18 h. ago Inside role of Premier League loans manager securing transfers before chaos of deadline day

One Premier League icon is now responsible for overseeing the temporary transfers of players at his former club after taking an alternative route to the boardroom

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69 h. ago I smoked 20 cigarettes a day and still managed to play rugby for Wales

Chris Wyatt won 38 caps for Wales and was a key figure in the side that won a record-equalling 10 successive Tests in 1999, but he was known for his off-field antics

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3 d. ago Rugby legend Gareth Thomas taking Tackle HIV campaign to Rugby World Cup fan zone

While Wales play for their Women's Rugby World Cup survival in Manchester, Thomas will be in the centre of the city spreading awareness.

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4 d. ago BBC legend's 6ft 10in nephew is young England rugby star but could play for Wales

The teenage lock currently plays hsi rugby across the border but is eligible to play for Wales

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5 d. ago ‘My sister, my God. It’s a visceral pain that never goes away’: Miriam Toews on a memoir of suicide and silence

Having fled the strictures of her Mennonite upbringing, the Canadian author searches for meaning in her older sister’s death: ‘She taught me how to stay alive’Long before she became one of Canada’s most celebrated authors, Miriam Toews was an 18-year-old with a restless streak, set on fleeing the strictures of her conservative Mennonite community. Toews’s family descended from Russian Mennonites and spoke Plautdietsch, an unwritten language. They grew up in a world with little privacy, many unofficial rules and the threat of excommunication. Toews and a boyfriend had planned a bike trip across Europe, one in which they would sit on the grave of John Keats and smoke too many cigarettes.Before she left, her older sister Marj asked a favor: would Toews write letters to her while she was away? Marj, then 24, had recently moved back home and was in a period of deep depression. She had stopped talking, but she would still write. “She was so sick,” says Toews, sitting across from me at a p...

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6 d. ago Man Utd fan favourite wants transfer as Ruben Amorim frustrations boil over

Manchester United have entered the last seven days of the transfer window, with manager Ruben Amorim having a lot to resolve ahead of deadline day

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7 d. ago ‘The 90s were remarkable – we weren’t all living in existential terror!’ Darren Aronofsky on Caught Stealing, his love letter to New York

Famed for intense dramas like Black Swan, the director’s latest film is a riotous retro crime caper. He explains why he’s battling TikTok – but embracing AIDarren Aronofsky’s new film is a blast from the past; a half-cut retro tour of late-1990s New York. Beetling around the tatty East Village, casually framing the twin towers downtown, it lifts the lid on a time that has been and gone: when the city was a melting pot of miscreants and misfits, when lowly bar staff could still afford Gotham rents,, and when every car came equipped with a cigarette lighter. “Don’t they have those any more?” says Aronofksy, frowning at his untouched cup of herbal tea. “I don’t know, maybe not. It’s been many years since I smoked a cigarette.”Caught Stealing, he says, could almost be his parallel-universe first movie, given that it’s set in 1998, around the time he was shooting his actual first film, Pi, on the same East Side streets. He was in his late 20s back then, subsisting on pizza and living in ...

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9 d. ago Tottenham manager Thomas Frank continues flying start as Man City star has day to forget

MANCHESTER CITY 0-2 TOTTENHAM: Spurs celebrated a 2-0 triumph as Joao Palhinha capitalised on a mistake by home debutant James Trafford shortly after Brennan Johnson had opened the scoring

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9 d. ago Granit Xhaka explains why he wanted to join Sunderland after Erik ten Hag claims

Sunderland captain Granit Xhaka has explained why he decided to make the move to the Stadium of Light, with the former Arsenal midfielder planning to become a manager one day

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9 d. ago Wales star among 20 new signings as ambitious club rip everything up and start again

The former Wales international will play in the third tier of French rugby

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1 week ago Women’s Rugby World Cup campaign tackles barriers to girls taking up the sport

Only 6% of girls aged 8 to 25 currently play rugby, 86% have never tried it and 36% say they would be more likely to play if they saw more girls taking part, the study claims.

