he damaged ligaments in norwich's final championship game of the season against barnsley on saturdayly devastated" to be missing scotland's first major championship in 22 years. fulham's defeat last night confirmed their relegation — and also meant southampton are safe for another season. they face crystal palace tonight. before that, manchester united host leicester. defeat will hand rivals city the title. it'll be united's third game in six days — with their re—arranged match against liverpool to come on thursday — a schedule that's left their manager unimpressed. if i do play these 11 again on tuesday and thursday, it's impossible. i run too much of a risk of injuring them. so talking about integrity in the league and stuff, don't blame me when i have to make changes because i have to. it's not safe for them to play all four so i've got to prioritise. all the english league play—off games will be played in front of fans, the efl has announced. numbers are yet to be confirmed, and it will be home supporters only. the welsh government has confirmed that the games involving newport c

the second leg between barnsley and swansea has just got underway.ea. 0-0 at 0—0 at the moment. meanwhile, it's going to be another season in league one for sunderland. they lost their play—off semifinal to lincoln city. lincoln arrived at the stadium of light with a 2—0 lead from their home leg, but that was wiped out by first—half goals from ross stewart and charlie wyke. lincoln hit back after the break through tom hopper to win the tie 3—2 on aggregate. they'll face blackpool in the final at wembley next sunday. now for a quick look at some of the day's other sports stories. cameron norrie's through to the final of the lyon open. he thrashed eighth seed karen khachanov 6—1, 6—1 injust over an hour. so the brit's now preparing for his second atp tour final injust three weeks. but a tough test awaits, he'll face number two seed stefanos tsitsipas in the final. the greek beat 19—year—old italian lorenzo musetti in three sets. tsitsipas has already won the monte carlo masters and reached the final in barcelona. italy's lorenzo fortunato won stage 14

well the second leg between barnsley and swansea is well underway.0 on aggregate to swansea. and the swans have doubled their lead... matt grimes with the goal in the first half... there is just over half an hour to go in that one. meanwhile, it's going to be another season in league one for sunderland. they lost their play—off semi—final to lincoln city. lincoln arrived at the stadium of light with a 2—0 lead from their home leg, but that was wiped out by first—half goals from ross stewart and charlie wyke. lincoln hit back after the break through tom hopper — to win the tie 3—2 on aggregate. they'll face blackpool in the final at wembley next sunday. it's the final day of the premier league season tomorrow. but things have already been wrapped up in spain and atletico madrid are the new spanish champions. now, atletico needed to match the result of city—rivals real madrid to win the title. all the matches were being played at the same time... but atletico didn't need to worry about other results. former liverpool striker luis suarez scoring the dec

he injured his knee during norwich's final championship game of the season against barnsley on saturdayr the seventh or 14th of august. cameron nouri's good runnerform has continued, victory in the first round of the italian open. he made it to the final in the earlier month. and he beat spain's contender in straight sets. now, there are calls for wimbledon to be more ambitious with the spectator numbers —— there are calls for wimbledon and royal ascot to be more ambitious with the spectator numbers they're currently planning for this summer. the all england club says wimbledon will have 25% attendance whilst royal ascot next month is set for 4,000 racegoers — which is 7% of normal. organisers at both events say the numbers could still change depending on the science and the situation at the time. but dr colin axon from brunel university, who's an expert in engineering and ventilation, has told me he thinks they're being overly cautious. i would say they were overly cautious. i think they can afford to be considerably more ambitious, both are predominantly outside events, and transmissi

in the other semifinal first leg, there were around a000 fans at 0akwell as barnsley played swansea.l in the first half. the second leg is also on saturday. tottenham have responded to reports tonight that harry kane has told told the club he wants to leave at the end of the season. kane's been frustrated after another disappointing campaign. but ahead of their final games against aston villa and leicester this week, as they chase european football, tottenham have said, "our focus is on finishing the season as strongly as possible. that's what everybody should be focused on." manchester city are at brighton tomorrow, and the champions have had some good news — kevin de bruyne is back in training after a recent injury scare. he missed the premier league games against chelsea and newcastle. he's unlikely to be rushed back for tomorrow. of more importance, of course, is his readiness for the champions league final against cheslea at the end of the month. kevin is important, like everyone is important, and the final, when we are able to stick together and to push each other, will be poss

