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Burnley thrash Sheffield Wednesday to pressure Championship top two

  • Marcus Edwards scores his first goal for Clarets in 4-0 win
  • Bristol City relish 2-1 comeback win over Middlesbrough

Marcus Edwards marked his first Burnley start with the opening goal as the Clarets kept up the pressure on the sides above them with a 4-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday. With the Championship’s top two, Leeds and Sheffield United, playing each other on Monday, third-placed Burnley took their chance to narrow the gap with second-half goals from Josh Brownhill, Connor Roberts and Manuel Benson.

Edwards, signed on loan from Sporting last month, opened the scoring after 43 minutes. Having played a short pass to Josh Cullen, Edwards received the return, benefited from a ricochet off Shea Charles and showed neat footwork before producing a close-range finish.

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Moyes claims he wanted to ‘fight the world’ as Manchester United manager

  • Scot is preparing Everton to face his former club
  • Moyes says he is ‘a bit calmer’ now than earlier in career

David Moyes has said he wanted to “fight the world” when he first joined Everton and Manchester United but his calmer demeanour today should not be mistaken for a drop in passion.

The Everton manager insists it will be just another game when he faces United at Goodison Park on Saturday having competed against his former club several times with West Ham. Moyes was sacked only 10 months after succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford and described the setback as “part of life as a football manager. You have to find a way back and that’s what I had to do after the disappointment of losing my job at Manchester United.”

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ESPN Broke Up With MLB Because the Money Just Didn’t Add Up

The calculus behind ESPN’s decision to walk away from its longstanding partnership with Major League Baseball may have been a bit knottier than a simple cost-benefit analysis would otherwise suggest—nothing’s ever simple when so many terminal zeroes are involved—but you don’t need an advanced economics degree to intuit that Disney’s departure was inevitable. For ESPN …

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Draper battles into Qatar final, Andreeva’s run rolls on but Zverev stunned in Rio

  • British No 1 recovers to beat Jiri Lehecka 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3
  • World No 2 Zverev shocked by Francisco Comesano

The British No 1, Jack Draper, produced another gutsy display to defeat Jiri Lehecka in three sets at the Qatar Open and reach the fifth ATP Tour final of his career, while world No 2 Alexander Zverev tumbled out of he Rio Open against Francisco Comesana.

Lehecka had stunned Carlos Alcaraz in the quarter-finals in Doha and looked on course to claim another scalp when he won the first set. Draper required a tie-break to get the match back on level terms before he showed his class in the decider to take victory by a 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3 score.

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