Sky Sports today declined to comment on when presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray would be back fronting their football coverage in the wake of the pair’s off-air comments about assistant referee Sian Massey.

Sian Massey will run the line at Crewe’s Gresty Road ground tonight amid the ongoing controversy created by comments made about her by Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray.

SEVERAL championships unfold over the weekend against a backdrop of well-subscribed entries. The Dunlop National Rally Championship curtain-raiser, the Abbey Court Hotel Nenagh Rally that also counts towards the Top Part West Coast Championship and the Dunlop Junior Championship, has attracted over 150 crews.

Irish drivers, Daniel Barry and Richard Cathcart share top spot in the Mitsubishi Ralliart Evolution Challenge after today’s fourth round of the series that formed part of the Severn Valley National Rally in mid-Wales.

Reigning Irish Forest Rally champion Stephen Moore, driving his ‘06 specification Ford Focus WRC, finished third in Rallye Sunseeker in Bournemouth today.

IT’S a venture into the unknown for Dubliner George Tracey, who competes in the Swedish Rally, the second round of the World Rally Championship, that begins today.

In very icy conditions, Brendan Crealey in his works backed Mitsubishi heads the Irish challenge in the Rallye Sunseeker, the opening round of the Kumho National Rally Championship.