Harry Podmore is set to make his Glamorgan debut on Thursday when they open their LV=County Championship Division Two campaign at home to Gloucestershire. Podmore has been named in head coach Matthew Maynard’s squad for the game at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff as Glamorgan bid again to earn promotion after their near miss last season.

Steve Cooper – the only Welsh manager in the Premier League – will remain as Nottingham Forest boss but “results and performances must improve immediately”, the club have said. Forest sit above the bottom three only on goal difference having not won any of their last eight matches.

Laura McAllister has become one of most influential people in European football after crowning her position on UEFA’s executive committee by also becoming a vice-president. McAllister had her place on UEFA’s executive committee formally ratified and has become the first Welsh person to serve at that level on European football’s governing body.

Wales will face England in the TikTok Women’s Six Nations in front of a record sell-out home crowd at Cardiff Arms Park next week. More than 8,000 tickets have been sold for the game between the top two sides in this year’s championship at Cardiff Arms Park on April 15. Both sides are unbeaten following the opening two rounds of the Six Nations.

DragonBet on-course bookmaker James Lovell gives the inside track on Welsh sport – what’s hot, what’s not, and who’s the talk of the betting ring. To a bookie, spring means only one thing. Aintree. The Liverpool meeting on April 15 is big. It’s not Cheltenham big, but it’s the next best thing.

Steve Cooper insisted he was not worried for his future at Nottingham Forest despite a 2-1 defeat at Leeds United which extended his side’s winless run to eight matches. The Premier League’s only Welsh boss saw his Forest team slump to a fourth straight league defeat on the road and they now sit above the bottom three on goal difference alone after letting slip the lead against their relegation rivals at Elland Road.

Tony Brown, one of the greatest benefactors Welsh rugby has seen, had died at the age of 86. The owner and chairman of Bisley Office Furniture, his business acumen, vision and considerable financial backing for Newport RFC and then the Dragons allowed rugby fans in Gwent to experience some fantastic times, including winning the WRU Challenge Cup in 2001.

By Matthew Burgess The Cardiff Devils will head into next weekend’s quarter-final with the Coventry Blaze in good spirits after concluding their Elite League regular season campaign with a comprehensive 4-0 win over the Sheffield Steelers. Ben Bowns recorded his second shutout of the season, turning away 41 shots, as the Devils bounced back from […]

Dafydd James, the former Wales and Lions wing, has revealed he has been diagnosed with early onset dementia. James, who is now 47-years-old, played for the Scarlets, Bridgend, and Pontypridd before his career ended in 2009 after fracturing a vertebra in his neck.

Wales pair Kieffer Moore and Chris Mepham have been warned to put their club loyalties ahead of any personal ambitions by Bounemouth manager Gary O’Neil. The blunt demand comes after both players were left out of the Cherries squad for their recent 2-1 weekend victory over Fulham at the Vitality Stadium.

Beth Bingham will lead a Wales Women’s hockey squad for the 2023 season that welcomes six uncapped players, including Betsan Thomas and Maisie Riley. Leah Wilkinson and Sian French, who have retired from the sport, will not be part of the squad. Bingham will serve as the sole captain, leading the team into a series of friendly matches against Scotland over the Easter weekend.

Joe Hawkins has explained why he chose to end his Wales career so soon after it had begun. The 20-year-old Ospreys centre – one of the discoveries of a disappointing 12 months for Wales – has agreed to join Exeter this summer. It means he will no longer be eligible for Wales unless the Welsh Rugby Union tear up their policy of only selecting players outside of Wales who have won at least 25 caps.

Pontypool earned the right to face Ystrad Rhondda in the final of the WRU Championship Cup at Principality Stadium on Sunday, 23 April thanks to a 26-9 semi-final win over Neath. It was the third time this season Pooler had managed too overcome their closest rivals for the Admiral Championship title, but they didn’t get things their own way throughout a classic cup tie.

Who said 13 was an unlucky number? Try telling that to the proud players of Pontyclun Falcons, who finally won a major cup final at the 13th attempt as they beat Llandaff North to life the WRU National Cup in a thrilling game at Principality Stadium. The long wait to finally lift a trophy was ended by Kierra Deeks and her tenacious team as they knocked arch-rivals completely out of their stride to convert a 15-0 half-time lead into a sensational 20-7 victory in the end

Joel Piroe has described Swansea City’s victory over rivals Cardiff City as the perfect derby. The Swans won 3-2 in the capital – beating their rivals four a fourth successive time – but not before a rollercoaster ride of building a two-goal lead, losing it, and then grabbing a late winner in injury time.

On an emotional Saturday night at Cardiff Arms Park, Josh Adams scored twice to steer the home side, 28-27, into the quarter-finals of the EPCR Challenge Cup and pay the perfect tribute to the club’s former chairman and benefactor Peter Thomas. A huge crowd joined the current team, former players and members of Thomas’ family on the pitch for a minute’s silence followed by a minute of applause to remember the man who kept the region alive through his support.

Two former Swansea City head coaches are looking for new jobs after Brendan Rodgers and Graham Potter were sacked on Sunday. Rodgers was the first to go when Leicester City announced the man who took the Swans into the Premier League in 2011 had left their club by mutual consent.

Wales are gunning for England after Sisilia Tuipulotu inspired them to move to the top of the TikTok Women’s Six Nations table. Teenager Tuipulotu bagged her second consecutive player of the match performance with two tries after Wales secured a 22-34 victory against Scotland at the DAM Health Stadium. But her fellow prop Gwenllian Pyrs wasn’t to be outdone as she claimed a brace as well to set up a fine victory away from home.

Russell Martin has revealed how the club’s kit man found the words that inspired Swansea City to earn their historic “double Double” win over Cardiff City. Michael Eames – the club’s first team kit manager who learned his trade at the club under his mother, Suzan, who did the job for 26 years – delivered the team talk before the Swans won another dramatic derby match, 3-2, at the Cardiff City Stadium. Wales defender Ben Cabango struck from close range in the ninth minute of stoppage time in the Welsh capital.

Cardiff’s two Joshes – Adams and Turnbull – are twinned in their shared determination to lift some of the dark clouds over the Arms Park this weekend. A last 16 meeting at home to Sale Sharks on Saturday evening has taken on added significance, beyond simply trying to make the quarter-finals in a tasty-looking Anglo-Welsh clash.