Thats all we can do. This Bank Holiday Weekend there are big events happening across the country, from liverpools Sound City Festival to radio 1s big weekend in hull. Security has been stepped up across the board, but, even so, there are some people with tickets who have sold or returned them, feeling too uncomfortable to go. Just when youre thinkin things over. This afternoon, Madchester Legends The Charlatans played an intimate gig. Tomorrow night, theyll be playing at old trafford cricket ground. 50,000 people bought tickets. The band know that some of those are now too worried to turn up. I feel that, too. I think its ok to be nervous. But i think its important to get back on your feet after something so treacherous. Many of the bands fans say they are undaunted, like mary and dave, who travelled from nottingham to manchester to see them play. My family were a bit worried, i must admit. But, no, i wasnt at all worried. The biggest fear to me was would it be cancelled. From new tattoos to street art the city symbol, the worker bee, is everywhere. No one is complacent, but many are defiant. Tonight, Ariana Grande has said she will return here to hold a Benefit Concert for the victims of the bomb. Judith moritz, bbc news, manchester. Hello and welcome to sportsday im Lizzie Greenwood hughes. The headlines tonight Manchester City win the race to sign monacos ace midfielder bernardo silva. Double or quits. Champions chelsea get ready for tomorrows fa cup final against arsenal. And a 14 man northampton fight back to beat Stade Francais to a place in next seasons champions cup. So lots to get through tonight. Starting with some Football Transfer News and Manchester City have agreed to sign monacos star midfielder bernardo silva. The 22 year old Portugal International has been a target for several big clubs including Manchester United but hell leave the french champions for the etihad in july for a reported fee of £15 million. In a statement on the clubs website, silva said when you have the opportunity of being trained by pep guardiola, you dont say no. If he is not the best coach in the world, he is one of the best. Well amongst silvas fans is the Tottenham Defemder danny rose who played against him in the champions league. This season i played against him away and, he is the hardest opponent i played against the season. His size as well, hes a very strong. He has got a good change of pace. I think its a great addition. It gives him another attacking option. I think it will prove dividends for the club. Chelsea will go head to head with arsenal in the fa cup final at wembley tomorrow. Its a huge game for both sides for Different Reasons premier League Champions chelsea are going for a glorious double while arsenal are looking to rescue a disappointing season with a trophy. 0ur correspondent joe wilson reports. Friday at wembley preparation outside the stadium. Extra armed officers are promised for tomorrow to protect the tradition. Two teams, one cup, and not scarf weather. Football, after all, is entertainment. Alexis sanchez, arsenals star put them into the final, but he could soon leave. Sanchez has scored and then theres the manager. Wembley was yet to be rebuilt when Arsene Wenger won his first fa cup, 1998. Five more cup final victories followed. No manager has won more. But, i wondered, could this final be his last match . I will stay, no matter what happens in football. But at this club . I dont know. There are some people who have admired everything that you have done here, and would think that seeing you lifting the fa cup at wembley would be a perfect way to say goodbye. It would be kind of like a beautiful farewell. Does that go through your mind at all . No. Because . What i want is to win the next game. I love to win, and i want to do well for my club. Well, chelseas manager this season has been an image of certainty, Prowling The Touchlines in his first season of english football. Trying just to control his own energy. Watch out for antonio conte. Here he comes. Arsenalfinish fifth in the premier league, chelsea won it. For sure, we are a really good team, but arsenal is the same. We must maintain reputation. For us it is very important to have the desire and the same anger. Desire, anger . Well, trophies take energy, but theres a time when even another cup may not seem enough. Meanwhile celtics invincibles are going for the treble when they face aberdeen in the Scottish Cup Final also tomorrow. Heres celtics manager brendan rodgers. They have certainly exceeded what i thought we could achieve. Myjob was to lead them to push and to demand, and the players have been able to cope with that. To see a season again like it, to go through the season again like it, to go through the season unbeaten, winning both your domestic cups. Thats a plan. Thats oui domestic cups. Thats a plan. Thats ouraim. We will do domestic cups. Thats a plan. Thats our aim. We will do our very best to do that. I think the level of player they have and their performances they have and their performances they have produced, anything would be extremely disappointing from there. We will put ourselves under pressure to deliver for ourselves. Weve had a very good season and we will still have a good season if we lose to them. But we can have a brilliant season. And the season to remember, a special season by winning this. Its a packed weekend of rugby union but tonight northampton staged a dramatic comeback to qualify for next seasons european champions cup. After being 22 9 down to Stade Francais at half time, and having a man sent off on 63 minutes. Saints looked beaten but they somehow fought back ahsee tuala finishing well to put them almost level and Tom Mallinder converting for the famous victory at franklins gardens. 