James Collins hopes his vast experience can help Championship strugglers Ipswich Town out of their relegation plight. The 35-year-old former Wales defender has signed a short-term deal until the end of the season just weeks after seeing a switch to Aston Villa wrecked by a calf injury.

Neil Warnock is hoping it might still be third time lucky in the transfer market in his quest to keep Cardiff City in the Premier League. Already this month the veteran Bluebirds boss has been thwarted in his bid to land Liverpool’s Nathaniel Clyne and Nice’s Adrien Tameze, but he hasn’t given up hope on landing Lyon striker Emiliano Sala.

Dai-Sport journalist Terry Phillips first met Aaron Ramsey more than 15 years ago. Here Terry gives his view on Rambo’s proposed transfer to Italian champions Juventus.  John Charles earned the nickname ‘Il Buon Gigante’ among Juventus fans.  The Welshman was and still is a God to Juve fans. When Charles returned to Turin years after […]

Welsh Wizards are out to fire up their Premier Squash League challenge in their away clash with London-based Coolhurst this evening (Friday). Peter Creed and Tesni Evans head up the Wizards team, backed up by Emyr Evans, Elliott Morris-Devred and Spain’s Edmond Lopez. Emyr, Elliott and Tesni were the Wizards winners in a 3-2 win […]

Glamorgan have signed Charlie Humphrey for the coming season, a former baggage-handler in Australia. The Welsh county have certainly got used to being left on the carousel when it comes to success in recent years but Alun Rhys Chivers has uncovered what could be some useful Yorkshire grit. Until four years ago, Yorkshireman Charlie Hemphrey was “throwing bags” onto aeroplanes at Brisbane Airport. At 25 years old, the batsman and occasional off-spinner had been rejected three times by Kent, and once each by Essex and Derbyshire.

Great Britain head coach Peter Russell has shocked many Cardiff Devils fans by leaving big-hitting defenceman Josh Batch of the national team. The 6ft 4ins Batch is in the best form of his career and helped Devils win back-to-back Elite League titles over the last two seasons, but has been left out of a 26-man […]

Leading boxing management company MTK Global returns to Cardiff on St David’s Day for its second show in the Welsh capital. Last September, the company staged a seven-fight show at the Vale Arena, headlined by Liam Williams, who has since gone on to British middleweight title glory against Mark Heffron.

Charlotte Arter is hoping to bring her world beating form into this weekend’s Simplyhealth Great Stirling XCountry event. The Cardiff AAC athlete, who set a new female world best time at her home city’s parkrun last Saturday, is one of four Welsh athletes in the Great Britain squad which takes on teams from the USA and Europe in Scotland.

Nathan Jones is following a strong Welsh tradition at Stoke City. Five of the last nine managers appointed at the Bet365 Stadium have been from Wales. Tony Pulis, the boyhood Cardiff City fan from Newport now in charge at Middlesbrough, had two spells in charge at Stoke, while Mark Hughes, from Ruabon on North Wales, […]

Welsh athlete Kris Jones will be on familiar ground when Great Britain take on the USA and Europe at the Simplyhealth Great Stirling XCountry this weekend. The Swansea Harrier is based just an hour away in Dundee where he recently completed a PhD on the biomechanics of golf.

As a member of the national team affectionately known as the Sunshine Girls, it is hardly surprising that Jamaican international Stacian Facey is finding a cold and grey January in Cardiff not quite to her tastes. Not that anyone would have thought the Celtic Dragons’ new overseas signing looked anything but at home when she made an impressive Vitality Superleague debut in Birmingham last week. Stacian, though, has sacrificed more than just six months of Caribbean warmth to pursue her dream of playing overseas.

There is a new vibrancy in and around the Celtic Dragons squad plus an inner belief they will improve performances as the season progresses.  Watching Dragons players warm down at Arena Birmingham following their 58-41 defeat against Team Bath at Super10 day their enthusiasm and desire shone through. The next test for coach Tania Hoffman […]

Glamorgan have signed English batsman Charlie Hemphrey from Australian side Queensland Bulls on a two-year deal. Hemphrey, 29, played second team cricket for Kent, Essex and Derbyshire before emigrating to Brisbane where he became a regular in the Queensland batting line-up and played an important role in the side winning the Sheffield Shield last year. He averages over 33 with the bat in First-Class cricket and has struck four centuries, including a career-best 118.

Anthony Pilkington has been backed to help keep Wigan in the Championship after completing a free transfer move from Cardiff City. The Bluebirds striker has been surplus to manager Neil Warnock’s requirements for some time and has not played a senior game so far this season, despite the team’s struggles in the Premier League. But the 30-year-old winger – who scored 23 goals in 111 appearances for the Bluebirds – has the kind of knowledge and experience Wigan believe can keep them above the relegation zone.

Romain Ntamack – son of legendary French wing Emile Ntamack – could make his debut against Wales in the Six Nations opener. The 19-year-old outside-half is one of five uncapped players named by France coach Jacques Brunel for the match in Paris on February 1. Ntamack’s selection is reward for his impressive form in a resurgent Toulouse team in recent weeks and he could well go head-to-head against likely Wales No.10 Gareth Anscombe.

Aaron Ramsey will join Juventus in a deal reportedly worth £36million bringing to an end his 10-year spell with Arsenal. The former Cardiff City midfielder had been in talks with several of Europe’s top clubs including Paris St-Germain and Bayern Munich. But, according to reports in Italy, Ramsey has agreed to join the Serie A giants at the end of this season in a five-year deal and will become a team-mate of Cristiano Ronaldo. Ramsey is available on a free transfer when his contract ends in June and had been free to talks to clubs as a free agent. The 28-year-old will reputedly earn £140,000 a week at Juventus, who have won the league title for the past seven seasons and are nine points clear this campaign. It had become clear that Ramsey would be leaving the Gunners, the club he joined in a near £5million deal from boyhood club Cardiff in 2008 after he had played in the Bluebirds’ FA Cup Final defeat to Portsmouth. The Caerphilly-born player has since won three FA Cup with his 52 goals including the winner in the 2014 and 2017 finals.

The Deadballline Guy loves a club stalwart. Who doesn’t? After watching Glynneath lose 17-16 at home to Bonymaen at the weekend in WRU National League Division One West Central, Deaders had a chat with Glynneath’s self-confessed “dogsbody”, Mike Thomas.

Wrexham will put Vanarama National League promotion thoughts to the back of their minds this Saturday when promotion rivals Leyton Orient visit North Wales for a Buildbase FA Trophy tie. The Dragons have suffered three successive League defeats, but are still right in the promotion mix and will focus on the Trophy this weekend. They […]

Welshman Nathan Jones has vowed to put his own stamp on Stoke City after taking over as manager from the sacked Gary Rowett. The Potters have moved quickly to snap-up the 45-year-old from Luton Town having agreed a compensation package with the League One outfit and having been turned down by ex-Fulham chief  Slavisa Jokanovic

James Livingston,  a big-hitting, tenacious winger, has switched Germany’s ‘Red Devils’ for Elite League champions Cardiff Devils. The former NHL draft pick flies into the UK this afternoon and looks certain to play for Cardiff in their fixtures against Glasgow Clan away and Nottingham Panthers at home this weekend. He has made the move from […]