Welsh Premier League challengers The New Saints and Barry Town will want to take an advantage in the title race, with pacesetters Connah’s Quay Nomads in Irn-Bru Cup action. The two sides, second and third in the table, go head to head at Park Hall this afternoon while The Nomads are forced them to put […]

Andy Morrison has vowed his Connah’s Quay team are ready to raise their game once again in order to reach the Irn-Bru Cup final. The Nomads can become the first Welsh team to reach the final, since the competition changed its format allowing clubs from outside Scotland to participate, if they can overcome Edinburgh City […]

Joe O’Connor, a rookie snooker professional from Leicester, is through to the ManBetX Welsh Open semi-finals after a dramatic victory against John Higgins. The 23-year-old O’Connor, a former under-18 World and European 8-ball pool champion who turned to snooker at the age of 15, plays Stuart Bingham in the last four at Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena. […]

Liam Thomas scored a hat-trick as Carmarthen Town added to Llanelli Town’s relegation woes with a convincing 3-0 win at Stebonheath. Thomas put Llanelli to the sword to go joint-top of the league’s scoring charts on what was his 200th Welsh Premier League start. Thomas increased his tally to 17 goals for the season as […]

By Paul Evans Two Welsh drivers are the first to have been selected for the recently formed Rally Team UK – which is a project dedicated to the development of up-and-coming young British rally talent. Meirion Evans, 23 from Lampeter, and James Williams, 20 and from Newcastle Emlyn, will compete with the help of the […]

Elfyn Evans could be leading Rally Sweden tonight, yet he is still very much in contention for victory after a sensational drive saw him bounce back from 11th to 4th place on the opening leg of the FIA World Rally Championship’s only true winter rally. A spin cost the 30-year old M-Sport team driver 30 seconds on the opening stage of the day (SS2), as tonight he trails the leader by 28.6 seconds. After an unassuming start, whatever Evans had for lunch worked – as he flew through the afternoon’s four stages, setting fastest time on two of them to rocket his Fiesta WRC up the leaderboard.

Leigh Halfpenny’s return to rugby looks entirely uncertain again after the decision to abandon any idea of a Scarlets comeback this weekend. The Wales full-back had been released back to Scarlets this week, but has not been considered for Saturday’s Guinness Pro14 trip to Benetton. Halfpenny has returned to full training but has not tasted match action since November owing to concussion issues.

Schalke 04’s new flying Welsh winger Rabbi Matondo has played down the possibility of facing his former Manchester City team mates when the clubs meet in the Champions League next week. Matondo joined the German club from the Premier League Champions during the January transfer window and has already made his Bundesliga debut off the bench against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Tesni Evans is still on course for a second AJ Bell British National title after qualifying for Saturday’s semi-finals. The defending champ came from one game down to beat England’s Julianne Courtice 3-1 after 48 minutes at Nottingham University. Evans triumphed 8-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-7 in her quarter-final against the No 7 seed.

Guildford Flames and Belfast Giants are heading to South Wales for the Elite League Challenge Cup final. Flames, who include Cardiff-born former Cardiff Devils player Ben Davies, defeated Nottingham Panthers 8-3 on aggregate, while Giants won 7-5 against Glasgow Clan over two legs of their semi-final. The final is at the Viola Arena in Cardiff […]

Former World Champion Stuart Bingham was the first player to secure a spot in the ManBetX Welsh Open snooker semi-finals. Bingham, from Basildon in Essex, won 5-2 against Zhao Xintong at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff. There were six nationalities represented in the last eight, all hoping to go on and lift the Welsh Open […]

Manager Bryan Hughes and his Dragons head to Havant and Waterlooville in search of a third successive Vanarama National League win. Wrexham fired up their promotion hopes with back-to-back 1-0 wins and now go into a run of three away fixtures in eight days. They travel to Hampshire on Saturday before trips to Boreham Wood […]

Joe Day hopes to summon up the spirit of goalkeeping great Gordon Banks to help him keep a clean sheet against mighty Manchester City on Saturday. The Newport County keeper hit the headlines in the last round for missing the birth of his twin girls to help the Exiles overcome Middlesbrough. Now he wants to stay in the limelight by stopping Sergio Aguero from hitting another hat-trick in the FA Cup fifth round tie at Rodney Parade.

Not for the first time Gareth Bale’s leading role in the soap opera that is Real Madrid is under scrutiny. Neil Masuda wonders why his Spanish critics can’t just do what Manchester City fans do with Sergio Aguero – allow his feet to do the talking. For a man of few words, Gareth Bale sure knows how to rile the locals in Spain. La Liga have just asked the Spanish Football Federation to punish Bale for a “provocative gesture” after he celebrated scoring in Real Madrid’s 3-1 win over Atletico Madrid.

Scot McGleish, a veteran of more than 1,000 first team matches, is heading to the MetCoaches Stadium in South Wales. The former Leyton Orient, Northampton and Colchester goals ace is now, at the age of 45, is Hendon’s player-coach and could face the Martyrs in an EvoStik Southern League match at the MetCoaches on Saturday […]

Run 4 Wales can reveal the official route and title partner of the inaugural Healthspan Porthcawl 10K. Thousands of runners will descend on the summertime hotspot on Sunday 7th July for the brand new race, and the UK’s leading direct supplements suppliers will be at the heart of the action.

Defending champion John Higgins plays Joe O’Connor in the quarter-finals of the ManBetX Welsh Open this afternoon. Higgins admits his enthusiasm for snooker has diminished and it was fitting that on St Valentine’s Day he said: “I’m keen to fall in love with the game again.” The Scot won 4-3 against Gloucester’s Jack Lisowski during […]

Tesni Evans powered into the quarter-finals as she began the defence of her AJ Bell British National title in Nottingham. The 26-year-old needed just 23 minutes to beat world no 120 Alicia Mead from England 11-2, 11-2, 11-5. Evans, seeded three for this year’s event, will now face No 7 seed Julianne Courtice in the last eight.

Struggling Llanelli and Cefn Druids both have the chance to pick up crucial points in the Welsh Premier League on home soil tonight (both 7.45). Llanelli currently occupy 11th-place in the Welsh Premier League table, with Druids five points in-front, ahead of their clash with local rivals Carmarthen Town. The club risk sliding to the […]

Adrift at the bottom of the table, perhaps it isn’t too late for Llandudno FC, writes Matthew Burgess. Whisper it quietly, but are Llandudno on the verge of staging a climatic late turnaround in their bid to avoid relegation from the JD Welsh Premier League? It would seem unlikely, but their visit to Cardiff Met […]