Gallery: Weekend In Sport

The long Easter weekend threw up plenty of sporting highlights with the Premier League and Women’s Six Nations dominating the headlines…

The Premier League weekend’s headline match saw Manchester City host Arsenal in a crucial title race encounter.

A dull game ended goalless despite openings for both teams to score in the final ten minutes of the game.

Arsenal star Bukayo Saka recently partnered with restaurant chain Nandos to release his own sauce.

The real winners of the weekend were Liverpool, who moved back to the top of the Premier League after a 2-1 home win against Brighton.

Danny Welbeck gave the Seagulls an early lead before goals from Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah secured the comeback win for Jurgen Klopp’s men.

Liverpool FC signed a multi-year deal with Orion Innovation last year.

England scored eight tries to hammer Wales 46-10 at Ashton Gate in front of a record crowd of 19,705 for a home Red Roses game outside of Twickenham.

The previous record attendance was a crowd of 15,836 at Welford Road to watch England defeat Ireland 69-0 during the 2022 Six Nations.

Victory means the Red Roses, who return to the top of the table after France’s win over Scotland earlier on Saturday, remain on track to secure a third successive Grand Slam and a sixth successive Six Nations title.

Back in January, the British & Irish Lions announced the first women’s tour will take place in New Zealand in September 2027.

Cambridge beat Oxford in both the men’s and women’s 2024 editions of the Gemini Boat Race.

The men claimed a fifth trophy in six years, while the women cruised to a seventh straight triumph. Both dark blue Oxford boats were seen as favourites for the 78th women’s and 169th men’s races.

In February, the Boat Race Company announced the British Heart Foundation (BHF) as its official charity partner for The Gemini Boat Race 2024.

World champion Luke Humphries thrashed Michael van Gerwen 8-1 in the final to win the German Darts Grand Prix.

Van Gerwen held his throw in the opening leg but then lost eight on the spin to suffer the heavy defeat.

Humphries averaged 112.66, which is the second highest in a European Tour final, and took out two scores of 100-plus, including 170 to win leg eight.

Earlier this year, Premier League Darts announced online betting platform BetMGM as its new title sponsor.

British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Fabio Wardley and challenger Frazer Clarke contested a thrilling and bruising split-decision draw in London.

Wardley floored Clarke with a flurry of punches in the fifth but was bloodied for the majority of the contest.

Clarke too enjoyed success in a back-and-forth encounter in front of 13,000 feverish fans at the O2 Arena.

One judge scored it 114-113 to Wardley, the other 115-112 to Clarke, with a third unable to split them at 113-113.

Earlier this year, BOXXER announced a media rights partnership with NBC Sports that will see the UK boxing promoter’s events broadcast to US audiences.