The New Saints manager Scott Ruscoe is refusing to panic ahead of his side’s visit to Jenner Park this afternoon. His Saints side visit Jenner Park, where Barry Town have a 100 percent record this season, and the champions are looking for their first win in four matches. The New Saints are coming off back-to-back […]

Ryan Giggs was proud of his team despite losing 2-1 to Denmark at the Cardiff City Stadium in their final game of their Nations League campaign. Gareth Bale scored what turned out to be a consolation for Wales after goals from Nicolai Jørgensen and Martin Braithwaite helped the Danes seal promotion to the top tier. The victory guarantees them Group B4 winners’ status and a play-off spot for Euro 2020. As for Wales, this defeat leaves them remaining in the second tier where Giggs feels his team have learned a lot from this tournament.

Connah’s Quay left it late before securing their place in the Irn-Bru Cup semi-final with a 2-1 win over Queen’s Park at Hampden. Michael Wilde finished from eight yards in the 84th minute to put the Nomads in front after they had fallen behind midway through the second-half. https://twitter.com/the_nomads/status/1063545229754667008 Lewis Hawke’s well-executed finish put the […]

Despite a Gareth Bale goal and feverish finish, Wales’ hopes of promotion to the top tier of the Nations League ended with a 2-1 defeat to a streetwise Denmark in Cardiff. In another game that undermined the value of this new tournament compared to the old futility of international friendlies, Wales were edged out by the classy Danes in an often fractious and frenetic clash. But Wales manager Ryan Giggs can take consolation from highly encouraging displays from his youngsters against one of the best current form sides in European football.

Jake Ball – owner of Welsh rugby’s most distinctive beard and stompiest boots – is back just when his country needs him. The Scarlets second row returns on Saturday to help repel Tonga at the Principality Stadium, a venue where plenty of South Seas Islanders have left their imprint. That won’t bother Ball, even though he is returning for the first time in a Wales shirt since dislocating his shoulder against New Zealand last autumn.

Wales Women’s final match of the autumn international series, against Canada, will be broadcast live online by S4C. Rowland Phillips’ side will host the team currently fourth in the World Rugby rankings at Cardiff Arms Park on Saturday, 24 November. Coverage of the match will be shown live on the S4C Clic website, s4c.cymru/clic, and the Clwb Rygbi Facebook Live page. Coverage starts at 11.25am, with kick off at 11.30am. Rhys ap Wiliam will be in the commentary box alongside former Wales international Caryl James.

Wales suffered in their 2018 Victory Shield under-16 campaign, while North Ireland won the title for only the second time. The Welsh boys lost 3-1 against Northern Ireland, who also drew 1-1 against Scotland and won 3-1 against hosts Republic of Ireland. Manager Gerald Boyle’s Northern Ireland finished top and lifted the trophy for the […]

Frank Nouble reckons Newport County will attract a 7,000-plus sell-out attendance at Rodney Parade on Saturday – because he is playing against his former club. “It’ll be full to capacity because I’m going down there,” says Nouble, one of three former Exiles’ players in the Colchester United squad along with Ryan Jackson and Aaron Collins. […]

Wrexham travel to Kent for a Vanarama League clash with Maidstone United on Saturday. dai-sport journalist Terry Phillips looks back almost 50 years when he reported on ‘Stones for the Kent Messenger. Bobby Houghton was Maidstone manager, while Roy Hodgson was his assistant at the old Athletic Ground on London Road in the early 1970s. […]

Elfyn Evans was faster than Sébastien Ogier on the opening day of Rally Australia, but yet again showed what a magnificent team-mate he truly is by easing off to allow the Frenchman to get ahead. Co-driven by Dan Barritt, Evans was eighth and Ogier 10th after SS5, before some quick and strategic calculations saw the Welshman, and indeed the third M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC driven by Teemu Suninen, drop behind and put Ogier and his co-driver Julien Ingrassia up to what they hoped would be eighth. But when Ogier’s title rival Thierry Neuville lost time when a tyre came off a rim on his Hyundai after a jump on the same stage, the five-time world champion found himself in seventh. And, more importantly, some 30 seconds ahead of Neuville at the end of day one.

