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Barcelona striker Luis Suarez has admitted he was nervous at the prospect of playing alongside Lionel Messi and Neymar when he joined the club. The Uruguayan, who arrived under a cloud following his ban for biting at last year’s World Cup, has made a rapid adjustment to life at the Catalan club and has scored vital goals to help put ...

Lewis Hamilton took a controlled win in the Bahrain Grand Prix as team-mate Nico Rosberg was beaten to second by Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen. Hamilton led from the start and was always in control as he took his third victory in four races this season. Rosberg battled the Ferraris throughout and lost second to Raikkonen with a braking problem with two ...

Celtic’s hopes of a domestic treble were extinguished as David Raven sent Inverness Caledonian Thistle into their first-ever Scottish Cup final. The Hoops will feel a sense of injustice after Caley Thistle’s Josh Meekings escaped a red card with Celtic leading 1-0 through Virgil van Dijk. But it was Celtic who lost a man when keeper Craig Gordon was sent ...

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho said Manchester United’s important players were “in our pockets” in a match that went “exactly” as they wanted. The Blues boss says his side have “almost” won the Premier League title after their 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge moved them 10 points clear at the top. United dominated possession and had more chances than the league ...

A revitalised Leicester beat Swansea to secure a third league win in succession and move off the bottom of the table for the first time since November. The Foxes took the lead when Wes Morgan knocked down a long ball forward to allow Leonardo Ulloa to slam in a shot. Swansea were second best but almost equalised only for Kasper ...

Novak Djokovic progressed to the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters by trouncing US Open champion Marin Cilic 6-0 6-3 in 65 minutes. The world number one won the first eight games before Cilic, the eighth seed, eventually managed to hold serve. Top seed Djokovic, 27, bidding to win a third Masters title in a row, said after the match ...

SAFA has condemned in the strongest terms the xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals being perpetrated by what it called criminal elements. “What is happening in certain parts of the country whereby fellow Africans are being subjected to all sorts of hate and abuse is quite unacceptable,” SAFA president Danny Jordaan says. “This is not what the 2010 FIFA World Cup ...

Barcelona have little time to rest on their laurels after a stunning victory over Paris Saint-Germain in midweek as the Catalans quest for a treble continues when Valencia visit the Camp Nou on Saturday. Luis Enrique’s men all but secured their place in the semifinals of the Champions League with a 3-1 dismantling of the French champions thanks to two ...

Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli is the most abused Premier League footballer on social media – and Chelsea are the most abused club. That is according to research which shows for the first time the true extent of the number of abusive messages sent to players, clubs and fans on the Internet. The statistics collated for anti-discrimination body Kick It Out ...

Mpumalanga Black Aces have reached the 30-point mark, usually enough to avoid relegation, following a 1-0 win over Maritzburg United at the Mbombela Stadium on Wednesday evening. A tight game was decided by a solitary second-half strike from Collins Mbesuma, as the team from Pietermaritzburg lost more ground on their top eight challenge. With both sides eyeing maximum points, the ...