Star striker talks achieving another promotion, potentially making scoring history and finding acceptance in his son’s autism ‘The desire to win will be the same as every other game,” Paul Mullin says as he anticipates a Hollywood-style finale for Wrexham on Saturday afternoon while their fans at home and around the world celebrate a second straight promotion. Wrexham’s last game in League Two is against the new champions, Stockport County, and Mullin is determined to end another tumultuous and successful season with a personal milestone. If Mullin scores against Stockport he will become the f ..read more

Hosts will need to overcome John Mitchell’s all-conquering England side who are targeting a sixth straight title The last time England lost in the women’s Six Nations Theresa May was prime minister, Chelsea were defending Premier League champions and The Shape of Water had just won best picture at the Oscars. Since that defeat the Red Roses have won 28 consecutive games in the competition, scoring 1,440 points and conceding 185, and claimed five Women’s Six Nations titles in a row. And the winners that fateful day in 2018? France. On Saturday in Bordeaux France will have their latest chance to ..read more

Memories of 2004 still sting and in Sunday’s derby Tottenham have the chance to take a wrecking ball to Arsenal’s title hopes It would not scan like the original Arsenal terrace chant. “We took a big step towards winning the league at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.” The prospect, though, is real. And before Sunday’s derby – the 195th edition of the fixture that determines the mood in north London – it is utterly sickening for Spurs supporters. Spurs could not stop the Arsenal Invincibles in April 2004 and it is fair to say they have not heard the end of it since. Nor was that the first time th ..read more

Championship updates, 8pm BST kick-off at Loftus Road Live scoreboardRead Football DailyAnd you can mail Taha “I’d rather it not be like that,” Joe Rodon tells Sky, reflecting on Leeds’ thrilling 4-3 win over Middlesbrough. Um, Joe, have a think about the neutrals, please. Here’s John Brewin, by the way, making his case ..read more

Chelsea take a lead into the Champions League semi-final second leg, with the manager plotting a tactical masterclass “It just feels like a longer half-time, that’s all it is,” said Emma Hayes matter-of-factly about the week-long wait between Chelsea’s 1-0 Champions League defeat of Barcelona and the second leg at Stamford Bridge on Saturday evening. “We’re at the midway stage of a game that’s a minimum of 180 minutes long. There may be adjustments for half-time and we’re ready for the second half, that’s how I present it to the players ..read more

The England manager’s honesty and systems expertise are just what is needed at the haunted house Old Trafford has become And so we entered the age of the noble, blameless bald men. This is a pretty good moment to be Ineos at Manchester United. Nothing really matters yet. Every problem is someone else’s problem. Every solution is your own. For now you’re just hope, blue sky. You’re a silent reproach on a gantry. You’re a tieless Tony Blair jamming with Shed Seven in the Downing Street garden. And even the bad things are kind of good, because you’re not the bad things ..read more

Newey yet to tender resignation from Formula One team Chief technical officer reportedly ready to leave Red Bull Adrian Newey is set to begin talks with Red Bull’s management to resolve his future with the team after reports he has expressed a desire to leave. The Guardian understands that Red Bull’s chief technical officer is yet to formally tender his resignation or announce to staff that he will be leaving and insiders say the headlines caught Newey and the team by surprise on Thursday ..read more

The Manchester United manager, Erik ten Hag, has defended Marcus Rashford after the England forward criticised the abuse he has received this season and said on social media 'enough is enough'. Rashford is enduring a disappointing campaign in which he has scored only eight times in 41 appearances for Manchester United, having managed a career-high 30 goals last season. At 12.36am on Friday Rashford retweeted a post on X, formerly Twitter, that said: 'The way Marcus Rashford is being treated is absolutely disgusting. It’s cruel. It’s abuse.' Above this he wrote: 'I appreciate your support! It i ..read more

Six weeks after his Cheltenham milestone, trainer will become the first based in Ireland to win since Vincent O’Brien in 1954 “It’s done but not quite dusted yet,” was Willie Mullins’s assessment earlier this week of the race for the National Hunt trainers’ championship, but he knows as well as anyone that the title is as good as won. Six weeks on from one historic achievement, when he became the first trainer to saddle 100 Cheltenham Festival winners, another beckons. Jump racing feels like Willie’s World now, and the rest of us are just living in it. Once the final seven events of the 2023-2 ..read more

With an eye on making the team final in Paris, the Commonwealth Games champion wants her sport back in the spotlight Georgia Godwin may be the queen of Australian gymnastics, but sitting on a throne is not on her to-do list. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games all-around gold medallist, seven-time national all-around champion, a stalwart on representative teams for a decade, and now priming herself for the Paris Olympics ..read more