James Dart

Absolutely taking those and running 🙌

Argyle … win?

Igor Tudor enacts ghostly role in the most stupid of hires with Tottenham too bad to stay up | Barney Ronay The problem here is not the interim manager, it’s the ad hoc interim ownership and the short-term sense of identity at this ghost town club

This town … is coming like a ghost town. @barneyronay.bsky.social on Spurs

Sandra Jessen v Essen? Footballers facing nominative opposition teams | The Knowledge Plus: hat-trick heroes who were not named player of the match, managers sacked after big wins, and more

Mike England v England, Milan Baros v Milan, Lautaro Martínez v Roma and so on … this week's edition of The Knowledge

Luke Donald to remain Europe’s Ryder Cup captain and go for historic three-peat Confirmation that Luke Donald will captain Europe’s Ryder Cup team for a third time will increase pressure on the PGA of America to tie down Tiger Woods to lead the US in Ireland next September

Luke Donald will go for the Ryder Cup three-peat …

David Squires on … Gianni Infantino’s accomplishments in 10 years as Fifa supremo Our cartoonist on a decade of magic moments in the big job for world football’s leading ‘man of the people’

Some alternative Gianni/Fifa 10-year branding right here from @davidsquires.bsky.social

Norway’s all-conquering Winter Olympians have a message for us all – and it’s not what you think | Cath Bishop How did a small Nordic country dominate the Games? By making sport fun and not something for kids to suffer

What we can all learn from Norway's all-conquering Winter Olympians

Snoop Dogg and Cyril the Swan

A Swan and a Dogg, naturally

Crampons, crashes and creativity: Tom Jenkins’ best photos from the Winter Olympics Our well-travelled photographer shares his favourite images from the Games in Italy

In which @tomjenkinspix.bsky.social presents his best photographs from the spectacular Winter Olympics that was

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor leaves the police station

📸 Phil Noble

Vinícius, Mourinho and treating racism as reputational risk rather than a lived reality | Jonathan Liew The Brazilian has seen this before, football has seen this before, and yet why does it feel like nothing ever changes?

on vinicius, jim ratcliffe and bad immigrants

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David Squires on … Jim Ratcliffe’s comments and his need for some home truths Our cartoonist reflects on the Manchester United co-owner’s recent statements and electioneering, via the prism of Cracker’s DCI Bilborough

They always are, but this is a Cracker from @davidsquires.bsky.social on Big Sir Jim

Saga of the Silkmen: calm before the storm in Macclesfield as Brentford await After Macclesfield’s FA Cup giantkilling, the quiet Cheshire town remains suitably unassuming in the spotlight after years of heartbreak

More on Macclesfield.

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Eden Hazard: ‘I’m more of a taxi driver than a football player now, but it’s OK’ The former Chelsea and Real Madrid idol wants nothing more than to be remembered as ‘a good player and a funny guy’ after a vintage career of league titles, European triumphs and spats with José Mouri...

Eden Hazard: 'Now my life is quite simple. I’m a dad of five. I’m more of a taxi driver than a football player, but it’s OK'

Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days Free condoms for competitors at the Winter Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days

Yes, it's the Olympic village condoms stage of the Games cycle

Layers of the Games: the women's snowboard halfpipe final. By Héctor Vivas

Love this: Layers of the Games at the women's snowboard halfpipe final … 📸 Héctor Vivas

Football must reject Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cynical, self-serving electioneering | Barney Ronay Tax exile has already proven himself a terrible club owner; now his ill-informed diatribe about immigration has poured fuel on wider flames

‘Manchester United supporters may be stuck with Ratcliffe. But football, sport and everything in its arc can reject the things he is asking us to do, refuse to be spooked, refuse to fall into the arms of the opportunist he is promoting.’

