Wales have been forced to shake-up their goalkeeping options, but neither Ryan Giggs nor Robert Page have been given a platform to discuss them. With Giggs having stood down from his duties following his arrest on Sunday night and his assistant Page placed in charge, the Football Association of Wales have announced their latest squad but held no press conference. Giggs was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a woman on Sunday night and later bailed over an alleged row with “on-off girlfriend” Kate Greville at his Manchester home on Sunday, The Sun newspaper reported.

Jonny Clayton admits he is relishing the chance to partner Gerwyn Price as Wales look to win the World Cup of Darts for the first time. The duo get their campaign underway against Russia in the Salzburgarena in Austria on Friday (6 November) having been installed as the bookies’ favourites.

Non Stanford’s dream of an Olympic medal next year looks to have been ended after she was left out of the revised Great Britain triathlon squad for Tokyo. Wales’ former world champion has been overlooked for the three places in the women’s team with the three spots going to rivals Vicky Holland, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Jess Learmonth. Stanford, 31, who agonisingly missed out on a medal when she finished fourth at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016, will now set her sights on competing for Wales at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Prop Wyn Jones has revealed Wales’ players have been given the short, sharp shock treatment following their home defeat to Scotland. As the inquests continue, Jones insists coach Wayne Pivac can turn around his fortunes just as he did with the Scarlets, who he steered to Guinness PRO12 glory despite a poor start to the 2016-17 season. Pivac has won only two of his seven games in charge of Wales and lost the last five, with the nation still digesting Saturday’s 14-10 home defeat to Scotland and its worst Six Nations campaign since 2007.

Junior Hoilett says Cardiff City’s 3-0 victory has given them the perfect platform for the Severnside derby with Bristol City. The Canadian bagged his first goal of the season to put City ahead as victory moved them up to 11th

Joel Makin booked his place in the Qatar Classic quarter-finals with another convincing display. The 26-year-old beat France’s World No.38 Lucas Serme 3-0 (11-7, 11-9, 11-7) at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex.

Frustrated Steve Cooper insisted his Swansea City side made Brentford look “second best” and were unlucky not to leave west London with all three points following a 1-1 draw. Ivan Toney’s 10th of the season gave the Bees the lead just before the break but Andre Ayew clinched a share of the spoils with an equaliser 12 minutes from time. Ghana international Ayew thought he had won it with the last touch but his header was ruled out for offside.

Neil Harris praised the response of his players as Cardiff City produced their most incisive display of the season with a 3-0 victory over Barnsley. The Bluebirds boss got the response he demanded as City claimed their first home win of the season at the fifth attempt.

Elfyn Evans is planning on becoming Wales’ first World Rally Champion in style in Italy next month. The Dolgellau-born racer will head into the final round in Monza leading the standings by 14 points after this month’s penultimate round in Belgium was cancelled.

Ryan Giggs will not take charge of Wales for this month’s international games, the Football Association of Wales announced today. Wales will be led by his assistant Robert Page for the friendly with the United States and Nations Cup games against the Republic of Ireland and Finland.

Joel Makin saw off top-class opposition to cruise into the third round of the Qatar Classic on Tuesday. The 26-year-old beat Egypt’s Mohamed Abouelghar 3-0 (11-7, 11-3, 11-6).

The covid-19 pandemic has hit grassroots sport in this country extremely hard making it impossible to compete at grassroots level. While golf in Wales has had its struggles it is viewing this pandemic as an opportunity as Golf Wales CEO Richard Dixon tells Steffan Thomas. “Golf is a good walk ruined” was a quote sometimes attributed […]

The last few months has seen high profile stars from the sporting world take a knee in a bid to halt racism in sport. But former Wales wing Nigel Walker explains to Graham Thomas that far more needs to be done to make sport more inclusive. As an athlete and then a rugby player, Nigel […]

As the inquests over Wales’ Six Nations campaign continue, there is the usual talk of re-shuffles. But one man won’t be brought back and there’s no obvious successor. Hadleigh Parkes is already being badly missed, says Harri Morgan. Time to clear out the dead wood. Poor performance inevitably results in a demand for change. In professional sport, personnel is the simplest performance variable for us to comprehend.

By Paul Jones Wales have postponed Wednesday’s squad announcement for this month’s three internationals amid a report that manager Ryan Giggs had been arrested. The Sun reported that the ex-Manchester United player, 46, had been questioned then released pending inquiries by police on suspicion of actual bodily harm and assault. It was alleged the inquiries […]

Natalie Powell’s hopes of winning a fourth European medal have been dashed with British Judo pulling out of this month’s Championships in the Czech Republic due to COVID-19. The Beulah judoka was due to be part of an 18-strong GB team at the champs from 19-21 November.

Sean Morrison has spoken about the ‘honest’ discussions Cardiff City’s players had after their Championship defeat at QPR. The Bluebirds skipper insisted he did not want to endure a season of mid-table mediocrity

Neil Harris insists Cardiff City’s start to the season has not been a disaster – but not what he expected. The Bluebirds boss threatened to wield the axe after Saturday’s defeat at QPR left them languishing in 17th place.

Michael Chopra is adamant that Stephen McPhail was the best footballer he played with – for Cardiff City and Barnsley. The close pals spent 2004-05 playing alongside each other for Barnsley – ‘Chops’ scored 17 goals – and a lot longer together for the Bluebirds.

Former Wales international runner and leading official Ken Bennett has died after a long illness. He was 77. Bennett was a key member of the Birchgrove Harriers team in Cardiff which dominated middle-distance running in the 1960s.