damage to some of the players on the pitch. that may be the case too in other high impact sports like american football. my sports like american football. my guesss today are steve thompson and his wife steph. he is a former england rugby international who won the world cup in 2003. he has recently learned that he has early onset dementia. seemingly linked to years of high impact collisions. what happens when the game simply isn t worth it? steve a nd steve and steph thompson, welcome to hardtalk. if i may, i want to begin with that moment when you were diagnosed. an elite former sportsman, rugby player, told that you had early onset dementia. for both of you, i imagine, that was an extraordinary moment. steve, what was your feeling at that time. , , ., time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. time. er, belief, i must admit, at first so time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. so many time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. so many things - time. er, belief, i must ad
Sancho says hes been made a scapegoat at the club. Its after manager erik ten hag didnt pick him in his squad yesterday due to his performances in training. But sancho has hit back, saying please dont believe everything you read. I wont allow people saying things that are completely untrue. Before adding, ive been a scapegoat for a long time, which isnt fair. Former united striker dwight yorke has had his say. Hes been left out because apparently hes not been training particularly great. And he comes out saying hes been doing exactly what he needs to be doing in training, so we dont know whats going on there. Its hard to start pointing your finger and to know the exact details. Ive been in that situation, so i kind of understand how it works. But its a bit strange at the minute, i have to say. Just four days to go until the start of the Rugby World Cup in france, and as the preparations for that Epic Opening Match between the hosts and new zealand enter theirfinal stages, the french te
The north of scotland. Here more of a breeze and more cloud, a few spots of rain, temperatures mid to high teens. Elsewhere a glorious afternoon with widespread hot sunshine. Mid to high 20s. Close to 30 in the south east. 29 for the london area. Could be higher than that. Tonight it is a fine end to the day, clear skies, that. Tonight it is a fine end to the day, clearskies, mist that. Tonight it is a fine end to the day, clear skies, mist and fog developing again, maybe some thicker patches in Eastern England and that front across the north of scotland. Cooler in some rural spots in scotland. Tomorrow we start off with mist and fog that will soon clear. The chance of a shower in western areas, Northern Ireland and south west england. Most places dry and sunny with light winds and temperatures mid to high 20s. Wednesday maybe more cloud in the mix. Some coastal mist and fog. That should lift and burn away. We draw up should lift and burn away. We draw up some warm and humid airfrom fr
Is where they will put up the giant screens to watch the match. One fan told me he has only ever seen peru in action on sticker albums. It took 24 in action on sticker albums. It took 2a hours to get here from wellington. But the new zealanders are used to travelling hours to face opposition. But they are not used to waking up at 3am with fireworks outside their hotel, which happened last night. They are probably not use to local shaman putting a curse on them. That happened on tuesday while peru were being blessed. They are thirsty for any kind of success here in peru. One man anthony hudson, took the new zealand job, as he saw it as his best chance. Destiny awaits for someone. Earlier on wednesday, australia became the 31st team to qualify for next years finals in russia. Mile jedinak scored a hat trick as the socceroos beat honduras 3 1 in the second leg of their play off in sydney to qualify for their fourth successive world cup. Austin halewood reports. We are used to seeing firew
Have seen rain pushed down from the north and that has been washing the mist and fog out of the atmosphere. Visibility improving but it stays cloudy with rain for quite a few of us cloudy with rain for quite a few of us today. The exception is across scotla nd us today. The exception is across scotland where we have sunshine and showers and the brighter skies will also push into north east england as we go through the afternoon. It is feeling colder across Northern Areas, temperatures in northern scotla nd areas, temperatures in northern scotland about six celsius with a cold ghostly northerly wind, 30 to 40 cold ghostly northerly wind, 30 to a0 mph. 0vernight tonight, the rain clears away from the south. We will be left with clearing skies for a time across east scotland, a good pa rt time across east scotland, a good part of england and wales, and it will be cold with patches of frost developing by the end of the night. We have got colder to start the day on tuesday but things will s