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Lauren Hemp: ‘Everything she touches turns to fire’ – Praise for Manchester City star
Her equaliser at Villa on Sunday typified this when, after home keeper Sabrina D’Angelo flapped at a cross, Hemp reacted quickest after the loose ball bounced unexpectedly off her head. In one movement, she repositioned her body and deftly flicked the ball over the Canadian and into the net.
“We seem to keep doing it the hard way but we got three points in the end,” Hemp told the BBC.
“The goal, it was a good cross, she [D’Angelo] managed to get her hand to it, so I just tried to get anything on it, and it happened to come off my head. I knew the goalkeeper was off her line so I just tried to kick it over her and it managed to do the trick.”
Hemp has won the FA Cup and League Cup after joining from Bristol City in 2018, but not a WSL title – a trophy City have not claimed since 2016.
They had been leading the race last season in a thrilling climax, but defending champions Chelsea triumphed on the final day.
“It was heartbreak for us last season when we didn’t manage to win the title,” admitted Hemp.
“That’s one of our aims this season. Hopefully if we keep putting in performances like that who knows where we could go.”
For now, Hemp’s attentions turn to England duty, with the Lionesses facing friendlies against Germany and South Africa over the next fortnight as they warm up for the defence of their Euros title next summer.
As at City, her importance for the national team has grown. Not only did she start all six qualifiers, but she has kept her form and fitness while all around are losing theirs.
Lauren James will be absent for this international break through injury, while club team-mate Chloe Kelly is in the squad, despite losing her place in the City team, where she has made one start all season.
Beth Mead is also out of favour at Arsenal, benched by interim manager Renee Slegers against West Ham on Sunday. Neither Alessia Russo nor Ella Toone have scored in the league in 2024-25.
This could be Hemp’s year and, if it is, never count City out of the title reckoning.
Watch as Heracles Almelo’s Mario Engels scores an incredible goal from beyond the halfway line in their Dutch Eredivisie match against Ajax.
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Why Verstappen’s Move on Norris is More Controversial than it Seems – F1 US GP Race Reaction
Ferrari completely took over the podium at the 2024 US Grand Prix, with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz snatching up a 1-2 finish. But the real show-stealer was the incident between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, which lead to Norris gaining a +5s penalty, meaning Verstappen took 3rd place. Coupled with a Hamilton DNF, there’s certainly a lot to get through, so Alex Kalinauckas and Mark Mann-Bryans caught up in the paddock after the race to go over the most important points from this year’s US GP.
When Ukraine voted for independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Dynamo Kyiv emerged as the country’s footballing powerhouse, winning 11 of the first 13 Ukrainian Premier League titles.
Shakhtar’s first title came in 2002 but, since Palkin’s arrival in 2004, they have become Ukraine’s major force at home and abroad, winning the league 15 times and the Uefa Cup in 2009.
Being prolific in the Brazilian market helped. Between 2005 and 2009 Fernandinho, Jadson, Willian, Ilsinho, Elano and Luiz Adriano arrived and thrived in Donetsk, with only the departed Elano not featuring in the Uefa Cup-winning side.
Douglas Costa and Alex Teixeira joined the following year as Shakhtar’s recruitment continued to deliver, complementing those South American acquisitions with talents closer to home such as Armenia’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
“When we stayed in Donetsk it was quite easy to do this transfer policy,” explains Palkin. “We had peace in our country, an unbelievable football infrastructure and for us to sign any talent from any country was very easy.
“When we bring in a player, when he sees what kind of stadium we have, our training camp, the city, everybody signs the next day.
“Our success was in making decisions quite quickly. A lot of times we won [despite] competition from Manchester United, Arsenal, a lot of top European clubs, because we made decisions very quickly when we detected talents and made a decision to buy.”
In August 2009, with Beyonce performing on the opening night, Shakhtar unveiled their state-of-the-art, 52,000-capacity Donbas Arena. Just months after their historic continental triumph, the club were establishing themselves as one of the most competitive in Europe both on and off the field.
The stadium was also a key venue in the 2012 European Championship, hosting Spain’s semi-final win over Portugal. But two years later, it was empty.
In July 2014, six Shakhtar players refused to return to Donetsk following a friendly in France after pro-Russian rebels took control of the city. Among them were Costa, Teixeira and Fred.
They eventually returned once Shakhtar took the decision to relocate more than 600 miles west to use Kyiv as a training base, while playing games in Lviv.
There were, however, a handful of former players who wished to remain in Donetsk under the DPR, including former captain Viktor Zvyagintsev, who was on a Ukraine government website listing people it accused of terrorism by association with separatist rebels.
“When we left Donetsk it was very difficult,” explains Palkin, who last visited eight years ago. “We lost our local fans, we lost our beautiful stadium, because at that moment it was one of the best stadiums in Europe. We lost our city, we lost our [training] camp.
“The situation became tougher and tougher. It is today almost impossible to communicate with people that are there.”
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Ronnie O’Sullivan pulls out of third successive tournament as he withdraws from Northern Ireland Open at last minute
RONNIE O’SULLIVAN has pulled out of the Northern Ireland Open.
The seven-time world champion made the move due to medical reasons.
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The Belfast event started yesterday.
But O’Sullivan‘s withdrawal marks the third straight tournament he has missed out on.
It comes after he sat out the British Open and the Wuhan Open.
The World Snooker Tour confirmed the news on Sunday.
As a result of the withdrawal, his first-round opponent, Long Zehuang, was handed a bye into the round of 32.
The Rocket had lost three previous Northern Ireland Open finals to Judd Trump between 2018 and 2020.
O’Sullivan had also withdrawn from last year’s event due to medical reasons.
The world No5 has not played competitively since being knocked out of the first round of the English Open on 17 September – which saw him harshly brand himself “useless” and “embarrassing”.
O’Sullivan has hinted at retirement several times this year.
He recently announced a new side hustle by opening a snooker academy in Saudi Arabia.
O’Sullivan also revealed how he would have pursued a career in motorsport if he never pursued a career in snooker.
You can find all the latest updates on the Northern Ireland Open by reading SunSport’s snooker blog HERE.
Inside Ronnie’s colourful career
FROM his lightning breaks to blasts at officials, Ronnie O’Sullivan has fired snooker into the spotlight.
Great Britain’s Lewis Gibson and Lilah Fear won gold in the ice dance at Skate America in the first ISU Grand Prix of the season.
The pair beat defending ISU world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates from the United States by a fraction of a point in Allen, Texas, while Spain’s Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck finished third.
In January, Gibson and Fear won silver for a second consecutive year in the ice dance at the European Figure Skating Championships.
“We were so proud to be up there on the podium. It was definitely a heartwarming moment, especially to be surrounded by our amazing team-mates,” said Fear of the other two pairs she trains alongside.
Gibson and Fear led after the rhythm dance and finished second in the free dance for an overall score of 206.38 points, with Chock and Bates second on 205.63.
The six-leg Grand Prix series continues on Friday with Skate Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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