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Borthwick’s new England are stuck in a time warp with few signs of change | Gerard Meagher
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 20:00
As is standard practice, after one last night together, perhaps sharing a collective sigh of relief at ending their losing streak against Japan, England’s players have returned to their clubs. Less common is that the coaches do so too but Joe El-Abd’s Oyonnax are currently third bottom of the French …
RFU chief executive’s salary rose to £1.1m despite redundancies and record losses
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 17:10
The Rugby Football Union chief executive, Bill Sweeney, was paid a staggering £1. 1m for the 2023-24 financial year despite record losses and swingeing job cuts at the governing body. Sweeney’s basic salary rose from £684, 000 to £742, 000 – an increase of 8. 5% – and he was …
My friend Denise Walker, who has died aged 68 after a short illness, began her working life as a bilingual secretary, spent time running an after-school French club and later taught IT at an adult education college. She also made a great impact through her volunteering, including at the Latika …
Season has only just begun but Gold Cup already looks destined for export | Greg Wood
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 15:57
After a memorable weekend of Grade One steeplechasing in both Britain and Ireland, the Cheltenham Gold Cup has a new favourite in Fact To File, and the possibility that there will be a British-trained winner of jumping’s showpiece event in 2025 – or in the 2020s, full stop – seems …
McCullum needs England at the races alongside thoroughbred Stokes in New Zealand
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 10:00
As a sideline to the day job as England’s head coach, Brendon Mc Cullum owns and breeds racehorses in his native New Zealand. And when a “big chestnut with a pale face and dodgy legs” emerged from the stable a while back, it apparently rang too many bells not to …
India complete huge win over Australia after Travis Head merely delays the inevitable
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 08:39
It’s funny to watch a day of Test cricket in which nothing matters. Not that any day of cricketreallymatters, if we’re honest, but a day when the play doesn’t even make a difference within the match itself. India in Perth on Monday had up their sleeve 522 runs and two …
‘Max is in that club’: Verstappen joins F1 greats after fourth drivers’ title
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 08:21
“What I have witnessed with him, I have never seen before, ” says Max Verstappen’s team principal, Christian Horner, expressing a quiet conviction in his driver on securinga fourth consecutive Formula One world championship. Horner, chief executive of Red Bull Racing, believes Verstappen, whoclaimed the title in Las Vegas, is …
Did Austin Seibert just suffer the most agonizing few minutes in NFL history?
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 08:10
If you’re under the impression that NFL special teams this season have been especially wonky, you are completely and utterly correct. Still, as weird as it special teams had been through the first 11 weeks of the season, nothing could quite compare to what happened on Sunday. Kicker misses and …
England claim hollow victory in game Steve Borthwick could not win | Michael Aylwin
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 08:00
What is the best England could have expected from their final Test of the year? Probably somethinglike this. But, really, this was the proverbial game they could not win. It has been tempting, as it always is with England, to cry crisis at every opportunity, especially this autumn as that …
Monday briefing: Where Cop29 failed – and the limited reasons for hope
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 06:54
Good morning. Cop29 in Bakufinally finished at 5. 31am local time yesterday, more than 35 hours after it was due to conclude – and the extra time did not lead to a triumphant outcome. On the biggest issue under discussion, the transfer of climate finance from the developed to the …
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