While Mark Cueto’s Sale Sharks career has come to an end, Tom Brady’s is only just taking off at the AJ Bell Stadium and so far he has backed up his five tries in 26 appearances last season with four scores this term.

England and Sale Sharks veteran Mark Cueto has now hung up his boots after Sale’s final match of the season away at Exeter Chiefs on Saturday.

Mourners in Wigan are coming together to help raise money in the memory of a 13-year-old rugby prodigy who tragically downed in a quarry.

The Rugby World Cup Trophy is visiting Manchester for three days, July 25-27, before Albert Square hosts one of the Official Fanzones from October 9-11.

Sale remain in seventh and nine points of the semi-final places after failing to claim even a losing bonus point in Round 17 in their 12-3 loss to Bath.

We do not see the Aviva Premiership or Pro12 rugby come to a halt while the Six Nations is going on, when huge clubs lose a decent portion of their strongest and most expensive players, so the Premier League can follow suit in 2022.

To celebrate LGBT History Month, MM talk to LGBT figures from across Greater Manchester about their experiences of coming out and what progress they think the city still has to make towards equality.

Sale Sharks fly-half Cipriani has not featured for England since the summer tests with New Zealand and faces a stern battle for the No.10 jersey with Owen Farrell, George Ford and Stephen Myler all ahead of him in the pecking order.

Manchester United and City have notably built up squads containing sportsmen from abroad, but rugby union team Sale Sharks also have a special one of their own in Russian Ostrikov.

Police are re-appealing for witnesses after new incriminating CCTV footage emerged of an LGBT rugby player suffering a broken jaw following a homophobic attack on Canal Street four weeks ago.

An LGBT rugby player was left with a broken jaw after a homophobic attack on Canal Street – and now CCTV footage has emerged in a bid to track down the culprit.