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Saturday
Football
8am (all times BST)Matchday live
Join Luke McLaughlin and Tom Bassam for our peculiar FA Cup last unrecorded blog covering each the buildup to the afternoon’s large crippled arsenic Manchester City instrumentality connected Crystal Palace astatine Wembley. Ready to tract your final-related questions volition beryllium the Guardian’s main sports writer, Barney Ronay. Email him astatine matchday.live@theguardian.com with your views, notes and queries. Spicing up our bumper sum volition beryllium views from some sets of fans arsenic City question silverware to enactment up an underwhelming play by their standards and Palace spell for the archetypal large trophy successful their past – their 3rd changeable astatine an FA Cup final.
Cricket
11am County Championship live
Tanya Aldred keeps you up to day with the latest enactment from each 9 matches. Tanya takes her spot astatine Old Trafford aft a week of upheaval astatine Lancashire pursuing the resignation of Keaton Jennings arsenic captain, with the nine sitting stone bottommost of the County Championship. The Red Rose were relegated from Division One past play but were powerfully fancied to triumph promotion this term. Instead, they person failed to triumph immoderate of their archetypal 5 games and beryllium astatine the ft of the standings with 50 points. The Australian Marcus Harris, who tops the Division Two tally charts with 749 contempt his side’s struggles, takes implicit arsenic interim captain.
Formula One
3pmEmilia-Romagna Grand Prix qualifying live
Tom Bassam is your unrecorded big arsenic the gait hots up astatine Imola successful the contention for No 1 spot connected the grid for Sunday’s expansive prix, with our F1 newsman Giles Richards trackside. This play sees a past hurrah for the celebrated aged circuit, infamous for the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna astatine the the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. The Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari has been hosting F1 races since 1963 but drops disconnected the calendar adjacent season.
FA Cup final
4.30pmCrystal Palace v Manchester City live
Rob Smyth keeps the updates flowing arsenic our unrecorded sum switches to the day’s large event. In spot astatine Wembley are our reporting squad of David Hytner, Barney Ronay, Jonathan Wilson and Jamie Jackson. Will Erling Haaland rediscover his spark? Despite seemingly scoring goals galore for City, the striker is yet to registry for the nine successful a final. He drew blanks successful the 2023 Champions League showpiece and the past 2 FA Cup finals against Manchester United. He has scored 30 times this play but not since March owed to a agelong spell retired injured. City’s precocious hopes of silverware remainder with Haaland.
Golf
5pmUS PGA Championship
Scott Murray is your adept usher to events unfolding astatine Quail Hollow. Never caput the mud balls, Masters champion Rory McIlroy ended the archetypal circular 10 shots down the person Jhonattan Vegas and faces an uphill struggle.
Rugby union
5.30pmBath v Leicester
Robert Kitson reports from the Recreation Ground with plentifulness astatine involvement for the Tigers. Leicester beryllium 2nd successful the array and tin seal a play-off spot if they bushed Bath, the Premiership leaders. Michael Cheika has Leicester challenging for the league crown successful his 1 play successful complaint astatine Welford Road earlier helium hands implicit to successor Geoff Parling this summer. However the erstwhile Wallabies manager insists helium is firmly focused connected this campaign. “The champion happening I tin bash for the aboriginal of the nine is to spell good for the remainder of this year,” helium told the BBC this week. “Nothing other … to marque definite we are playing our champion footy and trying to enactment successful this contention for arsenic agelong arsenic possible.”
Sunday
Analysis
8amInside shot with Jonathan Wilson
Our columnist looks guardant to Wednesday’s Europa League last successful Bilbao by asking: is an all-English last betwixt Manchester United and Tottenham truly thing to celebrate? It volition beryllium conscionable the sixth clip 2 English clubs person contested a European showpiece, and Spurs person featured successful 2 of them. The others? Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea (Champions League, 2021); Spurs 0-2 Liverpool (Champions League, 2019); Chelsea 4-1 Arsenal (Europa League, 2019); Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea (Man Utd won 6-5 connected pens) (Champions League, 2008) and Wolves v Spurs (Spurs triumph 3-2 connected aggregate) (Uefa Cup, 1972).
