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And there looks to be a more solid look about the side he’s sent out, with players in their natural positions. In particular, I like the legs in midfield, though I’m still concerned about where the goals might come from – none of the front three can reliably create for themselves, and there’s a lack of wingers and invention around and behind them.

All that said, I’m really looking forward to seeing how Spurs look, having had a couple of weeks to absorb new instructions. I very much doubt De Zerbi leaves things alone for fear of confusing them – I’d expect his instructions to be the pro forma, from now.

Published: April 12, 2026, 2:28 pm

Rory McIlroy aims for ‘freer’ state of mind in final round of Masters after losing six-shot lead

• McIlroy visibly short of his best during one-over par 73

• ‘I wish I was a few shots better off but I’m comfortable’

Rory McIlroy hopes to benefit from a “freer” state of mind on the final day of the Masters, despite the defending champion conceding he will have to improve markedly from round three to retain the Green Jacket. McIlroy saw his six-stroke lead evaporate on Saturday, meaning he enters the fourth round in a tie with Cameron Young at the top of the leaderboard. McIlroy was visibly short of his best during a one-over-par 73.

The Northern Irishman can, however, pull upon the glory of 2025 at the same venue. “I’d like to think that I’ll play a little bit freer and I’ll play, like I’ve already got a Green Jacket, which I do,” McIlroy said. “Sometimes I maybe just have to remind myself of that. The pairing will be just a little bit easier, the atmosphere out there will be a little bit easier.

Published: April 12, 2026, 12:24 am

Donald Trump and Marco Rubio watch UFC fights in Miami as peace talks with Iran fail

• President has long been a fan of mixed martial arts

• Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr also at event

Donald Trump and US secretary of state Marco Rubio attended a UFC event in Miami night on Saturday night as peace talks with Iran failed on the other side of the world.

Trump entered the Kaseya Center shortly after 9pm alongside several members of his family and UFC chief Dana White, who has been a supporter of the president since his first term. Seated nearby was Rubio as well as US ambassador to India Sergio Gor, the rapper Vanilla Ice and former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino.

Published: April 12, 2026, 12:32 pm

Lavelle and Heaps score as USA women ease past Japan to open friendly series

• Lavelle scores on landmark 100th US start

• Heaps adds winner after sweeping counter

• Emma Hayes’ side make it 10 straight wins

Rose Lavelle celebrated her 100th start with a goal and an assist to help the US women’s national team to a 2-1 win in San Jose, California, on Saturday to open a three-match series against Japan.

Lavelle, in her 119th match, scored in the ninth minute off a set piece then set up Lindsey Heaps in the 48th for the 2-0 lead.

Published: April 11, 2026, 11:55 pm

Gout Gout leaves onlookers dumbfounded with record-breaking run drawn from the future | Jack Snape

The sprint sensation was pushed to new heights in the 200m final by an unlikely opponent at the Australian Athletics Championships

It didn’t look good for Gout Gout. He had started the 200m final at the Australian Athletics Championships relatively well, and was positioned just off the lead at the start of the straight.

But, there – who was that? The man wearing all black, two lanes on the inside. An athlete who appeared to match the global phenomenon step by step just when Gout was expected to pull away.

Published: April 12, 2026, 7:30 am

Tyson Fury returns with unanimous points win over Makhmudov and wants Joshua next

• Fury easily defeats Russian by unanimous decision

• Joshua was ringside and initially evades Fury’s challenge

Tyson Fury completed the first stage of his latest comeback when he outclassed Arslanbek Makhmudov in an uninspiring near shutout over 12 rounds late on Saturday night. The former world heavyweight champion has retired on five previous occasions and, each time, he has been unable to resist the lure of a return to the ring. Now, even at the age of 37, he was still too fast, fluid and accurate for the lumbering Makhmudov.

The Russian from Dagestan hits hard and 17 of his previous 21 victories had featured successful stoppages within the first three rounds. But Makhmudov has never faced a heavyweight of Fury’s pedigree. The chasm between them was obvious from the second round and reflected in the scorecards as two judges had Fury winning each round, in a 120-108 victory, while the third official recorded a 119-109 margin.

Published: April 11, 2026, 10:28 pm

Bournemouth expose Schrödinger’s Arsenal, a team that could be either dead or alive | Paul MacInnes

Mikel Arteta urged fans to bring ‘your lunch, bring your dinner’ but when the set pieces fail to fire his side are short of a full plate

It was another one of those games where Arsenal had found it necessary to rouse the troops beforehand. Mikel Arteta, in his occasional, unusual jokey mode, had urged Arsenal fans to “bring your lunch, bring your dinner” and make this 12.30 kick-off an occasion.

