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Happy Birthday DAVID MOYES (soccer) – Everton’s former Manchester United and West Ham manager, born 1963. MONTY PANESAR (cricket) – former England spinner, born 1982. MICHAEL VAN GERWEN (darts) – 2014, 2017 and 2019 PDC World Championship winner, born 1989.
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. 2004: Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ clinched the Premiership title by drawing 2-2 with Tottenham at White Hart Lane, going on to end the league campaign unbeaten. 2007: England World Cup winner Alan Ball died aged 61 of a suspected heart attack after battling to put out a bonfire in his garden.
What’s on TV FRIDAY FOOTBALL: Championship, Stoke v Sheffield United – Sky Sports Football 1900. SNOOKER: World Championship, BBC Two 1000 and 1300, TNT Sports 1 1430. RUGBY UNION: Premiership, Sale v Saracens – TNT Sports 1 1900; United Rugby Championship, Cardiff v Munster – BBC Two Wales 1915.
RUGBY LEAGUE: Leeds v Hull KR – Sky Sports Action 1930. GOLF: PGA Tour – Sky Sports Golf 1345, 2000. TENNIS: Madrid Open – Sky Sports Main Event 1000.
HORSE RACING: Sandown – ITV 1330. SATURDAY FOOTBALL: Premier League, Chelsea v Everton – TNT Sports 1 1100; FA Cup semi-final, Crystal Palace v Aston Villa – BBC One 1645; Championship, QPR v Burnley – Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football 1100; Scottish Premiership, Dundee United v Celtic – Sky Sports Football 1230; League One, Wrexham v Charlton – Sky Sports Football 1700. SNOOKER: World Championship, BBC Two 1000 and 1900.
RUGBY UNION: Women’s Six Nations, England v France – BBC Two 1615; Premiership, Leicester v Harlequins – TNT Sports 1 1500, Northampton v Bristol – TNT Sports 1 1715; URC, Scarlets v Leinster – S4C 1700. RUGBY LEAGUE: Huddersfield v Castleford – Sky Sports 1500, Catalans Dragons v Wakefield – Sky Sports 1730, Salford v Leigh – Sky Sports 1730. GOLF: PGA Tour – Sky Sports Golf 1400, 1800.
HORSE RACING: Sandown – ITV 1330. SUNDAY FOOTBALL: Premier League, Bournemouth v Man United – Sky Sports Premier League 1300, Liverpool v Tottenham – Sky Sports Premier League 1600; Women’s Champions League semi-final second leg, Chelsea v Barcelona – TNT Sports 3 1400, Lyon v Arsenal – TNT Sports 3 1700; FA Cup semi-final, Nottingham Forest v Man City – ITV 1530. ATHLETICS: London Marathon – BBC One 0830, BBC Two 1400.
SNOOKER: World Championship, BBC Two 1000, 1500 and 1900, TNT Sports 2 1430, 1830. RUGBY UNION: Women’s Six Nations, Italy v Wales – BBC One Wales 1115; Premiership, Gloucester v Exeter – TNT Sports 1 1430. RUGBY LEAGUE: Hull v Wigan – Sky Sports TBC 1500.
GOLF: PGA Tour – Sky Sports Golf 1530. Sports quiz 1. Where is next month’s US PGA Championship being held? 2.
Liverpudlian boxer Callum Smith is a former world champion in which weight class? 3. How many times have the San Francisco 49ers won the Super Bowl? 4. England all-rounder Nat Sciver-Brunt plays for which team in The Hundred? 5.
In what year did Martina Hingis win her only Wimbledon title in the women’s singles? Answers: 1. Quail Hollow Club; 2. Super-middleweight; 3.
Five; 4. Trent Rockets; 5. 1997.
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