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Dominic Booth helms our essential gateway to the day’s football action. He will be looking forward to Saturday’s four Premier League fixtures – Chelsea v Sunderland, Newcastle v Fulham, Manchester United v Brighton and Brentford v Liverpool. There’s also the prospect of the Lionesses hosting Brazil at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium as well as Wales Women facing Australia in Cardiff. There’ll be team news and breaking stories as well as any wash-up from Friday night’s Leeds v West Ham match.
England’s head coach, Shaun Wane, has been waiting five years for a “smash-up” with Australia and is relishing the role of underdogs in the first of three long-awaited Tests. Wane took the England role in February 2020 but a mooted series later that year was abandoned because of the pandemic and the 61-year-old has been counting down the days to get another crack at the Kangaroos. “The chance to play against the best team in the world in an iconic stadium like this, it’s got the makings of a fantastic day,” he said of the game at Wembley. Wane believes he has a squad at his disposal that can build on series wins over Samoa and Tonga in the last two seasons and pull off a huge upset in the first Ashes for 22 years, when Great Britain faced the Australians. Lee Calvert is your liveblog host, with Aaron Bower reporting from Wembley.
