Elfyn Evans is hoping to bounce straight back after crashing out of the opening round of the 2019 FIA World Rally Championship by scoring a good result on the only winter round of the series, next week’s Rally Sweden (14-17 February). The 30-year old Dolgellau driver was unlucky to hit a patch of black ice on Rallye Monte-Carlo, which sent his M-Sport Ford World Rally Team Fiesta WRC hurtling into the undergrowth at high speed. But ice and snow are welcome at Rally Sweden, where studded tyres keep the cars on road on this, one of the fastest rounds of the WRC.

Tom Cave is aiming to become British Rally Champion this year, when he contests all six rounds of the series in a Hyundai i20 R5, supplied and prepared by the PCRS team. It’s a similar car to the one that Cave set some very impressive times in on last year’s Wales Rally GB, and he’ll start the series as one of the favourites for title success. The 27-year old driver from Aberdyfi will be co-driven by Hirwaun’s Dale Bowen, and their campaign gets underway on the Visit Conwy Cambrian Rally on Saturday 16 February.

Robbie Willmott, the scourge of Teesside, has committed his football career to promotion-chasing Newport County. Essex-born Willmott scored his first goal of the season during County’s 2-0 FA Cup win against Championship club  Middlesbrough in midweek – and has signed a two-year contract extension to stay at the club until 2021. “I love it here,” […]

Cardiff City are intent on taking a step towards winning the Professional Development League Under-18 South title when they entertain Bristol City in a Severnside derby on Saturday. The young Bluebirds take on the Robins at Cardiff International Sports Campus, Leckwith (February 9, 11am). Cardiff are three points clear at the top of their division […]

Merthyr Town are intent on firing up their EvoStik Southern League play-off hopes when they travel to South Bucks on Saturday (3pm). The Martyrs take on Beaconsfield Town, who are two points behind the Welsh club, at Holloway Park, and then entertain title-chasing Weymouth at the MetCoaches Community Stadium in Merthyr next Tuesday. Merthyr then […]

Bryan Hughes and his Dragons are going on the attack in a bold bid to secure promotion back to the Football League. Wrexham and leaders Leyton Orient have the best defensive record in Vanarama National League football, having conceded 22 goals in 31 matches, and now new manager Hughes’ team are going for goals. They […]

Ellie Nawele and Dee Bolakoro are battling for World Cup places when they play for Celtic Dragons in Vitality Netball Superleague matches. Both players are in the provisional 23-strong Fijian Pearls squad named by Australian coach Vicki Wilson and are on course to represent their county during the World Cup in Liverpool during July. Wilson […]

Dan James will play at Elland Road next week – for Swansea City against the Leeds United team he looked set to join on transfer deadline day last week. The Welsh international wing was rested from Swansea’s 2-0 defeat at Bristol City last weekend to get over the disappointment of not making a £10m switch to the Championship title contenders after passing a medical at the club.

The New Saints return to action tonight for their Phase 2 clash against Newtown, a week after their visit to Bala Town was postponed. With leaders Connah’s Quay hosting Caernarfon Town, a combination of results in the Saints favour could push them back to the top of the Welsh Premier League. The defending champions swept […]

Huw Jenkins has said he feels he was made a scapegoat for many of the problems at Swansea City. The former chairman – who stood down last weekend after 17 years in the role – believes his position made him an obvious target when the club slid towards relegation from the Premier League. Jenkins walked away just two days after a fraught transfer deadline day for the Championship club during which three players left the Liberty Stadium and Daniel James came close to joining Leeds United.

Cardiff Met University student Grace Gear made her Premier Squash League debut for Welsh Wizards and powered to a straight games win. The 20-year-old from Welwyn Garden City was called up by Wizards with Welsh number one Tesni Evans playing in World tour events. A sell-out attendance watched Wizards take on PSL South leaders Tradition@RAC […]

Wrexham have their own Boy From The Blackstuff in charge of their bid for a return to the Football League. New Dragons’ manager Bryan Hughes is nicknamed ‘Yosser’ because he shares his name with the lead character from the 1980s TV drama series by Alan Bleasdale. Manchester-born actor Bernard Hill plays the Blackstuff character, while […]

This year’s JD Tyres Welsh National Tarmacadam Championship, which is promoted by the Welsh Association of Motor Clubs, is set to be a cracker, with nine events throughout Wales – from Pembrey in the south west, to Caerwent in the east, Epynt in mid-Wales, an event in Snowdonia and two visits to Anglesey. As the Rali Cwm Gwendraeth won’t run this year, the series will start with the Port Talbot Motor Club organised Tour of Epynt in March. Round 2 will take place in Monmouthshire, with the first of two Forresters Car Club organised rallies at Caerwent on 24 March, before a first visit to Anglesey Circuit for the Stockport 061 MC run SMC Stages on 14 April.

Rowland Philips has made two changes and two positional to the Wales Women side to face Italy in Lecce on Saturday as he backed his players to bounce back from the defeat to France. The Head Coach has named a new second row partnership with Ospreys locks Natalia John and Gwen Crabb earning their second starts while Siwan Lillicrap moves to No 8 to win her 25th cap and Beth Lewis switches back to the blindside.

Great Britain defeated KHL team Dinamo Riga 3-1 at Coventry’s Skydome in front of a sold-out arena. Luke Ferrara and Ben Lake scored on their home ice in Coventry, while Ben O’Connor added an empty-net goal.  Cardiff Devils netminder Ben Bowns turned away 41 of the 42 shots he faced. GB took the lead following a […]

Former Wales defender James Collins has revealed more about Emailgate – the decision of his old club West Ham to end his time there via his in-box. Collins gave a decade of service to the Hammers – playing 214 games during two stints – but found out about his release after what proved his final game for the club at the end of last season. In an interview with fellow former Wales international Iwan Roberts for S4C football series, Mwy o Sgorio, the 35 year-old said: “I wouldn’t say I’m angry; more disappointed. We were coming up to the last few weeks of the season and we were still in a situation where we could have gone down.

Sporting veterans returned to the top tier for Welsh clubs this week – and made an impact. Centre Clare Elsey, aged 40, played for Celtic Dragons in Vitality Netball Superleague, while 44-year-old former World squash number three and British Open squash champion David Evans was in action for Welsh Wizards. Superleague is full of World […]

Matthew Maynard will have a second innings as Glamorgan coach after being appointed for the whole of the 2019 season. The former England batsman was announced as interim head coach for the winter following Robert Croft’s departure in October. But now that temporary role has grown into a season-long job for the man who coached the county between 2008 and 2010, before three seasons spent in charge at Somerset.

Jonathan Davies will captain Wales for the first time on Saturday as he leads his a team showing 10 changes for the match against Italy in Rome (KO 16.45 GMT). The double digit rejig from the team that beat France in Paris in being done, in part, with one eye on the World Cup, according […]

Rob Howley has urged Wales to add to the abundant history of their surroundings in Rome this weekend by creating some of their own. The Wales assistant coach wants his team to provide more ruin for the Italians by building on the unbeaten run that has taken the visitors to within touching distance of new records. Victory over Guinness Six Nations opponents Italy in the Eternal City on Saturday would see Wales equal their all-time winning sequence of 11 Tests set between 1907 and 1910.