The Sports Weekend with Nick Westby on Friday, December 15
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00:00 Welcome back to Downtown Rotherham. I'm Sports Editor Nick Wesper here with an inside look into the Uxbridge Sports Weekend supplement this weekend.
00:08 Football wise we start with Daniel Farke and Danny Rowe, the Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday Head Coaches respectively, building up to two key games in the Championship.
00:17 Plus we hear from Chris Wilder as he takes charge of Sheffield United in an away game for the first time. They're on their travels to Chelsea in the Premier League.
00:26 Rugby league we hear from Jordan Abdul over at Hull KR who's looking to fight for his place at the team that finished highest out of Yorkshire's teams in the 2023 campaign.
00:35 The lowest of those teams was Wakefield Trinity. We've got a big interview with Matt Ellis, their new owner, on his ambitions for 2024 and beyond.
00:45 Cricket wise Chris Waters has some stocking fillers for you, some books to muse over this Christmas period, a lovely read for you there.
00:52 We hear from boxers Junaid Bostan and Sonny Edwards, head of title fights in Arizona.
00:58 On the Commonwealth Games, after Alistair Brownlee and James Mason started the conversation in our pages last week on bringing the Commonwealth Games to the North and to Yorkshire, we hear from a Commonwealth Games medalist from 2018.
01:12 There's that and news from Liana Leota over at Leeds Rhinos netball on the England Roses coming to Leeds in January.
01:19 Plus we've got news from the worlds of ice hockey, golf and across the world of sport. Have a fantastic sporting weekend.