectful’: Blues coach kicks off new era with positional gamble, refuses to draw 2024 heartbreak

  30-04-2025 13:11 via foxsports.com.au
  
  New Blues coach John Strange isn’t using last year’s heartbreak as motivation ahead of game one of the women’s State of Origin series on Thursday where he’s backed Tiana Penitani Gray to excel in her new role.
  
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• ‘Not as easy as that’: Players hit back at tackle technique claims amid NRL’s sin bin crackdown

  30-04-2025 12:56 via foxsports.com.au
  
  Bulldogs veteran Kurt Mann has welcomed the NRL’s directive for the bunker to not get so involved for acts of foul play as the fallout from last week’s high tackle furore continues just days out from Magic Round.
  
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• Gus weighs in on DCE's potential move to the Roosters: Six Tackles with Gus - Ep11

  30-04-2025 12:37 via smh.com.au
  
  Gus cant get his head around the rumours swirling that Daly Cherry-Evans could be on his way to Roosters with all the young halves they have.
  Gus and Mat discuss the expansion to the West and how it wont be easy recruiting big names over.Gus also gives a rare insight into his coaching career, discussing the emotional challenges of handling losses and the importance of maintaining emotional control during games. He emphasises the significance of mental toughness and attitude control in sports, sh
  
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• ‘Not about optics’: Former coach ‘loved’ Horne-Francis handling amid criticism, misplaced ‘focus’

  30-04-2025 12:31 via foxsports.com.au
  
  Former Sydney coach John Longmire says he “loved” the way Ken Hinkley and Port Adelaide’s senior players came together to help control Jason Horne-Francis’ temper last weekend.
  
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• ‘Every day of the week’: Broncos legend backs club to re-sign Cobbo over Reynolds

  30-04-2025 12:26 via foxsports.com.au
  
  Broncos legend Gorden Tallis believes the club should re-sign young gun outside back Selwyn Cobbo over veteran halfback Adam Reynolds.
  
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• 'Stressful time' for Lightning Adelaide as club's future unsure

  30-04-2025 12:04 via smh.com.au
  
  A Lightning Adelaide player has spoken about the stress she is facing as the club's future appears bleak.
  
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• Hull City Ladies co-owner accused of aggressive behaviour towards players

  30-04-2025 11:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Daniel Johnson also said to have made remarks about sexHe allegedly kicked footballs at players in rageThe co-owner of Hull City Ladies Daniel Johnson has been accused of multiple instances of aggressive behaviour that left players scared of him, and of making inappropriate comments about sex, according to written testimony seen by the Guardian.In early April a series of letters about Johnson’s alleged conduct at the third-tier club, where he was the first-team manager before he became a d
  
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• The Spin | Hats off to the county cap, the players’ headwear with a mystical symbolism

  30-04-2025 11:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Bowlers for bowlers? Not quite, but county cricket’s capping traditions are rich, varied– and wonderfully idiosyncraticLast Friday, Gus Atkinson was presented with his Surrey county cap by Alec Stewart on the grass outside the Mickey Stewart pavilion at the Oval. Atkinson accepted his new cap with its Surrey monogram (alongside his new monogrammed jumper) in his usual easy going way, but it is a ceremony taken very seriously by Stewart – who does not doll out county caps like c
  
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• Billions behind the badge: Neom joins Saudi Arabia’s football revolution

  30-04-2025 11:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Backed by same force as Newcastle, Neom’s promotion signals era of spending in futuristic city that is yet to existEurope’s biggest clubs may not pay much attention to Saudi Arabia’s second division, but a new and curious force in the international transfer market is emerging from that league. Neom Sports Club (SC) have not only never played a top tier game before but also represent a city that does not yet exist.Neom won promotion to the Saudi Pro League last week and will, fr
  
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• Inside North’s Kane Cornes ban: Why the ‘Sheezey Street’ jibe was the last straw

  30-04-2025 11:39 via smh.com.au
  
  Kangaroos footy boss Todd Viney revealed the ban on Wednesday morning after Cornes’ stinging criticism this week of skipper Jy Simpkin and young gun Harry Sheezel.
  
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