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taking centre stage rebecca welch will become the first female referee of a premier league game. brighton and west ham are hoping tojoin liverpool in bypassing the europa league playoff round with an immediate place in the last 16 a possible prize tonight. seven wickets, but a bit of sunburn england s bowlers have a tough first day of the women s test against india. also coming up on sportsday a world champion, an olympic champion and pete the horse they re all part of the international horse show in london this week. hello again. will come along to sportsday this evening. the premier league will have a female referee take charge of one of its matches for the first time. it represents another landmark along a path of growing influence of female officials in men s sport. joy neville has been doing it in rugby union since 2016. while at the last men s rugby league world cup, kasey badger made history by taking charge of a game. this summer, sue redfern made the ....
winners dortmund saw the french side through, as eddie howe s side finished bottom of group f. you see everything that goes on the pitch and i see what goes on behind the scenes and the players and i can for them at all. fault them at all. i don t think we were at our absolute best tonight. i think if we had have been, we would have won the game. but i can t fault the commitment and what they re giving me, especially under the circumstances we re playing in. so that s why it s painful for me and for them, because i know how professional they are, and i know how much they want to achieve success. confirmation, then, of city progressing as group winners, along with rb leipzig who beat young boys on wednesday. a shock for barcelona who were beaten 3 2 antwerp they still go through as group winners, porto progress with them, after beating shakhtar. celtic got theirfirst champions league win in ten years, beating feyenoord. but atletico and lazio go through in that ....
so it would only be a consolation against eintracht frankfurt. that was a win for them. a bit of a confidence boost. they are not going through in europe this season. history will be made this month when rebecca welch becomes the first female referee to take charge of a premier league match. she ll officiate at fulham v burnley on 23 december. it comes less than a year after welch became the first female to referee a championship game. then on boxing day, sam allison will be the first black referee in the premier league since 2008. he ll oversee sheffield united s match against luton. onto cricket now and england are taking on the west indies in their second t20 international in grenada. and after putting the windies into bat, england restricted them to 176 7, opener brandon king top scoring on and unbeaten 82. adil rashid england s best bowler with a superb two for 11 runs. in reply, captainjoss butler was out for just five. and england are looking iffy on 106 4. 100 ....
rhythm. 4/2 centuries later helped take the hosts to 407 at the close of play. and in his final test series, david warner had a brilliant 164. the open air start on day one as australia ended 346 5 and that means that warner is now fifth on the all time australian test run scorers list. australia elected to bat after winning the toss. fellow opener was out for 41. andy farrell has signed a new long term contract to remain ireland coach, the rugby side lost to new zealand in the quarterfinals having gone into the tournament ranked number one. he has beenin tournament ranked number one. he has been in charge since 2019 and led ireland to the first ever series win in new zealand last summer and they win a grand slam earlier. and eddie jones admitted he felt terrible about the world cup failure but insisted he had no guilt about the process that saw him return as japan boss. at a press conference he faced more questions about how you made contact with the japanese rugby uni ....
weather in the west, ten in glasgow and highs up to around 13 in plymouth this afternoon. overnight, a few more showers coming and going across the north of the uk. further southwards, we had some clearer spells developing. that is where we will see some of the lower temperatures. holding up in the countryside to see the odd nip of frost. a cold start tomorrow but an area of high pressure is moving in. despite that, i suspect it will be quite cloudy in wales and southern counties of england. the best of the sunshine to the east of the pennines, for a time in eastern scotland but then rain arriving across the north west in the afternoon. the highest temperatures across western areas, still a little on the cold side in eastern england, just seven for parts of east anglia. into the weekend, we get a weather front stuck across the north west of scotland. this will be bringing some very large falls of rain, particular focused in on the highlands, where over the high ground w ....