Saturday<\/p>\n
Football<\/p>\n
8am-1pm (all times BST)Matchday live<\/p>\n
Daniel Gallan clocks on bright and early with all the buildup to Saturday\u2019s football action. With the Premier League signing off on Sunday, there\u2019s still the Championship playoff final at Wembley as Hull and Middlesbrough go in search of the \u00a3200m prize for reaching the Premier League\u2019s promised land. In Scotland, freshly minted champions Celtic seek the Double in the Scottish Cup final against the Pars of Dunfermline. Plus the German Cup final<\/a>, with Bayern Munich chasing more silverware against Stuttgart at Berlin\u2019s Olympiastadion. Then to Oslo and Women\u2019s Champions League final between Barcelona and OL Lyonnes after Charlton and Leicester contest the Women\u2019s Super League playoff at lunchtime. Why not join the conversation by emailing matchday.live@theguardian.com<\/a>?<\/p>\n Cricket<\/p>\n 2.30pmEngland v New Zealand live<\/p>\n England claimed a seven-wicket victory over New Zealand in their opening T20 clash, with Alice Capsey playing a big part. The 21-year-old opened the batting for the hosts in Derby and spearheaded England\u2019s chase of 137 with an unbeaten 74 from 51 balls. Having drawn the one-day international 1-1, the three-match T20 series continues at sunny Canterbury. Tanya Aldred has over-by-over coverage while reporter Raf Nicholson dons sunglasses and a floppy sun hat at the St Lawrence Ground.<\/p>\n Alice Capsey was on fire during the first T20 clash against New Zealand, notching 74 from 51 balls. Photograph: Manjit Narotra\/ProSports\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n Scottish Cup final<\/p>\n 3pmCeltic v Dunfermline live<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s Cup final sees the reunion of Neil Lennon and Martin O\u2019Neill. Pars manager Lennon, a former Celtic boss, played under O\u2019Neill at Leicester and Celtic and described him as \u201cthe biggest influence on his career by a long way\u201d. The pair go head-to-head in Scotland\u2019s showpiece at Hampden. Lennon\u2019s Championship side knocked out three Premiership sides on their way to the final and the 54-year-old was in bullish mood this week, saying: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t dismiss us. We\u2019re the underdogs, but underdogs bite.\u201d Barry Glendenning is our blog host with Ewan Murray reporting.<\/p>\n Championship playoff final<\/p>\n 4.30pmHull v Middlesbrough live<\/p>\n The richest game in world football has been overshadowed by Southampton\u2019s \u201cspygate\u201d saga. Saints were kicked out of the Championship playoffs this week after admitting to spying on opponents\u2019 training sessions, with beaten semi-finalists Middlesbrough reinstated. Boro accused Southampton of snooping on them before the first leg of their playoff semi-final earlier this month. A photograph emerged of a man standing behind a tree, apparently recording images on his phone. Just how much of a toll the scandal has taken may soon become clear on Saturday afternoon at a playoff final like no other.\u00a0Scott Murray\u00a0hosts the blog, with our reporting team at Wembley,\u00a0Ben Bloom and Jonathan Wilson, shedding their wigs and false moustaches.<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Champions League final<\/p>\n 5pm Barcelona v OL Lyonnes live<\/p>\n This is the fourth time in eight seasons that the big powers have played for the European title. In the competition\u2019s new format, they tied on points atop the 18-team standings in December and are unbeaten in domestic competitions this season, both chasing a quadruple of trophies. It is Barcelona\u2019s sixth straight final \u2014 and seventh in eight years \u2014 in an era shaped by Aitana Bonmat\u00ed and Al\u00e8xia Putellas. Lyon return with Wendie Renard and Ada Hegerberg, respectively the captain and hat-trick scorer when Barcelona were beaten 4-1 in the 2019 final. There is an extra layer of intrigue in the dugouts: the Lyon coach, Jonatan Gir\u00e1ldez, won back-to-back Champions League titles at Barcelona when the Catalan club\u2019s current coach, Pere Romeu, was among his assistants. Will Unwin liveblogs the final, with Suzanne Wrack reporting.<\/p>\n Barcelona\u2019s Aitana Bonmat\u00ed will be looking to put the disappointment of last season\u2019s defeat to Arsenal behind her and hope to lift the Champions League trophy for a fourth time. Photograph: Pedro Nunes\/Reuters<\/p>\n Formula One<\/p>\n 5pm and 9pmCanadian GP sprint race and qualifying live<\/p>\n Victory in the last race in Miami saw Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli carve out a yawning 20-point lead in the standings after four races. The 19-year-old Italian has won three in a row. His teammate George Russell must now chart a path back to the front of the field at the Canadian Grand Prix after missing the podium in Florida. Canada offers the chance of a big points swing, the sprint race putting another maximum eight points up for grabs. Antonelli\u2019s lead grew in Miami because McLaren, Ferrari and Red Bull brought upgrades that helped them fight for the podium places. Now it\u2019s Mercedes\u2019 turn to bring upgraded parts for the car that has won all four grand prix races in 2026 so far. Philip Cornwall live blogs the sprint race and qualifying, with Giles Richards reporting.