Saudi Pro League has attracted a lot of attention because of its transfer outlay in recent days.

According to the numbers presented by SafeBettingSites.com, Saudi Pro League clubs have spent 409.5m on transfers, outspending all major European leagues besides Premier League, during the current transfer window. Two leagues have clearly dominated the spending as the ongoing summer transfer window inches towards its end.

Birmingham Phoenix Women have name Eve Jones as their new captain. The opener replaces Ellyse Perry as skipper, following her withdrawal from the competition with a knee injury.

Perry, named captain earlier this summer, has also been replaced by Australian all-rounder Tess Flintoff. Flintoff, 20, holds the record for the fastest fifty in the Women's Big Bash League and has already arrived at Edgbaston.

Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman joined Wrexham fans to watch the club's return to the Football League after 15 years. The Wolverine star joined celebrity owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney at Wrexham AFC's first game in football's fourth tier since 2008.

The return has been a dream come true for long-suffering fans. However, celebrations were short-lived as the club was on the receiving end of a 5-3 defeat to MK Dons.

When Vita Vea was drafted into the U.S. National Football League in 2018, the Tongan American credited his parents with teaching him the work ethic and perseverance to succeed.

“They didn’t have family out here or anything so they had to work from the get go,” Vea said, of his parents who immigrated to the United States from Tonga. “Nothing was ever given to them.”

While some of the big hitters and tournament favourites are heading home, Jamaica, South Africa and Morocco are taking their places in the first round of knock-out competition in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, as a new world order is taking place during this tectonic shift in the game.

Olympic champions Canada, plus much-fancied Brazil and Germany failed to get past the first-round group stage, whilst names like the Reggae Girls’ Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw, the Banyana Banyana’s Thembi Kgatlana and the Lionesses of Atlas’ Anissa Lahmari created a new narrative in the game for country’s whose positions in the world game was never anywhere near the main pages of the sports media. That has, however, changed massively

KP Snacks, the Official Team Partner of The Hundred, teamed up with Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh to launch an initiative funding brand new community cricket pitches as part of KP Snacks’ initiative to give back to local communities and encourage more people to get active through cricket.