
Yard Barker - 1 hour 31 min ago
Pau Cubars , the Barcelona and Spain defender, has revealed some of the moving moments in his football career, speaking about situations he has never forgotten since the start of his journey with football, alongside aspects of his personal and family life, and the people who played an important role in shaping his character on and off the pitch.

The Guardian - 2 hours 56 min ago
Updates from 7.45pm (GMT) kick-off in Madrid Get in touch: email Daniel and follow us on BlueSky The scandal of England's World Cup semi-final capitulation is already enshrined in the extensive annals of mythological failure; failure so gloriously tepid and inept it's barely failure at all, rather a perfectly pitched lyrical paean to the sacred, desperate art of getting in your own way as wimpishly as possible. It is beautiful. The truth, though and part of the beauty is it remains an ultimately...

Yard Barker - 3 hours 28 min ago
Just one year ago, Jude Bellingham was facing a storm of criticism in England, which went as far as calls for his exclusion from the national team's plans for the 2026 World Cup.

Yard Barker - 3 hours 56 min ago
Rafael Louz n, the president of the Spanish Football Federation, has returned to discuss the ongoing controversy over the stadium that will host the 2030 World Cup final, which Spain will organise alongside Portugal and Morocco.

BBC - 4 hours 42 min ago
Australia run in six tries as they beat New Zealand 32-12 in the final of the men's rugby league World Cup, securing the title for a fourth time in a row, and for a ninth time out of the last ten tournaments.

Yard Barker - 5 hours 18 min ago
Jos Luis Mart nez-Almeida, the mayor of the Spanish capital Madrid, has hardened his stance on the city bidding to host the 2030 World Cup final, insisting...

BBC - 6 hours 4 min ago
Has the Rugby League World Cup set a new benchmark for the international game? BBC Sport discovers the answer to that question differs in the northern and southern hemispheres.

ABC News - 6 hours 7 min ago
The World Cup skiing season couldn't have started any better for Lucas Pinheiro Braathen...

Sky Sports - 7 hours 11 min ago
As England impressively levelled their three-match ODI series against Australia with a 135-run win in Adelaide, might they have stumbled upon the perfect bowling formula with one eye on the 2027 Cricket World Cup?...

BBC - 8 hours 8 min ago
Jamie Chapman scores a hat-trick to help Australia comfortably beat New Zealand 34-10 in the women's rugby league World Cup final, securing a record-breaking fourth successive title.

Yard Barker - 8 hours 11 min ago
Pau Cubarsi propelled himself into superstardom last summer after being named as the best young player at the 2026 World Cup. The teenager was a rock at the back as Spain went all the way in the USA, Canada and Mexico, and put himself right up alongside Virgil van Dijk as one of the best centre-backs in world football, despite being just 19.

BBC - 8 hours 21 min ago
Reece Walsh gave a powerful response to Australia's critics as they secured a fourth successive World Cup triumph, saying that: "I feel we got disrespected."...

BBC - 8 hours 47 min ago
Australia win a fourth successive Men's Rugby League World Cup, beating New Zealand comfortably in the final in Brisbane.

Yard Barker - 9 hours 52 min ago
Barcelona starlet Pau Cubarsi has named the three defenders who have shaped his meteoric rise to the top of world football. The teenage sensation, who recently tasted World Cup glory with Spain, revealed a surprising admiration for a Liverpool icon alongside two legendary figures from Camp Nou history.

Yard Barker - 10 hours 34 min ago
Barcelona starlet Pau Cubarsi has opened up on the heart-stopping moment he secured World Cup glory for Spain with a desperate last-minute goal-line intervention.

Sky Sports - 10 hours 44 min ago
Jack Bostock and Liam Martin both starred as Australia swept away New Zealand 32-12 in the men's Rugby League World Cup final to be crowned world champions for the fourth time in a row.

Sky Sports - 11 hours 4 min ago
Jaime Chapman guided Australia to a historic 34-10 victory in the Women's Rugby League World Cup final on Sunday in Brisbane.

BBC - 11 hours 59 min ago
Australia blow New Zealand away in the first half, with a hat-trick for Jaime Chapman, to win 34-10 in Brisbane and clinch a record fourth World Cup.

BBC - 12 hours 23 min ago
In his latest BBC Sport column, England World Cup winner Matt Dawson reflects on Steve Borthwick's side's emphatic 78-15 thrashing of Japan and looks ahead to their match against New Zealand next weekend.

Yard Barker - 12 hours 27 min ago
Everton winger Brennan Johnson was in action for Wales on Saturday. Craig Bellamy's side travelled to Oslo and took on the World Cup quarter-finalists in the Nations League at the Ullevaal Stadion.

Yard Barker - 12 hours 44 min ago
It might have only been a friendly, but Japan got their revenge on Brazil after Carlo Ancelotti's side knocked Ao Tanaka's side out of the World Cup. Tanaka even angered Leeds United icon Raphinha.

The Guardian - 13 hours 11 min ago
The former England centre-back answers your questions on Diego Maradona, Bobby Robson and on staying in strange places "Have you made up all these on your own?" asks Terry Butcher, sitting in a London office in the week he is presented with his England legacy cap. It turns out dozens of Guardian readers want to pick the brains of a much-loved centre-back who was feted en route to a World Cup semi-final and tormented four years previously by the mercurial genius of Diego Maradona. Did Maradona...

Sky Sports - 13 hours 21 min ago
Scores and updates as Australia take on New Zealand in the mens 2026 Rugby League World Cup final; Kangaroos out to win their fourth-straight World Cup at Suncorp Stadium, kick-off at 8.35am...

The Guardian - 13 hours 31 min ago
Updates as the Kangaroos and Kiwis meet in the decider in Brisbane Kick-off time is 6.35pm local/7.35pm AEDT/8.35am BST Any thoughts? Send us an email Kangaroos : Kevin Walters made his key decisions ahead of the third pool match, since when his team has performed at a progressively higher level as players have grown into their roles. The only tweak to the semi-final squad is the late inclusion of James Tedesco with the fullback replacing Latrell Mitchell, who was withdrawn with illness on Saturday...