Here, both sides decided to get down to it from the get-go. No feeling their way in, no shadow boxing. With Hearts going for the title and Hibs busting a gut to derail them, there was a school of thought that this was the biggest Edinburgh derby of them all in the league.

And it felt like it. Boy, did it fizz and crackle. Seven minutes in and Martin Boyle scored. His last derby and there he was, writing his own farewell script. Or so he would have hoped.

Jamie McGrath’s vicious free-kick, Beni Banigime dozing and in rushed Boyle – cool and calm, a sidefoot to the solar plexus of the visitors. Down the Hearts end, too. A perfect view of their nightmare start.

Easter Road basked not just in the sunshine but in the anxiety of their guests, the unspeakable horror of having their league dream buffeted by their greatest rivals.

What unfolded was pulsating, a red card for Sallinger only four minutes after Boyle scored, a daft act of handling the ball outside his own area and a call that was easier to make than the officials made it look.

Everybody knew that Sallinger was goosed on first, or second, viewing. The officials took five or six minutes. It was a calamity for Hibs.

The mood completely shifted and shifted some more when the news came through that Rangers had blinked first in the title race. Later, McInnes spoke of the importance of winning your first post-split game and he was right.

Hearts and Celtic are now on the front foot.

Manchester City’s youngsters beat Arsenal at the Joie Stadium hours after Pep Guardiola’s side had won at Wembley

With four weeks of Premier League action left in the season, Manchester City and Arsenal are neck and neck. The Gunners moved three points and one goal clear at the top of the table on Saturday, but have now played one more game in a title race that could see one of the closest finishes yet.

At youth level, the gap between the teams is more clear. City’s Under-18s thrashed Arsenal 5-2 in the fourth round of the FA Youth Cup this year, and on Saturday at the Joie Stadium the Under-21s knocked Arsenal out of the play-offs for the second straight year.

Ben Wilkinson’s side went in at the break 1-0 down and were looking at a disappointing end to a season in which they finished third in the league stage of the competition. However, they rallied and goals from Christian MacFarlane, Sverre Nypan and Ryan McAidoo saw them run out 3-1 winners.

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After moving through to the quarter-finals with a big win over a rival, City will now head to Aston Villa looking to secure a spot in the last four – where they could meet Liverpool or United. The young Blues beat Villa 4-0 recently in the league but also lost last season’s FA Youth Cup final to the same opponents and the quarter-final offers both teams the chance for revenge as well as moving them closer to a trophy.

“It will be a totally different game,” Wilkinson told club media.“I thought we were outstanding that night, and it was one of our best performances of the season. But we know how good Villa are because obviously at the end of last season we played them in the Under-18s competition, it’s a very similar team for both sides

“We know the qualities they’ve got and I’m sure next week it’ll be a very different game to what we found a few weeks back but it’s one we can look forward to now.”

Kendal Grey and Kali Armstrong are two pro wrestlers who represent the future of WWE’s women’s division.

Each rising superstar was able to attain WWE Evolve Women’s Championships during their time at the developmental promotion and have made a major impact since being called up to the NXT brand. Grey won the Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge and Armstrong put Lola Vice on notice that she was coming for the NXT Women’s Championship.

WWE Hall of Famer Booker T analyzed Grey and Armstrong’s meteoric rise in the company so far in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

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Kendal Grey, left, and Kali Armstrong have been tapped as WWE’s future. (Getty Images)

“She’s proved that she’s special man. She’s a special talent just in her infancy stages already. Then again, I wouldn’t want to push Kendal too quick because right now she’s being highly touted as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, women’s wrestler to come to the WWE system,” he said.

“I don’t want her to get a big head or anything like that because she is so young to the business and she’s picked it up so quickly. But then again, psychology. When she learns that, oh man, she’s gonna be hell to deal with. She’s going to be something very, very special. But she’s gotta really lean into learning that side of it.”

Booker T said that Armstrong has the ability to be great as well. However, there were still certain skills that she needed to hone before her greatness could be achieved.

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“She’s a very, very special talent. The first Evolve women’s champion. And then she lost that championship to Kendal Grey. I told her, ‘There’s a reason why you lost that championship. We gotta figure that out.’ You gotta put yourself into a position where, if you do lose it, it comes right back to you,” he said.

Kali Armstrong, the Evolve Women’s Champion, enters the ring during NXT at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla., on July 15, 2025. (Matt Pendleton/WWE)

Kendal performs during NXT at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla., on Jan. 6, 2026. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

“Again, there are those building blocks that we gotta work with Kali. Me, personally, I’m going to be working with Kali person-to-person, on a one-on-one perspective, to just hone that skill, to let her know those details. I always say what you do before and what you do after … She’s got it all. She checks off so many boxes but making her complete is something I’m so looking forward to.”

Grey was an amateur wrestling star in high school and was on Team USA’s national wrestling team at one point.

Armstrong was a track and field star in college before she signed with WWE.

