9 h. ago Ashes second Test state of play as Australia close in on another win over sorry England

England are taking on Australia in the second Test of the Ashes and they trail 1-0 in the series with Day Three just completed at The Gabba in Brisbane.

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16 h. ago Ashes 2025 live score: England’s hopes in tatters as Australia close in on second Test victory

Ben Stokes’s side are facing a 2-0 deficit in Australia

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17 h. ago Sun setting on England’s Ashes dream as Australia close on second Test triumph

Second Test, D3: England 334 & 134-6; Australia 511Tourists collapse under lights, still trailing by 43Saturday night at the Gabba witnessed a collapse to rank among England’s most demoralising on Australian soil. In fact the entire third day could be filed under that category: three sessions of one-way traffic on Vulture Street that mean the Ashes urn is unlikely to change hands.Even the word “unlikely” is a simple nod to the fact that in nearly 150 years of Test cricket a 2-0 deficit has been overcome once before; that it remains mathematically possible. But the way the first five days of this series have played out — the way Mitchell Starc has taken residence in English minds and painted the walls fuchsia pink — this is the stuff of fantasy. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago England snubbed as Wesley Sneijder picks four favourites to win World Cup

World Cup finalist Wesley Sneijder has had his say on whom he expects to challenge for next year's crown, and it's not good news for England fans after Friday's group draw

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32 h. ago World Cup 2026: England overwhelming favourites to win group but Thomas Tuchel must overcome added challenge

Three Lions will begin their World Cup campaign against Croatia

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38 h. ago World Cup 2026 draw live: How to watch and who England can face in group stages

England are among the favourites to win the 2026 World Cup and Thomas Tuchel's men are set to find out their pathway through the group stage draw

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41 h. ago World Cup 2026 Odds: Who is the favourite to win the tournament? England, Scotland and Spain assessed

Who is the favourite to win the World Cup 2026? Latest odds in England, Scotland, Spain and France.

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41 h. ago Ashes 2025 live score: Australia take the lead but England rejuvenated after Steve Smith dismissal

Jacks’s acrobatics secured the wicket of Steve Smith (61) to give England hope as Australia close in on a first innings lead at The Gabba

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42 h. ago Ashes 2025 live score: England rejuvenated after stunning Will Jacks catch removes Steve Smith

Jacks’s acrobatics secured the wicket of Steve Smith (61) to give England hope as Australia close in on a first innings lead at The Gabba

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54 h. ago Arsene Wenger predicts World Cup 2026 winners with England to miss out and Argentina not defending trophy

ARSENE WENGER claims England could win the World Cup but admits the Three Lions are not as good as France. England will discover their opponents on Friday for next summer’s tournament in the United States, Mexico and Canada with the draw due to start at 5pm. Former Arsenal boss Wenger, now FIFA’s chief of global...

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57 h. ago Why is it called the Ashes? What is inside the urn that England and Australia play for?

The second Test of the Ashes series takes place across the weekend as England look to fight back against Australia

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65 h. ago Declan Rice's first words since alarming injury blow that forced Arsenal man off

Declan Rice was forced off with a suspected calf injury during Arsenal's 2-0 Premier League win against Brentford and the England star has since shared messages on Instagram

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68 h. ago Declan Rice injury update as Arsenal handed major boost after new double scare

England midfielder and Cristhian Mosquera both forced off during Brentford win as tough Aston Villa trip looms

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3 d. ago Ashes 2025 second Test LIVE: England win the toss and Stokes decides to bat

The second test of the 2025 Ashes between England and Australia is underway at the Gabba with the hosts ahead in the series

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3 d. ago Cummins conundrum is key as Australia try not to overthink tactics

Will the captain return? Will Nathan Lyon play? Who will open? Ashes hostilities are renewed and the hosts don’t need to ask too many questionsAt last, at long last, an Ashes series is about to start. It feels that way, anyway, after so many months of lead-up, such an eternal blur of preview and prediction and preamble, were supposed to reach their end – only to find that the end was instead a momentary interruption, a hiccup, an indigestion-dream of a Test from Perth, a contest done in the span of 31 hours, leaving everyone to return to punditry and prognostication for a further 11 blasted and benighted days.We are, for pity’s sake, in a discussion cycle about Ben Stokes correctly applying a bike helmet while not on a bike, or Steve Smith correctly applying eye-black stickers in his Tim Tebow tribute act, or the archaeologically uncovered fact that Australian teams have a good record at the Gabba. Like farmers waiting for the rains, we are praying for play to start to let us talk a...

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3 d. ago Wheelchair rugby league is booming in England – they even won the Ashes

England’s 2-0 series win in the Ashes was the perfect preparation for the World Cup in Australia next yearBy No Helmets RequiredEngland did win the Ashes last month. The wheelchair team’s 2-0 series victory in Australia went under the radar in the UK. With games played in the early hours and not screened on mainstream TV, the team missed out on the adulation that came their way when they won the World Cup in Manchester three years ago. “The forgotten Ashes? That’s sad if it’s true,” says the coach, Tom Coyd. “The NRL showed great engagement and we did loads of media there, but we were in a bubble and pretty disconnected from back home.”England will return to Australia next year to defend their world title. The favourites will be expected to beat Wales, USA and Ireland in their group before facing the second and third best teams in the world – France and Australia – in the knockout stages of the tournament in Wollongong. The Ashes series taught Coyd vital lessons about how to manage ...

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4 d. ago Wednesday’s briefing: Haaland brings up hundred and England end 2025 with win

Cristian Romero salvaged a point for Tottenham with a stoppage-time overhead kick in a 2-2 draw at Newcastle.

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4 d. ago Strengthened Australia welcome England to Gabbatoir in pivotal Ashes week | Ali Martin

Ben Stokes is still bullish but the omens suggests pink-ball Test could be a nightmare on Vulture StreetMy first day at the Gabba was 23 years ago, half a lifetime having passed since I slept on my brother’s sofa across the river and followed the Ashes tour as a backpacker. The coin went up, Nasser Hussain decided to have a bowl, and Steve Waugh’s Australians cashed in on generosity.Having not returned until 2017‑18, and then covered the Covid tour four years later, the Sydney finale in 2003 remains the only time I have seen England win a Test on Australian soil. Even then I missed the last day: flat broke and forced to head back to Queensland to find work, I eventually found myself on a farm upstate, shovelling melons like a scrum-half for eight hot hours a day while dodging venomous snakes underfoot. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago I’m one of the leaders – Phil Foden ready to shoulder responsibility at Man City

The England international inspired City to a last-gasp win over Leeds.

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1 week ago England know how to win under Borthwick – now to handle great expectations | Gerard Meagher

After 11 successive victories, England will go into next year’s Six Nations as the team to beatA Six Nations grand slam, plus Nations Championship victories against South Africa and Fiji and England would head to Argentina next July having equalled their record run of 18 wins, in pursuit of a ground-breaking No 19. Sounds simple put like that, but there’s more chance of Steve Borthwick busting his best moves in England’s next viral TikTok video than him entertaining any thought of record runs.That is not to criticise, because even though Borthwick is allergic to looking too far ahead, doing so would be to get drastically carried away. The point here is that the more England keep winning, and they will enter the Six Nations next year as the team to beat after 11 on the trot, the more expectation increases. Continue reading...

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