Graham Potter insists Swansea City are close to bringing in new recruits on loan – but has refused to confirm they are poised to take centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers from Tottenham. The Swans manager – whose unbeaten Championship team host Leeds United on Tuesday night – talked of using the loan market after four players left the club on transfer deadline day. As yet, no-one has arrived, but Potter says the club are in discussions over a number of potential players and that the club’s American owners are aware of the need to improve the squad.

Rhys Healey is in sizzling goalscoring form for the Bluebirds.  The former Welsh Premier League forward has already scored 11 goals during pre-season and Professional Development League under-23 matches. Healey and substitute Ibrahim Meite, who has returned to fitness after injury, were the scorers in Cardiff City’s 2-0 win against Barnsley at Cardiff International Sports […]

The dramatic battle for this year’s FIA World Rally Championship has reached fever pitch as the series heads for a spectacular showdown in the legendary Welsh forests. With Estonian ace Ott Tänak scoring back-to-back wins in Finland and Germany, a titanic three-way tussle is in prospect when the WRC arrives on these shores next month for Dayinsure Wales Rally GB (4-7 October).

Stuart Manley saw a 12 foot putt on the last hole sail just wide of the mark to end his hopes of forcing a play-off with Calum Hill in the North Ireland Open at Galgorm Castle. Having led after the first round with a superb seven under par round of 64, the 39-year-old was hoping to notch his second win of the year on the European Challenge Tour.

Leah Wilkinson will win her 150th cap when she leads the Welsh Women’s team into the Hockey Open Series in Lithuania this week. The Holcombe midfielder is in her 14th year in the Welsh team, having made her debut in Ireland in 2004, and has played at three Commonwealth Games, leading Wales at the Gold Coast earlier this year.

Merthyr Town lie third in Southern League Premier South after a 4-2 home win against Gosport Borough at the MetCoaches Stadium. More than 400 spectators watched the Martyrs surge into a three-goal lead thanks to strikes from Corey Jenkins (10 mins), Ian Traylor (17) and Kerry Morgan (21). Tony Lee pulled a goal back on […]

James Wilson won the Welsh Open Stroke Play at Pyle and Kenfig, beating England’s Tom Sloman in a sudden death play-off. The pair finished locked together on level par at the end of the 72 holes, before Scotland’s Stirling University graduate Wilson won the first hole in the play off with a birdie. Will Poole of Mendip Spring was third, one stroke off the leading pair.

Having recently looked at the Principality Premiership, Geraint Powell turns his attention to the survivors of the great 2003 Welsh rugby shake-up, the regions. These like to consider themselves as independent business operations. How’s trade? “Project Reset”. Two words that send a shudder down the spines of those who want to forever remain with the non-aligned April 2003 fudge without the requisite never ending evolution/modernisation. This is compounded by ill-advised fixed term “cliff edge” agreements between the WRU and the regions, an excuse to stand still for periods of five to six years.

An undefeated regular season for the South Wales Warriors ended in defeat at the first play-off hurdle against the Portsmouth Destroyers who were always in control of this semi-final clash. The Dreadnoughts tasted defeat at this same stage last year and showed their intent at the outset, surprising the Warriors with an explosive start as Benny Debrah sprinted some 60 yards to score on just the visitor’s third play from scrimmage at Llanharan Rugby Club’s Dairy Field. The Warriors, who had conceded only 12 points all season, kept the deficit to six by blocking Les Adofu’s attempted conversion. 

Harry Arter insists Cardiff City will waste little time worrying that an inability to beat the likes of Newcastle United at home means relegation is a certainty. The new Bluebirds recruit has a wider perspective on what may happen during the club’s first season back in the Premier League and urges the doubters to look at the experience he went through at Bournemouth. The midfielder, a deadline day loan mover, has plenty of experience in defying the odds and the doomsayers such as BBC radio pundit Chris Sutton who has predicted Neil Warnock’s side could threaten Derby County’s record low total of 11 points for a Premier League season.

Connah’s Quay didn’t manage a single league victory in their four meetings with The New Saints last season, but the Nomads have landed an early blow on the Saints’ latest title defence. The New Saints are undoubtedly the undisputed champions of the JD Welsh Premier League and it’s highly unlikely they will relinquish that title […]

The big kick-off to the new rugby season is not far away, but there is still confusion as to where parts of the Welsh jig-saw fit into place. The new Celtic Cup will operate over the opening two months of the season, but to what effect? Meanwhile, in the soon to be downgraded Principality Premiership, some of the biggest names in rugby will be fighting for their very survival as David Williams discovers. If you ask the four Welsh regions what they are going to call their new teams that will be playing in the Celtic Cup this season you will get differing answers. For some they will be Under 23 sides, others are calling them A teams. Seven successive weekends of ‘development’ rugby are in store for the brightest young prospects in the Welsh game as they dip their toe into the professional sport.

I can’t remember watching a more exciting pre-season fixture in ice hockey or football than Cardiff Devils v Poprad HK at Ice Arena Wales. Slovakian speedsters Poprad powered into a 5-1 lead, helped by some poor work defensively from Devils, but by the end the visitors were hanging on desperately at 5-4. Josh Batch, who […]

American defenceman Tom Parisi has joined Cardiff Devils from the Montreal Canadiennes NHL organisation. The worst kept secret in British ice hockey became fact when Parisi, who flew in this weekend, performed the pre-match puck drop. Parisi, aged 25, played for Montreal’s affiliate team Laval Rocket in the American League last season, scoring 17 points […]

Welsh Wizards have signed former World champion Gregory Gaultier to lead their team into their first Premier Squash League season. Newly-formed Wizards start their PSL fixtures in Cardiff on Tuesday, September 25 and they have already signed World ranked players from France, Egypt, Hong Kong, Spain, Holland and Wales. They will play home matches any […]

Wrexham hit-man Mike Fondop is dancing his way along the goals trail for his new club. The 24-year-old striker from Cameroon loves to celebrate his goals in style and followed France and Atletico Madrid ace Antoine Griezmann when he netted against Eastleigh away. That took his tally to four goals in five appearances for the […]

In a pulsating Welsh Premier League Origin match, West and East fought out a 24-all draw despite West being down to 12 men for half of the game.

He may not have matched Billy McCandless’ 1948 record of winning his first three games in charge as manager of Swansea City, but Graham Potter is still working his magic on his return to British football. How else can you account for Birmingham City not winning Friday night’s game. They battered the Swans into virtual submission, yet failed to convert any of their 17 shots, 14 of which came in a first-half in which they peppered the visiting goal.

Melissa Courtney’s record breaking summer continued in Birmingham where she lowered the 18-year-old Welsh outdoor best over 3000 metres. Having written the great Angela Tooby out of the record books after 32 years some six days earlier with her 15 min, 04.75 sec time over 5000 metres in Berlin, she surpassed Haylett Tullett over 3000 metres in the Diamond League meeting in the Midlands at the weekend.

Elfyn Evans was unlucky to crash out of Rally Germany yesterday, after drifting wide on a corner and putting his M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC into a field. The 29-year old Dolgellau driver had been fourth after Friday’s opening full day of competition, but slipped to seventh after being overtaken by Jari-Matti Latvala (Toyota) on SS8, Dani Sordo (Hyundai) on SS9 and Esapekka Lappi (Toyota) on SS10. Going into SS11, the four drivers were separated by just 12 seconds – but two miles into the 7.6 mile Römerstrasse test, Evans hit some gravel and ran slightly wide going through an innocuous looking right hand corner and understeered into a field.