manchester city close in on arsenal at the top of the premier league. shock in f1 as the man behind red bull's success says he's leaving the team. and seven—time world champion ronnie o'sullivan powers past his opponent at the crucible, proving age is just a number. what is possible in this game? how long can you keep going for? you know? can you win a world championship at 50, who knows? i'm probably the only player who's able to do that. so welcome to the programme. lots coming up tonight.

we're starting with the premier league because just look at the table — manchester city are now only a point behind leaders arsenal and they have a game in hand, although they do have superior goal difference. but city are trying to do their best about that that. they scored four tonight against brighton without conceding, and they were dominant throughout — phil foden with two goals and the others scored by kevin de bruyne and julian alvarez. if city can go all the way and win the premier league again, it'll be their fourth in a row — something no club has ever done before. every game is a mystery. what happened, what's important is that we are there. there's a lot of games to play — a lot, a lot and difficult ones. starting for, you know in the spirit when you go to play and teams like nottingham, they are fighting to stay in the premier league,

always it is difficult and it's tough. i did that, recover, relax and all the energy with preparation before the day and especially the moment of the game, be ready. it's looking increasingly likely that arne slot will be jurgen klopp�*s replacement at liverpool when he leaves at the end of the season. the current feyenoord manager confirmed to dutch media that he wants to join liverpool and that "the two clubs "are negotiating" while he "awaits the outcome". feyenoord won the eredivisie title under slot last year. here are the thoughts of neil atkinson from the anfield wrap. english football throws up its own set of challenges. the premier league does. so you can be really, really good and can do brilliantly at feyenoord and coming into a good set up at liverpool and coming into what look for the third best team in the country. this is a liverpool side who are streets of head of the one that klopp joined in 2015. he joined a side that would go on and finish that season eighth and i think it finished sixth

or seventh year before and they looked a world away from being able to challenge for premier league. besides, this is a challenge as it have fallen short of a couple of weeks earlier that we would've liked with that team that slot is going to manage from day one. the thing i'm not going to do is sort of act as though thejob is not as hard as the one that klopp had to do. he had to get liverpool back to the top of the mountain. slot�*s job to keep them there and win some silverware along the way. another football story for you and xavi has explained why he is staying at barcelona as coach. he'd announced back injanuary that he's leaving at the end of the season for the good of the club, as he said. but now he's agreed to stay at barca who are second in la liga, 11 points behind leaders real madrid. translation: circumstances have changed. _ next season we'll have to fight again if things go bad, but i know this club. the main motive wasn't because of the pressure i would feel as coach from the club. had it been the case, i never would've accepted thejob, so i continue here with the utmost happiness. the man behind red bull's formula i success, adrian newey, is leaving following the controversy around the team

principal christian horner. newey is regarded as the greatest fi designer and won multiple constructors and drivers championships with williams and mclaren before masterminding red bull's success, including max verstappen�*s current domination. but newey is said to be unsettled by the situation at red bull since team principal horner was accused and then cleared of sexual harassment and coercive, abusive behaviour by a female employee. here's our formula i correspondent andrew benson. there's been a big power struggle going on at red bull ever since these allegations emerged — as you say, horner denies them — but homer and the red bull motorsport adviser, a man called helmut marko, there is dispute between the two sets of shareholders. the main shareholder in thailand and the one in australia, and newey has found himself in the middle of the situation he finds uncomfortable, so he's decided after nearly 20 years it's time to move onto another team of formula i. he's the greatest formula i designer in history. that's how important he is.

now, at red bull in recent years, there's been kind of been a messaging starting to emerge that he's not as important as he used to be, you know, he's not working on formula i any more, but mostly in formula i, people believe he is the overarching single figure who is primarily responsible — even though of course teams have large design departments — and red bull's is obviously very good. and newey would explain and why he thinks an example of these latest set of technical regulations governing formula i at the moment. what he thinks red bull have got a march on everyone else and that was down to him. aston martin have made him a very lucrative offer, he's already earning a large salary at red bull, and ferrari have been trying to get him on a number of occasions and are definitely interested again. but of course, there's also two other top teams in mercedes and mclaren, mclaren by the way, he's worked at before. he masterminded championships for mika hakkinen in 1998

and 1999, anyone who can afford him and basically any of the top time teams are going to be interested in having him, for sure. andrew benson their reporting for us. —— there. ronnie o'sullivan's hopes of a record eighth world snooker championship title are still alive after he eased into the second round in sheffield. the rocket won the two frames he needed to finish off his opening match againstjackson page, sealing a 10—1 victory and set—up a meeting with another welshman — ryan day — next. o'sullivan is also aiming to complete snooker�*s triple crown in a single season, following his wins at the uk championship and the masters. after that match, ronnie said he thinks he is capable of winning another world title in his 50s. he's already the oldest snooker world champion after winning two years ago at the age of 46.

