Merthyr Town 3, Wimborne Town 1 Merthyr Town took control in front of almost 500 spectators after scoring two goals in the opening 15 minutes of their BetVictor Southern League Premier South at the MetCoaches Stadium. Centre-back Jarrad Wright scored after two minutes and Ian Traylor, making his 401st appearance for the Martyrs, made it […]

Cardiff City 1, Charlton Athletic 2 The young Bluebirds suffered a first home defeat of the season in their close-fought Professional Under-18 Development League home match against title- Tough-tackling left-back Sam Parsons, a 18-year-old Wales youth International who has been progressing through the Cardiff City Academy for a decade, scored for the home team and […]

Cardiff Devils are preparing for a ‘crazy’ challenge against reigning European ice hockey champions Frolunda Indians in Gothenburg, Sweden on Tuesday. Captain Joey Martin and his team stand top of their Champions Hockey League group after winning three of their fourth fixtures so far including a 5-2 triumph against Graz99ers in Austria. Now they are […]

Tom Cave delivered a personal best performance on this year’s Wales Rally GB, scoring a career-best FIA World Rally Championship result with an impressive 11th overall. The Aberdyfi driver and co-driver Dale Furniss (from Llanfyllin) finished the event as top-placed privateers, first non-WRC registered crew home, first Welsh crew and took third place in the fiercely competitive R5 category. It wasn’t all plain sailing, as Cave lost time on Friday’s opening loop of forest stages when he noticed something amiss with his Hyundai i20 R5’s electronics that caused an issue with the launch control and anti-lag system. Add to this a fault with the wipers – not ideal in the wet conditions – he did exceptionally well to get back to service lying 20th overall and as the ninth R5 entry out of 28.

Joe Allen believes he can earn himself a week to remember by helping Wales improve their Euro 2020 hopes just days after starting a repair job at Stoke City. The Wales midfielder will be in Slovakia on Thursday as his country battle to revive a qualification campaign that was seriously undermined by back-to-back defeats to Croatia and Hungary. A vital win at home to Azerbaijan steadied the ship, but now come more testing assignments – with little margin for error – away to the Slovaks and then at home to the Croatians on Sunday night.

Dan Biggar has been declared fit to face Fiji but Wales coach Warren Gatland has still opted for two changes for Wednesday’s World Cup clash in the Japanese city of Oita. Biggar failed a head injury assessment (HIA) during the victory over Australia after leaving the field 29 minutes into the first half of Wales’s 29-25 win. He suffered a blow while making a try-saving tackling on Wallabies centre Samu Kerevi, but has been monitored, assessed, and passed fit.

Record breaking performances at this year’s Cardiff University Cardiff Half Marathon were overshadowed by the death of one of the runners in the 20,400 field. Hours after the event, organisers announced a competitor had to be attended by the medical emergency team on the course and taken to the city’s University Hospital of Wales, where the man later died. Run 4 Wales chief executive Matt Newman said: “Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of the runner who tragically passed away after taking part at the event.

Dean Keates has taken charge at Vanarama National League Wrexham FC for a second time and has committed to the Dragons until the summer of 2021. The appointment, announced following Wrexham’s 1-1 draw at Woking, was unanimously ratified by the Wrexham Supporters Trust board Keates spent two previous spells with the club as a player […]

Cardiff Devils have started the most testing spell of the ice hockey season with a 3-1 home win against Manchester Storm. That is the first of five matches in nine days – and one of those is against reigning Champions Hockey League title winners Frolunda Indians from Sweden. Devils now play Coventry Blaze in a […]

West Bromwich Albion 4, Cardiff City 2 Local boy Romaine Sawyers scored West Brom’s fourth goal at the Hawthorns and condemned Cardiff City to a first defeat in eight SkyBet Championship fixtures. The Handsworth-born midfield player, a Saint Kitts and Nevis International, struck with his first senior goal for the club during injury time in […]

Warren Gatland is poised to name an unchanged team for the third successive World Cup game when Wales face Fiji. The Wales coach will announce his side on Monday and seems set to stick with the same starting line-up that beat Georgia and Australia. Gatland will then make wholesale switches for Uruguay, when first starts of the competition can realistically be expected for players like Hallam Amos, Rhys Carre, Dillon Lewis, Bradley Davies and James Davies.

