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Rubin Colwill believes Cardiff City have plenty of room for growth under Brian Barry-Murphy this season after starting their Championship campaign with a point against Wrexham.Colwill netted a last-gasp free-kick to earn the Bluebirds a 1-1 draw with Phil Parkinson’s side on Monday night.Prior to the contest in the Welsh capital, boss Barry-Murphy spoke about his eagerness for Cardiff to prove their doubters wrong after they had been tipped by some to be relegated back to League One.But on the back of gaining automatic promotion from the third tier last term, Wales international Colwill feels Cardiff must keep building on…
Odegaard finished last season fit and went on to shine at the World Cup with Norway. He started five of Norway’s six games in the tournament and registered four assists. “Last year was really a big struggle with a lot of difficult moments. To miss so many games because of injury was really frustrating,” Odegaard said on Sunday. “It is the worst thing for a footballer to not be able to be on the pitch and I had quite a lot of weird injuries, and bad luck. “It was good for me to end the season with a title, here,…
Phil Parkinson bemoaned his team’s lack of ruthlessness – and the amount of stoppage time at the end of the game – after a 98th-minute equaliser denied Wrexham a Welsh derby victory over Cardiff City.Parkinson’s side were on course to begin the new Championship campaign with a hard-fought win after Kieffer Moore’s third-minute goal at the Cardiff City Stadium.Wrexham missed chances to extend their lead – and twice hit the woodwork – on a night when they carried greater threat than their hosts only to be denied a win when Rubin Colwill smashed in a free-kick in the last act…
Serena and Venus Williams played their first doubles match together since the 2022 US Open and lost a thriller, 2-6, 6-1, 10-8 to Marta Kostyuk and Peyton Stearns at the Cincinnati Open.The sisters nearly recovered from a 6-0 deficit in the match tiebreaker before a double-fault by Venus Williams ended their first doubles appearance in a non-grand slam event since the Italian Open in 2016.skip past newsletter promotionSign up to Sport in FocusOur picture editors select their favourite sporting images from the past week, from the spectacular to the powerful, and with a little bit of fun thrown inafter newsletter…
WWE Chad Gable defeated Rey Mysterio to retain the Intercontinental Championship during “WWE Raw.” Gable dominated the opening stages of his first defense of the title, catching Mysterio in his attempts to rally and throwing him back down to the ring. Mysterio managed to change that as the action went to the apron, monkey flipping him into the ringpost and following up to send him into the barricade. Mysterio brought Gable into the ring, looking to land a sunset flip from the apron but getting caught in a make-shift suplex.…
Available for over a yearJoe Hart, Chris Sutton and Adam Crafton are with Mark Chapman to look ahead to the Premier League season, can they cover all 20 clubs in this episode of the Monday Night Club? That depends on whether you count Chris Sutton’s predicted Premier League table. They reflect on Manchester City’s performance in their Community Shield defeat to Arsenal, what it takes to defend a Premier League title, and whether Xabi Alonso can repeat Antonio Conte’s feat of taking Chelsea from a club that finished tenth to title winners in the following season. Plus, Hull City assistant…
WWE just made Sunday Night’s Main Event a whole lot more violent. During the August 17 episode of Monday Night RAW, Bron Breakker called out Oba Femi and wanted to settle things right there in Buffalo. Oba came out ready to throw down, but Paul Heyman stepped between them and made it clear WWE had something much bigger in mind. Bron demanded to know who Heyman thought was the future of WWE, but Oba didn’t need an answer. He walked to the ring and told Breakker that everybody already knew who the future was—including Brock Lesnar. “He knows, Bron knows…
Wimbledon semi-finalist Arthur Fery has been included in Great Britain’s Davis Cup team to face Ecuador in September.Former world number four Jack Draper is not included but a fifth player will be added closer to the time.British number one Cameron Norrie, Henry Patten and Lloyd Glasspool make up the team to play at London’s Copper Box Arena.”I am really proud to be able to represent GB again,” Fery said. “It is going to be a bit of a different scenario this time, at home, in the World Group and trying to qualify for the final eight.”There might be some extra…
The most pertinent question surrounding the rapidly blossoming career of Arthur Fery is exactly how far he could possibly take his game. Fery’s unexpected breakthrough run at Wimbledon last month was immense, but now he faces the intriguing challenge of seeing how he stacks up against the elite over the course of a gruelling 52 weeks on tour.Fery ended his first tournament since Wimbledon with countless reasons to be positive about his progress even as he was outperformed by Alex de Minaur in a rain-swept encounter, with Fery, the 32nd seed, making life incredibly difficult for the fifth seed for…
Despite signing a contract extension in November 2024, the series reveals how close Guardiola came to not renewing his deal.In one scene, the manager reveals to director Kevin Macdonald that, after losing four games in a row in 2024, he told the club: “Maybe it’s over.”In a separate scene, City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says that he was not sure he was going to be able to convince the legendary manager to stay at the club.”You know the boy that cried wolf? He is the boy that cried wolf,” the Emirati said.”I always convince him, but last year, I knew,…