Caernarfon Town, leaders of the Huws Gray Alliance, have two matches in three days, both against teams in the bottom three. They are at home against Caersws at the Oval this afternoon, while they travel to play bottom club Llandudno Junction on Bank Holiday Monday. Manager Sean Eardley team have five matches left in their […]

Nelson will be bidding not only to reach the final of the WRU National Plate for the first time this weekend, but also for the chance to toast the 100th birthday of one of the most famous of all Welshmen. Standing guard at the entrance to the home of Welsh rugby is a statue to Sir Tasker Watkins, born in Nelson in 1918, who won the Victoria Cross in WW2, became one of the highest Law Lords in the land during his incredible legal career and was a long-standing President of the WRU.

One slip, two points dropped, but a frustrated Newport County manager wasn’t going to point the finger solely at Ben White for his side losing their grip of a game they should have won, but ended up drawing 1-1 at home to Coventry City. Coventry came to Rodney Parade looking to extend their six match unbeaten run and consolidate their place in the play-off places. For Michael Flynn’s side it was a chance to post a first home win since 19 January and keep alive their faint chances of reaching the top seven.

Jose Mourinho has thanked Carlos Carvalhal for crowning him the King of Portuguese football coaches.The two countrymen meet on Saturday when Mourinho’s Manchester United host Swansea City in a Premier League clash vital for both clubs for differing reasons. It will be the first time they have gone head-to-head, although they are friends with Mourinho having claimed they speak regularly on the phone.

Ken Owens hailed Leigh Halfpenny as the world’s deadliest goal-kicker after the Scarlets moved one step from a European Champions Cup Final. Halfpenny kicked 19 points at a raucous and vibrant Parc Y Scarlets on Friday night as the region eventually over-powered La Rochelle 29-17 in a gritty quarter-final display. Tries from Rhys Patchell and Scott Williams helped see the Scarlets into the last four for the first time since 2007 as the French club crumbled under pressure in the final quarter.

Roger Johnson, the gritty centre-half who played for Cardiff City in the 2008 FA Cup final, was sent off playing for Kent club Bromley Town during a 1-1 draw against promotion chasing Wrexham. Johnson, 34, was dismissed just before half-time when he caught Wrexham’s Sam Wedgbury and the referee dismissed him on a straight red […]

JD Welsh Premier League strugglers Prestatyn and Carmarthen could have their fate sealed this afternoon as time runs out for the two sides to turn around their season. Prestatyn must end Barry Town’s run of five straight victories if they are to have any chance of avoiding the drop. A defeat at Jenner Park would […]

Cefn Druids 3 Bala Town 1 Mike Pritchard wrapped up a 3-1 win for Cefn Druids on Friday night as Bala Town’s hopes of securing an automatic European spot were cast into doubt. The Ancients finished the game with 10 men when Alec Mudimu was dismissed, but Bala were left to rue their missed chances […]

Andrew Lord applauded Red Army fans after Cardiff Devils’ play-offs quarter-final first leg clash with Coventry Blaze. Devils take a 4-2 lead into the return match at Ice Arena Wales on Sunday (6pm) and head coach Lord said: “What a support. The Red Army were loud and proud.” There are less than 100 tickets left […]

Zak Jones says Wales are relishing their Commonwealth Games campaign and discovering their standing among the hockey elite. The men’s squad launch their Gold Coast campaign on August 5th against Pakistan whose world ranking of 13 puts them 11 places ahead of Wales.

Neil Warnock is telling his Bluebirds players ‘Enjoy the moment’. Manager Warnock’s Cardiff City team earned an eighth consecutive victory in a 3-1 home win against relegation threatened Burton Albion. Warnock’s Warriors are unbeaten in their last 12 Championship matches and are second in the table behind Wolves. Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock said: “The players […]

Joe Cordina has already broken the mould as the first sportsman to compete in three different sports at the Principality Stadium, but now he has a new target. The 26-year-old boxer has played schoolboy rugby and football at the venue, but his return to the stadium on Saturday night to fight for a second time is the start of a fresh campaign. “I love fighting in Cardiff and have a really good following,” says Cordina. “There needs to be someone to take over from Joe Calzaghe and bring regular big time boxing back to Cardiff, not just Anthony Joshua but a Welsh fighter and I’m capable of doing it.

Cardiff Devils and ‘focused and upbeat’ going into their PredictorBet play-off quarter-final against Coventry Blaze. The teams clash at Coventry’s Skydome rink this evening, while the second leg is at Ice Arena Wales in Cardiff Bay on Sunday. Canadian forward Joey Haddad spoke to the Elite League media team and said: “Our goal is to […]

Steff Evans admits he can hardly believe he is close to a European Champions Cup Final following a breakthrough 12 months. The Scarlets wing is desperate to help guide his team to the last four of the tournament by overcoming La Rochelle in their quarter-final in Llanelli on Friday. It is the Scarlets’ first top-flight European knockout game since 2007, when they were beaten in the semi-finals of the Heineken Cup by Leicester.

Spencer Sport has taken the British Rallycross Championship by surprise, as the team from the small village of Penrhiwllan, near Llandysul, heads to the home of British Rallycross, Lydden Hill, on Easter Bank Holiday Monday, in the overall lead of the series. Of course it’s not so much of a surprise to the people of West Wales, as it’s a region rich in motorsport expertise. Llanwrda-based Melvyn Evans Motorsport currently leads the Protyre MSA Asphalt Rally Championship, Llangybi is the home to Tim Duffee Engineering, which has built championship winning race at rally Darrians for decades, and MCR Race Cars, based near St. Davids, designs, builds and races championship-winning prototypes. And that’s only scratching the surface of all the successful motorsport teams, engineers, drivers and co-drivers who make West Wales a motorsport hotbed of talent. Spencer Sport is synonymous with rallying – indeed, its team manager Charlie Jukes was some peddler in his day, and is now very much hands-on in giving expert driver advice to talented youngsters, while his dedicated team builds and runs cars such as Fiesta R2s and R5s. The team has developed a strong relationship with Mitsubishi over recent years, developing both the highly successful R5-spec Mirage rally car and its flame-spitting rallycross machine, the Mitsubishi Mirage RX Supercar.

Clinton Purnell is relishing the prospect of competing in his third Commonwealth Games for Wales. The Rhondda gymnast maded his debut in Delhi eight years ago. And despite battling an injury before and during Glasgow in 2014, Purnell – who was Wales captain – took a fifth place in the floor exercise.

Australian rugby sevens captain James Stannard will miss the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after an assault outside a kebab shop in Sydney left him with a fractured skull. The 35-year-old was taken to St.Vincent’s Hospital following the attack which happened in the early hours of Friday morning in Australia. The Aussies face England in […]

Former Wakefield Trinity, St Helens and Wales International Anthony Walker has been appointed as the new head coach of the Wales under 19 rugby league side. He will lead the under 19s in the forthcoming European Championships and will remain as head coach of the side until at least December 2020.

Jamie Cureton, a striker who has scored more 300 goals during a 25-years playing career, is aiming to shoot down Merthyr Town on Saturday (3pm). Cureton, aged 42, plays for Bishops Stortford, who play the Martyrs at their ProKit Uk Stadium home. The Bristol-born hitman, a former Premier League striker, has made more than 850 […]

Newport County play two matches in four days in their quest to fire up their League Two play-offs challenge. The Exiles take on sixth-placed Coventry City at Rodney Parade on Good Friday before travelling to play Chesterfield on Bank Holiday Monday. County are aiming to bounce back from just their third home league defeat of […]