30 h. ago Women’s Super League: Tottenham v Manchester City, Crystal Palace v Liverpool and more – live

WSL updates including Manchester United v LeicesterWhy not email Emillia with thoughts on the action8 min: Some concern for Leicester now as Chossenotte goes down with what appears to be an ankle injury following a challenge from George.4 min: It’s been all Manchester United so far at Leigh Sports Village. The hosts are dominating possession and threatening around Leicester’s box. Janssen takes the first shot of the clash, but her effort flies over the crossbar. Continue reading...

Sport

56 h. ago Will Liverpool really give women’s team serious chance to win trophies?

FSG needs to come up with an answer after sacking Matt Beard despite giving him one of the smallest WSL budgetsThe imposing image of Liverpool sitting 13 points clear at the top of the Premier League and powering towards a record-equalling 20th top-flight title brings into sharp focus the comparatively dishevelled sight of the club’s women’s team.Sitting 25 points off the pace in the league, having waited more than a decade to lift a major trophy and almost 30 years without reaching a Women’s FA Cup final, a club that once took a proud role in the women’s game remain light years away from emulating their men’s counterparts, and are now entering a critical phase as they search for a new manager for the first time in four years. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Running Point review – you’ll be desperate for Kate Hudson’s basketball comedy to end

This tale of a girlboss battling the sporting world’s patriarchy is a real grind. Perhaps it’d be funny if you care deeply about the sport but shouldn’t a comedy be able to make you laugh regardless?Are you in the mood for a basketball comedy that has some leaden jokes and some even more leaden things to say about sexism and prejudice in the US industrial sports complex? Of course you’re not. Nobody is. But it’s here, it stars Kate Hudson and it’s called Running Point so let’s deal with it.Hudson plays Isla Gordon, one of four siblings whose father owned the Los Angeles Waves basketball team. Despite being the only one of Daddy Gordon’s children who is knowledgable about the game, she has been overlooked all her life. Why? Because she is a girl and the rest of them are boys! Cue a cutesy flashback in which a child actor delivers a Sorkinesque monologue about the team’s chances and her recommended player trades while trotting beside her father down a corridor of power, before having ...

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5 d. ago Oscars 2025: best actress nominees – awards, interviews and what their chances are

What to know about the actors nominated for the Academy Awards’ biggest acting prize, along with the Guardian’s reviews and interviewsFull list of Oscar nominationsWant more? Our guides to the best picture, best actor and best director racesCareer wins and nominations: After a career marked more by box office records than silverware – bar a Golden Raspberry win – Moore, 62, has been hoovering up a lot of trophies for The Substance. She missed out on the Bafta earlier this month, and the independent spirit award, but won the Golden Globe for leading actress in a comedy or musical, as well as the Critics’ Choice trophy and the Sag award. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago ‘There is magic here’: Lewis Hamilton bullish on title challenge with Ferrari

Hamilton sets sights on record eighth world title‘The passion here is like nothing you have ever seen’Lewis Hamilton is convinced Ferrari will give him the chance to win his eighth world championship, describing his “magic” new team as having everything in place to compete.Hamilton has been reinvigorated by his switch from Mercedes and he and his teammate Charles Leclerc drove their new challenger, the SF-25, for the first time in a shakedown run at the team’s test track at Fiorano on Wednesday. Afterwards the British driver gave an unequivocal “yes” when asked if he believed he could secure a record eighth title with the Scuderia. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Lewis Hamilton risks wrath of F1 chiefs by snubbing event at London's O2 Arena

Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc will snub the chance to speak to the press ahead of Tuesday night's F1 season launch event at the O2 Arena in London

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1 week ago Real Madrid’s referee conspiracies overshadow Manchester City’s visit

As Spain dissects Jude Bellingham’s red card for swearing, the Champions League playoff has taken a back seatCarlo Ancelotti had said that before Real Madrid face Manchester City on Wednesday night, he would approach Pep Guardiola and ask him if he really thought his team had only a 1% chance of going through. Most people would rather he went up to his opposite number and said eff off instead. Better still, try that with the thousands of City supporters landing in Spain hoping for a comeback of their own this time, see how they react: a smile, an embrace, or a punch in the face? At least that way they might get an answer to the question occupying them more than any other the last three days, expletives eclipsing everything.Even, it has felt, this European tie, conspiracy winning out over what Ancelotti said had become a clásico. These are strange times, strange and very silly times. At moments they have felt like slightly sinister ones too, and definitely depressing. Apologies for t...

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2 w. ago Forgotten Chelsea flop one of nine free agent signings as Portuguese side take huge risk

Forgotten Chelsea flop Marco van Ginkel has been handed a chance to revive his career in Portugal after making four first team apperances during eight years at the Blues

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