The players, meanwhile, had been training under the eye of a big screen broadcasting footage of Arsenal in happy, successful moments, presumably to encourage the creation of more. “Every game, we have to be there,” Arteta said. So were they?

Published: April 11, 2026, 4:03 pm

Rio Ngumoha sparks Liverpool win over wasteful Fulham with first Anfield goal

At the end of a stormy week for Arne Slot there was respite in the form of a morale-boosting display from Rio Ngumoha. Liverpool’s 17-year-old winger marked his second Premier League start with an exquisite goal and a key role in the second from Mohamed Salah as the troubled champions celebrated a first league win since February.

Liverpool seemed vulnerable after painful cup quarter-final defeats at Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain had intensified the pressure on Slot. The ingredients were in place for Anfield to turn toxic. Fulham never put that fragility to the test. Marco Silva’s team were passive and limited in front of goal while Liverpool, re-energised by the virtuosity of Ngumoha, found the clinical touch and resolve to reach the landmark of 1,500 league wins at Anfield. It was only their second win in six games following a Champions League away trip this season and should restore some confidence before the daunting assignment against PSG on Tuesday. Ngumoha pressed his claims for inclusion from the start.

Published: April 11, 2026, 6:34 pm

Real talk: Chelsea punished Enzo Fernández for exposing project’s fatal flaw | Jonathan Wilson

Manchester City can brush off Rodri’s comments but Chelsea’s existential angst helps explain suspension of midfielder

Enzo Fernández and Rodri would quite like to move to Madrid; many people would. They both said as much in the international break, those special parts of the season when players join up with their national teams and give interviews while apparently unaware that media are global these days: a whisper on Luzo TV can soon become a hurricane in London. But Rodri will line up for Manchester City at Chelsea on Sunday, while Fernández will not, suspended by the club for “crossing a line”.

It’s worth, perhaps, looking at exactly what was said. Fernández expressed disappointment at Enzo Maresca’s departure on New Year’s Day. “It … hurt a lot,” he told Luzo, “because we had a lot of identity, he gave us order, but it’s the way that football is, sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. But we always had a clear identity when it came to training, playing and obviously his departure hurt us especially in the middle of the season – it cuts everything short.” Sadness that a manager has gone surely isn’t a crime; it could even be supportive of Liam Rosenior and the difficulty of taking over a club mid-season.

Published: April 11, 2026, 7:00 pm

Chelsea v Manchester City: Premier League – live

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Chelsea make two changes to the side that walloped Port Vale last weekend. Their two MCs, Marc Cucurella and Moises Caicedo, replace Tosin Adarabioyo and Romeo Lavia.

No surprise that Manchester City are unchanged from the thumping win over Liverpool.

Published: April 12, 2026, 2:19 pm

Birmingham’s Vicente and Klarer deliver huge blow to Wrexham’s playoff hopes

Wrexham missed the chance to move within a point of the Sky Bet Championship playoff places after they suffered a 2-0 defeat by Birmingham at St Andrew’s.

The visitors’ dream of an unprecedented fourth straight promotion was dealt a massive blow after they were beaten for a second consecutive match which leaves them four points behind sixth-placed Hull with four games to play.

Published: April 12, 2026, 1:36 pm

Scottish Premiership: Rangers hit Falkirk for six to keep pace with Hearts and Celtic

• Danny Röhl’s side storm back to win 6-3 after trailing 2-0

• Saturday scores: Hearts 3-1 Motherwell, Celtic 1-0 St Mirren

Rangers fought back from two goals down to keep their Scottish Premiership title charge alive with a frenetic 6-3 win at Falkirk.

Danny Röhl side trailed to goals from Ben Broggio and Finn Yeats in a shambolic first-half performance. But Tochi Chukwuani gave Rangers hope with a controversial goal just before the interval. Three goals in 11 minutes early in the second half then turned the tide in Rangers’ favour. Youssef Chermiti equalised and Nicolas Raskin put Rangers ahead before Bojan Miovski grabbed the visitors’ fourth.

Published: April 12, 2026, 1:31 pm

Wasted weekend takes wind out of WSL’s sails … and get ready for more

With the season reaching its climax and weather improving, it’s ideal for attracting fans, but the fixture list is blank

Momentum can be extremely powerful. Just ask Wrexham, anyone involved in English women’s football in the aftermath of Euro 2022 or the scientists calculating Artemis II’s route for Nasa.

