Sol Bamba has spoken of the “shock” felt by Cardiff City players over the loss of missing new teammate Emiliano Sala. Bamba is preparing for Tuesday night’s match at Arsenal when the Bluebirds will play their first match since Sala and his pilot disappeared flying over the Channel Islands a week ago. The French-born defender has told Sky Sports News that once former Nantes striker Sala was introduced to some of his new teammates after signing, then he was regarded as part of the squad.

Matty Dolan had his dad rocking in his wheelchair on Saturday night and now he wants to freewheel rolling Newport into the last 16 of the FA Cup. The County midfielder was the toast of two cities – Newport and Newcastle – after firing home the goal that earned his side an FA Cup fourth round replay at Rodney Parade against his former club Middlesbrough next week. Born into a Newcastle United-mad family in Hartlepool, Dolan was schooled in football at Boro from the age of six to 21.

Not only did Sian Swanson win her 20th Welsh athletics championship title in Cardiff, she did so after breaking her toe just 48 hours earlier. The Cardiff AAC stalwart leapt to victory in the triple jump at the National Indoor Athletics Centre on Sunday despite the handicap of a heavily strapped digit in her foot. However, the PE teacher played down the significance of her injury when interviewed after receiving her gold medal.

A drama filled day at the Welsh Athletics Championships saw disqualifications, a dead-heat and desperately narrow wins. The much anticipated women’s 60m final lived up to Its pre-race billing as Shannon Malone beat Wales Commonwealth Games sprinters Hannah Brier, of Swansea Harriers and Birchfield Harrier Mica Moore to claim the gold in another personal best time of 7.45.

Unlike most of the FA Cup remainers, Bersant Celina is desperate to be drawn against mighty Manchester City. The Swansea City midfielder is hoping tonight’s draw for the fifth round pairs his current club with his former one – providing a chance to prove how wrong Pep Guardiola was to sell him. Celina moved to the Swans last summer for £3m, after being told by the club he had been with for six years he was no longer required.

Tomos Williams grew up wishing he was Kobe Bryant or Shaq O’Neal but now wants to be the new Mike Phillips. Wales have not had an undisputed, unchallenged, first-name-on the-team-sheet scrum-half since the days of Phillips, the almost original Iron Mike. But Williams – who grew up favouring basketball over rugby and idolised the top American stars – has big plans ahead, starting with Friday night in Paris, and Warren Gatland might just share them.

Mike Flynn has warned he needs fresh legs to prevent Newport County’s FA Cup heroics costing them any hope of promotion from League Two. Matty Dolan’s dramatic equaliser in the 1-1 draw at Middlesbrough on Saturday has brought County a money-spinning replay and a chance to make even more cash by reaching the fifth round of the competition. But with a league game to come on Tuesday at home to Port Vale, Flynn is desperate to sign more players to prevent their recent slide down the table making even the play-offs a distant dream.

Welsh trainers Peter Bowen and Evan Williams both saddled winners (writes Brian Lee). Bowen’s eight-year-old Cougar’s Gold won the Sky Bet Extra Places Handicap Chase at Doncaster when coming home one-and-a-half lengths from the top weighted Mahlermade. And at Uttoxeter, Williams’ bottom-weighted Skewiff had three lengths to spare over the top-weighted Graceful Legend in the Momentum […]

Sean Eardley believes Caernarfon Town are on a roll after they rumbled into the last eight of the JD Welsh Cup with a 2-1 victory at their big rivals Bangor City. Gareth Edwards scored the winner which took his side into the quarter-finals in the first meeting between these noisy neighbours for a decade on Saturday night. It means Caernarfon can now look forward to the prospect of a last eight Cup tie as well as more potential success in the Welsh Premier League, having secured their top six finish for the second stage of the campaign.

