This week’s fare includes football, tennis, rugby, cricket and boxing and we begin with a review of England’s World Cup qualifier against Austria where Alessia Russo, 7’ Nikita Parris 69’ stamped their ticket Down Under next year with a 2-0 scoreline. England’s second qualifier against Luxembourg at Stoke City on September 6 now becomes a formality. In Kansas City also last Saturday, the USWNT scored a convincing victory in the first of two friendly games against Nigeria with a 4-0 win; Sophia Smith 14’ Lindsey Horan, 25’ Sophia Smith 66’ Alex Morgan 52’ penalty. The second game will take place at the Audi Field in Washington, DC also on Sept 6.
In cricket The Oval Invincibles won The Hundred Trophy and set another record attendance of 20,840 at the Lords Cricket Ground. The total competition attendance was in excess of 270,000. We review the first week of the US Open Tennis and make our predictions for this year’s champion. Also this weekend, American Clarrisa Shields will face Britain’s Savannah Marshall for the Middleweight Boxing title as part of an all-female under-card at the O2 Arena in London. In rugby, while the World Cup prepares to kick-off on October 8 in New Zealand, the Rugby Football Union faces legal action in the UK against its ban on transgender players.

Hosts: Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen
Recorded: September 5, 2022

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