around ii,500 will will also be watching the other semi between barnsley and swansea at 8.15.diums can admit up to 10,000 spectators, smaller grounds will be capped at 4,000. but with five matches in super league and two in rugby union's premiership tonight, for the first time in well over a year, fans will be swapping a spot on the sofa for a seat in the stands. and that will be a special moment. one of those is at kingston park where newcastle play northampton, katie gornall is there. katie, good evening. we'll come to how the fans are feeling in a moment. butjust give us a sense of what steps are being taken to allow fans back in? this game was originally scheduled for the weekend and it has been moved today to enable fans to be here at kingston park. a lot of hard work has gone on behind—the—scenes in a short space of time to get this under way. the fans have been given a arrival times, lots of social—distancing measures in place and they are spread out around the stadium here, it's a capacity of 10,000 but there is only 1750 fans at the moment, they have to wear masks ins

swansea against barnsley kicks off later.and prix. the son of five—time monaco winner michael schumacher crashed his car at the end of final practice. qualifying gets underway in a less than an hour. the british sprinter adam gemili says all hell would break loose if athletes are banned from protesting against racial discrimination at this summer's tokyo 0lympics. the international olympic committe forbids any kind of demonstration or what it calls political, religious or racial propaganda. well, gemili says it would be unfair for an athlete to be stripped of a medal. i would hope it wouldn't get to that for any athlete. i hope an athlete who puts in a good performance on the track would get to keep their medal, but if it comes to that being that brutal, that's when i said all hell would break loose, because if you take an athlete's medal away from him without cheating on the track, i think that's completely unjust. the third round of golf�*s us pga championship is underway in south carolina. the leaders tee off much later th

11,5000 fans at the other play off semi there'll be 11,500 fans at the other play off semi between barnsleymer series against india and pakistan will go ahead even those two countries are on the covid red list. india's men and women are scheduled to play in the country over the next few months and pakistan are due injuly. the players have been given permission to quarantine at the ageas bowl on—site hotel near southampton rather than government—designated accomodation. new zealand are already at that hotel after arriving yesterday ahead of their test series next month. emma hayes says her chelsea women's team were naive in last night's champions league final. the super league champions were outclassed by barcelona, 4—0, with all the goals coming in the first half in gothenburg. jo currie reports. it was a night that could have made chelsea history makers. but in the end, it was one to forget. a new name had been destined for the champions league trophy. for chelsea, a first european final, and in games of this magnitude you need a fast start. the sort their opponents barcelona had as they s

barnsley face swansea in the other championship semifinal later. way. it's the second leg between sunderland and lincoln and after starting 2—0 down, sunderland have brought the tie all square. so it's 2—2 on aggregate, just before half—time. now, after the joy of claiming the 100th pole position of his career last time out, lewis hamilton could only manage 7th on the grid for the monaco grand prix. the world champion struggled on the tight and twisty streets of the principality. on his final charge he clipped the barriers, just before the tunnel section and eased off to prepare to have another go. but before he could start another lap charles leclerc crashed, bringing qualifying to a premature end , but the ferrari driver had already set the best time ahead of red bull's max verstappen. champions leeds rhinos are playing st helens in the second of today's women's challenge cup semi—finals. with less than half an hour left, st helens lead by 14 points to 2 meanwhile, earlier york city knights thrashed castleford tigers 32—4 in the first of the semi

well, swansea host barnsley later. the swans 1—0 up after the first leg.le position of his career last time out, lewis hamilton could only manage seventh on the grid for the monaco grand prix. the world champion struggled on the tight and twisty streets of the principality. on his final charge he clipped the barriers, just before the tunnel section and eased off to prepare to have another go. but before he could start another lap charles leclerc crashed, bringing qualifying to a premature end , but the ferrari driver had already set the best time ahead of red bull's max verstappen. and mick schumacher, son of five—time monaco winner michael schumacher, missed qualifying after crashing at the end of final practice. he'll have to start the race from last place. champions leeds rhinos are playing st helens in the second of today's women's challenge cup semi—finals. there's quarter of an hour gone, leeds lead 2—0. meanwhile, earlier, york city knights thrashed castleford tigers 32—1; in the first of the semis. savannah andrade scored a hat—trick of. you can wa

in the other semifinal first leg, there were around 4000 fans at 0akwell as barnsley played swansea. end of the season. kane's been frustrated after another disappointing campaign. but ahead of their final games against aston villa and leicester this week, as they chase european football, tottenham have said, "our focus is on finishing the season as strongly as possible. that's what everybody should be focused on." manchester city are at brighton tomorrow, and the champions have had some good news — kevin de bruyne is back in training after a recent injury scare. he missed the premier league games against chelsea and newcastle. he's unlikely to be rushed back for tomorrow. of more importance, of course, is his readiness for the champions league final against cheslea at the end of the month. kevin is important, like everyone is important. the final, when we are able to stick together and to push each other, will be possible to win it. so, of course kevin's important, everybody knows it, but everyone is in the same level. crowds are also back at rugby grounds, and bristol bears support