<\/p>\n Looks like Montreal Canadiens mascot Youppi! and Canadian GP Mascot Vroum, who is a giant groundhog, will be cheering on Mercedes\u2019 George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli. Photograph: Mathieu Belanger\/ReutersSunday<\/p>\n Football<\/p>\n 8am-1pmMatchday live<\/p>\n Cameron Ponsonby picks up the blog baton as the Premier League brings down the curtain on a compelling season: 10 games kick off at 4pm, with Spurs and West Ham fans nervously awaiting the fate of their relegation-threatened clubs. At Wembley, Stockport and Bolton contest the League One playoff final. There\u2019s the regular mix of breaking news and updates from around the grounds, plus readers\u2019 thoughts and queries.<\/p>\n Tennis<\/p>\n 10.30amFrench Open live<\/p>\n Coco Gauff is finding form at just the right time for her French Open title defence, and with Aryna Sabalenka hampered by injury and things just not clicking for Iga Swiatek, the American has a golden opportunity to claim a third Grand Slam. After dealing with illness and a fourth-round loss in Madrid, Gauff bounced back to reach the Italian Open final where she met an inspired Elina Svitolina. Despite leaving Rome without the trophy, the 22-year-old American took heart from her performance and said it would stand her in good stead when the French Open gets underway on Sunday. Her first assignment is against fellow American Taylor Townsend and Daniel Harris has all the lastest at the helm of our rolling blog, with Tumaini Carayol reporting from Roland Garros.<\/p>\n Coco Gauff will be looking to retain her French Open title and claim her third Grand Slam. Photograph: Matthieu Mirville\/DPPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n League One playoff final<\/p>\n 1pm Bolton v Stockport live<\/p>\n County are bidding to reach the second tier for the first time since 2002, just four years after being promoted from the National League. Wanderers, meanwhile, are old hands at this playoff malarky, with this being the sixth time that Bolton have reached the EFL playoff finals across the Championship and League One. That said, both of their attempts at promotion in the third tier have ended in defeat, losing 1-0 to Tranmere in 1991 and 2-0 to Oxford in 2024. Emillia Hawkins buckles up as blog host, with Billy Munday reporting.<\/p>\n Premier League<\/p>\n 4pmTottenham v Everton live<\/p>\n Spurs\u2019 relegation battle has gone to the wire after they lost 2-1 at Chelsea on Tuesday to stay only two points above 18th-placed West Ham. The pressure is on the Hammers, who must beat Leeds and need Tottenham to lose at home. Everton have collected more points away than at home this season and Spurs have won only once at home in the league since the opening weekend, so it hardly bodes well for Roberto De Zerbi\u2019s wobbling mob. Spurs, an ever-present in the Premier League since the first division was rebranded in 1992, last played in the second tier in the 1977-78 season. So hold tight, with Scott Murray a steady hand on the live blog tiller, and\u00a0David Hytner and Jonathan Wilson reporting from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.<\/p>\n A tense 90 minutes await the fans at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday. Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The Guardian<\/p>\n Premier League<\/p>\n 4pmFinal-day clockwatch<\/p>\n Emotions are sure to run high in the final round of a season that has already seen Arsenal clinching their first title since 2004 on Tuesday. There are plenty of narratives to work through when all 10 games are played concurrently. Besides the relegation tussle involving Spurs and West Ham (see above), there are farewells for Mohamed Salah, Bernardo Silva and Pep Guardiola. Salah will want a big send-off in his final game, against Brentford at Anfield, but Arne Slot could be forgiven for dropping the striker after his latest outburst. It\u2019s still a significant game for fifth-placed Liverpool, who need a point to guarantee Champions League qualification. Bournemouth, who face Nottingham Forest, are three points back in sixth place and have an inferior goal difference of six. Guardiola, meanwhile, is leaving Manchester City after 10 glorious years. Expect strong sentiments at the Etihad for City\u2019s home match against Aston Villa, the newly crowned Europa League champions. Simon Burnton has all the storylines at the helm of our rolling blog.<\/p>\n Formula One<\/p>\n 9pmCanadian Grand Prix live<\/p>\n For Kimi Antonelli, the signs are good. Every driver who has won four or more consecutive Grands Prix has been an F1 champion at some point in their career. History does offer a little encouragement to his teammate George Russell, though. The one time in F1 history that a driver won four consecutive races in a season but not the title came in 2016 when Lewis Hamilton was beaten by his then-Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg. More recently, Oscar Piastri won three in a row for McLaren last year and still lost to teammate Lando Norris. Still, there\u2019s heavy weather forecast for Sunday\u2019s so expect thrills and spills as Alexander Abnos helms our lap-by-lap blog.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday Football 8am-1pm (all times BST)Matchday live Daniel Gallan clocks on bright and early with all the buildup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-686805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}