Riath Al-Samarrai

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT VILLA PARK: Trailing to a goal from Enzo Fernandez after nine minutes, it was Rashford who assisted Asensio's equaliser, and at the death it was the same combination.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT CRAVEN COTTAGE: No good ever came from a premature obituary, but the same might be said of taking two wins from five games when possibilities are so rich.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: When Lewis-Skelly found both calm and a storm in meditation, a rabbit hole opened into football's archives. Those places can be a thing of wonder - a trove of lost treasures.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Out of the dustiness of Olympic politics came a pair of related thoughts this week. They both went to the subject of blood. The blood of a female boxer and a bloodline.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Levy could sign three players on £250,000 a week and still be within 50 per cent of turnover. Levy should be embarrassed by those beans, ones of institutional cowardice.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The split was confirmed in a terse statement from Ineos, which announced Ratcliffe would bankroll a third bid to win under the Ineos Britannia banner, albeit without Ainslie.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AND MIKE KEEGAN: While INEOS Team Britannia declined to comment on reports of tensions, sources say the partnership has become frayed.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Among some healthy praise for the team he faced, this is what he said: 'There was also a lot of moments where it took a while before the play restarted.'

Rory McIlroy has told Tom McKibbin that cashing in on a move to LIV would not be 'worth the sacrifice'. The 22-year-old has been a protege to McIlroy since his emergence from the same Holywood Golf Club

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Even in boxing, there is a limit to how daft you have to be to swallow certain words and Fury's tend to be treated with more scepticism than those of anyone else.