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[ad_1] Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos will miss his side's Champions League last 16 second leg against Ajax after picking up a late yellow card for a foul on Kasper Dolberg. The Spanish side take a one goal lead into the return fixture at the Bernabeu thanks to Marco Asensio's 87th minute winner. However, some have raised question marks over Ramos' booking, which came…

[ad_1] Trainer Noel Meade has confirmed stable star Road To Respect is on track for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, despite his recent defeat at Leopardstown (Road to Respect 12/1 – To win  Gold Cup). The eight-year-old competed in the Irish equivalent of the Gold Cup at the start of February but he was unable to get the job done. The Willie Mullins-trained Bellshill eventually…

[ad_1] Spurs will take a three goal cushion to Germany in three weeks time, after a fantastic second half performance from Mauricio Pochettino’s side. Neither side were at full strength – Spurs were without star striker Harry Kane, meanwhile Dortmund were missing their talisman in the form of Marco Reus. Much like last night at Old Trafford, the first half was a cagey affair,…

[ad_1] Paul Casey is determined to achieve his goal of winning in Los Angeles at this week’s Genesis Open at the Riviera Golf Club after he just missed out on the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (Casey 30/1 – Genesis Open Outright). The 41-year-old Englishman looked on course to enjoy some success in California last weekend when he went into the final round at Pebble…

Jadon Sancho was born in Camberwell but has never played a professional game of club football in England. Having joined Watford at the age of seven and then Manchester City as a 14-year-old, the winger made a bold move in signing for Borussia Dortmund in 2017. The risk has paid off spectacularly well for the teenager, who returns to London for Wednesday’s Champions League…

In the past 20 years, we’ve got so used to Chelsea being a power in English and European football that we’ve all but expunged their displays in the early Premier League years from memory. There have still been some embarrassing defeats for the new guard, of course: finishing with nine men in a defeat by Neil Warnock’s QPR, for example, or the recent 4-0…

In the end, the loss was nothing like as significant as we feared. Only one racing day of any significance went missing, many of whose best races have been rescheduled for this weekend. And such has been the clamour for action that you can bet your life this Saturday’s improvised jamboree will record a comparatively massive audience figure on ITV. We’ll be treated to…

[ad_1] Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic admits he still has “far” to go to overhaul Roger Federer but that is now a motivation for him. Novak Djokovic (9/4 – 2019 French Open Outright) has set his sights on surpassing Roger Federer’s record of 20 Grand Slam titles following his triumph in the Australian Open final. The Serbian claimed a record seventh title at Melbourne…

[ad_1] 465 days. That’s how long it’s been since Ajax last tasted defeat at Johan Cruyff Arena. But visiting sides don’t come much bigger than Real Madrid. Los Blancos are eyeing up a fourth Champions League title on the spin. And despite a poor start to the season, they’re now moving up through the gears. With all the ingredients of a continental cracker, we’ve…

It’s Trials Day at Cheltenham – and that means a whole host of exciting top-class renewals featuring plenty of big 2019 Festival contenders. Can Frodon continue his brilliant form under Bryony Frost? Will Birchdale show his class for Nicky Henderson? And who’ll canter to victory in a wide-open Cleeve Hurdle? We’ve attempted to solve all of the big puzzles at both Cheltenham and Doncaster…

Nick Murphy | 15 January 2019 Ante-post betting tips from Coral The countdown to the Cheltenham Festival is on, with less than two months to go until the famous roar greets the runners in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle on 12th March 2019. We can’t wait until the tapes go up to signal the start of four days of fantastic racing. So we’re getting our…

[ad_1] OLD TRAFFORD, MANCHESTER – Perhaps this correction was always coming. The margins were small. When it mattered PSG had Kylian Mbappé. That’s all any team ever needs, a player so good there is no answer. Fate’s recall of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to Old Trafford invited the obvious reflections on events 20 years ago. Those were the days when United had the edge in…

[ad_1] The weights for the Randox Health Grand National have been released today, at 3pm, and Nigel Twiston-Davies’ grand ‘chaser Bristol De Mai, (above), a standing dish at Haydock Park, heads the weights on 11st 10lbs as he bids for more Merseyside glory in ‘the big one.’ Over 100 entries at this stage, but they’ll be whittled down so that a maximum of 40…

[ad_1] Gordon Banks, brilliant England World Cup-winning goalkeeper, passes away peacefully, aged 81 The football family mourns a very special one today, as news broke of the passing of Gordon Banks. He began his football career at Chesterfield, before lengthy spells first at Leicester, and then Stoke. Internationally, he was England’s goalkeeper from 1963 to 1972, winning 73 caps. He had few peers anywhere…

Having safely negotiated the first round of their European Cup defence, and seen rivals Liverpool surprisingly crash out, Nottingham Forest had just three weeks before their last-16 tie against Romania's Arges Pitesti. Forest returned to the top of Division One with a 3-2 home win over Wolves as Trevor Francis scored on his first appearance of the season after a groin injury sustained playing…