against gibraltar has kicked off, we ll update you. plus we ll be live to st james s park as england prepare to take on bosnia herzegovina. he s left leicester and is officially in charge at chelsea we ll have more on enzo maresca s new position at stamford bridge. second seed sabalenka breezes into the quarter finals of the french open after a straight sets win over emma navarro. also coming up on sportsday. he says he ll pay off his parents mortgage. robert macintyre wins more than a million on the pga tour with his dad caddying him to victory at the canadian open. and, tributes pour in for rugby league legend rob burrow who s died at the age of 41 from motor neurone disease. we all lose special people, but it s very, very rare you lose someone who is so special to so many different people. welcome to the programme. just 11 days to go until the start of the euros in germany. both england and scotland have two warm up games before that. scotland have kicked off theirfirs
concentration, and on the other occasions, would get about a million people. we wanted to make sure every one of those years and the athletes that we ve talked to about this and some of the stakeholders have been very excited by this conversation. it is a significant rise in the level of prize money as well. it level of prize money as well. it certainly is significant, it isn t it? let s take a look at some of the other sports news stories making the headlines. sale s tom curry is back in the england training squad after missing almost all of the club season because of hip surgery. curry came off the bench in sale s loss to bath last weekend. hejoins his twin brother ben to be in contention for the squad which will be named in a week s time. in the second day of the mens t20 world cup, south africa have won their first match
with the germany captain and try to smash them on the opening night. best of luck to ethan. what a wonderful story. world athletics has announced a new global championship, almost $8 million will be up for grabs, including 118,000 for every gold medallist of the world s first championship. it gets under way in budapest in 2026. it will feature the years leading athletes. explains the years leading athletes. explains the thinking behind the new event. we work in four year cycles. and for three of those years at some point in our season, most importantly we have one year where there isn t that
it, pickford ingold, captaining the team tonight, palmer, alexander arnold, watkins and bowen, so a lot of names they who wouldn t normally feature in england s first choice line up. gareth southgate seeing this as an opportunity to look at all his options because obviously he needs to whittle away at his training squad of 33 down to a final squad of 26 by friday. so this is a chance for a lot of players to stake their claim for a place in that final squad. the likes of ali watkins, harry kane, isn t starting the match from us origins for ali watkins up front. trent alexander arnold as well, jared bowen. interesting players for fans to see tonight if they can stake their claim for a place in the final 26. as you say, some key players are