By Lorraine Degraff in West Cumbria Torfaen Tigers crashed out of the Coral Challenge Cup on Saturday after being beaten 48-0 at Distington, the 2018 Cumberland League champions. The New Panteg-based side left South Wales at 5am on the day of the game and played the 80 minutes just a couple of hours after completing the 300 miles to Cumbria.

Cardiff Fire are intent on taking their frustration on Oxford City Stars at the Viola Arena in Cardiff Bay this evening (6pm). Head coach Mark Smith and his Fire players suffered a 4-1 National League home defeat against Guildford Phoenix on Saturday, although that scoreline does not reflect the Cardiff performance. Now Fire have a […]

The Deadballline Guy loves a bit of mud-wrestling, so he put on his spandex costume and headed for Llanelli Wanderers to see them play Whitland in a proper six-pointer mud fest. Before the game, he spoke to Richard Keenan – Mr. Wanderers – the club secretary and chairman of WRU district G. DBG meets District […]

Owen Lane was been praised for scoring “an international wing’s finish” after his try helped lift the Cardiff Blues to within two points of the top three places in the Guinness Pro 14 Conference A. Lane – who also scored a notable try against Lyon last week – was left out of Warren Gatland’s squad for the Six Nations. But after he touched down for the crucial score against Connacht in the Blues’ narrow 8-7 victory, coach John Mulvihill said: “Owen finished really well in the corner. That’s an international wing’s finish.

A patch of black ice on a high-speed corner three miles into Saturday’s tenth stage caused Elfyn Evans to crash out of Rallye Monte-Carlo. Several other drivers had near misses at the same corner, but Evans wasn’t so lucky as the icy verge pulled his M-Sport Ford World Rally Team’s Fiesta WRC off the road, down a steep embankment and into the undergrowth – ripping a rear wheel clean off. Evans and new co-driver Scott Martin had been holding a very strong sixth place, and began Saturday’s stages just 29.8 seconds adrift of a podium position. But it was to be a cruel morning, with a minute lost with a puncture on SS9, before the rally ending crash on SS10.

Former Plymouth and Torquay player Luke Young has put Wrexham’s promotion bid back on course. The 25-year-old midfield man from Ivybridge in Devon fired the Dragons’ winner after 65 minutes of a fiercely contested Vanarama National League match against Maidenhead United at the Racecourse. Young’s strike earned Wrexham a 1-0 win in front of more […]

As night follows day, Oli McBurnie keeps being picked by Swansea City manager Graham Potter and the Scotland striker keeps scoring. Potter could easily have chosen to rest his top marksman with a key Championship match at home to Birmingham City on Tuesday night. Instead, to the satisfaction of the club’s supporters and FA Cup traditionalists everywhere, McBurnie played and scored twice as the Swans beat Gillingham 4-1 at the Liberty Stadium

Merthyr Town earned a hard-earned EvoStik Southern League point at Tiverton Town, but were left bitterly disappointed after allowing a two goal lead to slip away. Ian Traylor scored twice in the first 25 minutes and the Martyrs looked in control, but Tivvy fought back to secure a 2-2 draw. Max Smallcombe reduced the arrears […]

Cardiff Devils have been left without a Sunday fixture because of bad weather in Belfast! Head coach Andrew Lord and his Devils played Nottingham Panthers away and were due to head north this morning to take on Fife Flyers in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. The Fife team, though, are stuck in Belfast because of the weather and […]

By Owen Morgan Wales’ top multi-eventer Ben Gregory was part of a high-class international field competing in Cardiff. The three-time Commonwealth Games competitor was part of Great Britain senior men’s heptathlon team at the National Indoor Athletics Centre. The international match ran parallel with the first day of the Welsh Indoor Championships.

By Owen Morgan Sprinter Melissa Roberts produced the performance of the day with a blistering win in the 200 metres at the Welsh Athletics Championships in Cardiff. The Birchfield Harrier posted a personal best of 24.37, breaking her own championships record in the process, during the final event of a high quality first day of action at the National Indoor Athletics Centre in Cardiff on Saturday.