By @barneyronay.bsky.social

French biathlete guilty of fraud wins Olympic gold while scammed teammate comes 80th Julia Simon, who was convicted of committing credit card fraud against one of her national teammates, has won an Olympic gold medal for France in the women’s 15km biathlon, beating her victim to do it

An Only-at-the-Olympics Headline: "French biathlete guilty of fraud wins gold while scammed teammate comes 80th"

Julia Simon shushes the crowd after taking gold in the Winter Olympics individual 15km biathlon

There's silencing your critics … and then there's being found guilty of stealing your France teammate's credit card (and that of a team staff member) and handed a three-month suspended prison sentence, before bringing the shush after claiming a second Olympic biathlon gold at these Winter Olympics

Norwegian biathlete wins Winter Olympics bronze and then tells TV interview of affair Sturla Holm Lægreid broke down in tears after winning bronze in the men’s 20km biathlon and apologised for having an affair

Norway's Sturla Holm Lægreid broke down in tears after winning bronze in the men’s 20km biathlon, apologising for having an affair and saying: 'Three months ago I made the mistake of my life'

Heat seekers: amazing thermal images from the Winter Olympics Photographers using compact thermal-imaging cameras have crafted eerie and ‘poetic’ results at the Milano Cortina Games

Heat seekers: amazing thermal images from the Winter Olympics

Uproar in the Maldives as football relegation battle decided by last-day no-show There is uproar in the Dhiraagu Dhivehi Premier League in the Maldives after it was alleged one of the leading clubs sought to escape relegation by failing to turn up for a match

Had Green Streets lost by four goals or more, they would have been relegated on goal difference. Under the rules of the Maldives FA, however, any team that fail turn up for a match forfeit the game 2-0, a score that was enough to stay up

Ilia Malinin performs a back flip during the Winter Olympics figure skating team event

Ilia Malinin’s golden flight

📸 Wang Zhao

‘We lived a miraculous thing’: Castel di Sangro, 30 years on from their epic rise The smalltown club’s Serie B adventure captivated football and inspired a famous book. That team’s spirit remains and is being passed to their successors

Thirty years on from Castel di Sangro’s miracle, @nickames82.bsky.social finds the extraordinary spirit of their community being passed to the next generation

‘Penis injection’ doping claims in Winter Olympics ski jumping investigated by Wada Wada is to investigate claims ski jumpers are injecting acid into their penises to game the suit-measuring system

'During its 26-year history, Wada has faced thousands of questions about athletes using illicit substances. Today surely marked the first time it was asked if ski jumpers were injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid in order to fly further.'

Story: @seaningle.bsky.social

David Squires on … Ian Holloway’s epic rant and his rage against the machines Our cartoonist on the Swindon Town manager’s fiery response after his captain was suspended at short notice

Ian Holloway's rage against the machines. By @davidsquires.bsky.social

In eastern Uganda's Jinja district, groups of older women have embraced cricket as a way to stay physically active and socially connected later in life

In eastern Uganda's Jinja district, groups of older women have embraced cricket as a way to stay physically active and socially connected later in life

In eastern Uganda's Jinja district, groups of older women have embraced cricket as a way to stay physically active and socially connected later in life

In eastern Uganda's Jinja district, groups of older women have embraced cricket as a way to stay physically active and socially connected later in life

Love these pics from Uganda (Jinja district), where groups of women have embraced cricket as a way to stay physically active and socially connected later in life.

📸 Luis Tato

Women’s FA Cup to have seeded teams and no draw after last 32 under radical proposals The Football Association has proposed radical changes to the Women’s FA Cup, including seeding four teams and dispensing with a draw after last 32

Exclusive for @sport.theguardian.com - the Football Association has proposed radical changes to the Women’s FA Cup, including seeding four teams and dispensing with a draw after last 32. More details here. #WomensFACup
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Katie McCabe heading for Arsenal exit in summer as club target younger players Katie McCabe is likely to leave Arsenal when her contract expires this summer after what sources have described as ‘very respectful discussions’

Exclusive: Katie McCabe now increasingly likely to leave Arsenal after talks with the club over her future www.theguardian.com/football/202...