MalcolmW

Bol's first outdoor 800m is next Tuesday (16th) v Werro in Ostrava, Cz.

Iran will withdraw the day before their first match in protest at the restriction on their delegation. That will leave FIFA unable to replace them and give a problem in deciding best third placers in unbalanced groups.

Of the 12 founding members of the Football League 8 will be in the Championship for 2026-27. Only the original big city clubs of Aston Villa and Everton remain in the Premier League. No founder members in League One, but Notts County and the reformed Accrington in League Two. All the Championship clubs were in the Football League in 1926-27, and here are their positions in that season. Division- position club: 1-4 Bolton Wanderers, 1-5 Burnley, 1-6 West Ham United,, 1-8 Sheffield United, 1-12 Derby County, 1-14 Cardiff City, 1-17Birmingham City, 1-18 Blackburn Rovers, 1-22 West Bromwich Albion, 2-1 Middlesbrough, 2-2 Portsmouth, 2-6 Preston North End, 2-12 Swansea Town (now City), 2-13 Southampton, 2-15 Wolverhampton Wanderers, 3S-1 Bristol City, 3N-1 Stoke City, 3S-3 Millwall, 3N-11 Lincoln City, 3S-13 Charlton Athletic, 3N-13 Wrexham, 3S-14 Queens Park Rangers, 3S-16 Norwich City, 3S-21 Watford.

By saying very esrly that he would aleways retain Rachel Reeves as Chancellor. She showed very early that she did not understand that she could not control outside forces on the economy. So unwise to s ay she would never increase personal rates of taxation. She has so far managed this by freezing personal allowances, so people know their taxes are rising even though the rates are not. Dropping Winter Fuel payments for all and then re-introducing them for most was utter folly. ] Child benefit limits ....

Counting in Wales and Scotland isn't starting until 9am Friday.

No trains between Darlington and York, so that takes Newcastle out of the equation!

6v3 Sat 9/5 3pm 5v4 Sat 9/5 8pm 3v6 Wed 13/5 8pm 4v5 Thur 14/5 8pm Final Sun 24/5

Mary Bignal Rand Toomey Reese. Britain's first woman Olympic gold medallist in athletics. Long jump with a world record n Tokyo 1964, plus silver in the first Pentathlon and bronze in the 4x100 metres relay (but also inside the world record) later in the week. There are many images of her but the one I retain in my head is as I walked into the weights room at Iffley Road in 1967 and she was doing amazing lifts under the supervision of her ccoach, John Le Masurier (not that one, but possibly his cousin).

I'll just point out that in 2003 Paula Ratcliffe ran the Marathon faster than any British man that year. And plenty men ran the distance.

But the best performance came from the American men's 800m winner, aged 17 and a quarter.

Barnet, Bromley, ..?

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BBC2 (but just remember she ain't a morning person).

PV can focus on the FA Cup. They need to be relegated in case BorehamWood get into the EFL as they would need to beat them next season re-establish their current unique record of having beaten every other club in the top 44 tiers in a league maatch.

Can't say who the next POTUS will be in ADVance.