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World Rally Championship: Japan Rally winner Sebastien Ogier reduces Elfyn Evans’ lead ahead of the Saudi Arabia final

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✨ Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Evans held a 13-point lead over both Ogier and Rovanpera at the event in Toyota City.However, the Finnish driver's hopes took an early hit, taking a backseat for more than five minutes on Friday after he suffered damage to his rear suspension after colliding with a barrier.Evans started slowly, finishing sixth on the opening stage, but took back-to-back wins on Friday and a strong sequence on Saturday morning to move up to second, just 1.4 seconds behind leader Ogier.The Frenchman responded with a dominant…

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Premier League takeaways: Sam Parkin gives his views on Saturday’s game

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Middlesbrough boss Rob Edwards has been given permission to speak to Wolves.Parkin: “I'm surprised, because I think given where he is at Luton in terms of his stock, I think it was probably, with respect, as good as he would have hoped, the Middlesbrough job. It's a really big job.“It has turned the support from being a bit stagnant to feeling really positive.“So I'm surprised in that regard, because I think the opportunity to get Middlesbrough back into the Premier League would be fantastic for him."But…

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Manchester City vs Liverpool: How important is the Etihad match for Premier League title hopes?

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💥 Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Guardiola knew that Arsenal were building a team capable of chasing the championship. He's waiting to see if they have the stamina to continue their fast start."In the last two or three years, after the process of rebuilding the club and the team, Arsenal has been there. What they are doing for two or three seasons is exceptional," Guardiola said.“But it's early November. Nobody wins the title in early November. You can lose it, but nobody wins it."I know how quickly things can change.…

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Tottenham 2-2 Manchester United: Big questions with Benjamin Sisco injured

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✨ Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: We also have to take Frank seriously when he said that his selection of two direct attacking players in Richarlison and Randall Kolo Mwani was based on exploiting his opponents' weaknesses.“We wanted two strikers for crosses, which we thought was an area where we could do damage to United,” Frank said, pointing to an early chance missed by Richarlison as proof his selection was correct.But the former Brentford boss has been mixing his messaging too.Frank felt Spurs did well to limit United to five…

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Wales: The new era of Steve Tandy aims to lift Wales out of the doldrums

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💥 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: Wales will be hoping to return the Principality Stadium to a local fortress, having not won an international match in Cardiff for 27 months.Since beating England in a World Cup warm-up match in August 2023, Wales have suffered nine successive Test defeats at home, a losing record that has stretched to 827 days.Wales' last match in Cardiff was eight months ago - a horrific 68-14 home defeat in the Six Nations inflicted on England. It was a record loss for the home side in the Welsh…

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WTA Finals: Elena Rybakina defeats Aryna Sabalenka to claim record £4m prize pool

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Elena Rybakina achieved the biggest payout in women's tennis history by defeating world number one Aryna Sabalenka in straight sets in the WTA Finals.The 26-year-old produced a stunning display to defeat four-time Grand Slam champion Sabalenka 6-3 7-6 (7-0) in Saudi Arabia. With both players qualifying for the tournament undefeated, the prize money on offer broke a record £3.98 million – the largest pay-per-view bid in women's tennis history. The prize money exceeds the £3.74m that Sabalenka, 27, received after winning the US Open…

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Sean Wayne: I’m the man who will take England to the World Cup

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Head coach Shaun Wayne says there is "no doubt" he is the right man to lead England to the 2026 World Cup finals in Australia and Papua New Guinea despite his side's 3-0 defeat in the Ashes Test series. Wayne (61 years old) took over as coach of the England national team in 2020 after succeeding Wayne Bennett and led them to the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup, where they suffered a painful golden point defeat against Samoa.Since then, back-to-back victories over Tonga…

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Rugby League Ashes: Is the England v Australia series revived to stay?

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💥 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: Although losing three home games is annoying, this was the experience England needed before the World Cup. You can't be among the best in the world unless you face the best in the world.There are some factors that England will always struggle to overcome. Rugby league is a minority sport here, with 11 times the number of people playing it in Australia, where popularity and visibility means much greater funding is available.But there is also a mental block. Did England, who had never led at any…

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IRONMAN 70.3: Britain’s Lucy Charles-Barkley wins her second world title

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Key idea: Britain's Lucy Charles-Barclay has claimed her second Ironman 70.3 World Championship title after going through a "very difficult period" due to injury and family bereavement.The win in Marbella came just four weeks after she was unable to finish an Ironman World Championship race in Kona, Hawaii."It's definitely been a very difficult time, we've had a lot going on, some family things happened and unfortunately we lost someone who was really special to us, so I think that kind of changed my perspective a lot," the…

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Novak Djokovic withdraws from the ATP Finals after winning his 101st title

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Novak Djokovic claimed the 101st title of his career by winning the Greek Championships, but was then forced to withdraw from the ATP Finals due to injury.The Serbian player recovered from a difficult confrontation with Italian Lorenzo Musetti in the final on Saturday in Athens and came back from a set down to win 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.But the 24-time Grand Slam champion's victory came at a price, as Djokovic suffered an aggravation of a "persistent" shoulder injury that will keep him out of the…

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