Championship wrap: McClean spurs Wigan fightback
James McClean scored directly from a corner as he helped to spur a second-half comeback for Wigan Athletic, who rallied to beat Blackpool 2-1 in the Sky Bet Championship.
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Tunbridge Wells' Will Bayley beats Jean-Paul Montanus to gold at World Para Table Tennis Championships while Minster's Ross Wilson wins bronze
Tunbridge Wells' Will Bayley produced a brilliant performance to take gold at the World Para Table Tennis Championships in Andalucia.
England and Pakistan eye T20 title in throwback final
MELBOURNE : A confident England will look to deny Pakistan a fairytale finish in Sunday's Twenty20 World Cup final and become the first nation to hold both global white-ball trophies - if Melbourne's fickle weather permits.
Mane makes Senegal World Cup squad despite injury scare
Senegal boss Aliou Cisse said Sadio Mane does not need an operation on the injury he sustained playing for Bayern Munich. PHOTO: BBCSports
Leclerc qualifies 10th after Ferrari tyre blunder
SAO PAULO : Ferrari added another blunder to a season's list of errors on Friday when they sent Charles Leclerc into a pole position shootout in Brazil with different tyres to everyone else.
Magnussen claims maiden pole in the rain for Haas
SAO PAULO: Kevin Magnussen took full advantage of dramatically changing wet conditions to secure a sensational maiden pole position on his 100th Formula One appearance for the Haas team in Friday’s qualifying for this weekend’s Sao Paulo Grand Prix. As heavy rain descended on the Interlagos circuit, the final Q3 session ended in euphoric uproar with the popular and modest 30-year-old Dane sitting in his car celebrating while the clock ran down. He became the first Danish pole-sitter and the first to achieve the feat for the Haas tea in his 140th Grand Prix and his team’s 143rd.
Hosts Qatar name fully home-based squad for World Cup
Qatar coach Felix Sanchez selected a 26-man squad World Cup on Friday exclusively made up of home-based players led by attacking trio Akram Afif, Almoez Ali and Hassan Al-Haydos. The tournament hosts are playing at the World Cup for the first time and face Ecuador in the opening match on November 20. Qatar will also meet Senegal and the Netherlands in Group A. Sanchez and his players have been staying together in near-lockdown since June while holding training camps in Spain and Austria. It is a similar approach to that of South Korea 20 years ago when the co-hosts made a shock run to the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup. Sanchez, who learned his trade over 10 years with Barcelona's youth teams, guided Qatar to a 3-1 victory over Japan in the 2019 Asian Cup final for the country's first major international title. "In 2019, it was difficult to imagine that Qatar could win the Asian Cup," Sanchez said recently in an interview with Spanish sports daily Marca. "Obviously, I'm not talking about winning the World cup but to play at a good level against these three opponents is our challenge. Afterwards, it's football and anything can happen."
Argentina taking fewer forward than Brazil to World Cup
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina are taking nine defenders, seven midfielders and seven forward to the World Cup in Qatar as coach Lionel Scaloni’s team aim to build on their Copa America success. Scaloni announced his 26-player squad — which contains two fewer forward than the roster for traditional rival Brazil — in a video on Friday. He is scheduled to speak about his choices on Monday.