“But as far as the ceiling, very, very high for both of those ladies,” Booker T added.

Booker T makes his entrance during NXT at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colo., on Sept. 1, 2024. (Eric Johnson/WWE)

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Both Grey and Armstrong will be among the talent appearing on Season 3 of “WWE Legends and Future Greats” on A+E. The new season begins Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET.

Jockey Tyler Schiller praised Rotagilla as a “progressive horse” after the gelding overcame a tactical alteration to deliver a resounding triumph in the Anzac Day Cup held at Randwick.

Schiller intended a proactive ride on the four-year-old, but a poor start led to a patient approach instead, with Rotagilla firing a devastating burst down the outside to win the 1800m race by a clear margin.

“It obviously wasn’t the plan to be so neutral and negative on him, but they jumped quick around us and I thought, on a turn if we’re pushing we’re going to be using a lot of energy,” Schiller said.

“He’s come through and won like a really nice horse late. The tempo helped him.

“He’s a progressive horse.”

Rotagilla boasts six wins from 17 career starts, and assistant trainer Charlie Duckworth to Chris Waller mentioned the Listed Gosford Gold Cup (2100m) on May 9 as a likely next port of call.

“He is tough and consistent,” Duckworth said.

“We thought he was more one-paced, but he seems to have that turn of foot and a willingness to win. We’ve just got to work out exactly where he measures up and what his distance range is, how far he can stay, and that will tell us the answers hopefully.”

At odds of $8, Rotagilla scored half a length clear of Sir Dinadan ($12) from the same stable, with consistent Polymnia ($4.40) just a short neck adrift in third.

Opting out of Friday’s Tamworth Cup (1400m)—successfully taken by their Formal Display—Annabel and Rob Archibald entered Hellsing in Saturday’s First Australian Imperial Force Handicap (1500m).

In an exciting three-horse photo finish, Hellsing outfinished Encap over the concluding 50m for his second local win, accompanied closely by stablemate Cristal Clear in third.

“I am delighted for Hellsing. He has been knocking on the door,” Annabel Archibald said.

“He’s had three seconds, two here and in the Muswellbrook Cup, and just the ground and maybe the class in the Doncaster (Mile) found him out.

“Back in grade, 1500 metres here I think is his sweet spot, and it was a nice ride by Tom Sherry as well.”

The Archibald stable had four participants, as Depth Of Character and Port Lockroy ended up fourth and fifth.

Annabel Archibald expects Hellsing and Cristal Clear to contest next month’s Scone Cup (1600m), with entry into the Big Dance on Melbourne Cup Day.

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Former World Championship finalist Barry Hawkins has labelled the decision to suddenly cancel the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters “very disappointing”, with players blindsided by the announcement.

A 10-year deal for the Saudi Arabian tournament was announced in 2024 but it has been axed after just two editions.

The World Snooker Tour said: “Following constructive discussions between The Saudi Billiard and Snooker Federation and Matchroom following the conclusion of the 2025 editions, it has been mutually agreed not to proceed with future editions of the World Pool Championship and the Saudi Arabia Snooker Masters.”

The decision means the World Snooker Tour has lost its most lucrative ranking tournament outside the UK, with a total prize pot of £2.3m and £500,000 for the winner, the same as an offer at the World Snooker Championship.

Speaking after beating Mark Williams 13-9 at the World Championship on Saturday, Hawkins said players only found out after receiving a “stupid email” and said they had not been told the reasoning behind the move.

He said: “What a disappointment. Without sounding rude, something’s gone wrong for us to lose that tournament. What’s happened to the 10-year contract? It’s just been blown out of the water.

“We don’t get no explanation, nothing, which is very, very annoying. We just get some stupid email saying it’s been stopped. No explanation, nothing. Very disappointing, it’s a massive tournament to lose.

“It’d be interesting to see the reason behind it.”

Judd Trump beat Mark Williams in the inaugural edition in Riyadh, with Neil Robertson defeating Ronnie O’Sullivan in the 2025 event.

The news comes as Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), which has invested heavily in sports from golf to football to tennis, looks to pull back from several of its flagship ventures amid a reassessment of its priorities.

The Saudi sovereign wealth fund is reportedly set to pull its funding for the rebel golf league LIV Golf after just four years, having pumped more than $5bn into the project, and it has not renewed a three-year deal to host the tennis WTA Tour Finals after this year’s edition.

The decision to axe the Masters means players defending ranking points from the tournament – which are tied to prize money earned in snooker’s two-year rolling system – may lose out and drop down the standings.

Williams continued: “I suppose that’s one of the downsides to having a money ranking system, because it’s so top heavy.

“Now these guys like Neil Robertson and Judd Trump, they haven’t got a chance to defend that £500,000, that’s just going to be wiped off, and there’s no tournament to replace that.

“Other people down the rankings are going to suffer as well. We all thought it was on for 10 years, but for whatever reason it’s been called off.”