The climax to the domestic women’s football season in England, and around Europe, has lost its momentum as an extended international break has arrived. That, coupled with the Easter weekend’s Women’s FA Cup quarter-finals before the international window, means there will be nearly four weeks without WSL fixtures, at a time when the weather is improving, jeopardy surrounding fixtures’ permutations is increasing and interest should be swelling.

Published: April 12, 2026, 7:00 am

European football: Bayern break Bundesliga goals record and close on title

• Goretzka hits leaders’ 102nd goal in 5-0 win at St Pauli

• Ferran Torres double helps Barcelona beat Espanyol 4-1

Bayern Munich crushed hosts St Pauli 5-0 in the Bundesliga to set an all-time season scoring record while also extending their lead at the top to 12 points with five games left to play.

The Bavarian club, who host Real Madrid on Wednesday in their Champions League quarter-final second leg after their 2-1 win in Spain, are within touching distance of the league title on 76 points, with second-placed Borussia Dortmund stuck on 64 after their 1-0 home loss to Bayer Leverkusen.

Published: April 11, 2026, 7:08 pm

Dewsbury-Hall strikes late for Everton to deny Brentford after Igor Thiago double

Two more Igor Thiago goals, yet another solitary Brentford point and a shared dream of European football that remains alive for both clubs. If a game can simultaneously prove drab and pulsating, this was somehow it – all bluster and endeavour forming a peculiar blend of incohesion in the hope of securing a rare continental prize.

A draw was, perhaps, a fair outcome, for all of Keith Andrews’ understandable disappointment at his side conceding Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s injury-time equaliser. Brentford have lost just one of their last nine Premier League matches, but the past four have, frustratingly, been drawn.

Published: April 11, 2026, 4:13 pm

Notts v Glamorgan, Somerset hammer Essex, and more: county cricket, day three – live

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Not too much to report from OT this morning, apart from an increasingly ominous sky. Jimmy Anderson winds up for his first over of the day from the JA End. Derbys 248-3 trail by 103.

Something of a tall order, but an opportunity for Asa Tribe to do a Ben McKinney.

Published: April 12, 2026, 2:25 pm

Wigan edge out Wakefield in thriller to set up mouthwatering Saints semi-final

• Quarter-final: Wakefield 22-26 Wigan

• Warriors to meet St Helens in Challenge Cup last four

Wigan Warriors survived an attritional Challenge Cup quarter-final against Wakefield Trinity to set up a mouthwatering semi-final showdown with their great rivals St Helens next month.

Having suffered the rare of occurrence of back-to-back defeats coming into the standout tie of the quarter-finals, there was a fair argument that Wigan travelled across the Pennines as underdogs against a Wakefield side who are threatening to become a major force in Super League. But Matt Peet’s side came through a gruelling and engrossing tie to keep their hopes of a record-extending 22nd Challenge Cup crown alive, with Zach Eckersley’s try in the final quarter ultimately the difference.

Published: April 12, 2026, 2:11 pm

Arsenal angst, De Zerbi targets Spurs revival, Wrexham and Rangers in action – matchday live

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Celtic and Hearts both picked up three points in the (super-tight) Scottish Premiership title race yesterday, with Derek McInnes’s side leaving it super late to beat Motherwell 3-1 after going a goal down. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored Celtic’s only goal against St Mirren.

All of which puts the pressure on Rangers, who make the relatively short trip to Falkirk today (midday kick-off, BST). A win would cut Hearts’ lead back to a single point, defeat would leave Danny Röhl’s men third.

Published: April 12, 2026, 11:57 am

Wallaroos’ hopes of breakthrough win washed away by Canada in stormy conditions

• Australia shut out in 24-0 defeat to world No 2 in Sacramento

• Lightning delays start of Pacific Four rugby clash by more than an hour

The Wallaroos have fallen short in their quest for a breakthrough victory over Canada, but can take heart from a 24-0 defeat in their opening match of the Pacific Four rugby series.

After conceding more than 40 points in their past two meetings against the world No 2 side, the Australian women delivered an improved performance in tough conditions in their Sacramento clash on Sunday.

Published: April 12, 2026, 6:39 am

Gout Gout smashes 20-second barrier to set new 200m national record

• Sprint sensation clocks 19.67sec with legal +1.7m/s tailwind in final

• Aidan Murphy runs second best time by an Australian with 19.88sec

Teenage sprint phenomenon Gout Gout has smashed his own national 200m record and become the first Australian to break the 20-second barrier in legal conditions as he sprinted to victory in 19.67sec at the athletics championships in Sydney.

