Faye Carruthers is joined by Suzanne Wrack , Sophie Lawson , and Sophie Downey to discuss the Continental Cup Final and WSL action

On today’s pod, the panel discusses Arsenal winning their seventh League Cup title as they shatter Chelsea’s hopes of winning a quadruple. But it was Emma Hayes who grabbed the headlines after the game. Were her comments on Jonas Eidevall’s touchline behaviour fair?

Plus, the panel purrs over Khadija Shaw after she netted twice in Manchester City’s 4-1 triumph over Liverpool taking them to the top of the WSL. Meanwhile, there are two for Toone as the other side of Manchester also won 4-1 against the other side of Merseyside.

• Manchester United defender stresses dangers of heading
• ‘My son plays football and I advise him not to head the ball’

The Manchester United defender Raphaël Varane has said concussions have damaged his body as he stressed the importance of creating more awareness among players around the dangers of heading.

Varane said he had suffered a concussion a few days before playing in France’s 1-0 defeat by Germany in the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup, as well at his former club Real Madrid when they lost to Manchester City in the last 16 second leg of the 2020 Champions League.

• The 49-year-old is said to have bought 17,000 shares last year
• Kroes in post for just over two weeks amid turmoil at Ajax

Ajax have suspended new CEO Alex Kroes with immediate effect on suspicion he has been involved in insider trading in the club’s shares, the club supervisory board said in a statement on Tuesday.

The board said it had learned Kroes had bought more than 17,000 Ajax shares a week before his intended appointment was announced on 2 August 2023. “External legal advice indicates that he likely engaged in insider trading,” the board said in the statement.

Manager once mocked for a throwaway line has his team shooting for the Champions League and admirers on his tail

The calendar showed 1 April, but there was nothing fishy about a league table that showed Bologna in fourth place. Thiago Motta’s side have held that spot for more than a month, even if it was striking to see after Monday’s 3-0 win over Salernitana that they had closed to within two points of Juventus in third. The gap was 20 at the start of February.

April Fools’s Day in Italy is known as Pesce d’Aprile – April Fish. The tradition is for children to stick paper pesci on people’s backs and see how long they go unnoticed, but journalists have been known to mark the occasion with made-up stories, as happens in other countries. Bologna supporters must hope the headlines now linking their manager to Juventus turn out to be fake news.

• Did groundbreaking work in creating RFU’s maternity policy
• Won 75 caps for Red Roses and reached two World Cup finals

Pioneering England prop Vickii Cornborough has announced her retirement from international rugby, stating that she is “not ready” to balance motherhood with playing for her country.

Cornborough won 75 caps for the Red Roses and reached two World Cup finals but her lasting legacy will be her groundbreaking work as vice-chair of the Rugby Players’ Association (RPA) in creating the RFU’s maternity policy.

Our resident cartoonist on a nervous time for the two Premier League clubs with the looming threat of relegation

• Get yourself a copy of this cartoon in the Guardian Print Store
• Like what David does? Consider supporting our journalism

• ‘I’m working hard and focusing on building my bowling fitness’
• England’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup defence starts on 4 June

Ben Stokes has announced that he does not wish to be considered for selection ahead of this summer’s T20 World Cup, which will take place in June in the West Indies and the US.

The England Test captain’s primary focus will be to get fully fit to bowl not only for the summer of Test cricket, which includes two three-match Test series’ against West Indies and Sri Lanka respectively, but for all cricket in the future.

Players such as Ben Simmons and Markelle Fultz have been accused of suffering from the yips. But every player has to confront fear at some point

Philadelphia 76ers basketball fans know one sentence above all else: Trust the process . It was used often when the team was struggling in the 2010s as the team appeared to tank for the sake of high draft picks and long-term team building. But two of the franchise’s ensuing No 1 selections – Ben Simmons and Markel Fultz, both of whom are no longer on the team, despite being dubbed saviors – seemed to lose sight of the maxim when it came to their own on-court games. Both players came into the NBA with sky-high potential. But they both came under unwelcome scrutiny: Fultz for a hitch in his shooting technique , and Simmons for a reluctance to shoot at all. The pair were inevitably accused of succumbing to the “ the dreaded yips .”

Throughout the history of pro sports, there have been many high profile cases of players losing the ability to conduct the most basic of on-field tasks. In baseball, New York Yankees second baseman Chuck Knoblauch somehow could not throw to first base . Similarly, catcher Mackey Sasser found himself unable to send the ball from home plate to the pitcher, double clutching his throws, as if he was thinking too much about the task. Pitcher Rick Ankiel, who lost his ability to pitch and later became an outfielder, said of his issues , “Throwing the baseball, it felt like my wrist wouldn’t work. I couldn’t feel the ball.”

The words were audible in our women’s game but as president of Brann, I argue they are within freedom of expression

Have you ever been fined for expressing something that is clearly within international legislation on freedom of expression? We have. In a Women’s Champions League match in Bergen this year.

For a short period of our game against St Pölten in January our supporters chanted “Uefa mafia” after not being awarded a free-kick. Big deal? Apparently so as we were fined €5,000 (£4,275) by Uefa for it. In women’s football, that is a lot of money and about 10% of the prize money for winning the match.