the way they hide behind the manager. whatever you say about the players, they threw him under the bus. people said mourinho was falling out with players. will you would win players to train properly. then they put down tools. shame on some of them players. i am notjose mourinho‘s greatest fan, but some players hide behind their agent, the media. bit of a joke, really. there's been plenty of live rugby tonight, and in rugby union's premiership, northampton saints eased some relegation pressure as they comfortably beat worcester warriors 32—6. cobus ryenach added the extra gloss to the victory with this intercepted possession before running almost the length of the pitch to touch down with ease. the result means saints move up four places to sixth. cardiff blues had a last—minute penalty to win their derby match with newport gwent dragons in the pro 1a. and gareth anscombe held his nerve to seal a 19—16 win for the blues in the welsh capital.

dragons played more than half the game with m men after lloyd fairbrother was sent off. and ulster edged to victory over munster in their derby match. dave sha na han‘s late score here sealed a 19—12 victory for the home side. it takes ulster up to second in conference b. munster pick up a losing bonus point. now it's a been a tough yearfor ben stokes. the england all—rounder may be back playing well again after being cleared of criminal charges, but after pleading guilty to bringing the game into disrepute, his reputation is still yet to be restored. the chief executive of the england and wales cricket board, though, believes stokes has learnt his lesson and that he can still be a role model. joe wilson reports. the lord's pavilion has stood witness to well over a century of sport. 2018 was a cricketing year of individual achievements from england's senior men. a year when the test team triumphed in sri lanka. a year when england's star player

stood trial for affray. ben stokes was acquitted, but found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by a cricket disciplinary committee, after a fight on a bristol street. i think it's an incredibly negative episode that happened. i think it's a very tough moment for the game. i also think that that's why we have the processes in place that we do, because we're a high profile sport. do you think he still can be a role model for english cricket, ben stokes? i do. i do think he can. i think he's been through a year that will serve as a constant reminder of how quickly things can go wrong, if you allow them. ben is a leader in that team. he's got great people around him. he's got good support structures, and i'm sure he's learned a lesson.

well, in 2019, england invites the world to watch cricket. the icc cricket world cup is coming to england and wales in 2019! who's in? england and wales host the 2019 men's world cup. england are widely expected to win it. live coverage will be on subscription tv, but the ecb it's the chance to grab a generation, isn't it, tom, in some ways? yeah, absolutely right, absolutely right. and for the first time, you sense that we've got this gilt—edged opportunity to take people from the white ball game directly into test cricket, through the ashes series immediately following the world cup. yes, next summer it is the ashes too, currently held, of course, by australia. so, a year when techniques and tempers might be pushed to the limit. joe wilson, bbc news, lord's. now let's catch up on some other sports stories around today. the australian open will allow final set tie—breaks

for the first time next month. it means if the match reaches 6—6 in the final set, the winner will be the first to 10 by two clear points. the decision means that the french 0pen is now the only grand slam not to allow final—set tie—breaks in singles matches. the football association's new technical director is les reed. the 66—year—old will be in charge of england's elite men's and women's teams, as well as the development sides — and fa education and coaching. it's his second time in the role. and six—time olympic sprint champion allyson felix has revealed her new baby was born eight weeks prematurely. the american sprinter says her daughter camryn has been in a neo—natal intensive care unit since her birth at the end of november but she's "doing well". there was an angry confrontation between dillian whyte and dereck chisora as they weighed in ahead of their heavyweight fight on saturday. both fighters came in atjust over 17 and a half stone, but after the face—off, there were verbal

disagreements between them, which continued backstage. whyte narrowly won on points when the two first met in 2016. the winner of this rematch at the 02 in london could set up a potential title bout next year. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more sport throughout the weekend. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are michael booker, who's the deputy editor at the daily express, and the daily mirror columnist susie boniface. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in,

with the gatwick flight chaos featuring on many. transport secretary chris grayling is under fire in the times. the paper claims that he put laws regulating drone use on hold despite being made aware repeatedly of the risk they posed to airports. the nightmare before christmas. the i reports that there have been five near—misses at gatwick in the past five years. police say they have identified " persons of interest". that's on the front of the independent. catch me if you can — the daily mail reports how the drone saboteur is taunting police by flying his aircraft over the runway again. trump's standoff with congress over funding for his us—mexico border wall features on the front of the ft, with the markets taking a grim reaction to the prospect of a government shutdown. amber rudd lashes out atjean—claude juncker in an exclusive interview in the telegraph, saying the european commission president had "manhandled" theresa may at last week's summit.