there is also a,500 fans at the other semifinal between barnsley and swansea. 6 minutes gone at oakwellate at 50% capacity, up to a maximum of a,000 people. spectators at redcar lined the home straight to see miss houdini win one of this afternoon's races. spectators have also been allowed in at leicester and windsor. and the first race was at carlisle, where the excitement of having spectators back got a bit much for this runner, who got loose in the parade ring. the name of the horse? stanley snugfit. what a night for britain's ax100m relay team — as they took gold at the european championships for the first time in 9a years. lucy hope, anna hopkin, abbie wood and freya anderson were able to hold off the team from the netherlands to set a new british record of three minutes 3a.17 seconds, in the opening night of swimming in budapest. great timing with just two months to go until the start of the olympic games in tokyo. adam peaty looked in fine form, producing the tenth quickest time of his career to win the 100 metres breaststroke semifinal. no other swimmer has gone quicker. great t

2,000 fans there for the first leg there will also be a,500 fans at the other semifinal between barnsleyght's premier league matches. three days after their fa cup final defeat, chelsea face leicester again, a huge match for both sides top—four ambitions and there'll be 8000 in the stands at stamford bridge in some matches where we have struggled a bit with momentum, maybe, and i had the feeling during their run in many matches, that support can help, could help now, and would be crucial to our team, so to our team, so having the fans back is fantastic. i hope they come at the right moment to help us to secure this last win at stamford bridge this season. manchester city are at brighton and the champions have had some good news, kevin de bruyne is back in training after a recent injury scare. he's missed he premier league games against chelsea and newcastle. he's unlikely to be rushed back for tomorrow, but of more importance is his readiness for the champions league final against cheslea at the end of the month. kevin is important, like everyone is important, and the final, when we are

they'll be 11,500 fans at the other play off semi between barnsley and swansea.rafa nadal on a clay court — so you can probably tell what we're going to say next. yep — he won his 10th italian 0pen — beating world number one novak djokovic in three sets. nadal said he was "super happy" with the record extending triumph. tyson fury seems to have confirmed his upcoming unification fight against antonyjoshua will be in saudi arabia on 14th august. the all—british bout has been billed as one of the biggest in heavyweight boxing for decades and the winner will become undisputed champion. earlier i spoke to boxing pundit steve bunce. suddenly in the last 60 or so hours, three orfour of the suddenly in the last 60 or so hours, three or four of the key players in this fight have talked about saudi arabia. it's happening, august the 14th. someone might have said, isn't it going to be hot? it's going to be boiling and at midnight it will still be boiling. the saudis have stumped up $150 million as a down payment. that gets split between the camps, that's why we are going t

and there were around 4,000 at barnsley for their match against swansea.ow accompanied by a squeeze of sanitizer. i think it�*s a mixture of relief and excitement. relief because perhaps, you know, during the dark days, we didn�*t believe that we�*d get to this point and excitement, really, because, you know, it�*s going to be great to hear the kingston park stadium roar as the fellas run out for the first time. switching codes but not switching attire — face masks aplenty at warrington as around 4,000 fans packed in to see their beloved wolves in the super league. and from wolves to horses — where fans returned to a handful of racecourses around the country. plenty turned up at redcar to see miss houdini escape with the tightest of wins. it�*s so nice to have the atmosphere back. everyone�*s in, you know, great spirits and it�*s just a complete... ..sort of uplifting mood. but for some, the excitement of fans returning may have been too much. and for some — well, the occasion was simply just a bit overwhelming. whatever the emotion, it�*s good to be back.

some miscellaneous letters that people had at the university of texas in austin, my major professor barnsley author had a few examples of primary documents. those would have been the very first ones the first serious ones the first time i really immersed myself in civil war manuscripts with this southern historical collection. in chapel hill in 1980 when you're working on ramster when i was working on ramser, yeah. so i'm gonna have quick follow-up before but ashley jump in here. in the in the book you mentioned. our conversation with your mentor the barnes lather and he responded to i think it was in query that you had that you thought your dissertation your argument was going to go into new direction and it was maybe bothering you or you were surprised and luther said to you. listen, you just need to look at the sources judge the sources and work from that. so could you talk to us a little bit about your approach and those words of wisdom that barnes lathrop gave you well, it's it was a little saltier than that. i had had a good i wanted to write an article and thought i had a very good id

