Author: Sports News UK

Scotland head coach Sebastien Pocognoli admits to feeling a “positive nervousness” before his first game in charge of the country, a Nations League tie against Slovenia in Ljubljana on Saturday.The Belgian was appointed in August, replacing Steve Clarke, whose seven-year tenure ended after Scotland’s exit at the group stages of the World Cup.Pocognoli starts with four Nations League matches across 11 days, with the trip to Slovenia followed by Switzerland at Hampden, a fixture in North Macedonia, then a return meeting with the Slovenes in Glasgow.”If we talk about nerves, yes, but it’s a positive nervousness,” he told BBC Sport…

Jacari Ball isn’t backing away from the Daejon Love jokes — he just turned the whole thing into a therapy session. The WWE ID talent dropped another comedy video after responding to comparisons between his “WWE Swindler” character and Daejon Love, this time calling the bit “WWE sent me to therapy.” Ball plays both sides of the session, dressing up as the therapist while also sitting on the couch as himself. And once “therapy” started, Ball immediately went back to the same joke that got everyone talking in the first place. “Jakari, thanks for being here. I want to start…

England back row Marlie Packer says defence coach Shaun Edwards’ surprise move into the Red Roses set-up was partly inspired by his late mother Phyllis.Edwards has joined the world champions for the remainder of their autumn campaign after the end of a six-and-a half-year stint with France.”He told us a little story, telling us why he wanted to be here,” said Packer.”He was saying about his mum not ever being able to have the opportunity to play, and that she would have loved to have done so.”It was really cool to hear that she thought we were amazing.”Phyllis Edwards worked…

Two former AEW Women’s World Champions are attempting to get the next title shot. At All Out this coming Saturday, the current champion, Mercedes Moné, is not cleared to compete. However, the last two champions will go one-on-one to determine the number one contender. Thekla and Nightingale have plenty of history, and mixing in Moné is enough animosity to boil over. In an AEW Exclusive from last weekend’s Collision, Thekla has some words for Nightingale. Thekla picked up a win against Zayda Steel on Saturday’s show. “Last time I said Willow was for the children. But I was wrong. Willow…

Bellamy is not alone. Wales and Liverpool legend Ian Rush is among a growing number impressed by Koumas’ potential, a potential that – despite his recent rise to prominence – has been obvious for a number of years.Right from the off, in fact. The surname alone brought excitement, given the talents of Lewis’ father, former Wales international Jason Koumas.”Jason was a talented, talented player,” says Danny Gabbidon, who played alongside the older Koumas for Wales.”He could do a bit of everything; technically amazing, he could look after the ball, pass, score fantastic goals. He could just make things happen.”The phrase…

“There’ll be thousands,” says Thomas Randolph, founder of Delphlyx, when asked whether talented African players may have missed out on big moves in the past.Delphlyx works with Premier League clubs and ownership groups, and others across Europe, the United States and Mexico, to provide information on the best – and most relevant – 14 to 21-year-olds in West Africa, often through data, live scouting and private tournaments. “We have over 19,000 players in Africa on our platform that you could just sit right here in London and watch, then pick up the phone, call one of them and organise a…

Scotland’s Cameron Menzies is celebrating his second tournament win of the year after beating Gian van Veen to the Players Championship 29 title in Den Bosch.Menzies raced into a 5-0 lead against the home favourite, who is third in the PDC rankings, before prevailing 8-4.”To go and win another ProTour is awesome. I’m so happy,” said Menzies.”This is my fifth year on the tour and I’ve won four ProTours. That’s not bad I suppose.”My aim is to make a good life for myself. That’s the aim that I think is achievable, but winning a major and having a good run…

Austin Theory and Maxxine Dupri have once again caught WWE fans’ attention after a new social media video featuring the on-screen couple sparked plenty of reactions. The clip, shared around this week’s Monday Night RAW, has fans debating whether their storyline chemistry is becoming a little too convincing. Theory and Dupri appeared in matching outfits while playing their roles as members of The Vision alongside Bron Breakker, Logan Paul and Bronson Reed. Dupri joined the group after turning on Alpha Academy, with the storyline later taking another step when she and Theory shared a kiss following a tag team victory…

This was not vintage England. For the first time since 2019 they did not hit a six batting first.Captain Brook and coach Brendon McCullum should not mind that, however. For too long, England have only been able to win when piling up big scores.Yes, they were dismissed for the 12th time since McCullum took charge of the white-ball sides last year and, as so often this summer, the quality of the opposition can be questioned.But Brook was the only batter to fall in a middle order collapse of 4-29 playing an aggressive shot. He sliced a drive to deep cover…

Celtic will “come together and support” manager Martin O’Neill after a “painful” week for the club, chief executive Michael Nicholson has said.O’Neill had indicated that he would use the international break to consider his future following two defeats to Rangers, either side of a home loss to Ferencvaros in the Europa League.In the wake of Sunday’s 1-0 derby defeat at Celtic Park, 74-year-old O’Neill had said “it might be time to wrap it up”.However, Nicholson suggested the club will rally round the manager who has delivered nine trophies over two spells.His remarks came with the latest financial figures revealing a…