Riath Al-Samarrai

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Guardiola certainly doesn't and his was a particularly interesting case. He twice tested positive for the steroid nandrolone in 2001, when he played for Brescia in Italy.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: It's been almost six years since these guardians of the game wrote VAR into football and a few days since we heard rumblings of a blue card and sin bins.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: There are easy points to be scored with Emma Raducanu at the moment, but unfortunately few are favouring her side of the board.

Pep Guardiola described his players the other night as 'supermen'. It is a slight twist on the theme that he had spent the previous few hours on the touchline resembling a hopping-mad Lex Luthor.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Life comes at you fast in Formula 1, which I suppose is the point. But has anything shifted so quickly as the fortunes of Christian Horner?

Kevin McBride never fought the Mike Tyson of old, just an old Mike Tyson. That being the broke and broken guy he punched into retirement 19 years ago, but whose name came to define his own in that way all journeymen dream.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT AUGUSTA: John Daly is back in Augusta and the local Hooters is happy to have him. We know that because a sign outside their restaurant on Washington Road.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The short of it is that I don't see what Fury sees when he looks in the mirror. I too see a fighter of remarkable gifts. But I don't see the people's champion.