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• Everton’s Willie Kirk: ‘Next year we want to be a top-six WSL team’

  12-02-2019 11:00 via Sport | The Guardian
  Blues new manager has had a whirlwind 12 months, with the lure of being his own man at Finch Farm proving too much to keep him at Manchester UnitedEverton’s manager, Willie Kirk, has had a rocket-fuelled 12 months. “If I look at where I was at the start of 2018 to the end, I went from Bristol City, a nice Championship club [in men’s terms] with aspirations of being a Premier League club, to a club that’s never known anything but the Premier League, it’s a massive cl
  
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• Is defending making a comeback after the gung-ho attacking years?

  20-02-2019 11:30 via Sport | The Guardian
  Liverpool’s draw with Bayern followed a Champions League last-16 pattern so far – and the phenomenon runs deeperIt’s early days yet, of course. Nobody should be getting carried away. There’s plenty of time for the second legs or subsequent rounds to make a mockery of the thought but, after a few years in which the big clubs have treated caution as something laughably old-fashioned, a quaint affectation like a waxed moustache or a pocket-watch, might defending be making a
  
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• What is the longest gap between two meetings of the same football teams? | The Knowledge

  20-02-2019 11:00 via Sport | The Guardian
  Plus: sent off after scoring a hat-trick, outscoring your age in a season and putting a corner flag to different use. Mail us or tweet @TheKnowledge_GU“When Newport played Manchester City in the FA Cup, it was the first time that the fixture had been played for more than 56 years,” writes Mark Meadowcroft. “The last match, on 24 October 1962 (2-1 to City at Maine Road in the League Cup) was at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the week after Love Me Do first charted. I
  
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• Matija Nastasic: ‘I told Pellegrini it was better for everyone if I left City’

  20-02-2019 11:00 via Sport | The Guardian
  The defender’s career in Manchester ended in frustration but he has flourished at Schalke and is confident his current side can upset his old one in their Champions League meetingIt is with matter-of-fact delivery, rather than obvious emotion or regret, that Matija Nastasic recounts the meeting that in effect brought about his departure from Manchester City. He had made a rapid impact after arriving from Fiorentina as a 19-year-old in 2012 but, two and a half years on, had fallen off Manue
  
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• García, Kuchar and Holmes: three golfers out of touch with reality | Ewan Murray

  20-02-2019 11:00 via Sport | The Guardian
  Spaniard’s petulance, Kuchar’s thrifty touch and Holmes’s slow play sit uneasily with the public but Tiger Woods offers hopeThe World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship is an unlikely saviour for the sport. At the first staging of this tournament, in 2017, players and caddies were affected by sickness to such an extent that an emergency ward by the 18th green would have been a valid addition. The impact on last year was inevitable; Rory McIlroy gave the event a miss despite
  
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• Fifty seconds for a one-foot putt: Is slow play killing golf?

  20-02-2019 11:00 via Sport | The Guardian
  JB Holmes frustrated fans and fellow pros with a five-and-a-half hour round on Sunday. Many believe slow play is affecting the growth of the gameThe video says it all: as JB Holmes paced a 15-foot putt at the Genesis Open, he checked his yardage book thoroughly, presumably looking over notes that he had taken during a practice round. Then he plum bobbed with his putter, stepped away and plum bobbed again, stared down the line of the putt as if he were hunting prey, stood over the ball, then fina
  
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• Painful low blow cruels Marsh’s comeback

  20-02-2019 10:46 via Sport news and galleries | Herald Sun
  Mitch Marsh has been ruled out of WA’s upcoming Sheffield Shield clash with NSW after requiring surgery for a hit to the groin.
  
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• AFLX 2019 ultimate guide: Full squads and information, nicknames, when is it on, how to watch

  20-02-2019 10:38 via Latest News|FOX SPORTS
  AFLX is back and is bigger than ever in 2019, with some of the best players in the AFL taking part in the round-robin tournament on Friday night.
  
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• AFL 2019: West Coast premiership hero Dom Sheed signs new contract

  20-02-2019 10:38 via Latest News|FOX SPORTS
  The man who kicked West Coast to a flag isn’t going anywhere.
  
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• Warriors’ cold rejection of Johnson

  20-02-2019 10:31 via Sport | news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site
  Things did not end well for Shaun Johnson in New Zealand.
  
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• Low blow cruels Marsh’s comeback hopes

  20-02-2019 10:31 via Sport | news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site
  Mitch Marsh has been ruled out of WA’s upcoming Sheffield Shield clash with NSW after requiring surgery for a hit to the groin.
  