Elfyn Evans finished fifth on Wales Rally GB today – and had it not been for two small issues, he might well have won Britain’s round of the FIA World Rally Championship in his M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC. A poor opening stage time at Oulton Park and a puncture and suspension damage in Penmachno forest cost Evans 55 seconds – and at the end of the four-day, 22 stage event, the Dolgellau ace was 48.6 seconds off the winner’s time. Co-driven by Scott Martin, Evans set another cracking pace at the start of the final day of the event, with fastest time on the second stage of the day (SS19, Brenig 1) finally putting him ahead of Andreas Mikkelsen (Hyundai) and up to fifth. With the Great Orme stage cancelled (the sea was too rough for safety divers to be positioned), just the repeat of the Alwen and Brenig forest stages remained, with Evans setting fastest time on the penultimate stage (his seventh of the event) and fourth quickest on the closing Power Stage to secure fifth place. His speed over all-but two of the Wales Rally GB stages had been extraordinary, and in the end he’d closed to within 13 seconds of fourth placed Kris Meeke – having been 53 seconds behind the Toyota driver after SS3.

Steve Cooper has admitted Swansea City need to recapture the swagger and bravery that held them at the top of the Championship for the opening weeks of the season. The Swans manager confessed that his team have lost the courage of their convictions following their 2-1 home defeat to Stoke City on Saturday. The loss dropped Cooper’s side from top to fourth in the Championship table, but more concerning for the man at the helm was the style of football that has now brought just one point from their last three home games.

Elfyn Evans was the star of the gruelling ‘Super Saturday’ leg of Wales Rally GB, showing true FIA World Rally Championship winning pace in his M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC. Indeed, he may look back on the 2019 event and see two very small standout moments – a poor opening stage time at Oulton Park and a puncture and suspension damage in Penmachno forest – that ultimately denied him victory. Evans and co-driver Scott Martin left Llandudno just after 6am this morning and headed towards the classic mid-Wales stages, and jumped from eighth to sixth position on the leaderboard with fastest time on the opening stage through Dyfi forest.

Cardiff Devils fans will stand up for their team again when Manchester Storm visit the Viola Arena in Cardiff Bay. Elite League play-off champions Devils introduced a standing section in block 13 for the 5-1 Challenge Cup group win against Coventry Blaze and it proved a success. The club have now given the go-ahead for […]

Wrexham AFC will name their new manager by next Wednesday which leaves caretaker Brian Flynn in charge at Woking today. Flynn is also likely be the main man for next Tuesday’s Vanarama National League home clash with Harrogate before stepping aside. The Dragons will then reveal their new manager and he will take charge for […]

There is a massive feelgood factor at Newport County right now. The Exiles could go top of League Two with a win against Carlisle United at home and manager Michael Flynn has signed a new, improved contract. Flynn has attracted strong interest from other clubs, including Lincoln City, but the County manager is committed to […]

Having beaten Australia last weekend, Wales are firmly in charge of their own destiny at the World Cup. Players, coaches and fans are brimming with belief that anything is now possible. And belief can be a powerful force as Owen Morgan recounts from the 1987 tournament, when Wales had the greatest defender of the faith ever to take change of a Wales team . . . the incomparable Clive Rowlands. Sitting in the cluttered store room, surrounded by boxes of Adidas Flanker rugby boots and a myriad of other essential 1980s sporting kit, a wet-behind-the-ears cub reporter asked the Welsh rugby legend his opening question. “How far do you think Wales can go in the tournament?” enquired the young scribbler, kicking-off his first sporting interview for the local weekly paper. The answer was flashed back immediately without a second’s contemplation and in a voice brimming with confidence, enthusiasm and no little incredulity that such a question should have been asked in the first place.

Welsh manager Nathan Jones has admitted he is skating on very thin ice that could finally crack at Swansea City today if his Stoke team lose again. The Stoke manager believes he has the backing of the club’s owners but is well aware there will be a limit to their patience. “They’ve appointed me and trusted me more than I have deserved if I’m honest, but they know the work I do and I’m a fighter who is strong,” Jones said in a pre-match press conference.

Stellar fields will line up in both the men’s and women’s elite races at this Sunday’s Cardiff University/Cardiff Half Marathon. With more than half of the record 27,500 entry made up of women for the first time in the event’s 17-year history, there will be a particular focus on the female elite race where a trio of Kenyans should feature prominently. Likely to be leading the charge is Paskalia Kipkoech (67:17) who  claimed bronze at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in 2012.