23 22 the final score. Well tomorrow 82,000 people will pack into twickenham for whats being billed as potentially the best Premiership Final ever. Wasps against exeter who finished first and second in the table only divided by their numberof wins Patrick Geary looks ahead to the match. Ina in a long, brutal season, there is one more thing. In the semifinals, exeter achieves victory over mighty saracens and Wasps Lit Win over leicester tigers, matches decided in the closing minutes. These teams know the value of the last drop. Wasps were london wasps last time they reached a final. Since then they reached a final. Since then they have diced with relegation and ba n kru ptcy they have diced with relegation and ba nkru ptcy before they have diced with relegation and bankruptcy before replanting themselves and what they believe to be more fertile midlands soil, in coventry. Now to harvest the first fruit bats. When you see 28,000, 30,000, you feel a bit emotional about it considering where we have come from. A Premiership Final for us come from. A Premiership Final for us is beyond our dreams a couple of seasons ago. But we are there and we wa nt to seasons ago. But we are there and we want to go there and do ourselves justice. Wasps finished top of the table, but they will be without their australian start. They face an unbeaten side in 16 premiership matches. Exeter have been champions before, only since 2010 have they been part of english rugby s elite. Since then they have survived, thrived and strived for that first premiership trophy. Saracens stop them last year but now the chief sub even beaten them. There is no time to linger on revenge. It did not feel like we had achieved with a wa nted feel like we had achieved with a wanted the season by winning that and getting to the final. That said, thats only a feeling and feelings have to be backed up by actions. The key for me is that we go out and perform. At the level we can as a club. 23 games played, even the bookies are struggling to separate these two. It may come down to that very last team. And the feast for Rugby Union Fans continues after that game at twickenham as dublin hosts the pro 12 final. Scarlets, who finished third, will take on top of the Table Munster at the Aviva Stadium at 6. 15pm. Andy murray heads the draw for the start of the french open tennis on sunday. The world number one and top seed has never won the title at roland garros. Hell start against russias andrey kuznetsov, whos ranked 85th in the world. Meanwhile british number 0nejohanna Konta faces the unseeded su wei hsieh of chinese taipei. Heather watson didnt qualify. Scott jamieson is the joint leader on day two of the Pga Championship at wentworth. The scott finished the first day one shot behind and today hit four birdies in a row to top the leaderboard along with belgians Thomas Pieters on seven under par. Jamieson finished with a two under round of 70. Englands lee westwood is in also contention, hes two shots back after carding a three under par round of 69. There was a big surprise in super league this evening as hull were beaten at home by strugglers leigh centurions. That result means leeds are now up to third in the table after they thrashed warrington a0 points to nil. Rob burrow going over for their final try. Elsewhere there were wins for leaders castleford as well as salford and wakefield trinity. Thousands of people turned out in the centre of manchester to watch some of britains best athletes compete in the great city games. Katherine downes was following the action for us. Albert square might hear in the heart of manchester, the scene of that emotional vigil on tuesday night. Today it was transformed into a sporting arena. They put up a pole vault and this runway right the way down to a sandpit at the end for the long jump. We have seen some fantastic Sporting Performances over the afternoon, all started off with Holly Bradshaw in the pole vault. A great performance from the british champion. She cleared four metres 80, which is one of the highest jumps in british football history. A great start. Then greg rutherford, the london 2012 long jump champion lit up the runway, did not disappoint his fans. A big jump from him. Eight metres 18, not bad at all. Considering his best ever is 8. 52, could be a good season in store. Then the action moved about 200 yards down the hill here to dean s gate, one of the main roads through manchester, its been turned into a sprint track. Geordie peacock took to that, and a great run from him. This is not the only Sporting Event taking place in manchester, organisers have also said the Great Manchester Run which takes both over the weekend will go ahead as well. Another chance for the people of manchester to come out and say, we shall not be afraid, life continues as normal. Thats all from sportsday. Coming up in a moment, the papers. Apologies. We are three minutes late. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the ever punctual journalist James Rampton and lucie fisher, senior Political Correspondent at the times. Have to make sure hes got his prop. 0therwise have to make sure hes got his prop. Otherwise we will get marched off the set need to make sure by raman has his eponymous pen. Theresa may will put the Manchester Attack at the centre of her general election campaign, according to the financial times. Mrs may is also featured on the telegraphs front page after she criticised Jeremy Corbyns comments linking British Foreign policy with uk terror attacks, saying mr corbyn was Making Excuses for terrorism. Mrs may, who is attending the g7 summit, said voters faced a choice between her working constantly to protect the National Interest and to protect our security and jeremy corbyn, who she said isnt up to the job, according to the guardian. The is front page says police have told The Public To Go Out and enjoy themselves over Bank Holiday Weekend because they have made significant progress in investigating Terror Networks in the uk. The daily mail also leads on the investigation into the Manchester Attack. The Newspaper Reports there will be a Security Lockdown this weekend, with police and Security Forces expected to be present at more than 1,300 events. More than 23,000 potentialjihadist extremists have been identified by intelligence services, according to the times, there is a similar splash in the express, which reports that a big blow has been dealt to the extremists as police begin to close in on extremists. Meanwhile the sun focuses on a separate terror plot as it says three men have appeared in court accused of planning to detonate a car bomb in central london. After a week like this we will inevitably end the week looking back on what has happened in manchester and the investigation and where he has got to. Making great progress see the police. The times, uk home to 23,000 jihadist. Manchester bomb escape surveillance. An extraordinary number of potential suspects here. Who are of greater or lesser threat to the country. Thats right. This is a figure given out by the security minister. Of these 23,000, it said that
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