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Oct 30, 2026 - Sports

Head coach reflects on ‘not always rosy’ conversationsPlayers ‘hurting’ after eight games without a winMichael Carrick said he has had difficult conversations with the Manchester United hierarchy and his players during their turbulent start to the season.United have not won in their past eight games and start the weekend in 16th place of 20 in the league, one point above the relegation zone. Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - Sports

European-trained runners completed a second successive clean sweep of the juvenile events on turf at a Keeneland Breeders’ Cup OFF AND RUNNING IN THE BREEDERS’ CUP JUVENILE TURF SPRINT!They are down at the start before the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, Libertango remains a solid favourite at 2-1. And they’re loading now … Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - Sports

Bristol 16-22 LeicesterVisitors score four tries in error-strewn gameIn the end there was a relatively clear winner of this straight shootout for top spot in the Prem. Leicester took the spoils in an error-strewn contest between two sides who began the night in second and third position, scoring four tries to one and being masterfully steered to a bonus point victory by their alert fly-half Billy Searle.Following on from their commanding second-half display in the wet at home to Northampton, the Tigers were far from perfect but had the game’s outstanding player in Searle, whose left boot set up three of his side’s tries in addition to landing two conversions. Bristol, reduced to 13 players in the second quarter by a brace of yellow cards, had their moments but ultimately coughed up possession far too often. Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - Sports

Bets predicted exact top-five men’s finishing orderOrganiser France Football has contacted policeA series of suspicious bets that correctly predicted the exact top-five finishing order of this year’s Ballon d’Or and generated almost $200,000 (£149,000) in winnings is being investigated by the event’s organisers, France Football, who have also contacted the police.It has been alleged that 12 Polymarket accounts – an American cryptocurrency-based prediction market – placed the bets, with more than $264,000 wagered on the outcome before Monday’s ceremony. Their extraordinary accuracy has raised serious questions about a potential leak of confidential results before football’s most prestigious individual award. Harry Kane was crowned the winner at the ceremony at the London Palladium, finishing ahead of Kylian Mbappé, Lamine Yamal, Rodri and Lionel Messi. Remarkably, this was the exact order predicted by the group of accounts identified in French media outlet Upside’s investigation. Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - Sports

Arsenal have not won at Liverpool for 13 league games but Gunners’ win in 1989 remains one of club’s greatest nightsMikel Arteta used a Spanish word to describe what it felt like to be helpless at Anfield while playing for Everton in 2011: bajar. “It’s when a cyclist is going up and looks amazing, then in one kilometre he goes ‘boom’ and he’s struggling again,” he said in Amazon’s All or Nothing documentary. “The game was going well and then suddenly I could only see red shirts flying around. The game is passing all over me and I cannot react. I only had that feeling in my career once, and it was at Anfield.”Given Arteta’s record at Liverpool, Sunday’s showdown with his childhood friend Andoni Iraola – five days after Arsenal were dumped out of the Carabao Cup by Fleetwood – could be expected to fill him with dread. Arteta finally tasted victory there as a player with Arsenal in September 2012, after five failed attempts in the Merseyside derby, but ended up spending the night in hospital with concussion after colliding with Jordan Henderson in an incident he has described as “the biggest fear of my life”. Continue reading...