i've already broken rules for snooker, still going at 48 or a9, or whatever it is. so i am just seeing what is possible to stop —— so i am just seeing what is possible, at this stage. what is possible? how long can i go for? can i win a world championship at 50? who knows? i'm probably the only player that's able to do that — so let's experiment. to do what i have done this season and for your whole career to win, i've had a great career. i've been doing that for 30 years. the greatest career of any other snooker player, how many people can they have been the best or most at theirjob, ever? i have to give myself a bit of a pat on the back — because i don't, i'm always hard on myself — but no—one has achieved what i have achieved on the tables statistically. i'm not a statistics guy but you guys are, but i just want to enjoy it and keep playing. but, like i said, what is possible? if i had my head straight

for 30 years, i could have won ten or 12 titles by now, who knows? but we will see what can happen. the four—time world champion john higgins is also through to the last 16. the scotsman beatjamie jones from wales 10—6. and the number two seed judd trump is 6—2 up in his second round match against tom ford after the first session. now to a sport hoping to return to the olympics — trail running. will pitts is part of a team running from london to paris to campaign for its inclusion in the games in brisbane in 2032. charlie rose has been to meet him. braving the elements on the north kent coast. as a seasoned trail runner, there's nothing will pitts likes better then going off the beaten track. here he is scaling the south downs as part of a relay team running from london to paris, in an effort to try and bring

trail running to the olympic games. do we need really need more running in the olympic games? this�*s a good point, but this is more real running, this is what humans used to do, we're not naturally made to run in a circle, we are made to clamber over rocks and trees and sort of things like that. 1924 192a was the last time any sort of off—road running was part of the olympics. health and safety concerns meant it never returned. but today it's popularity appears to be growing, with the likes of russ cook from sussex, nicknamed the hardest geezer, successfully running the full length of africa in 352 days. now will wants to see other people see the benefits of trail running. there was one morning, within five minutes i saw loads of rabbits, woodpeckers and a few deer. you always feel like you are hunting almost, just going through the countryside. i think if we inspire that in younger generations as well, nothing wrong with that. it is quite difficult to get a new sport into the olympics. you have to apply to be

a recognised sport and then you have to go through all sorts of different hoops to move up until you finally, you know, can compete in the olympics. the campaigners are hoping trail running will be back for the brisbane games in 2032. will knows the road to get there will be tough, but, as an off—road runner, he's prepared for a hard slog. watch this space. more on that story and all today's sport on the bbc sport website and app. but for now, from me, and the rest of the sportsday team, goodbye. hello. there are signs that the weather might warm up a bit next week, but not just yet. we stay in the rather chilly air for friday, a mix of sunny spells and showers and, actually,

across the south of the uk, a frontal system that will bring more in the way of cloud and some splashes of rain. low pressure generally in charge of the scene through the day ahead. so, after a cold start, most places will see some spells of sunshine and a scattering of showers. some wintriness in the showers over high ground in scotland. but that frontal system will bring cloud and rain across the channel islands and across southern counties of england. temperature—wise, well, about where we have been over the last few days, north to south looking at values between 8—13 degrees. now, as we head through friday night, we'll see this band of rain in the south pushing its way further northwards. a lot of cloud with that, too. that will hold the temperatures up to some extent, but northern england, northern ireland and scotland holding on to some clear spells and it will get chilly again. we'll have a frost to start saturday morning, not as cold further south thanks to that extra cloud, those outbreaks of rain, which will be moving northwards as the day wears on.

as the rain clears, it may brighten up a little bit towards the south coast but that could allow some sharp showers to break out. for northern ireland and scotland, it's a mixture of sunny spells and showers once again through the day. and those temperatures, well, maybe just creeping up a little bit in some areas, highs between 9—11; degrees. into the second half of the weekend, we see this area of low pressure drifting northwards. that's going to bring outbreaks of rain for some, especially across the eastern side of the uk. but it may well be that some of this rain comes a little bit further westwards, affecting quite large parts of england and wales, maybe clipping into eastern scotland. the further west you are, though, it's that mix of sunny spells and showers. some of the showers will be on the heavy side. temperatures between 9—12, maybe 13 degrees in the south—west. but as we head into next week, it does look like things will slowly but surely warm up. we start to bring a feed of winds from the near continent. these orange colours on our air mass chart. temperatures are set to climb, perhaps up to 19 or 20 degrees celsius through the middle

part of the week. but that doesn't mean sunshine all the way, still unsettled with some rain at times.

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