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BBC News
7 days ago
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Lowly Huddersfield beat out-of-sorts Warrington
Betfred Super LeagueWarrington Wolves (6) 16Tries: Sneyd, King, Jake Thewlis Goals: Sneyd 2Huddersfield Giants (14) 24Tries: Gagai 2, Bibby, Milne Goals: Flanagan Jr 4 Struggling Huddersfield held on for just their second Super League win of the season as Warrington's attempted comeback fell away side took the lead through tries from Jacob Gagai and Jake Bibby before Marc Sneyd got the hosts on the Milne's score helped the Giants to reassert their advantage after the break before Gagai's second of the day put the visitors three scores in King quickly got the Wolves back in the game and Jake Thewlis' spectacular finish gave them brief hope but Sneyd could not convert the goal and the Giants claimed the Burgess' men, beaten in the Challenge Cup final by Hull KR two weeks ago, have now won two of their past nine Super League games. Wakefield's impressive win over second-placed Wigan on Friday means the Wire are now four points off the play-off places with 15 games whose only previous win this year came against Hull FC at the start of May, move two points clear of bottom side to follow. Warrington Wolves: Josh Thewlis, Jake Thewlis, Tai, Wrench, King, Williams, Sneyd, Yates, Crowther, Vaughan, Stone, Fitzgibbon, Powell, Thomas, Philbin, Giants: Flanagan Jr, Gagai, Milne, Halsall, Bibby, Lolohea, Frawley, Cudjoe, Greenwood, Hewitt, Powell, Woolford, KingInterchanges: Golding, English, Burgess, James Vella
BBC News
14-06-2025
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- BBC News
Smith's brace helps Leeds beat Wolves
Betfred Super LeagueLeeds (8) 36Tries: Smith (2), Croft, Holroyd, Connor, Gannon Goals: Connor (5), WatkinsWarrington (0) 12Tries: Thewlis, Currie Goals: Sneyd (2) A rare brace of tries from forward Cameron Smith set Leeds Rhinos on their way to a fourth straight Super League win, piling on the misery for Challenge Cup final losers Warrington came off the interchange bench to break down some strong Wire defence in the first half, and with the in-form Jake Connor adding the conversion and a penalty, the home side had breathing space at Wolves' spirited performance fell apart in the second half as Smith added another and tries from Brodie Croft, Tom Holroyd, Connor and Morgan Gannon ensured they stayed in touch with top two Hull Kingston Rovers and Wigan Warriors.A superb try from Jake Thewlis had given Warrington brief hope, Ben Currie added a late consolation score and Marc Sneyd's two conversions saw him overhaul Andy Farrell to go fourth in the all-time Super League kickers' list with 1,027 to follow Leeds: Miller, Hall, Newman, Handley, Lumb, Connor, Croft, Palasia, O'Connor, Oledski, McDonnell, Gannon, WatkinsInterchanges: Holroyd, Lisone, Bentley, SmithWarrington: Thewlis, Lindop, Tai, King, Wrench, Williams, Sneyd, Yates, Powell, Vaughan, Fitzgibbon, Holroyd, CurrieInterchanges: Harrison, Crowther, Philbin, WoodReferee: Chris Kendall.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Sports quiz of the week: US Open golf, F1 and a niche world championship
The Ferrari drivers savour winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2024; Kagiso Rabada celebrates the wicket of Usman Khawaja; Arsenal Women fans hold up their scarves in support of their team. The Ferrari drivers savour winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2024; Kagiso Rabada celebrates the wicket of Usman Khawaja; Arsenal Women fans hold up their scarves in support of their team. Composite: Guardian Picture Desk; Eurasia;;Senegal beat England this week 3-1 at the City Ground in Nottingham. Which other African country has won a game against England? Egypt Cameroon Morocco None. Senegal are the first Which city will return to the F1 calendar next year, making its first appearance since 1981? Rio de Janeiro Madrid Buenos Aires Lisbon Which country has qualified for next summer's World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada, continuing their record of being their only team to have qualified for every tournament since the began in 1930? Argentina Brazil France Italy The 24 Hours of Le Mans race takes place this weekend in France. Ferrari won the race last year. How many miles did their car travel in 24 hours? 998 miles 1,891 miles 2,633 miles 3,001 miles Which world championship is taking place in Hastings this weekend? Crazy golf Orienteering Battle reenactment Spelling Warrington's Marc Sneyd was voted the player of the match in the Challenge Cup final in the 77th minute. What happened in the 78th minute? He was sent off He dropped the ball, allowing the opposition to score the winning try His opposite number scored the points that won the match He had to go to the toilet The British and Irish Lions are due to play Argentina next week before their tour of Australia. But where are they facing the Pumas? Cardiff Sydney Dublin Glasgow Female tennis players ranked inside the top 750 on the WTA are now allowed to receive a protected ranking. But in what specific circumstance would this now be permitted? If the player sustained a serious knee injury Time off in order to undergo fertility protection procedures, such as egg or embryo freezing Time off to attend charitable events If the player wants to spend more time with her family and friends With rough that is