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Exeter City manager Matt Taylor says he felt like ‘a proud parent’ after his side held League Two promotion favourites Barnet to a 1-1 draw on Tuesday.

The result left thousands of sports bettors cursing, with the London-based club coming in for heavy support in the run-up to the game.

With plenty of the season still to play, the League 2 betting odds will continue to attract attention from punters.

Grecians defy the odds against Barnet

Exeter fell behind at St James Park after Idris Kanu scored for the visitors midway through the second half, but Reece...

Exeter Chiefs Women head coach Oli Bishop has named a captain and two vice-captains for the duration of the JAECOO Next Gen Cup.

Emily Robinson will lead the women through a second campaign while there are new vice-captains in place, centurion full-back Merryn Elworthy and Black Ferns prop Amy Rule.

Bishop said: “The three leaders we decided to pick are based on the work they have done for us in the past. They hugely represent the club on and off the pitch.

“They definitely want to grow our team and are huge in our team-first attitude. With a young group going...

Exeter Chiefs have signed up promising talent from the U23s pathway to enhance the women’s programme for the 2026/27 season.

Ten young players have been contracted to the club, including 18-year-old Izzy Firth who has only just left Exeter College.

England U18s captain centre Meghan Crilly will join also the Exeter Chiefs transition squad after two years at Loughborough College, competing in the ACE League.

Prop Lilly Plowman and lock Ellie Wood return for another year under this agreement while new for this season are scrum-half Charlotte Coyle, tighthead prop...

Cricket has always been known as a game of etiquette, known for its traditions that go back hundreds of years. The game may have grown to become one of the biggest sports on earth, and yet those traditions still hold to this very day. Ask any die-hard fan, and they'll tell you few sights show sportsmanship better than moments when a batsman walks after being given not out, knowing they made a slight nick as the ball passes into the wicketkeeper's gloves or the fielder signalling for a boundary because a part of their body made contact with it as they came into possession of the ball. It...