The former Wales head coach on what might have been at the World Cup, looking forward to the Lions and whether he’ll one day coach the All Blacks“Absolutely,” Warren Gatland says when he is asked if he would still love to coach the All Blacks one day. “I went back and gave my reasons why I just couldn’t apply for the job right now. I’ve got it on my phone.”There is a long pause while the New Zealander, who has just completed 12 years as head coach of Wal

How much do you know about some of international football’s sharpest shooters? Cristiano Ronaldo has moved up to second in the list of all-time goalscorers in the men's international game after scoring 99 goals for Portugal. Which player stands above him? Ferenc Puskás (Hungary/Spain)Ali Daei (Iran)Kunishige Kamamoto (Japan)Hussein Saeed (Iraq)Who is the all-time leading women's international goalscorer with 184 goals in 256 games?Marta (Brazil)Christine Sinclair (Canada)Carli Lloyd

• Australia captain says all-rounder’s claims a ‘cheap shot’
• Stokes claims Warner’s sledging inspired famous inningsAustralia cricket captain Tim Paine has criticised England all-rounder Ben Stokes for a “cheap shot” at David Warner, claiming he was using the opener to sell his new book.In his book, Stokes claims Warner’s sledging motivated him during his remarkable Headingley innings in the third Ashes Test this year. Stokes’s unbeaten

The teams meet for the sixth time in two years, with Ireland needing a win and Denmark a point to reach Euro 2020“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing that you did mattered?” It was the premise of the 1993 cinema hit Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray played Phil Connors, a cynical, egotistical and misanthropic TV weatherman who finds himself reliving the same 24 hours over and over and over again while working on location i

One-year punishment, nine months suspendedSanction given for breaching anti-corruption codeCricket Australia has imposed a one-year ban on Hobart player Emily Smith, with nine months suspended, for posting the Hurricanes’ WBBL team line-up on Instagram before its official release.In a statement, Cricket Australia (CA) said Smith had accepted the sanction for breaching Article 2.3.2 of the anti-corruption code. The Victoria-born wicketkeeper-batter will be ineligible to play any form of cri

Today’s piffle is blinded by the lightBeing a child of the 70s, The Mill knows that you can only build something meaningful with Mecano if you’re an absolute obsessive. So when we heard that Pep Guardiola was interested in Dayot Upamecano it made perfect sense. The Manchester City manager is is just the right kind of studious nerd to be able to grab his tools and bolt the Leipzig centre-back on to his broken defence in time for a renewed tilt at defending their Premier League title i

Teammates collided late on in battle for fourthLewis Hamilton apologises for Albon incidentSebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc have been summoned by Ferrari to the Italian team’s Maranello headquarters following their collision in Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix.The Ferrari drivers crashed out with five laps remaining as they diced for fourth position. Team principal Mattia Binotto refused to apportion blame and also ruled out fining either driver. But both men, withdrawn by Ferrari f

Neither Shane Sutton nor Dr Richard Freeman comes out well from the GMC tribunal but it invites wider questions about the whole culture of British Cycling and UK SportEveryone who has met Shane Sutton has a story. Here’s one of mine. During a UK Sport planning meeting for the 2016 Olympics, discussions turned to whether British Cycling could win medals in every event in Rio. “We’ve got more chance of the queen farting than us giving you 18 medals,” Sutton replied. Unsurpr

The league has given officials a chance to take a second look at pass interference calls this season. The new rule has only caused more controversy
Let’s get this out of the way first: there’s no way a non-call ended up costing the Houston Texans the game on Sunday. The Texans ended up losing to the Baltimore Ravens 41-7 for a number of reasons, the most obvious being that Lamar Jackson threw for four touchdowns. Still though, there’s every reason for the Texans to be upset tha

More than two months in the build-up, Saturday’s meeting of the two best steeplechasers in Britain would provide a rare treatMore than two months of media build-up has, incredibly, failed to put the kybosh on Altior v Cyrname, the top-class clash which we still hope and believe will take place at Ascot on Saturday. Both trainers have, I suspect, got a bit tired of confirming that their charges are still on course for the Christy 1965 Chase but they were good enough to do so once more at Ch