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The ECB revealed Stokes and Atkinson are under investigation in a statement released on 8 June.In the immediate aftermath, there were concerns the 35-year-old may retire.Those fears were allayed when he returned to training with Durham on Saturday and Stokes is now due to play for them for the third time this season.Addressing the media on Tuesday, two days before England’s second Test against New Zealand at The Oval, head coach Brendon McCullum would not be drawn on Stokes’ future as an England player or captain.The New Zealander did, however, repeatedly mentioned his “worry” and “concern” for Stokes.In contrast, on…
Welcome to another episode of the Arsecast – the original Arsenal podcast. In this episode I’m joined by Lewis Ambrose to chat about the World Cup and some of the main stories from the last few days. We discuss Cape Verde earning a battling point against Spain, how France’s attack sparked into second half action against Senegal, the impact of the big name players in this tournament so far, goals from distance, the Arsenal involvement – particularly for England – with some focus on Declan Rice and how the heavy schedule and minutes played this season could be catching up…
(Prime Video) PBC will travel to Australia with all bases loaded as three of their stars are set to face Australian boxers on July 25. The headline bout, featuring the return of Errol Spence against popular Australian Tim Tszyu, was already announced. But, also, Jermall Charlo will meet Koen Mazoudier and Stephen Fulton will fight Liam Wilson. The show is at the Afterpay Arena in Sydney and No Limits announced: “July 26 [the date of the show in Australia] is shaping up to be one of the greatest nights Australian boxing has ever seen.” Charlo is 34-0 (23 KOs) and…
Wilkinson says Wales have learned from their experience at Euro 2025, when they stuggled to make an impact against three of the world’s best teams – Netherlands, France and England.”I think we all learned a lot through the Euros – myself, my staff, the players,” she said. “Do I wish I’d coached differently? Parts of it, absolutely. I’m sure they (the players) look back on it and think like ‘what if, what if we could have…’ “But you don’t know until you’ve been to a major event what it’s going to be like, what the pressure feels like, what the…
Lee Dixon felt England had produced close to a perfect performance as they saw off Croatia to open their World Cup campaign with a 4-2 win in Dallas. Thomas Tuchel’s side were twice pegged back after captain Harry Kane scored two in the first half but second-half strikes from Jude Bellingham and Marcus Rashford secured three points in the Group L opener. Former England defender Dixon said on ITV: “This is a really difficult team to play against and apart from the moments in the first half when they gave those two goals away, they pretty much controlled the game.…
As well as being so confident, Kylian is selfish too – but that is not a criticism. The striker is always the most selfish player on the team – he has to be.He showed that with his very first World Cup goal, against Peru in Yekaterinburg in our second group game at Russia 2018.I had not started our first game, against Australia, because I’d been injured in a friendly against USA a week earlier and needed nine stitches in my forehead. It was a bad cut and I nearly missed the whole tournament.Also, Didier Deschamps wanted to try Ousmane Dembele,…
Carlos Queiroz believes “wins in this World Cup are very expensive”, but insisted his Ghana players “are ready to pay high prices”. Ghana opened their Group L campaign with a dramatic 1-0 victory over Panama, which was clinched by Caleb Yirenkyi’s 95th-minute winner. Yirenkyi’s goal, which came after 94 minutes and four seconds, is the latest-ever scored by Ghana in a World Cup match, excluding extra time. At 20 years and 153 days old, he also became the second-youngest player to score for the Black Stars in the tournament, behind only Draman Haminu, who netted against the United States in…
Having handed Thompson his first defeat a few months ago, Pauls now faces a fighter in Goldsmith who is six years younger and has had just one loss in his 16-fight career.”I think it’s a difficult one,” Pauls said of his opponent.”He’s a well-rounded fighter, he’s a dangerous fighter and when I signed up with Queensbury they said ‘no easy fights’ and they’ve got me a hard fight straight away.”Full respect to him but I’m here to defend my belt on Saturday night.”Known as the ‘Newquay Bomb’, the fight represents a great chance for Pauls to compete as close to…
The key measure for success is usually the ball-in-play time. Previously, the target was to get to 60 minutes, but that has proved very difficult to achieve.Even in Qatar, with all that added time, Fifa could only get up to 58:03 of actual football.So how does the 2026 World Cup compare? First off, the automatic six minutes applied for hydration breaks has been removed. This is effectively not part of a regular match time.The average length of matches at this World Cup is 96:08 – just over six minutes additional across both halves. In Qatar, it was 102 minutes 43…
Answer five football questions and we’ll match you with the ideal horse Top hat and tails ready? Now it’s just a question of where to stuff that vuvuzela – and no, I don’t appreciate that comment down the back about where to shove it!In an act of sporting schedule madness, the powers that be have planted the group stage of the biggest World Cup ever right on top of the jewel in the flat racing calendar’s crown – that is, if a calendar can wear a crown, not sure tbh.Yes, Royal Ascot takes place this week amid the hubbub of…