The former England boss guided City back into the top flight at the first attempt.
CAF Champions League finalists Al Ahly of Egypt and Esperance of Tunisia boast amazing defensive records ahead of the second leg in Cairo on Saturday, with goalkeepers Mostafa Shobeir and Amanallah Memmiche the unexpected stars.Shobeir is a 24-year-old son of former Egypt international Ahmed Shobeir, one of many great goalkeepers produced by record 11-time Champions League winners Ahly, including Essam el Hadary.
Jaylen Brown scored 40 points to propel Boston to a 126-110 victory over Indiana and a 2-0 lead in the NBA Eastern Conference finals over a Pacers team rocked by an injury to Tyrese Haliburton.Brown, who sank a three-pointer to force overtime as the Celtics held off the Pacers in a game-one thriller, scored 10 points in a 20-0 Celtics run that saw Boston take the lead for good in the second quarter.
Kylian Mbappe will bring the curtain down on his Paris Saint-Germain career on Saturday and has the chance to sign off with another trophy in the French Cup final against Lyon.Victory against Lyon on Saturday will allow him to claim a fourth winners' medal in the French Cup.
Ross Byrne faces "a pivotal moment" in his career when the Leinster fly-half faces Toulouse on Saturday in the Champions Cup final and can at last emerge from the shadow of Johnny Sexton, Ireland rugby great Hugo MacNeill told AFP. The destination of the trophy in the much anticipated meeting of record five-time winners Toulouse and four-time champions Leinster hinges largely, MacNeill says, on who wins the battle of the halfbacks."Sexton cast a very large shadow and it has not been easy for Byr
Bayer Leverkusen face second-division Kaiserslautern in Saturday's German Cup final licking their wounds after a first loss in almost a year. Despite their run to the final, Kaiserslautern only played one top-division side in the Cup -- beating Cologne, who were relegated to the second division at the end of the season.
La Liga's final weekend offers few potential twists with Real Madrid crowned champions, the European qualifiers and relegation battle already over.Madrid on alert Champions Real Madrid are just hoping to get through their last match at Real Betis without any injury concerns ahead of the Champions League final on June 1.
Once the door swung open for Barcelona midfielder Aitana Bonmati she walked through it and never looked back, with a hat-trick of women's Champions League triumphs now in her sights.Barcelona reached the Champions League final for the first time in 2019 but were thrashed 4-1 by Lyon.
European club rugby's two most successful teams will meet in the Champions Cup final for the first time when Toulouse take on Leinster in London on Saturday.Toulouse have lifted the Champions Cup trophy five times, including winning the inaugural 1996 final, while Leinster have been kings of Europe on four occasions.
Manchester City face arch-rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup final on Saturday in a repeat of last season's showpiece at Wembley."We're so excited with what we achieved, but the repercussions of what we've done, to change the history of the club, I think we will only realise in a few years," Rodri said as City bid to become the first English team to win consecutive Premier League and FA Cup doubles.
Hosts Vancouver Whitecaps warned eager fans the club don't expect Inter Miami superstar Lionel Messi to be playing against them when the Major League Soccer teams clash Saturday.Whitecaps chief executive Axel Schuster said in a statement Thursday that the Vancouver club wanted to give fans desperate to see the eight-time Ballon d'Or winner advance notice.
Olympic gold medallist Chelsea Hodges retired from swimming Friday aged 22 and just two months before the Paris Games, saying too many surgeries had left her with "the hips of a 60-year-old".Hodges said she had "no more breaststroke kicks left" and would not be competing at Australia's Olympic swimming trials next month.
Record eight-time winners Lyon face holders Barcelona in a tantalising Champions League final on Saturday in Bilbao, pitting the established elite against the new women's football powerhouse.Lyon have all-time top women's Champions League goalscorer Ada Hegerberg in their ranks, along with veteran stars including Wendie Renard, who has played in all 10 finals Lyon have reached.
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag hopes to bolster his chances of avoiding the sack by ruining Manchester City's history bid in the FA Cup final on Saturday.Ten Hag's hopes of staying at United into a third season would be improved if they can spoil City's bid to become the first English club to win both the Premier League and FA Cup two years in a row.
Veteran Wallabies prop Sekope Kepu announced Friday he will retire from professional rugby at the end of the current Super Rugby season, ending a glittering 19-year career.Kepu played for the NSW Waratahs from 2008-2019, winning the Super Rugby title in 2014, with his illustrious career also including stints at Bordeaux in France and London Irish.
United take on Manchester City at Wembley this weekend.
Charley Hoffman fired five birdies in a five-under par 65 to break free atop a crowded leaderboard at the US PGA Tour Charles Schwab Challenge, where world number one Scottie Scheffler struggled.Hoffman, chasing a fifth PGA Tour victory but his first since the 2016 Texas Open, had opened with a two-putt birdie at the par-five first and added birdies at the third, eighth and 11th.
Stand-in captain Brandon King made 79 as West Indies defeated South Africa by 28 runs in the first Twenty 20 international of a three-game series in Kingston on Thursday.Opener King, deputising for skipper Rovman Powell who has been away on IPL duty, racked up his runs off 45 balls with six sixes and six boundaries as West Indies made 175-8 in their 20 overs.
Luke Littler beat Luke Humphires 11-7, throwing a nine-darter in the process, to take the Premier League Darts title
Wayne Rooney, who has been out of work since being sacked by Birmingham in January, recently expressed his desire to return to management
Littler became the first player to hit a nine-dart finish in the Premier League final since Phil Taylor did it twice in 2010.
Exactly a year after sitting his GCSEs, Luke Littler has continued his jaw-dropping rise to the summit of darts by winning the Premier League at his first attempt with a nine-dart finish in the final.
Lucas Paqueta has been charged by the Football Association with spot-fixing by deliberately getting carded during four Premier League matches.
When Lucas Paqueta was first found to be under investigation for gambling offences in August last year he was dropped by the Brazil manager of the time, Fernando Diniz, for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers – although nine months is a long time in Brazilian football.
Claudio Ranieri waved goodbye to Cagliari and brought the curtain down on a near four-decade club coaching career with Thursday's 3-2 defeat to Fiorentina cruelly inflicted in the 13th minute of added time.However Thursday's defeat made little difference to Ranieri or Cagliari as last weekend he saved from relegation the same club he brought up from Serie B last season and with whom he rose to prominence in the late 1980s.