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Before Trinidad and Tobago face Wales their former defender recalls a ‘bodily assault’ by Crouch at the 2006 World Cup Tue 19 Mar 2019  12.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 19 Mar 2019  12.06 GMT Shares 208   Peter Crouch makes use of Brent Sancho’s hair to head England into the lead against Trinidad and Tobago at the 2006 World Cup. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian A globetrotting playing career took Brent Sancho from Portland to Priestfield, Ross County to Rochester Rhinos but, speaking to the former Trinidad and Tobago defender, there really is only one place to start: that unforgettable night in Nuremberg at the 2006  World Cup . For 82 minutes Sancho and Dennis Lawrence, now the manager of the Caribbean nation, had held firm against Sven-Göran Eriksson’s England, until Peter Crouch pulled on Sancho’s dreadlocks for leverage and headed beyond Shaka Hislop. Steven Gerrard sealed victory in stoppage time, by which p...

The doctor said the blows brought on a form of epilepsy. What advice do I now give my sport-mad kids?   @journomatcleary Tue 19 Mar 2019  17.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 19 Mar 2019  17.30 GMT Shares 12 Comments 3   Dragons player James Graham says the thrill of playing rugby league overrides the risk of brain injury. Photograph: Chris Hyde/Getty Images I was 63 not out and batting beautifully, flaying Weston Creek fifths all over Rivett Oval. Cut shots, pull shots, mighty heaves down town. I was 16 years old and surely on the way to a hundred. And then they brought on the Angel. He was quite a bit quicker than his pals. The Angel (known so for his surname) bowled a half-tracker that I shaped to hook. There followed a meaty “thock” not of leather on willow but rather Kookaburra six-stitcher connecting flush with right temporal bone. And, helmet-free, down onto the synthetic wicket I went.   Concussion is irre...

Coach Michael Cheika can be ruthless. Is he planning to cut the umbilical cord with his NSW favourites for the World Cup? Bret Harris Wed 20 Mar 2019  01.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 20 Mar 2019  01.01 GMT Shares 1 Comments 20   Australia captain Michael Hooper, one of the players Michael Cheika coached while in charge of the Waratahs. Photograph: Tim Ireland/AP M ichael Cheika has promised the Wallabies will have “a few new tricks” up their sleeve for the World Cup in Japan and, intriguingly, said they would “look a little different to what most people may expect”. But what exactly can be expected from a Cheika-coached Australia team? Since taking over as Wallabies coach at the end of 2014 Cheika has relied heavily on members of the NSW Waratahs team he guided to the Super Rugby title in 2014. Players such as Michael Hooper, Kurtley Beale, Israel Folau, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Tatafu Polota-Nau, Sekope Kepu and Bernard Fol...

Frost had been due to ride at Huntingdon on Tuesday but her hopes of building on last week’s memorable success are on hold for the moment at least, just 16 days before the opening afternoon of the Grand National Festival at Aintree. “Bryony Frost had a fall yesterday at Southwell racecourse,” Johnno Spence, the jockey’s agent, said on Tuesday morning, “and was taken to hospital for a precautionary X-ray on her shoulder. Bryony is out of hospital and currently waiting to see a specialist in Cardiff tomorrow to agree the best plan of action moving forward in terms of her rehabilitation. We will update you when she has seen the specialist.”