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Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh  @mchughr  @TLE_Sport Super League entered a new era this season with the new slogan Every Minute Matters, and the final weekend of the normal season didn't disappoint, providing what was the most dramatic finish to a regular season for several years.  Entering the final round of fixtures, it was possible for any one of four teams to clinch the league leaders' shield.  Following defeat to Warrington on Thursday night, Saint Helens were no longer...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter Chelsea striker Diego Costa was back in the news at the weekend (surprise, surprise) after altercations with Arsenal defenders Gabriel and Laurent Koscielny during the two teams' clash at Stamford Bridge, which saw the former sent off.  Chelsea eventually won the match 2-0 but the victory came at a price as the Spain forward has retrospectively been banned for three matches by the Football Association for his part...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter The Rugby World Cup begins in earnest on Friday.  Look out for the following five players who could light up the tournament. Israel Folau – Full Back (Australia) View image | gettyimages.com The most dangerous attacking full-back in the game, Folau is arguably union’s most successful Rugby League convert in his position since Jason Robinson.  Devastating on the counter-attack, Folau is the star of a fearsome Australian backline...

Sport News 24/7 By Abeer Sharma  @abizzle1991  @TLE_Sport The recent serialisation of Steven Gerrard’s new autobiography has brought back memories of that unforgettable Spring in 2014 for Liverpool FC, where the bewitching pace and skill of the Raheem Sterling-Luis Suarez-Daniel Sturridge triumvirate brought the club within a fateful Gerrard slip of a first league title since 1990. View image | gettyimages.com Fast-forward to today and after a mildly promising start, Liverpool have suffered two painful league defeats on the spin....

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor   @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter  #MadeOfMore Ex Springbok Ashwin Willemse turned his back on gang life with the support of his rugby team. Hear his incredible story. With the eyes of the world turning to England for seven weeks of sporting history, Guinness is celebrating the festival of rugby by released a short documentary as part of their Made of More series portraying ex-Springbok wing, Ashwin Willemse’s inspirational journey from impoverished teenage gang member...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It comes to something when the most fun you had at an away game is being stuck on the Hammersmith & City line for an hour, and missing the first twenty minutes of the match. As ever the lads met in the Railway Tavern in Liverpool Street, doesn’t seem to matter if we are playing Chelsea that’s where we meet. Pretty much six quid for a pint of Kronenbourg…canny. Some of the lads had “worked”...

By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter The widespread problem of footballers’ diving has been blamed on the influx of foreign players for years but now a study from the University of Portsmouth has found they are seen to be the worst culprits. Football referee expert Dr Tom Webb interviewed nearly 40 refereeing professionals from England, Spain and Italy and found that the growing trend of player deception is directly linked to the large number of foreign players in...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport The Rugby World Cup starts next weekend and I am very much looking forward to it.  The chance to see the best rugby players in the world battle it out for supremacy in one’s own backyard is not to be missed (as fate would have it I failed in all six of the ballots I entered for match tickets).  Nevertheless, I shall be an enthusiastic armchair fan, revelling...

Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara  @Sean_FootyMad  @TLE_Sport The NFL season kicks off next week.  Here’s a preview of what (probably) to expect in the coming months. AFC East: New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins View image | gettyimages.com With all the drama surrounding Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, it would be a real sporting fairytale for them to go all the way back to the Super Bowl.  It's too early for such a...