routinely more than five inches thick and a a 288-yard par three, Oakmont is a notoriously difficult US Open venue. Going into this year's tournament, what proportion of male players have played a major championship there and finished four days under par? 0.1% 2% 10% 20% How did Trent Alexander-Arnold surprise journalists at his unveiling at Real Madrid He refused to take his sunglasses off throughout the press conference He admitted that he regretted leaving Liverpool He accidentally referred to Real Madrid as Atlético Madrid He spoke fluent Spanish The boxing showdown between Canelo Álvarez and Terence Crawford will take place on 13 September in Las Vegas. How can viewers watch the fight, if they are not at the venue? Pay-per-view They can't. Only fans at the stadium will be able to watch the fight. Netflix Instagram With figures of 5-51 in the World Test Championship (WTC) final against Australia, South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada has joined an elite Lord's club, which previously had just one member. But what is that club? He is the second South African to join the honours board for bowling at Lord's He is the second Test player to join the honours board on both the home and away dressing rooms He is the second Test player to get on the honours board for figures against Australia He is the second Johannesburg-born bowler to make it onto the honours board Where will Arsenal Women play all their Women's Super League home matches next season? Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Wembley Boreham Wood FC The Emirates What is the estimated total value of the England Under-21 squad? £162m £198m £428m £1bn Bath face Leicester in the Premiership final. When was the last time that Bath were champions of England? 1996 2001 2008 2021 Solutions 1:D - The match was England's 22nd against African opponents – and the Three Lions' first defeat. , 2:B - The new 'Madring' circuit, featuring street and non-street sections, will be the only new venue on the F1 calendar in 2026. The season will kick off in Melbourne, conclude in Abu Dhabi and feature 24 races., 3:B - It has been a while since they won it though – 23 years to be precise., 4:C - That's an average speed of 110 miles per hour., 5:A - The annual tournament brings 250 of the world's best crazy golfers to East Sussex every year. The winner receives £1,250 in prize money., 6:C - Hull KR's Mikey Lewis kicked the winning conversion with less than two minutes left, 7:C - The match will be the first time the British and Irish Lions will play on Irish soil. , 8:B - The Special Entry Ranking will be calculated using their average ranking during a 12-week period before and during their absence and can be used up to WTA 500 events, 9:B - Of the 1,385 players to finish four days of major championship golf at Oakmont, just 27 of them came in under par, 10:D - 'I think it surprised a lot of people,' said Alexander-Arnold, who admitted he had been learning Spanish for a few months. 'For me it was important to do that, to have a good start.', 11:C - Boxing's most eagerly anticipated fight in years, dubbed the 'fight of the century', will stream globally on Netflix, 12:B - As South Africa are the designated 'home' team, Rabada has now joined the home honours board, and is also on the away honours board for his 5-52 against England in 2022. Gordon Greenidge is the only other player to have done this, after centuries for West Indies and 122 he made for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against the Rest of the World in 1987, 13:D - Arsenal will play league matches at the 60,704-capacity stadium and will play their Champions League group matches next season at Meadow Park in Borehamwood, with knockout fixtures to be played at the Emirates Stadium should the holders progress, 14:C - That astounding figure does not include Liam Delap or Jobe Bellingham, who withdrew from the squad after their big-money moves to Chelsea and Borussia Dortmund respectively. , 15:A - Victory completed a golden age for the club, who won six Premiership titles in eight years. Twenty-nine years later, they have another chance of glory. Scores
The Guardian
09-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Marc Sneyd won his personal battle but Warrington lost the cup final
Having been voted the man of the match in three Challenge Cup finals, Marc Sneyd should be considered one of the great half-backs of his generation. But, having now lost as many finals as he has won, and been repeatedly overlooked by England, the 34-year-old is in danger of leaving the game without the silverware his consistent class deserves. Moments before Hull KR inflicted a last-gasp 8-6 defeat on his Warrington side, Sneyd snared 31 of the 37 votes from Wembley's press benches. The other six went to his opposite number, Mikey Lewis, who then kicked the winning conversion with less than two minutes left. Sneyd undoubtedly came out on top in the battle of the half-backs, schooling a player a decade his junior. 'Marc Sneyd was just brilliant,' said the crestfallen Warrington coach Sam Burgess. 