Fernando Alonso leads team-mate Felipe Massa home. Photograph: Michael Probst/AP 8.25am: Good morning and welcome to our daily sports news blog. Throughout the day we’ll update this page with stories, links and what’s expected to happen in the hours ahead. Time permitting, we’ll... 

Leeds United’s match against Millwall on Saturday was offered as pay-per-view online. Here Millwall’s Jimmy Adbou remonstrates with David Forde. Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images New research shows a distinct lack of appetite for internet streaming of football matches, just... 

The City was unmoved after Britain’s leading banks came through the tests with flying colours. Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris. Britain’s four biggest banks emerged as among the strongest in Europe after seven others in the EU failed a health check of the financial system. Barclays,... 

Tony Blair was seen by the hunting fraternity not as a principled opponent but as a slippery opportunist. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian Tony Blair says in his memoir that the bloody chaos that followed the invasion of Iraq in 2003 came as a complete surprise to him. “I can...