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Wrexham, preparing for a second successive season in the Championship, meet Leeds in Tampa on Sunday, 26 July before facing Liverpool in New York four days later.Their final pre-season game is against Parkinson’s former club Sunderland on Sunday, 2 August in Philadelphia, where Wrexham co-owner Rob Mac is from.Wrexham toured the US in 2023 and 2024 with opponents including Manchester United and Chelsea and they return this year after spending the 2025 pre-season in Australia and New Zealand.”The three tours we’ve had have been absolutely incredible,” Parkinson added.”The memories which have been created on those trips and the games and…
Back on the pitch, the actions of the Argentina players were heavily criticised, with former England captain Alan Shearer saying: “Paredes threw two or three haymakers into someone’s face. He went for them. There is no place or space for that.”We know how much it means to them and we know how much it hurts to lose, but there is a way to lose. Too many times we have seen that from Argentina. The reaction after the final whistle is terrible.”Former England goalkeeper Joe Hart added: “The game’s done, they can have absolutely no complaints about what happened. Disgusting behaviour.”Argentina…
Walker said: “Sussex is a club I have always admired and one with a proud history. The opportunity to work with this group of players and staff, alongside Paul [Farbrace], was one that really excited me.”There is already a strong foundation in place and I’m looking forward to building on that as we strive to help Sussex compete for trophies. I can’t wait to get started.”Farbrace said Walker possessed the “experience, energy and enthusiasm” that the club had been looking for. “I’m really looking forward to working alongside him as we tackle the challenges in front of us and build…
Top run-scorer, twice a finalist: Salt certainly has pedigree in The Hundred.The Welshman reached the final with Manchester Originals in 2022 and 2023 but believes he can go one step further by sparking a dormant Welsh Fire into life.The Cardiff-based team are the worst-performing franchise in the tournament’s short history, with both the men’s and women’s teams finishing rock bottom last year.Neither side has won the tournament and the men are yet to reach the play-offs, but with tech billionaire Sanjay Govil buying a 50% share of the team for £40m there is hope that this year could be different.”Historically,…
In some ways, MLS is already up there with the big leagues across the world.There were 45 MLS players represented at the 2026 World Cup – including two in the final for Argentina, Messi and Rodrigo de Paul.MLS has a reputation for being almost a retirement home for superstars – a lucrative place to play for legends like Beckham and Messi after peak careers in Europe.But that reputation is outdated, Courtemanche says, with the average age of new international players in the league now 23.8 years. Though many of them have dreams of playing in Europe after experiencing MLS.MLS is…
WWE continued teasing Big Cass’ return on the July 20, 2026, episode of RAW by airing another vignette. This time, the video revisited his 2018 release and looked back at the tough times, including injuries and personal struggles. The vignette showed how Cass went from being one of WWE’s rising stars to someone whose career fell apart. It also made it clear that his return is being presented as a comeback story built on redemption, not just nostalgia. WWE looks back at Big Cass’ toughest years The new vignette followed the same style as last week’s video but shared more…
WWE A new match has been made for WWE SummerSlam in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it will see Danhausen continue his feud with Judgment Day. After defeating JD McDonagh at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, with the help of New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, Danhausen will now face “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio at “The Greatest Party of the Summer.” Despite McDonagh’s loss just days prior, he and Mysterio, alongside Women’s World Champion Liv Morgan, demanded their money, which they paid Danhausen for a curse on Oba Femi he didn’t follow through…
Liverpool have signed attacking midfielder Mao Itamura from Feyenoord.The 19-year-old becomes the fifth addition to Gareth Taylor’s squad this summer and replaces Republic of Ireland’s Denise O’Sullivan, who joined Gotham FC on an initial loan deal.Itamura was named the Women’s Eredivisie player of the season in 2025-26, scoring eight times and assisting six goals for Feyenoord.She helped Feyenoord qualify for European football for the first time in their history and was part of the Japan Under-20s squad that won the Women’s Asian Cup in April.”It’s a league and a club that was one of my goals [to join]. I’m happy…
England’s only significant change in the India series was a new opening combination of Ben Duckett and Jacob Bethell, and it bore fruit at Lord’s.The left-handed duo became England’s sixth opening pair since the 2023 World Cup, with Phil Salt, Jamie Smith and Zak Crawley currently out of contention and Will Jacks and Rehan Ahmed considerations for the middle order after spells at the top.They had a decent start in the first ODI at Edgbaston, putting on 63, but Duckett was dismissed first ball in the second fixture at Cardiff, with Bethell following shortly afterwards as England found themselves 8-2.In…
The July 20 episode of WWE RAW rolled through Detroit, and that was a fun show. During the first hour of the program, the company a big more on Big Cass’ return. Big Cass appeared in another segment during RAW this week, and the company gave him a new vignette too. This gave a bit more history for his character in case fans needed a refresher. The segment focused on how Big Cass fell so far after reaching such a high point in WWE. The vignette focused on his injuries, and then his release. In the end, it appears that…