'I knew during the week he was going to be: he turned into a different bloke. He controlled the game.' Winning coach Willie Peters admitted Sneyd was 'exceptional'. He emulated Sean Long's achievement of winning the Lance Todd Trophy three times, but Lewis finally delivered with just seconds left. For much of the game, it looked like that moment was never going to come. Sneyd kicked Hull KR close to submission, his towering bombs plummeting from leaden skies, pinning the Robins back, his deep kicks forcing drop-outs galore. Rovers were getting nowhere, Warrington's defence was awesome. When it was his turn, Lewis tried everything. He kicked bombs, torpedoes and wobblers. He sent grubbers in behind the defensive line, even the occasional lob into no man's land. Warrington dealt with it all. Sneyd's only two England appearances came in the 2022 World Cup, after which Shaun Wane replaced him with … Lewis. The assumption was the Oldham veteran's time had gone. Not a bit of it. On a miserable day – surely the coldest final since the drudgefest between Wigan and Hull in 2013 – Warrington ground their way towards the hooter while 20,000 Robins urged Lewis to pluck a rabbit from his hat. He stuck to the left side while halfback partner Tyrone May created even less from the right. In contrast, as the tussle went on, George Williams abandoned his right-side station to play a traditional stand-off role, repeatedly looping round either side behind Sneyd, putting doubt in defenders' minds. In pouring rain, centres were there to drive the ball out of their half in exit sets, jam in and tackle, chase kicks like their careers depended on it, and only worry about creating if the field opened up. Rodrick Tai and Toby King did it valiantly for Warrington, Rovers utilised Peta Hiku's size and converted second rower James Batchelor was well cast as bodyguard for Lewis on the Robins' left. 'We wanted to throw more shape, move the ball a little bit more but the weather hampered that to a degree,' said Batchelor. 'We showed in that last 15 minutes when we got a bit of early ball and made some metres, getting us going forward when there wasn't much happening down the middle. 'It was the same for both teams. It was a grind but that's how we like to play and see if teams can go through that with us. We said at half-time this could and probably would be a 78th, 79th minute game, and that's what happened. With about 15 or 20 minutes to go I said: 'This is where it's won or lost: we've got to dig in.' I was confident we'd have another chance to win it, and we did.' While Sneyd was kicking the soul out of Rovers, the Warrington pack were defending their way to the cup. And then it happened: straight after knocking on and then being caught in-goal, Lewis sent the drop-out a gasp-inducing 55 metres and rookie Wolves winger Aaron Lindop could only swat it another 20 metres into touch. Momentum shifted. Rovers began to believe. With a sparkle missing all afternoon, Hiku flicked a ball on to winger Tom Davies. That led to a penalty. The next set ended with May kicking behind, Hiku diving and missing the ball, Lindop landing on it more like Peter Kay than Tom Daley, and Davies touching down. Cue the first of five extraordinary explosions of noise from the red end of Wembley: try, video ref confirmation, Lewis' conversion, tackling Warrington into touch and then the hooter. 'We spent 25 minutes on our own line but were only four points down,' said Hiku. 'We started believing. With 16 minutes to go we had a set and went through them a bit easily. If we narrowed the errors down I knew we had an opportunity. The last time I looked at the clock there was six minutes to go and I thought: 'Yep, only four points down, plenty of time.' We train for these kind of things: five-minute cycles when you're fatigued and 10 points down, things like that. A lot can happen. We get put in scenarios, the worst situations. That's why we had the belief.' Captain Elliot Minchella had talked of the coaches 'taking us into very dark places' in training to prepare them. To that end, Peters had Jamie Peacock speak to the team on the eve of the final about enduring discomfort. 'I tell the players to put others first because it makes you feel good but in the end you've got to do it for yourselves, knowing if you do it will make other people feel great,' said Peters. 'East Hull people are tough, gritty. You don't get anything easy out there, you've got to work for it. JP spoke about coping with being uncomfortable, which we were for long periods. You get through to the other side. Nothing beats this.' Warrington must have felt like the boxer knowing he was winning on points on every judge's scorecard as he entered the 12th round only to be hit flush on the chin with seconds left of the bout. Lewis rather over-enthusiastically told BBC viewers: 'We're tough as fuck.' Peters was rather more considered: 'We got away with it.' The Challenge Cup finals will be at Wembley on 30 May next year, but don't be surprised if the 1895 Cup is not. Only about 3,000 of the 63,278 stayed to see York beat Featherstone 5-4 to win the lower league knockout finale. After just two penalties apiece in 80 minutes, skipper Liam Harris hit his second drop-goal attempt perfectly to secure the trophy for upwardly mobile York, to the delight of their few hundred fans. Having only sold a couple of thousand tickets to the two clubs, the RFL thinks the 1895 would be better as a curtain-raiser but the BBC wants to air the Women's Challenge Cup final before the men's event. The sight of Featherstone's kickers warming up into an in-goal area full of celebrating Hull KR players was not good. Returning to a stand-alone final at Blackpool or a small Super League ground might be wise. Almost