Your Guardian Sport weekend: FA Cup finals, F1 and US PGA Championship golf
Sunday
8amInside football with Jonathan Wilson
Our columnist looks forward to Wednesday’s Europa League final in Bilbao by asking: is an all-English final between Manchester United and Tottenham really something to celebrate? It will be just the sixth time two English clubs have contested a European showpiece, and Spurs have featured in two of them. The others? Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea (Champions League, 2021); Spurs 0-2 Liverpool (Champions League, 2019); Chelsea 4-1 Arsenal (Europa League, 2019); Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea (Man Utd won 6-5 on pens) (Champions League, 2008) and Wolves v Spurs (Spurs win 3-2 on aggregate) (Uefa Cup, 1972).
8amMatchday live
After Saturday’s men’s Wembley showpiece, it’s the Women’s FA Cup final with Chelsea facing Manchester United. Emillia Hawkins and Niall McVeigh set the scene with live updates as we build towards the 1.30pm kickoff. They will be inviting questions for our Merseyside correspondent Andy Hunter about Goodison Park as the old ground hosts its last men’s fixture when Everton face Southampton. Email matchday.live@theguardian.com with your queries. Peter Lansley will consider Jamie Vardy’s final Foxes bow before the striker makes his final Leicester appearance, the striker’s 500th game for the club. The 38-year-old has scored nine goals this season – one more would make it 200 for Leicester.
11amCounty Championship live
Join Tanya Aldred for our continued coverage of the latest county cricket games, including Surrey v Yorkshire at the Oval.
12pmEverton v Southampton, end of an era live
Daniel Harris takes in the action and the colour at Goodison Park as Everton’s home since 1892 bids a last hurrah to hosting men’s matches. As Andy Hunter recounts in his colourfully entertaining piece on the ground’s memorable moments, Everton won the first derby they hosted, Dixie Dean set his goals record there and Pelé made World Cup history. Read it here.
1.30pmChelsea v Manchester United live
Emillia Hawkins returns to the hotseat with live updates on events at Wembley before Suzanne Wrack, Tom Garry and Jonathan Liew provide reports and analysis. Marc Skinner’s United take on Chelsea for a repeat of the 2023 final, which the Blues won 1-0. WSL champions Chelsea are chasing another piece of silverware after they lifted the Women’s League Cup with a 2-1 victory over Manchester City in March and completed an unbeaten WSL campaign. The chance to complete a domestic clean sweep beckons.
2pmEmilia-Romagna Grand Prix live
Lap-by-lap updates from Niall McVeigh and race reports from Giles Richards at the circuit. McLaren’s Italian boss Andrea Stella will be hoping for a happy homecoming as he leads the champions to Ferrari’s backyard and the start of a run of three races on successive weekends. Oscar Piastri leads Lando Norris by 16 points after four wins, including the last three in a row, with Red Bull’s reigning champion Max Verstappen - winner of the last three races in Imola - 32 points off the pace in third. There has been plenty of swirl in the paddock, meanwhile, particularly at Alpine. Wiley F1 stalwart Flavio Briatore takes over from Oliver Oakes as team boss, though not technically as principal, while on the track Jack Doohan has been replaced by Franco Colapinto after only six races.
2.15pmWest Ham v Nottingham Forest live
Dominic Booth follows the cut and thrust live, followed by Jacob Steinberg’s match report as the visitors seek their first league double over the Hammers since 1983-84. West Ham won 2-0 at Manchester United last time out, but have only once this season won consecutive Premier League matches (v Arsenal and Leicester in February). Their last three at home have all finished level. Forest, meanwhile, have won just one of their last six Premier League games, a dip in form that has seen them slip from third to seventh in the table. They must hope the noise around striker Taiwo Awoniyi’s serious injury and owner Evangelos Marinakis’ intemperate behaviour will not prove a distraction as they seek a place in Europe.
4.30pmArsenal v Newcastle live
A big game to bookend our weekend football coverage: Second meet third in the table separated by two points and Newcastle are certainly Arsenal’s bogey team. Eddie Howe’s visitors have won three games against the Gunners this season, 1-0 in the Premier League and 2-0 in both legs of the League Cup semi-final. No team has ever beaten Arsenal four times in a single campaign and it must be troubling for Mikel Arteta that his side are without a win in their last four home games in all competitions. Join Rob Smyth to see if Newcastle can make it a clean sweep before Ed Aarons’s report.
5pmUS PGA Championship final round live
Our attention swings once again to Quail Hollow and, in the capable hands of Scott Murray, the closing rounds from the North Carolina venue.