Rugby
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Saracens v Bristol Bears Preview
Saracens managed to perform a miracle last Sunday, they got everyone on this message board to agree! We simply weren’t good enough and Sale took a deserved victory. Suddenly this Saturday’s game against Bristol Bears has become hugely important.
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SARRIES V SALE SHARKS MATCH REPORT V 2
well it's 2 for 1 today owing to a mix-up among the eds. Here is a 2nd version of the match. Unfortunately the result is the same. You know how it feels when things aren’t great and you have this lovely dream. Then you wake and for a few precious seconds its like the dream is real. Then reality returns with a band. So last week was a bit like that. After the dreariness of much of last season came the win against Leicester but today the dream was just that, a dream, and we return to grim reality.
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Saracens v Sale Sharks Premiership Report
The feel-good factor from that excellent 5-pointer win at Welford Road lasted precisely one week and today brought us crashing back down to reality. Today’s game was flat and error-ridden that Sale Sharks exploited with ruthless efficiency. Sale are definitely bottom 3 (if not 2nd worst) team in the league and SOMEHOW the team once again delivered a horribly underwhelming show at home to secure 1 losing bonus point and nothing more. This report is naturally a short one as I somewhat lost interest about 60 minutes in and started cooking dinner instead! I should note I was not in attendance at StoneX today, couldn’t get out of plans made months ago and was forced to watch from the tv. Saracens ticketing office have made it impossible to try and transfer tickets over to anybody with their ridiculous and dysfunctional App (why do we even need an app anyway?) so, I couldn’t even give my own ticket to a mate who wanted to go. Grr grumble over.
Cricket
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CC1 The Ultimate End Game - Surrey at Taunton Roll the Dice
The last game of the season, the only thing in our hands is whether we win the gsame or not. The points combinations after that are wide and varied. Us Warks or Notts take yer pick. All we can do is wortk with what we have and see how the chips fall. Surrey have won the toss and TKC comes in for Jake Ball and other than that it is the Leeds line-up. Off we go on the rollercoaster of the CC1!!
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CC1 Penultimate End Game v Yorks in Leeds
And so we move into the end of the Championship. If we are to win this thing then this game will tell us what to do in the last home game next week. 3 games will effect the situation, we have control over only one as we meet Yorkshire at Headingley. Lewis Goldsworthy misses out to Archie Vaughan and Jake Ball is chosen instead of Josh Shaw. The rest of the side is the one that took Leicestershire down in 2 and a half days. Yorkshire won the toss and will take to the crease first.
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Women's Metrobank 50 Surrey - Next 'Must Win'
The path to silverware comes like this. Beat Surrey today at the Oval. The beat Hampshire at Southamptonin the 'Eliminator' next Wednesday. Then beat Notts at the same place in the Final. Simples. The path starts today with a game in London. Win and we go on, lose and an excellent season ends at that point. Hope Springs eternal. Liv Barnes returns in stead of Jazz Westley today.
Football
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ArtetaBall: Old Man Football Reimagined
ArtetaBall is, in many ways, Old Man Football reborn. A skeuomorph is a modern invention deliberately designed to resemble what came before it. Arteta's football reflects that idea perfectly. It combines elements of Giovanni Trapattoni's Juventus, Arrigo Sacchi's Milan, aspects of catenaccio and the libero role, and even traces of Dutch totaalvoetbal. What it lacks is the relentless intensity of Jürgen Klopp's gegenpressing.
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Tellly Clapping
The second Saturday on the trot when you can watch Rovers on the box. This must be how it would feel if we ever made it to the Premier League. Yet the guilt, watching on TV instead of going, remains.
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England Player Ratings v Czech Republic
Here we rate the players following our 2 – 0 victory in Prague:
F1
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Bahrain GP: Race of issues for Williams F1 Team
The 2026 Bahrain GP was a race that would see the Atlassian Williams F1 Team come away with Carlos Sainz managing only 17th and Alex Albon would retire with a gearbox failure. It was a race that would see the team suffer quite a few issues which would impact their race. The race would be delayed after confusion during the first formation lap with a wet track and at the restart both Carlos and Alex would make the right tyre choice seeing them running inside the top ten. But as the race progressed the first of the issues would see Carlos spun round after being hit by another car. This saw him drop well down the order seeing any chance of a good result disappear. Add on to this there were issues with having to double stack during a pit stop, Alex have issues with his car including his brakes and then the gearbox failure. But the biggest issue still was the overall lack of performance from the upgraded FW48 that would hamper both drivers pace. Overall Sepang was a race that started well but faded away quickly for the Atlassian Williams F1 Team.
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Bahrain GP: Mixed qualifying for Atlassian Williams F1 Team
Qualifying for the 2026 Bahrain GP at the Sepang circuit would see the Atlassian Williams F1 Team come away with a very mixed set of results. After several practice sessions that saw both Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon well down the times qualifying was not looking very promising but in an encouraging result Carlos would make it into Q2 and was able to finish 13th. For Alex his session was very different with Alex only managing 20th and failed to get out of Q1. So a very mixed session for the team and drivers but from the perspective of Carlos a good session where he was able to get a good result from the FW48 given his limitations.
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Bahrain GP: Difficult Friday for Atlassian Williams F1 Team
The Friday practice sessions for thew 2026 Bahrain GP would prove to be very difficult for the Atlassian Williams F1 Team. Coming into the weekend with their newly upgraded FW48 it was still uncertain as to whether the Sepang track would suit the car. As the sessions progressed both Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon would struggle for pace finishing the day well down the times with Carlos 17th and Alex 20th. Hopefully the team will be able to find solutions going into qualifying and the race but it is going to be diffcult.
Golf
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Ryder Cup 2014 Day1- Fourball Pairings & Foursomes
At last it begins - Go Europe
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La Manga best Golf Resort in Spain
The five-star La Manga Club has been named as the best golf resort in Spain for the third successive year.
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Change to selection process for European Ryder Cup Captain
The European Ryder Cup Captain, from the 2016 contest onwards, will be decided by a select five-man panel; it has been announced today by Ryder Cup Europe.
