Mickey Demetriou has vowed to stick even closer to Harry Kane when Newport County go to Wembley for their FA Cup fourth round replay. The County defender left Kane for a fleeting moment during Saturday night’s epic tie at Rodney Parade and that was all it needed for the England striker to save his team from defeat with an 82nd minute equaliser. But Demetriou believes he and his teammates will have learned much from their experience in front of almost 10,000 fans and will not be daunted for their visit to the temporary home of the Premier League giants.

Holywell Town are second in the Huws Gray Alliance table after a 3-0 win at Gresford Athletic. They took advantage of Caernarfon Town, who were playing in the JD Welsh Cup, to move closer to the leaders. “The group are getting stronger every week and there is a great buzz around the team at the […]

Jake Morissette played a captain’s role for Cardiff Devils in their crucial Elite League ice hockey clash with Coventry Blaze at the Skydome. ‘Mo’ scored twice, including the winner, on a night when Belfast Giants were thrashed 8-0 by Sheffield Steelers. For the second night in a row Devils skated to victory against Coventry Blaze […]

Teenage talent Aidan Hislop saved his best till last in the British Diving Championships as he moved into fifth place in the Men’s platform event. The 15-year-old Plymouth-based diver, who will become the first Welsh diver in 20 years to go to the Commonwealth Games in April, just held off Scottish rival Lucas Thompson to finish behind Plymouth Diving team mate Matthew Dixon, Matty Lee, Noah Williams and Kyle Kothari.

Man of the match Kevin De Bruyne’s free-kick goal was the result of meticulous preparation by the Belgian playmaker. De Bruyne admits he was surprised by Cardiff City’s playing style, but knew exactly what he was doing when he shot low at a free-kick 20 yards out. Bluebirds players in the defensive wall jumped in […]

Seren Bundy Davies eased her way back into competitive athletics as she clocked a time of 54.74 sec in the 400 metres at the Vienna Indoor International meet at the weekend. The 2016 Rio Olympian hadn’t raced since May last year because of an Achilles injury and used the race to blow away the cobwebs as she attempts to pick up the Commonwealth Games A standard time of 51.50 sec required to take up her allocated place for the Gold Coast. If it wasn’t quite as quick as her coach Matt Elias was hoping for, it was still a very useful work out as she looks to rebuild her track career after missing almost six months of training and the whole of the last summer season.

Wrexham aim to throw the Vanarama National League title race wide open when they travel to play Gateshead on Tuesday (7.45pm). The Dragons make a 400-miles round trip to the North East of England knowing a win will put them just behind top two Macclesfield Town and Aldershot Town. Wrexham are third after their 2-2 […]

Elfyn Evans finished sixth on the Monte Carlo Rally but knows it could have been so much better. The Dolgellau-born flier was less than 12 seconds behind the fourth placed Kris Meeke after four gruelling, incident packed days in the French Alps.

Oliver Davies and his Merthyr Town teammates suffered heartache in their EvoStik Southern League match at Arbour Park in Slough. Goalkeeper Davies saved two penalties and the Martyrs led 2-1 with more than an hour gone, but hosts Slough Town snatched the winner five minutes into second half overtime. The winner followed a Slough penalty which […]

The Bluebirds play Manchester City in front of a sell-out attendance at Cardiff City Stadium this afternoon (4pm). dai-sport looks back at FA Cup links between the clubs. Tony Book was starting out on his Manchester City career when he first came to Ninian Park. Bath-born Book was in the Sky Blues team who played […]

Welsh Netball have named their squad for the Netball Europe Under-17 Championships in Dublin. The final 12 includes four players from the squad who played last season and they are Macey Lane, Rhian Evans, Sapphira Fisher and Beca Hughes. Macey and Rhian will be representing Wales at Netball Europe for the third year in succession. […]

Cardiff sprinter Sam Gordon saved the best until last as he rounded off a thrilling afternoon’s action at the National Indoor Athletics Centre in Cardiff with a record-breaking win in the men’s 60metre sprint. The final event of the Welsh Indoor Athletics Championships on Saturday saw Gordon lining up against England’s World, European and Commonwealth medallist Harry Aikines Aryeetey.

Penydarren BGC, from the fifth level of Welsh football, are gatecrashing the Welsh Premier League party. The boys from Merthyr Tydfil, who play in the South Wales Alliance, are the only team from outside the Welsh Premier League to qualify for the JD Welsh Cup quarter-finals. Pen defeated Pontypridd Town 2-1, thanks to two goals […]

Neil Warnock only tips his hat to the most deserving managers, but it was the headwear needed by Pep Guardiola for a visit to Mansfield Town that really earned the respect of the Cardiff City manager. Forget the tributes given to Guardiola for the elegance of his team, or his own sartorial accolades, what really impressed Warnock – whose Championship side host City in the FA Cup on Sunday afternoon – was the fact that his opposite number wrapped up warm on a freezing night to cover all bases before Cardiff won their third round replay at Field Mill.

Swansea City will assess Renato Sanches’ fitness before Tuesday’s Premier League clash with Arsenal after the midfielder picked up a hamstring injury in the 1-1 FA Cup draw with Notts County. The Portugal international was taken off after 32 minutes of the fourth round clash on Saturday after he pulled up injured in a Swansea counter-attack. Sanches, 20, suffered the same injury in the goalless third-round draw with Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Pontypool’s pack power earned them two penalty tries and saw them beat Carmarthen Quins 23-8 in the WRU National Cup. The Principality Premiership side were simply swept aside in difficult conditions at Pontypool Park as Rob Nash’s fired-up home side showed no mercy as they reached the quarter-finals for the second successive season. Last season they won at Llanelli and Cardiff before finally falling to Cross Keys. This season, no team is going to want to be drawn to play the unbeaten Championship leaders on their own patch.

Layne Ulmer and Patrick Asselin proved again they are a winning combination on ice. While Cardiff Devils were tense and on edge with the match score at 1-1 with less than 70 seconds left, the battle-hardened veterans opened up a Coventry Blaze team who fought with heart and passion. Ulmer waited patiently until the perfect […]

Elfyn Evans is in a three man scrap for fourth place after continuing his Monte Carlo comeback. The 29-year-old goes into the final day in sixth spot having been 16th on Thursday night after losing several minutes with a puncture.

Michael Flynn declared himself the ‘proudest manager in the country’ after his Newport County team drew 1-1 against Harry Kane’s Spurs at Rodney Parade. County have earned a replay at Wembley Stadium and Flynn believes the FA Cup run could be worth more than £700,000 to a club whose annual turnover is £2.2m. Almost 10,000 […]

Penydarren BGC march on towards glory – and there is no sign of their charge slowing down. The club from Merthyr Tydfil have won 23 matches out of 23 in league and cup this season and are still in the hunt for four trophies. Pen’s latest success was a 2-1 win against Welsh League club […]