the sun features the remarkable story of a builder finding a £76 million—winning lottery ticket in his van six weeks after the draw. and that story is also in the express — reporting that the man, who was from lincolnshire, had tucked the ticket behind his sun visor and forgotten about it. 0nce once again, and of course understandably, the continuing chaos at gatwick making all the front pages, 01’ at gatwick making all the front pages, or most of them, today. interesting, the times is saying that chris grayling, transport secretary has been under pressure already over apparently a rather slow reaction to it, but drug laws on hold before flight chaos. in the absence of a suspect or an arrest or any kind of resolution people sort of throw about, "what could possibly

be at fault for this?" 0bviously, of throw about, "what could possibly be at fault for this?" obviously, a lack of regulation. regulators warning for a long time drones are presenting a threat to airliners. weber in particular manage to go backin weber in particular manage to go back in my department transport lasher quietly ditched "plans for a d raft bill" lasher quietly ditched "plans for a draft bill" and new technology that would have prevented them from being used in airports. —— labour in particular manage to go back, department for transport. drops do pressures on the we know brexit is taking up so much bandwidth within whitehall there is no spare time or space to discuss or develop anything else. this is a draft of legislation which has been left to go by the wayside. labour complaining about it 110w wayside. labour complaining about it now than they were not making... ido a memberof the now than they were not making... ido a member of the chat about it beforehand. —— i do not remember a

shout about it. it is criminal. even if these laws were brought in, this would still be a criminal act whatever happens. really, chris grayling, it took him 20 hours to actually say anything or release a statement about this. he did not do very well with the trains. he's not had a very good year with drones now, it turns out, but i'm not sure it's entirely his fault. as they say, brexit does take a lot of time at the moment, unfortunately, and it's choking everyone else. and this prankster, whatever it is, might be the biggest mass villain we've ever seen. 0r the biggest mass villain we've ever seen. or it could be a kid. nonetheless, i think the scale of the description there has been at gatwick is inevitably going to lead to huge pressure for new laws and

the security procedures at these airports. the gatwick authority has admitted once the army withdraws with this mysterious military kit that had helping/ not helping, this is on the other airports, other businesses, other small airports around the country, landing strips and stuff, are going to be worrying about. especially around christmas when drones are the biggest gifts for kids. already some concern about possible copycat situations at other airports. the independence, gatwick grunted again airports. the independence, gatwick gru nted again because airports. the independence, gatwick grunted again because of course, what happened during the day was although the flights were resumed first thing this morning a there was another sighting of another drone.

0nce another sighting of another drone. once again, tens of thousands of people having an absolutely miserable timejust people having an absolutely miserable time just as their cranny getaway on the christmas break. just horrific for them. these people have had a tyre holidays ruined because of this. christmas, you spend more money, and you're looking forward to, especially children. people are going on these holidays to get away from people come another in airports with a lot of people! —— get away from people, and now they are in airports with lots. the language is interesting. they're called persons of interest because they don't have a suspect. that is the fun of the problem here. what is the one group of people who regularly fly commercial patrons regularly do it for the various reasons and are quite happy to break the law?

criminals delivering drugs to prisons. those zookeepers and not farfrom prisons. those zookeepers and not far from gatwick. go prisons. those zookeepers and not farfrom gatwick. go and prisons. those zookeepers and not far from gatwick. go and talk to the governors. “— far from gatwick. go and talk to the governors. —— there are few prisons not far. it does in a short and there they have not been able to track the culprit down despite the presence of troops. and the police officer who stood in the field. did on that particular high—tech, him, did he? is said in the times the army had to borrow equipment from a private contractor. it seems madness, this. the technology to operate and to discover a few block and destroy drones exist. we use in syria. there are ways around this. we obviously have not got the right people on its. he seem to be stuck in some kind of bureaucratic nightmare. they... why they have not

is baffling. why can they not stop this thing? why can't they do it? is there something else we are not being told? there do seem to be insta nces being told? there do seem to be instances where other airports have got in place a variety of different mechanisms whereby they could intercept, tracked down, bring down these drones bulls of the dutch have eagles train to go and take them out of the skies. not a great thing to be doing if you're an eagle! there are prisons around the world who have an anti—drug system, and it's 100% effective indoors. so why have we not around these around the airports? the civil aviation authority, the airports themselves and they been warning about this. they had been aware of this. they have had incursions in airspace for some years have had incursions in airspace for some yea rs now. have had incursions in airspace for some years now. they should've done this themselves without having to wait for something to order them to do it. this kind of chaos was

inevitable at some point. it's going to bring down a plane one day and they're going to be hundreds of people to buy one of these things. why they have not attempted to this, it is incredibly worrying. it is been three days now. the mail says, "catch me if you can", and describes... as well as a few others, extraordinary details about how the drones have a tour flew his drone over the airport last night and talked about him darting through that with‘s airspace, mockingly flashing his lights at the police below. it really is quite extraordinary. do you like to wait in the mail has done a? the way they presented to him that "catch me if

you can", there's drama. dramatic twists! the cat and mouse games! mockingly flashing lights. do they know... they might just flash. mockingly flashing lights. do they know... they might just flashm mockingly flashing lights. do they know... they mightjust flash. it is guesswork. no one knows anything about this. the journalists are not find anything about. the police do not know much, so they cannot because they wanted. the airport authorities don't quite know, it seems. this is a lot of people who don't really know what's going on. i would not be surprised to find out the drone operator, whenever he, she, they are found, mayjust be, " i would just try to get something to my mate on the other side of the airport and don't watch the news." it's bizarre that somebody does not know what they're doing but it is just as likely as the ecoterrorists we re just as likely as the ecoterrorists were the other mad idea chris grayling comes up with the shift the blame.