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Leicester: Steward, Brown, Scott, Kelly, Hassell-Collins, Pollard, van Poortvliet, Cronin, Montoya, Cole, Martin, Chessum, Liebenberg, Reffell, Wiese.
Replacements: Clare, van Wyk, Hurd, Wells, Cracknell, Whiteley, Shillcock, Cokanasiga
Bristol: Lane, Naulago, Janse van Rensburg, Williams, Ibitoye, MacGinty, Randall, Genge, Oghre, Sinckler, Dun, Batley, Luatua, Harding, Bradbury
Replacements: Thacker, Woolmore, Lahiff, Caulfield, Heenan, Marmion, Vakatawa, O'Conor
Referee: Matthew Carley
Harlequins: T Green; Lynagh, Northmore, Esterhuizen, Murley; M Smith, Care; Baxter, Walker, Collier; Herbst, Lewies; Cunningham-South, W Evans, Dombrandt
Replacements: Riley, Marler, Kerrod, Hammond, Trenholm, Porter, J Evans, Beard
Sin-bin: Care (6), Lynagh (28), T Green (54)
Northampton: Furbank; Ramm, Freeman, Litchfield, Sleightholme; F Smith, Mitchell; Iyogun, Matavesi, Davison; Mayanavanua, Lockett; Lawes, Ludlam, Graham
Replacements: R Smith, Haffar, Millar Mills, Munga, Scott-Young, Augustus, James, Dingwall
Referee: Karl Dickson
Ireland beat Scotland to finish third and make World Cup
Ireland: Deely; Corrigan, Higgins, Breen, Parsons; O'Brien, Reilly; Djougang, Jones, Haney; Wall, Monaghan (co-capt); Wafer, McMahon (co-capt), Hogan.
Replacements: Moloney, O'Dowd, McGrath, Tuite, Ikahihifo, Scuffil-McCabe, Dalton, Heffernan
Scotland: Smith, Grant, Orr, Thomson, McGhie, Nelson, Mattinson; Bartlett, Martin, Belisle, Wassell, McMillan, Malcolm (capt), Stewart, Gallagher.
Replacements: Wright, Cockburn, Clarke, Donaldson, McLachlan, McDonald, Bell, Flynn.
Manchester United could only muster a point against Burnley on Saturday after substitute Zeki Amdouni scored a late penalty to rescue a 1-1 Premier League draw for the relegation-threatened side.
Burnley's 87th-minute penalty, awarded after goalkeeper André Onana fouled Amdouni in the box, cancelled a late strike by Antony and leaves Erik ten Hag's team sixth in the standings.
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The draw leaves United in sixth place in the Premier League. They will be mathematically ruled out of qualifying for the Champions League if fourth-placed Aston Villa pick up at least a point against Chelsea later on Saturday.
United squandered numerous chances and had Onana to thank for keeping Burnley off the scoresheet before Antony broke the deadlock in the 79th minute. The Brazilian intercepted a poor pass and sprinted into the box before finishing into the bottom corner.
The celebration at Old Trafford was short-lived as Onana hit Amdouni in the face while clearing the ball in the 87th minute. VAR confirmed the penalty which Amdouni calmly put into the bottom corner to give his side a valuable point.
Sheffield United have been relegated from the Premier League with three games remaining following their 5-1 defeat to Newcastle at St. James' Park on Saturday.
Chris Wilder's side have already broken the record for most goals conceded in a 38-game Premier League season with 97, and remain on track to surpass Swindon Town's mark of 100 goals conceded in the 1994-95 season, when the division contained 22 teams.
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Sheffield United have already passed the ignominy of the lowest points tally in Premier League history -- that record remains with Derby County's 11 points in 2007-08 -- but should they lose their remaining three fixtures, they will have accumulated the third-fewest points in a 38-game season.
Their season has been punctuated by heavy defeats both at Bramall Lane and on the road, notably the 8-0 home loss to Newcastle in September, the 5-0 reverse away at Burnley and the 6-0 defeat at home to Arsenal in March, where they had conceded five goals in the opening 40 minutes.
"We have not been good enough. The league has been too powerful for us right the way through the season," Wilder said after the defeat to Newcastle.
"There's plenty of games where we have been put to bed early but today we should have been 3-0 up at halftime. I'm scratching my head that it was 1-1.
"Newcastle up their game and get a head of steam. Then our old mistakes start to fall in and goals go from two to three to four to five pretty quickly.
"There's a reason why that happens. It's an incredibly young side and there is a complete lack of leadership out there."
Wilder was brought in for a second stint with the club in December after their owners fired Paul Heckingbottom, who had earned the club promotion from the Championship the season prior. When Wilder took charge, Sheffield United had lost 11 of their opening 14 fixtures and were already bottom of the league.
Sheffield United will see out the campaign with home games against Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur, either side of a trip to Everton's Goodison Park.
The task for Sheffield United next season is already off to a rough start. They will begin the Championship season on minus-2 points after they were sanctioned by the English Football League for defaulting on payments to other clubs.