two hours after the hooter, the Rovers players left the dressing rooms in smart blue suits, Batchelor clutching a pizza and Minchella the cup itself, most with their medals hanging round their necks. All their half dozen overseas players, including Hiku, were soaking up their first Wembley experience. It was a tough day for Warrington's Australian prop Luke Yates, who lost his third final by an aggregate of just five points. Poor lad. Incidentally, all 10 scores in Saturday's showpiece – the lowest-scoring Challenge Cup final since 1970 – and the try-less 1895 Cup that followed, were by Englishmen. While Warrington star Paul Vaughan ended on the losing side again, his former Italy pack-mate Brenden Santi was one of five imports lifting silverware for York. The Warrington utility back Oli Leyland hobbled down the tunnel 10 minutes before half-time. Unfortunately, he hadn't been on the pitch but was wearing a hoodie, his knee strapped up. The prospect of the Leyland brothers, Oli and Bill, facing each other at Wembley vanished when Oli suffered the same fate as Bill last year, tearing his ACL, his season over just as Bill's took off. Michael McIlhorum's surprise return as Rovers starting hooker meant neither Leyland brother ended up playing. At least Bill got to wear his kit and collect a medal, albeit looking suitably conflicted. Their time may come again. Also watching on from the stands was cup-tied Arthur Mourgue, who has been in terrific form at full-back since his early season move to Hull KR from calamitous Catalans. 'I'd been at the Dragons for eight years and always had the same coach,' said the French international. 'I wanted to learn and see new things, be involved with new teammates in a new culture. I wanted to be out of my comfort zone and challenge myself. It's the excitement of the new for me. I feel like I'm back. The standards are really high. It's a special club.' Follow No Helmets Required on Facebook
Yahoo
08-06-2025
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- Yahoo
Hidden performances and theories supported as cup final stats emerge
Toby King was quietly impressive in defeat at Wembley as he returned from injury (Image: Richard Sellers/PA Wire) AS the sporting saying goes, there is only one stat that really matters – the scoreline. And as we all now know, that all-important figure ended up agonisingly against Warrington Wolves in Saturday's Challenge Cup Final as they saw what would have been a memorable victory snatched away in the dying seconds. Advertisement However, more statistics that have emerged in the aftermath of the game lend weight to the theory touted by Wire boss Sam Burgess and indeed many observers – that the better, more dominant team on the day ended up on the losing side. In total, Warrington were in possession of the ball for 30mins 53secs and of that time, just under half (13mins 41secs) was spent in the Hull KR half. Indeed, they had the ball within 20 metres of the Robins' try line for 6mins 41secs in total. By contrast, Rovers enjoyed 3mins 59secs of ball inside the Wire 20. Their total territory figure for the game was 53 per cent and they actually increased the amount of territory they had in the second half to 55 per cent having been at 51 per cent before the interval while they also edged the completion rate statistics – they finished 83 per cent of their sets compared to KR's 79 per cent. The hidden performances in a brave team effort Marc Sneyd will deservedly get the plaudits in terms of individual displays having won the Lance Todd Trophy for the third time in his career. Advertisement He was clearly the game's standout player but from a Warrington perspective, there were a few other performances that went more under the radar. Upon his return to the side from injury, Toby King again showed how reliable and effective he is in coming away from his own try line – his 194m gained from 22 carries was a figure bettered by only three players from either side who passed the 200m mark. Hull KR winger Tom Davies – the scorer of the game's winning try – led the metre-making charts with 241 ahead of Wire full-back Matt Dufty (235) and his Robins counterpart Jack Broadbent (231). However, King's 89m gained post-contact and six tackle breaks are the highest figure of any player from either side on the day. Advertisement Luke Yates, too, put in a superb display on both sides of the ball as he produced arguably his best performance since joining The Wire midway through last season. The 125m he gained with the ball from 13 carries was the highest of any Wire forward – Ben Currie (117) and Paul Vaughan (115) were just behind him – and only Robins bulldozer Kelepi Tanginoa (132) could boast a better figure among the opposition. In defence, though, he was faultless as he completed 35 tackles without a single miss while none of his tackles were deemed ineffective in Opta's stats. Yates had the highest figure of the three players to enjoy 100 per cent tackle completion rates, with teammate James Harrison (26) and Hull KR's Sauaso Sue (25) being the others. Advertisement Currie and Adam Holroyd jointly topped Wire's tackle charts – both recorded 43 with a single miss – followed by Sam Powell (36 with three misses). For the game as a whole, KR skipper Elliot Minchella led the way with an exceptional 57 tackles while two of his teammates also cleared the 50-tackle mark – Dean Hadley and Jai Whitbread both made 53.
