ENGLAND has the world’s best ­penalty takers except in shoot-outs, boffins say. Players have scored nine in ten of those given during European Championship and World Cup games — ahead of Brazil and Spain. Yet England’s scoring rate in shoot-outs is the worst at six in ten. The Germans put away 85 per cent in shoot-outs — ten per cent […]

MANCHESTER CITY’S owners still hope to buy a NINTH club once the pandemic has passed. A deal for City Football Group to bag French side Nancy was all set for completion in late March. They were due to pay around £12.2million for the second-tier club but talks were put on ice after the lockdown. Nancy  President Jacques Rousselot said last […]

He was known as Big Les, boxer, trainer, father, granddad and the man at the very heart of a boxing gym for 40 years. Les Stevens went to hospital three weeks ago, it was serious, he was in a coma, intensive care, but resisting every day; the boxing world sent short films of support; “pray for him” his fighting family […]

When it comes to sporting finals, knockout matches or individual races, do you ever look back and wonder what might have happened? What the outcome could, and perhaps should, have been? Click to subscribe on Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Spreaker ​​ The people involved in those historic sporting moments certainly do, and Sky Sports’ new podcast ‘The One That […]

Yorkshire have cancelled the contracts of the three overseas players that were due to play for the county in 2020. No cricket will be played in England and Wales until July 1 at the earliest due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the structure of the season beyond that unknown. Archer reunited with World Cup medal Sir Viv: Supporters at Somerset […]

LEV YASHIN has been named the greatest goalkeeper of all-time in a rundown by France Football. English shot-stoppers and Manchester United heroes feature highly in the top-ten list that sees the Black Spider come out on top. With a career that spanned 20 years, Yashin only ever played for Dynamo Moscow and the USSR, winning the 1960 European Championship and […]

(REUTERS) – A player from the defunct XFL who was expelled from university for cheating in an online exam will now have an opportunity to forge out a career in the National Football League (NFL). Kenny Robinson was taken by the Carolina Panthers as the 152nd pick in the draft that wrapped up on Saturday (April 25), and while he […]

The Grey Cup may finally belong to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after a 29-year drought, but the CFL’s championship trophy has had a local connection for years, in the person of the white-gloved man who keeps it safe. Jeff McWhinney, the league’s official Keeper of the Cup, was born in Winnipeg, and his personal links to the trophy run much […]

SINGAPORE – The coronavirus pandemic has not only brought sports in stadiums, swimming pools and sports halls here to a halt, but also other sports-related activity outside of these venues. The election of leaders for some national sports associations (NSAs) will now have to wait, as some are considering or have already postponed their annual general meetings (AGMs), which is […]

So, how do you think they did? There’s little doubt that Joe Douglas, conducting his first NFL draft as a general manager, made the Jets better over the past three days. He targeted one of the top collegiate tackles and he pounced on Louisville’s Mekhi Becton with the 11th-overall pick in the first round Thursday night. Then he deftly traded […]