The clock had just ticked past 70 minutes when Jack Grealish escaped the instructions of David Moyes and jogged on to the pitch, serenaded by insults from the Leeds fans and wrapped in the hope of Evertonians ... They gave the ball away with abandon ... .
Everyone understands the argument that cricket should allow teams to make substitutes for more than just concussion. The current system risks making the game look anachronistic. It risks tilting a game against a team through sheer bad luck ... .
There was a sense of foreboding around the first tee at Royal Portrush when Rory McIlroy loped out of the tunnel beneath the stands and emerged into the gloomy light of an Ulster summer’s day ... This time, he avoided disaster ... He never does ... OLIVER HOLT ... .
‘Because England have started playing in a certain fashion, something I am used to playing,’ he said in an interview last year, ‘Rohit Sharma says we will also play Rishball ... No clown prince makes cricket history the way Pant has made history here ... .
Chelsea played their first match in the Club World Cup on Monday night, against LAFC, in the beauty of the magnificent Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta... The last time I was there, to watch the Eagles play, I alighted at AT&T ... I digress ... Read More ... .
Some are already saying that, whoever the new Tottenham manager is, the first thing he will receive when he pitches up at the club’s state-of-the-art training ground is a hospital pass ... It might be just what Spurs need ... No one can.’ ... OLIVER HOLT ... .
So we will never know now if Ange Postecoglou was right about his theory that his third season at Tottenham Hotspur, like the third season of a great television series, would have been better than his second ... But 16 days have elapsed since then ... 17 ... .