McCaughan blasts fifty to hand Vipers back-to-back wins
Southern Vipers 287 for 9 (McCaughan 83) beat Northern Diamonds 162 for 7 (Winfield-Hill 63, Dean 4-34) by 70 runs (DLS method)
Opener McCaughan was belligerent in her 97-ball 83, with Charli Knott continuing her fine start to life in the UK with 40 - as Vipers totted up 287.
Rain ended proceedings with Diamonds 70 runs short of the DLS target of 232 and put an end to Diamonds' winning start to the season.
Diamonds skipper Hollie Armitage stuck Vipers in - with weather around and the benefits of chasing with DLS - but McCaughan and Maia Bouchier began like they were up against some rain.
The duo had 50 up inside eight overs, with McCaughan the unlikely aggressor of the partnership, while playing a series of sumptuous shots - none more so than the cut, on drive and cover drive combo in the third over off Lizzie Scott.
The 21-year-old had a strike-rate of 55.77 in List A matches before this match but blasted her way to her sixth Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy half-century.
Bouchier had been dropped on 14 at gully, one of four drops across the Vipers innings, but fell for an entertaining 26 when she top-edged Phoebe Turner - giving the medium pacer her first.
Knott continued the fast pace with some well-judged dabs to the third boundary, as the Australian followed up her 41 and 58 not out in her opening two Viper appearances with a run-a-ball 40.
The end of her 93-run stand with McCaughan, coupled with the pair departing in back-to-back overs, began a fightback for Diamonds which stopped Vipers from reaching 300.
Emily Windsor, Freya Kemp, Charlie Dean and Georgia Adams all got starts but couldn't blow the visitors away like the top order had.
Australian Burns started finding good turn, which did for Windsor and Kemp, for her 2 for 56, while Phoebe Turner completed her back-to-back three-wicket hauls when she had Adams caught behind.
Vipers' 287 for 9 felt lower than it could have been but Linsey Smith bowling Emma Marlow in the sixth over gave them early control of the reply.
In reply, Marlow - opening in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for the first time with Sterre Kalis on international duty - had her middle stump knocked back by Smith.
Dean had Armitage leg-before and Bess Heath stumped in quick succession as the chase struggled to get going.
Winfield-Hill and Burns got things pointing in the right direction with a punchy partnership for the fourth wicket.
Former England opener Winfield-Hill found the gaps with ease to show her quality in her second fifty of the campaign - coming in 54 - albeit having been dropped on 9.
The stand with Burns reached 82, and had almost caught up with the DLS target, before a flurry of wickets ended the Diamonds' hopes.
Burns was brilliantly caught at short third, Winfield-Hill picked out deep midwicket, Phoebe Turner was castled and Leah Dobson missed a straight one to give Dean her fourth.
Rain, which had been light for a while, started to come down heavier just after 4pm to take the players off, with the DLS target 232.
Sophie Luff caps excellent fightback to lead Storm victory
Western Storm 252 for 6 (Luff 76*, Ecclestone 3-16) beat Thunder 186 (Skelton 3-35, Smale 3-42) by 66 runs
Western Storm clinched their first win in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy after defeating Thunder by 66 runs at Emirates Old Trafford.
England spinner Ecclestone took 3 wickets for 16 runs off her 10 overs, but three good partnerships rescued the Storm who added 162 runs from their final 30 overs to post a challenging score.
Western Storm struck an early blow as the Thunder set off in pursuit of 253 when Seren Smale cut a short delivery from Lauren Filer to Dani Gibson at cover for 9.
Emma Lamb and Katie Mack rebuilt with a positive 62-run partnership off 69 balls with Mack launching Amanda-Jade Wellington for consecutive sixes at the start of the leg spinner's second over.
Wellington hit back with two big wickets, bowling Mack for 28 and Lamb for 38 to have Thunder 85 for 3 at the start of the 19th over. That quickly became 104 for 6 after 25 overs as three wickets fell for six runs in a disastrous spell for Thunder.
Off-spinner Skelton had Fi Morris caught behind for 16, then bowled Naomi Dattani first ball followed by Alex Griffiths finding an edge from Ecclestone that was well taken by wicketkeeper Nat Wraith standing up.
Skipper Ellie Threlkeld and Kate Cross rallied Thunder with a partnership of 69 off 83 balls. Cross hit a six off Skelton in making a patient 36 until bowled by left-arm spinner Smale. Threlkeld departed for 32 when lbw sweeping at Skelton two balls later to leave the hosts 173 for 8 in the 40th over.
Smale wrapped things up with the wickets of Mahika Gaur and Phoebe Graham for 10 to seal a convincing victory.
Storm made an excellent start after being put in to bat with Griffiths and Smale posting a second consecutive fifty opening partnership in the face of some disciplined bowling by England duo Cross and Gaur.
Griffiths had accelerated the scoring but was bowled for 24 after aiming a wild slog at Ecclestone. That was the first of three wickets to fall for nine runs in 17 balls with Smale, who had been fortunate to survive a run out chance when on 4, bowled for 23 by Ecclestone after playing back and beaten by a turning delivery, while Fran Wilson chipped Graham to Dattani at mid-on for 7.