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1 week ago Behind the scenes of Edinburgh Airport with the man who makes sure it doesn't all go wrong

The JFK of short-haul - discover a day in the life of British Airways’ Edinburgh airport manager James Birch, who oversees 800-plus departures from the Scottish airport this summer

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1 week ago England v USA: Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 opening game – live

Pool A updates from 7.30pm BST at Stadium of LightWomen’s rugby prepares for liftoff | Mail Alex“It’s only natural there’s some nerves,” says John Mitchell, England’s head coach. “The wait is over, now we can let our rugby do our talking on the pitch.” He’s keen to play down expectations, pointing out every team starts equal.Mitchell has done his best to take his pressure off the players in the buildup, repeatedly pointing out that New Zealand are the world champions; that England must take this crown. Trying to engineer a challenger mindset, naturally. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kirsten Dunst puffs on cigarette in LA after admitting she wants to make a movie where she doesn't 'lose money'

Kirsten Dunst was spotted enjoying a smoke break outside a cafe in Los Angeles on Monday.

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1 week ago The Regulars review – charming and funny workplace comedy at a the Prince Charles cinema

Fil Freitas’s at times hilarious black-and-white film follows staff and punters at London’s film landmark through a day on shift‘More than just a cheap ticket,” it says on the marquee above the Prince Charles in London’s Leicester Square – a cinema beloved for showing cult films, sing-alongs and all-night movie marathons. The Prince Charles is a favourite of Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino, and when news emerged it was threatened with closure earlier this year, more than 165,000 people signed a petition. Now comes a black-and-white movie, a work-based comedy following a fictionalised day in the life of the Prince Charles, shot by Fil Freitas, whose day job is duty manager at the cinema.On paper, that sounds annoyingly smug and self-conscious. But The Regulars turns out to be sweet and charming, and absolutely hilarious in places, with the easygoing, natural feel of a Richard Linklater film. Freitas shot the whole thing for £6,000, filming at night, when the cinema was closed...

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1 week ago Wayne Rooney reveals reason for career change after 'not being given a chance'

Wayne Rooney has spoken about his reason for swapping management for punditry after appearing on Match of the Day at the start of the Premier League season

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2 w. ago ‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty

A ‘safe pair of hands’ in high end TV, Caron now reunites with Vanessa Kirby for hyperactive Netflix thriller Night Always Comes about the terror of urban homelessnessIt’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjamin Caron and actor Vanessa Kirby have undertaken with their new thriller Night Always Comes, adapted from the taut novel by Willy Vlautin. Caron and Kirby met nearly a decade ago when he directed episodes of The Crown, in which she played the young Princess Margaret from behind a cloud of cigarette smoke.Now Kirby stars as a former sex worker called Lynette, toiling in multiple jobs and living with her disabled brother (Zach Gottsagen) and their wrecked, wayward mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). They have cobbled together the funds to buy their dilapidated house at a snip, only for Lynette’s mother to recklessly blow her half on a new car. Cue one manic night in which Lynette ...

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2 w. ago Ospreys to play entire season at Bridgend's Brewery Field before big move

The Ospreys have agreed to finalise a lease to make St Helen's the club's new long-term home but will play in Bridgend this season

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3 w. ago ‘The dog ate my passport’: All Blacks rookie sorts pet’s mess to rescue debut

Leroy Carter sorts shock call-up for Rugby ChampionshipCanine chewed passport he needed for Argentina tripLeroy Carter was still coming to terms with his inclusion in the All Blacks squad to play in Argentina in the opening rounds of the Rugby Championship when he made the shocking discovery. “The dog ate my passport.”The utility back with the Hamilton-based Chiefs was one of four uncapped players included in Scott Robertson’s Championship squad. The phone call from Robertson informing him of his selection had come as a massive surprise. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The dog ate my passport: Family pooch dogs rookie's All Blacks call

Rookie Leroy Carter was still coming to terms with his inclusion in the All Blacks squad to play in Argentina in the opening rounds of the Rugby Championship when he made the shocking discovery

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