Manchester United’s long season ended in its 61st game and in semi-final heartbreak for the third time. Extra time appeared the favoured outcome before Luuk de Jong stole ahead of Victor Lindelöf and Aaron Wan-Bissaka to score the winner 12 minutes from time for Sevilla. While they will meet Shakhtar Donetsk or Internazionale in Friday’s […]
Police are appealing to trace Declan Downes who has gone missing in Smethwick. Can you help? Declan, aged 41, was last seen leaving his home earlier this evening (15 August). His family are concerned for his mental health and wellbeing, and we need to find him as soon as possible. He enjoys spending time in […]
It was a moment that will haunt Raheem Sterling, one in which he had the opportunity to save Manchester City’s Champions League skin only to conjure up a miss that beggared belief and had Pep Guardiola slumping to his knees on the sideline. Perhaps it was too easy to score and Sterling, who had got […]
It was hard to believe that teams once tried to play like Barcelona. Not any more. Their football is stale, their soul has disappeared and too many players have seen better days. They are a shadow of their former selves and although it is impossible to envisage Quique Setién ever managing them again after overseeing […]
A grieving family, whose son was fatally stabbed, today made an emotional appeal for a man wanted over the murder to hand himself in. Panashe Bako, aged 20, was killed at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Holliday Street, Birmingham on 22 July at around 7:20pm. His family, desperate to help find a man detectives want […]
The Rugby Against Racism campaign was belatedly born this week, 25 years after the game turned professional and thanks in the main to the raised awareness brought by the Black Lives Matter movement Black lives matter. Those three words – a statement distilled to its purest form – are the best explanation I can give […]
The hosts must cope without the input of Stokes while the tourists must bounce back having had just five days to recover from the first Test defeat They are called Test matches for a reason. They represent the ultimate challenge for any cricketer. Even the one-day wizards from Virat Kohli to Eoin Morgan to Jos […]
Wolves’ epic season reached an agonising end as Lucas Ocampos headed a goal two minutes from time to send Sevilla into a Europa League semi-final against Manchester United. There can be no begrudging the Spaniards their progress on the balance of play in this quarter-final, but Wolves’ pain was deepened by the knowledge that things […]
Manchester United struggled to put away a doughty FC Copenhagen before doing so in extra time, Bruno Fernandes again the hero for Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s side. The manager introduced Juan Mata for Mason Greenwood ahead of the extra half-hour and this proved prescient. On 95 minutes Anthony Martial was slipped in by Mata and while […]
Police want to trace this man after a police officer was dragged along the road by a car in Birmingham. Officers have identified Mohammed Banaras as a prime suspect after the officer was pulled around 50ft on Percy Road, Sparkhill, on Saturday (8 August). The officer had approached a suspicious vehicle at around 8pm and […]