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Saturday
Football
8am-12pmMatchday live
John Brewin straps successful arsenic a play of FA Cup quarter-final action looms large. Breaking news and scholar input are nan orders of nan time earlier nan first of Saturday’s 3 last-eight games kicks disconnected astatine nan Etihad arsenic Manchester City – past season’s beaten finalists – big Liverpool, Cup winners successful 2022. There’s bound to beryllium guidance from Friday’s Championship fixtures while successful nan Scottish Premiership, Rangers will spell supra Hearts astatine nan apical for nan first clip this play if they hit Dundee United earlier nan pacesetters look Livingston connected Sunday. Join nan speech by emailing [email protected].
Cricket
11amCounty Championship opening information live
The play gets underway nether leaden skies pinch Nottinghamshire launching their title defence against Somerset astatine Taunton. While Haseeb Hameed’s broadside will beryllium boosted by Ben Duckett’s beingness successful nan early rounds aft he withdrew from nan IPL, Surrey are favourites to regain their title. The 2022, 2023 and 2024 champions person Alec Stewart backmost astatine nan Kia Oval, while Ollie Pope, Jamie Smith and Gus Atkinson will beryllium eager to laic down a marker aft a bruising Ashes pinch England. Tanya Aldred resumes her station arsenic region sentinel, pinch updates from astir nan grounds.
FA Cup
12.45pmManchester City v Liverpool live
Pep Guardiola’s hosts bagged nan Carabao Cup earlier nan world break astatine Arsenal’s disbursal and while nan Gunners whitethorn person nan past laughter successful nan Premier League title race, City will not beryllium satisfied pinch a trophy haul of 1 this season. The stakes are precocious excessively for Arne Slot’s flailing visitors. With nan first limb of their Champions League quarter-final against Paris Saint-Germain to travel successful France connected Wednesday, booking a spot successful nan semi-finals would beryllium a assurance uplift for a Reds broadside meandering successful 5th successful nan league. Rob Smyth is connected unrecorded blog work while Jamie Jackson and Andy Hunter shape our scribe cadre astatine nan Emirates.
Rowing
2.21pmMen’s and Women’s Boat Races live
The 197-year-old tussle connected nan Thames has had a makeover. Organisers dream reality stars and penetration into athletes’ lives will make nan Oxford-Cambridge races much relatable arsenic it moves to a caller TV location connected Channel 4. The five-year broadcast woody was announced successful October, pursuing a parting of ways pinch nan BBC. The revamping presents an opportunity to tie successful caller audiences, while still appealing to accepted viewers – aliases truthful nan Boat Race blazers hope. Taha Hashim is our blog cox for some races on nan 4.2-mile-long agelong of nan stream betwixt Putney and Mortlake, pinch nan women going first arsenic Cambridge activity to proceed their ray bluish grip. Luke McLaughlin reports from nan riverbank.
FA Cup
5.15pmChelsea v Port Vale live
League One toilers Port Vale shocked Sunderland successful nan 5th information to gain a travel to Stamford Bridge, but will get arsenic immense underdogs. Still, Chelsea head Liam Rosenior is nether scrutiny aft a unspeakable tally of shape and players speaking out. Enzo Fernández will miss nan crippled aft “crossing nan line” pinch caller comments, according to Rosenior. Is it triumph aliases bust for nan Blues? Emillia Hawkins hosts nan unrecorded blog, pinch our shot analogous David Hytner reporting from nan quarter-final.
FA Cup
8pmSouthampton v Arsenal live
The Saints are genuinely marching these days pursuing a grim commencement to life successful nan Championship. Surging into nan playoff image pinch a 14-game unbeaten tally successful each competitions, they surely merit nan respect of nan Premier League leaders who are coping pinch a agelong wounded list. Having fallen to Manchester City astatine Wembley successful nan Carabao Cup final, it’s clip for Mikel Arteta’s depleted mob to guidelines gangly earlier a large Champions League crippled against Sporting. Scott Murray takes connected nan blog duties arsenic Ben Fisher files from St Mary’s.
Sunday
Football
8am-7pmMatchday unrecorded and clockwatch
A bumper Easter Sunday clockwatch arsenic Daniel Harris, Simon Burnton and Dominic Booth guideline you done nan day’s events. They will person buildup to nan men’s FA Cup quarter-final astatine nan London Stadium, and updates from nan Women’s FA Cup last-eight ties, arsenic Charlton big Liverpool and Arsenal meet Brighton. Livingston v Hearts and Dundee v Celtic are besides connected nan paper arsenic nan Scottish title title bubbles for illustration a freshly opened Irn-Bru.
Cricket
11amCounty Championship live
Tanya Aldred picks up nan baton for time 3 of nan opening information of nan season. There’ll beryllium plentifulness of plotlines to unpick, not slightest really nan promoted duo of Leicestershire and Glamorgan get on. Durham and Lancashire person been tipped for promotion from Division Two, while nan ECB has announced a season-long proceedings of subordinate replacements.
FA Cup
4.30pmWest Ham v Leeds live
Leeds touch down astatine chap Premier League strugglers West Ham aft reaching nan past 8 for nan first clip since 2003. It’s astir 4 decades since they played successful a semi-final, losing 3-2 aft other clip to eventual winners Coventry successful 1987. A glimmer of glory is wrong rubbing region for Daniel Farke’s broadside but for illustration their hosts, top-flight endurance remains nan priority. West Ham look Wolves adjacent Friday, truthful will Nuno Espírito Santo opt to support his powder barren for nan crunch convention clash? It’s bound to beryllium compelling either way. Rob Smyth is connected nan unrecorded blog, while Jacob Steinberg reports from nan London Stadium.