Aidan Murphy pushed the 18-year-old deep into the straight and finished with the second best 200m time by an Australian of 19.88sec, with a tailwind of +1.7m/s.

Published: April 12, 2026, 4:18 am

Tyson Fury beats Arslanbek Makhmudov by unanimous decision – as it happened

Tyson Fury dominated Arslanbek Makhmudov over 12 rounds, then called out a ringside Anthony Joshua, who offered a lukewarm response

It’s pretty cold out here in Tottenham tonight but at least the atmosphere is starting to heat up. The arena is around 80% full and a sign that the once magnetic power of Tyson Fury is just fading a little as, at various promotional events this week, they were reduced to plugging ticket availability. Clearly, the fact that Arslanbek Makhmudov is not a stellar name has contributed to Fury’s failure to sell out the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium tonight. But time is also ticking for Fury and his latest return follows two narrow defeats in a row to the mighty Oleksandr Usyk.

Conor Benn v Regis Prograis is about to start. I’ve been close to Prograis over the years and was in his locker room for one of the great world title nights of his career. But Prograis is 37 now and this could be a hard night…

Published: April 11, 2026, 10:35 pm

The Masters 2026: final round – live

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Scott will be here at around 6pm (BST). In the meantime, catch up with the dramatic action from round three by reading Ewan’s Murray’s report:

Here’s how Rory McIlroy felt after letting his six-shot lead slip:

Published: April 12, 2026, 11:23 am

Cameron Young reels in Rory McIlroy with pack on their tails for Masters finale

• McIlroy’s 73 leaves him tied on 11 under after Young’s 65

• Lowry, Rose and Scheffler among nine within five shots

Rory McIlroy began this Masters in the company of Cameron Young and will finish it in the company of Cameron Young. McIlroy arrived at this tournament as the holder of the Green Jacket. By Sunday night he will …? Goodness only knows. Day three proved predictions are a fool’s errand at the Masters.

Such drama played out at Augusta National on Saturday that by close of play it was extraordinary to see McIlroy’s name still atop the leaderboard, albeit now with Young for company. Both are 11 under par. From holding a six-shot lead at the start of the round – and eight over Young – McIlroy inexplicably wobbled. His 73 was one involving intense struggle. “I knew today wouldn’t be easy,” said McIlroy. “I didn’t quite have it today. I’ll need to be better tomorrow.”

Published: April 11, 2026, 11:27 pm

Sensational Scheffler reminds everyone why he is still No 1 with Masters masterclass | Andy Bull

The American shoots sublime 65 in a show of strength to give himself a chance of a third title at Augusta

On Friday evening Scottie Scheffler was in the new player facility going back and forth over his putting game. Despite himself, he got sucked into watching what Rory McIlroy was doing on the big TVs the club have up in the training room. “It was pretty special stuff,” Scheffler admitted. And by the time McIlroy had finished Scheffler, the world’s No 1 golfer, had a different perspective on the tournament. He had scored 70 and 74 himself, and was even-par for the tournament, 12 shots off McIlroy’s lead, with 36 holes to play and nothing left to lose.

All of a sudden a tournament which has a way of making the game feel very complicated indeed had become very simple for him. Scheffler needed birdies. And he got them. He made five altogether, along with an eagle. He scored 65, seven under. It was the best round he’s ever played in the Masters. “I think that’s what great players do,” Scheffler said. “They rise to the occasion when you are at the biggest tournaments, and you’d be hard pressed to find another tournament that’s bigger than this one, especially for me.”

Published: April 11, 2026, 11:05 pm

The Masters day three: Rory McIlroy level with Cameron Young after losing outright lead – as it happened

Cameron Young shot 65 to wipe out Rory McIlroy’s big lead on Moving Day at Augusta National. Scott Murray was watching

Max Homa led at this stage two years ago, ending the week in third spot after falling away over the weekend with a pair of 73s. Undaunted, he came back last year, and tied for 12th. The 35-year-old Californian has fallen in love with Augusta National late in life, and he’s going well again this week. Birdies at 1 and 2 have whisked him up the standings to -4.

While we’re waiting for the leading players to take to the course, we’ve got time to indulge in a wee spot of Masters nostalgia. This episode of This Golfing Life, a wonderful new golf podcast hosted by the award-winning journalist and author Dan Davies, dives deep into the career of the 1980 and 1983 champion, the legendary Seve Ballesteros, and comes much recommended. (Fans of Paddington and Maurice Flitcroft may enjoy this episode too.) Get on it!

Published: April 11, 2026, 11:04 pm