Football
8amMatchday live
After Saturday’s men’s Wembley showpiece, it’s the Women’s FA Cup last with Chelsea facing Manchester United. Emillia Hawkins and Niall McVeigh acceptable the country with unrecorded updates arsenic we physique towards the 1.30pm kickoff. They volition beryllium inviting questions for our Merseyside analogous Andy Hunter astir Goodison Park arsenic the aged crushed hosts its past men’s fixture erstwhile Everton look Southampton. Email matchday.live@theguardian.com with your queries. Peter Lansley volition see Jamie Vardy’s last Foxes bow earlier the striker makes his last Leicester appearance, the striker’s 500th crippled for the club. The 38-year-old has scored 9 goals this play – 1 much would marque it 200 for Leicester.
Cricket
11amCounty Championship live
Join Tanya Aldred for our continued sum of the latest region cricket games, including Surrey v Yorkshire astatine the Oval.
Premier League
12pmEverton v Southampton, extremity of an epoch live
Daniel Harris takes successful the enactment and the colour astatine Goodison Park arsenic Everton’s location since 1892 bids a past hurrah to hosting men’s matches. As Andy Hunter recounts successful his colourfully entertaining portion connected the ground’s memorable moments, Everton won the archetypal derby they hosted, Dixie Dean acceptable his goals grounds determination and Pelé made World Cup history. Read it here.
Women’s FA Cup final
1.30pmChelsea v Manchester United live
Emillia Hawkins returns to the hotseat with unrecorded updates connected events astatine Wembley earlier Suzanne Wrack, Tom Garry and Jonathan Liew supply reports and analysis. Marc Skinner’s United instrumentality connected Chelsea for a repetition of the 2023 final, which the Blues won 1-0. WSL champions Chelsea are chasing different portion of silverware aft they lifted the Women’s League Cup with a 2-1 triumph implicit Manchester City successful March and completed an unbeaten WSL campaign. The accidental to implicit a home cleanable expanse beckons.
Formula One
2pmEmilia-Romagna Grand Prix live
Lap-by-lap updates from Niall McVeigh and contention reports from Giles Richards astatine the circuit. McLaren’s Italian brag Andrea Stella volition beryllium hoping for a blessed homecoming arsenic helium leads the champions to Ferrari’s backyard and the commencement of a tally of 3 races connected successive weekends. Oscar Piastri leads Lando Norris by 16 points aft 4 wins, including the past 3 successful a row, with Red Bull’s reigning champion Max Verstappen - victor of the past 3 races successful Imola - 32 points disconnected the gait successful third. There has been plentifulness of swirl successful the paddock, meanwhile, peculiarly astatine Alpine. Wiley F1 stalwart Flavio Briatore takes implicit from Oliver Oakes arsenic squad boss, though not technically arsenic principal, portion connected the way Jack Doohan has been replaced by Franco Colapinto aft lone six races.
Premier League
2.15pmWest Ham v Nottingham Forest live
Dominic Booth follows the chopped and thrust live, followed by Jacob Steinberg’s lucifer study arsenic the visitors question their archetypal league treble implicit the Hammers since 1983-84. West Ham won 2-0 astatine Manchester United past clip out, but person lone erstwhile this play won consecutive Premier League matches (v Arsenal and Leicester successful February). Their past 3 astatine location person each finished level. Forest, meanwhile, person won conscionable 1 of their past six Premier League games, a dip successful signifier that has seen them gaffe from 3rd to seventh successful the table. They indispensable anticipation the sound astir striker Taiwo Awoniyi’s superior wounded and proprietor Evangelos Marinakis’ intemperate behaviour volition not beryllium a distraction arsenic they question a spot successful Europe.
Premier League
4.30pmArsenal v Newcastle live
A large crippled to bookend our play shot coverage: Second conscionable 3rd successful the array separated by 2 points and Newcastle are surely Arsenal’s bogey team. Eddie Howe’s visitors person won 3 games against the Gunners this season, 1-0 successful the Premier League and 2-0 successful some legs of the League Cup semi-final. No squad has ever beaten Arsenal 4 times successful a azygous run and it indispensable beryllium troubling for Mikel Arteta that his broadside are without a triumph successful their past 4 location games successful each competitions. Join Rob Smyth to spot if Newcastle tin marque it a cleanable expanse earlier Ed Aarons’s report.
Golf
5pmUS PGA Championship last circular live
Our attraction swings erstwhile again to Quail Hollow and, successful the susceptible hands of Scott Murray, the closing rounds from the North Carolina venue.
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