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Northamptonshire Steelbacks maintained their perfect record in the T20 Blast by successfully chasing down a target of 185 to beat Gloucestershire at Bristol by eight wickets and make it an incredible eight wins from eight matches in the competition.Half-centuries by David Willey (73) and Australia opener Nathan McSweeney (72 not out) helped the visitors reach their target with 16 balls to spare, to extend their lead at the top of the Central and West Group over second-placed Gloucestershire and effectively secure a home quarter-final in the knockout stages.Elsewhere, Lancashire Lightning picked up a third consecutive T20 Blast win in a…

Man City are telling Chelsea where to stick their huge asking price for Malo Gusto, despite his successes with France. If you enjoy Talk Chelsea coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content. France rolled to a superb 3-0 win over Sweden last night, putting every other team at the World Cup on notice. Amongst the quite incredible talent on that team, it was slightly jarring for Chelsea fans to see Malo Gusto on the right wing. He’s a player who…

A showdown between Jaron Ennis and Vergil Ortiz Jr may be edging closer following Ennis’ dominant victory over Xander Zayas this past weekend, and Terence Crawford has issued a warning to ‘Boots’. Ennis stopped Zayas in seven rounds at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to become the unified WBA and WBO super-welterweight champion, adding another impressive statement to a résumé that already includes unified success at welterweight. Now, a long-running rivalry with Ortiz has become even more intriguing. Ortiz, also unbeaten, has spent much of the last few years calling for the fight, but negotiations collapsed earlier this year due to a…

If there were such a thing as a mid-table team at the World Cup, it would probably be Mexico. They are almost ever-present, yet no side has played as many matches at the tournament – 64 in total – without lifting the trophy. Their supporters can be demanding but expectations were more modest this summer. However, the co-hosts ended a 40-year wait for a knockout win by beating Ecuador, so confidence will be raised for their match against England.The failure to reach an elusive fifth game – the curse of the ‘quinto partido’ – plagued Mexico for generations. El Tri…

Tuchel, Kane, Rice, Gordon, and Anderson react as England come back to beat DR Congo in the last 32 of the 2026 World Cup. The Three Lions had to do things the hard way, Congo can come away feeling proud, especially their keeper Lionel Mpasi, who put in some outstanding saves to keep his side in it for as long as he could. Brian Cipenga had put the Democratic Republic of the Congo ahead, beating Pickford at near post just 8 minutes in. Harry Kane then scored twice in last 15 minutes to rescue England. A sigh of relief. England…

The challenger opened the fight aggressively, landing lefts to the head and rights to the body. Over the next two rounds, he continued to score with left jabs and right hands, while Baer answered with hard body punches. Through the first five rounds, Braddock outworked the champion. Baer landed occasional heavy punches, particularly to the body, but spent too much time posing for the crowd, clowning, and loading up on single shots instead of cutting off the ring. Baer’s strongest rally came in the sixth and seventh rounds. A crushing uppercut in the sixth briefly buckled Braddock’s knees, and another…

Before the first hydration break England’s statistics – as well as their performance – were poor. They had zero shots and touches inside box before the break, but improved afterwards with eight shots and 20 touches in the area by half-time.It was a similar story in the second half, where the hydration break seemed to prompt an upturn in England’s performance.They had two shots on goal and seven touches in the box before the three-minute break but then six shots and 13 touches after, with Kane scoring the two crucial goals.During both hydration breaks, Tuchel gathered his team around him…

Just over a decade ago, things were so heated between Bob Arum’s established Top Rank promotion and Al Haymon’s new, well-funded Premier Boxing Champions, Arum sued over alleged monopolistic practices, wanting to find out “where the bodies are buried.” The tension was even fiercer between Golden Boy Promotions head Oscar De La Hoya and Haymon, after the powerful manager took all of his best fighters from Golden Boy to launch the new company. How ironic, then, that on the same week a new bitter divide between new powers – the Nick Khan and Dana White-run Zuffa Boxing, Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom…

England’s reaction was an explosion of celebration and sheer relief, a largely dreadful performance transformed into dramatic victory by their magnificent captain.The celebration was for that place in the last 16.The relief will have been Tuchel’s, who would surely have been unable to survive such embarrassment had England lost, irrespective of his contract extension.Relief, too, for the Football Association, who placed such faith in the German and handed him the sole mission of winning this World Cup.And it was all down to Kane.Kane attracts superlatives and respect like a magnet. Every bit of it deserved – as proved by the…

£80m plus would once be enough to land a Ballon d’Or-winning Cristiano Ronaldo, or a peak Gareth Bale – now it’s the fee needed to sign reported Manchester United target, Mateus Fernandes. Of course, inflation is the key word there, yet even so, the manner in which the market has been distorted of late truly is remarkable, with United perhaps wise not to have got involved in a bidding war for the Portuguese youngster. Instead, Fernandes is set to join Roberto De Zerbi’s new-look Tottenham Hotspur side, the fifth arrival already in north London following last season’s relegation scare. Back…