Sport

If you’d told Libby Clegg she’d be competing in a World Championship semi-final seven months after giving birth, she would never have believed you.

2018 proved to be a year of mixed emotions for Steph Houghton as just months after getting married to ex-footballer Stephen Darby she was met with devastating news.

Chris Hoy has tipped Laura Kenny to take his title of Britain’s most decorated Olympian in Tokyo.

Since the late noughties, there has been an increasing number of people turning to ‘pods’ as their number one destination for football discourse.

Wheelchair basketball star Laurie Williams hopes success in Tokyo can help to inspire a new generation of females to get involved in her sport.

Bury Football Club, the 134-year-old Football League outfit, is facing a winding-up petition in the High Court, launched by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), due to unpaid debts. The case was adjourned on October 16 and is due to re-commence this Wednesday (October 30).

England cricket legend and ex-Ashes winning captain David Gower is going back on tour. No, he’s not batting for England again, but is instead travelling the country with his autobiographical show, On the Front Foot.

Manchester United meet Liverpool on Sunday, and going into the game a staggering 15 points separate Liverpool at the top and United in 12th just two months into the season.

Without even addressing the nauseous levels of bare-faced marketing spiel that such a slogan evokes, Liverpool Football Club’s merchandising tagline ‘This Means More’ has received a mixed reception in recent times, especially amidst reports concerning the club’s recent controversial attempt to trademark the word ‘Liverpool’.

Finally back on the grandest stage once more, St Helens have learnt their lessons according to captain James Roby.

If you ask Salford Red Devils coach Ian Watson, being written off at the start of the season was the best thing that could have happened.