Ryan Giggs believes Wales are involved in a cup final against Denmark tonight where the stakes are higher than most fans realise. Giggs’ team host the Danes at the Cardiff City Stadium in their final match of the inaugural Nations League competition, a tournament that had plenty of critics when it was introduced. It may still be difficult to understand – unless you devote the time to digesting the extensive fine detail – but the primary aim appears to have been a huge success.

Rachel Jenkins may be looking down from a gap in the clouds on Saturday when Jonah Holmes make his debut for Wales. The late Mrs. Jenkins was the grandmother of Holmes – the Leicester wing who will start at full-back against Tonga – and it is to her that he owes a debt of gratitude for the opportunity. There may be a heavenly tear, too, as Holmes recalls: “My grandmother was from Cwmllynfell near Swansea. It would have been great if she was here to come on Saturday, but unfortunately she passed away a couple of years ago.

Central midfield player Tyrone Duffus and his Bluebirds team-mates are intent on giving the Hornets a warm welcome to Cardiff City Stadium on Monday (7pm). Watford are visitors for a Professional Under-23 Development League match, entry is free for spectators and former Everton youth player Duffus says: “Our focus is on Watford and we want […]

Cardiff City host Port Talbot Town in an FAW Women’s Cup at Cardiff International Sports Campus on Sunday (2pm). Entry is free and is a second successive Bluebirds v Port Talbot fixture after the teams drew 1-1 in the Welsh Premier League. City were due to play Caernarfon Town last weekend, but the North Walians […]

Not content with having represented Great Britain at bobsleigh and Wales in athletics, Mica Moore is now turning her hand to boxing. The Newport-based sportswoman, who finished eighth at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics alongside Mica McNeil earlier this year, is set to climb into the boxing ring for a glamorous charity bout in London on Saturday night.

Former Arsenal and England playmaker Paul Merson is returning to Welsh League football at the age of 50. Merson, who won two First Division titles and the FA Cup during his professional career, has agreed to make a second appearance for Caerau when they play Trefelin Boys and Girls Club on Saturday (2pm). When Merson […]

The ABP Newport Wales 10K will return for runners to enjoy the nation’s premier marathon event without taking on the mammoth 26.2 mile distance. The ABP Newport Wales Marathon & 10K festival of running is back on Sunday 5 May, 2019, following the success of the inaugural event in April this year. Almost 3,000 runners added their weight to an electric atmosphere at the start of the marathon race, before taking in some of Newport’s most famous landmarks on a flat, fast route.

Tyler Roberts has paid tribute to his Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa for helping him make his breakthrough for Wales. Bielsa is better known for his intense moods and fearsome dressing room explosions, rather than playing the fairy godfather. But young striker Roberts – who could win a fourth Wales cap against Denmark on Friday – says he owes the man known as “El Loco” back in his homeland of Argentina. “I haven’t seen him blow up,” Roberts said. “He was OK after Saturday (when Leeds lost 4-1 at West Brom).

Jonah Holmes will make his Wales debut at full-back on Saturday with an instruction from coach Warren Gatland to put pressure on Leigh Halfpenny and Liam Williams. Holmes as one of 14 changes to the side that will host Tonga this weekend in the third match of the autumn Under Armour series. Lock Adam Beard is the only player to start from the team that claimed a 9-6 victory over Australia last weekend, with the majority of the remainder of the squad rested for the final November international against South Africa next week.

Tesni Evans has won the North East Wales Squash Open for the second time in three years. World number nine Evans, who lives in Rhyl, has had a sensational 2018 on the professional tour, but still makes time to support squash in Wales. The British champion is an ambassador for Squash Wales, a leading figure […]