Gibson hit three boundaries off her first seven deliveries but had no answer to a quicker, turning delivery from Ecclestone to be bowled for 16 with the fourth wicket falling on 80 at the end of the 19th over.
Storm fought back splendidly from that point, with captain Luff and Wraith mounting a determined alliance of 70 across 17 overs to counter the control exerted by the Thunder spinners with Ecclestone to the fore.
Wraith hit the first six of the match off Hannah Jones before falling to a great catch by Ecclestone at mid-on off Graham for 38.
But Luff found great support from Niamh Holland, who contributed a useful 22 off 24 balls in a 46-run partnership, and Wellington who made a rapid unbeaten 31 off 19 balls over the closing overs.
Luff, who reached her fifty from 82 balls, became the glue that held the innings together, initially consolidating after coming to the crease in the 15th over before providing the late acceleration as Storm added 83 from the last ten overs to set a target that proved to be more than enough.
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London Marathon winner Peres Jepchirchir: Ive done it!
The new world record-holder in the womens-only marathon reflects on her London victory, admitting she is still struggling to wrap her head around it
Peres Jepchirchir made history at the London Marathon last week as she sprinted clear of three rivals to claim the womens-only world record of 2:16:16 breaking the 2:17:01 Kenyas Mary Keitany ran in London 2017.
The 30-year-old made a definitive move to win as she left Tigist Assefa, who smashed the overall womens world record when she ran 2:11:38 last year, with 600m left to go smashing her PB by exactly one minute.
In 2023 the Kenyan finished third in London, behind Alemu Megertu and Sifan Hassan, who did not return to defend her title.
However, it has not been an easy ride to victory for Jepchirchir as she was forced to pull out of the New York City Marathon last year due to an injury, making her win in London that bit more special.
Speaking at the fourth edition of the adizero Road To Records event in Germany, the adidas athlete revealed she takes her marathon preparations slightly differently to others. She mentioned that unlike many, she refuses from eating anything on the morning of a race.
After her historic win in London, Jepchirchir now focuses her attention on making the Kenyan Olympic team, which is due to be announced in coming days.
Her strong return, alongside being an Olympic champion, makes it almost impossible for the distance runner not to be selected.
Jepchirchir spoke at the Road To Records Event below:
Peres Jepchirchir (Getty)
How do you feel after your win?
I am so happy and I feel so grateful to celebrate my win in London and my new world record. I am happy, despite the pain in the legs.
It is not easy for yourself to accept that you are the winner. It has took me a lot of time to understand myself because I was still in a dilemma, thinking was that me? did I win? did I break the record?
I was so exhausted afterwards so it has taken a lot of time for me to sleep. I am happy, I am tired and you have so many people trying to call you and it is hard with all the missed messages.
And even up until now I am still thinking, Its me Peres, Ive done it.
When did you realise that you were going to win London Marathon?
By the time I was at the 40km mark I knew I was going to win it. For me I didnt run it at the front the whole way, I just ran behind and I felt very relaxed.
If you remember last year in London I was in front from 25km until near the end and I felt a lot of fatigue and my legs were tired, and I didnt make it last year.
This year, at 40km I was thinking let me wait and then at 600m left to go I went.
Did you have the world record in your mind?
Last year I did not prepare well at all. I only prepared for two months because I was out with an injury so I told myself I am supposed to visit back to London but I was not expected to run the world record. My preparations in the build up were to be in London and to win.
How was it to run against such a strong field of elite women?
For me it felt really good because the top three women were all running with adidas. I was also so happy to run with the world record-holder [Assefa].
It was the toughest competition I have ever run. I knew we could maybe break some records because the field was so strong.
Peres Jepchirchir, Tigist Assefa and Joyciline Jepkosgei (LM Events)
Did you feel anxious during your preparations?
My preparation went very well. Last year we had to cancel the New York marathon because of my sore muscles. We decided I either do New York and no more future races or we focus on more races so I came back to Kenya and I trained well.
Everything was good during training but I felt a lot of tension because of how much of a strong field it was.
At the time I was preparing I was thinking you havent prepared very well but the pacemakers were telling me I was fine but I was not trusting myself too well because the tension was so strong.
Now we are preparing for an Olympic year people will be following me more. It is difficult to be as strong sometimes because maybe people are looking on you and they do not want you to let them down.
So pressure is everywhere, when I am going into the race I have a lot of pressure from people who are watching me and wanting me to do good things.
Do you have any pre-race marathon rituals?
For me to eat even before the race is so difficult because of all the tension.
I can say that I maybe eat a little bit of rice before I go to sleep and in the morning before a marathon I do not eat anything.
Peres Jepchirchir
What message would you give to women who can look up to you?
I am grateful and I am happy to be a woman to be winning and winning and winning.
I think I am a good example for women and I have shown them the way and if they saw me maybe they can say if Peres can make it then so can I.
Women are women, we are the same. Although the competition is so high, we are all women, we are not competing with the men so we have to believe to trust yourself. You need to tell yourself yes you can.
We have to believe ourselves, love ourselves and trust ourselves that we can make it.
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