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• Little Gem on song for Autumn showdown

  20-02-2019 10:31 via Sport | news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site
  If beating Winx is racing’s version of mission impossible, trying to overcome The Autumn Sun might be the next most difficult task in the sport.
  
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• Fourth kicking goals in her new home

  20-02-2019 10:31 via Sport | news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site
  Adelaide’s newest recruit Renee Forth, an inaugural marquee player for GWS Giants, has faced all sorts of challenges as a pioneer in the AFLW.
  
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• AFL star’s savage sledge to former club

  20-02-2019 10:31 via Sport | news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site
  Bryce Gibbs endured plenty of losing on the footy field after spending the first 11 years of his AFL career with Carlton.
  
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• AFLX-odus: Demon McDonald and Giant Cameron the latest to pull out

  20-02-2019 10:28 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  The much-maligned AFLX suffers twin blows with Melbourne’s Tom McDonald and GWS forward Jeremy Cameron the latest star players to drop out of the tournament.
  
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• Pocock an option for No.7 at World Cup, says O'Connor

  20-02-2019 10:00 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  Newly announced Wallabies selector Michael O’Connor says the panel will give serious thought to playing David Pocock at No.7 for the World Cup instead of Michael Hooper.
  
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• Understudies shine for Cats as freak accident sidelines North defender

  20-02-2019 09:47 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  Geelong and North Melbourne played a practice match behind closed doors as the Kangaroos revealed Sam Durdin will miss eight weeks after cutting his finger with a knife in an accident.
  
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• Canyonero looks for improvement on firm Hawkesbury track

  20-02-2019 09:39 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  While most eyes will be on the long-awaited debut of supremely bred filly Tuesday Special, it's a more frustrating gelding with nine starts under his belt who is set to steal the limelight.
  
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• Wine tasting can wait as Jock Landale joins Boomers in Kazakhstan

  20-02-2019 09:28 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  Jock Landale and his parents had a European getaway planned for the FIBA international window, but Landale is now in Astana with the Boomers awaiting his senior debut.
  
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• Jeff Kennett's Hawthorn exit plan

  20-02-2019 09:24 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  Jeff Kennett is likely to step aside as Hawthorn president at the end of this year, 12 months earlier than scheduled, if his nominated successor is already on the club board.
  
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• Other codes gasp for air as NRL and AFL grip ratings

  20-02-2019 08:43 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  The NRL and AFL's TV audiences are so vast they could swallow up rugby union and soccer.
  
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• X fails to mark the spot

  20-02-2019 08:23 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  The really big question we all need to know about AFLX ... is why?
  
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• Waratahs aim to fix clunky attack and silly errors

  20-02-2019 08:17 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  The Waratahs will be looking to get their first win of the season against the Sunwolves in Tokyo on Saturday.
  
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• Warland the winner as Sydney FC nears Asian Champions League chop

  20-02-2019 08:13 via Sydney Morning Herald - Sport
  Sydney FC are due to finalise their AFC Champions League squad next week, with Jop van der Linden's likely exclusion good news for defender Ben Warland.
  
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• Haas ban adds intrigue to a boom player that has barely been seen

  20-02-2019 07:55 via The Age - Sport
  Payne Haas, the hugely hyped Brisbane forward, has been suspended and fined after a bizarre run-in with the NRL, costing his club some vital firepower.
  
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• ‘There was no violence from Haas’: Bronco suspended, slapped with HUGE fine

  20-02-2019 07:54 via Latest News|FOX SPORTS
  Payne Haas will miss the first four games of the Broncos’ season, and has been slapped with a $20,000 fine.
  
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• The search for pilot David Ibbotson is set to resume next week

  20-02-2019 07:54 via Latest News|FOX SPORTS
  A search for the pilot of a plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala which crashed in the Channel last month is set to resume next week, his family said on Tuesday.
  
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• Te Maire Martin will partner Michael Morgan in the halves for North Queensland

  20-02-2019 07:54 via Latest News|FOX SPORTS
  North Queensland coach Paul Green will overlook promising youngster Jake Clifford to open the NRL season in favour of experienced halves Michael Morgan and Te Maire Martin.
  
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• South Sydney say George Burgess is going nowhere despite approaches from Parramatta

  20-02-2019 07:54 via Latest News|FOX SPORTS
  South Sydney have moved to end speculation surrounding George Burgess’ playing future, saying the prop will be playing for the club in 2019.
  
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• Simona Halep downs Eugenie Bouchard after mid-match plea from fan

  20-02-2019 07:54 via Latest News|FOX SPORTS
  Eugenie Bouchard’s mission to climb back up the WTA rankings almost took a giant step forward today before she was narrowly defeated in a tight contest in the UAE.
  
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