and there were around a,000 at barnsley for their match against swansea.ie now accompanied by a squeeze of sanitizer. i think it's a mixture of relief and excitement. relief because perhaps, you know, during the dark days, we didn't believe that we'd get to this point and excitement, really, because, you know, it's going to be great to hear the kingston park stadium roar as the fellas run out for the first time. switching codes but not switching attire — face masks aplenty at warrington as around a,000 fans packed in to see their beloved wolves in the super league. and from wolves to horses — where fans returned to a handful of racecourses around the country. plenty turned up at redcar to see miss houdini escape with the tightest of wins. it's so nice to have the atmosphere back. everyone's in, you know, great spirits and it's just a complete... ..sort of uplifting mood. but for some, the excitement of fans returning may have been too much. and for some — well, the occasion was simply just a bit overwhelming. whatever the emotion, it's good to be back. mic

there'll be a,500 fans at the other play off semi between barnsley and swansea.h, but says he is has had a positive week in rome and will work on a few things before heading to paris tyson fury says it will be biggest sporting event ever to grace the planet earth. he posted a video on social media last night saying that his world heavyweight unification fight against antonyjoshua has been confirmed for 1ath august. one of the sticking points had been a venue, but it's set to be in saudi arabia. suddenly in the last 60 or so hours, three or four of the key players in this fight have talked about saudi arabia. it's happening, august the 1ath. someone might have said, isn't it going to be hot? yes! it's going to be boiling and at midnight it will still be boiling. the saudis have stumped up $150 million as a down payment. that gets split between the camps, that's why we are going to saudi in the middle of august. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. now it's time for your questions answered. and with me for your questions answered i

they'll play swansea, who overcame barnsley. stjohnstone are celebrating the double. in manager callum davidson's first season in charge. unbelievable, you know, i don't think i have got much to describe. to get a double for a club, a double win, not many teams outside the old firm managed to do it. a small club likejohnston to achieve that, everybody involved... he like johnston to achieve that, everybody involved. . .- like johnston to achieve that, everybody involved. . . everybody involved... he had his clothes on _ everybody involved... he had his clothes on at _ everybody involved... he had his clothes on at that _ everybody involved... he had his clothes on at that point. - everybody involved... he had his clothes on at that point. his - clothes on at that point. his clothes on at that point. his clothes off at this point, though. well, landmark moments deserve a befitting celebration. how about a bare—chested bellyflop across the dressing room? that is callum davidson. pretty good stuff, right? yeah, i link? a great — pretty good stuff, right? yeah, i link? a

there'll be 4,500 fans at the other play off semi between barnsley and swansea.off to a terrible start melanie leupolz scored an own goal in the opening 35 seconds. the spanish champions then showed their class by scoring three more first half goals. chelsea had a couple of half chances and decent penalty shout but barcelona fully deserved the win. the players told the russian owner that they would make it back to the final. we...are a classy team. and we behave, i think, as you should do, when you have been beaten by a better team. and that's one that acknowledges what we need to do to improve, and our owner came into see us, and all the girls were, you know, very quick to tell him that we will be back here and we'll work hard on the training pitch to make sure we do that. good news for manchester city and belgium with the euros not far away. kevin de bruyne is back in training after a recent injury scare. there's less than two weeks to go before city face chelsea in the champions league final. the belgian has been struggling with a thigh problem and missed the

there is a clutch of other seats in the north and midlands, like doncaster, easington, barnsley, normantonr were defending. conservatives have taken all ten and largely because the last time these seats were contested, ukip was still a strong presence, before the referendum of 2016, and the conservatives have absorbed much of the ukip vote with a bit of labour vote on top of that. we can see the same in other places. harlow, that was a labour council before last night. a conservative gain. and exactly the same story. we can look at other parts. redditch in the west midlands. it was a labour council until 2018 and a labour seat until 2010. 25 seats on the council for the conservatives. seven labour losses. and to complete this, thurrock. exactly the same story. in this case, six ukip losses. because it was a strong presence on the council. they basically got all 25, no, 25 seats on the council are conservative. the same story across the country. we are seeing what has happened. the conservatives basically taking that ukip, brexit party vote and bring in a coalescence of the centre right tog

there'll be a,500 fans at the other play off semi between barnsley and swansea.ing unification fight against antonyjoshua will be in saudi arabia on 1a august. the all—british bout has been billed as one of the biggest in heavyweight boxing for decades and the winner will become undisputed champion. fury posted this message on his social media accounts. all eyes of the world will be on the kingdom of saudi arabia and i cannot wait — repeat, cannot wait — to smash anthonyjoshua on the biggest stage of all times. this is going to be the biggest sporting event ever to grace the planet earth. do not miss it. well, hugely controversial and in an hour we will be talking to the bbc�*s boxing correspondent all about that fight which is due to take place in saudi arabia. thank you. let's find out what is happening with the weather. looks like a lovely _ happening with the weather. looks like a lovely sunrise _ happening with the weather. looks like a lovely sunrise but _ happening with the weather. looks like a lovely sunrise but not - like a lovely sunrise but not fantas

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