Thousands of England fans have been left disappointed after the side's final Rugby World Cup pool match was cancelled because of Typhoon Hagibis.

A near capacity crowd of 70,000 was expected at Saturday's game against France, which is being played in Yokohama, about 20 miles south of Tokyo, but plans have changed as the storm is expected to make landfall in the area on Saturday.

Here are some of their stories...

Honeymoon plans disrupted

Karl Green and his wife Shannan had hoped to begin their honeymoon at the fixture in Yokohama, about 20 miles south of the capital.

The couple were in Heathrow waiting for their flight to Tokyo when they got the news that this would not be possible.

"We got married in May and planned our delayed honeymoon over a year ago so we could watch England in the World Cup," said Karl, from Essex.

"We've spent £2,000 for four days in Japan and are extremely upset as it seems there hasn't been any contingency plan, although we appreciate you couldn't have predicted the weather and safety of fans is paramount."

"We are absolutely devastated."

The 27-year-olds will fly on to New Zealand on Tuesday, but will not get the chance to see any live World Cup rugby before then.

'Like a slow-motion car crash'

Fans have told BBC Radio 5 live how their plans had been thrown into chaos.

Rebecca in Epsom: I'm terrified. I'm supposed to be flying tomorrow morning from Heathrow and land in Tokyo at 7am on Saturday which means flying into the eye of the storm.

"The flight is in question, never mind the game, but there must be a contingency plan for the game. The flight is all set to go and I imagine they won't do anything about the flight until I'm sat in the seat."

Pete at Manchester Airport: "I have been planning for over 12 months and I have been looking forward to it.

"We have been watching the hurricane approach like a slow-motion car crash for the last two or three days. We were going to England v France and managed to get tickets for the Scotland game as well, and that was our contingency, so if that falls through as well, we will be spending a lot of time in the hotel bar drowning our sorrows."

'Everything is in limbo'

Ollie Bunting has been in Japan for a week with two friends and had planned to watch the France match this weekend after seeing England v Argentina.

"We're currently staying in Hakone and were originally meant to be here until Saturday morning before travelling to Yokohama for the match," he said.

"In light of the weather this has had to change and we are now leaving tomorrow afternoon. Our flight out is meant to be at 2am on Sunday but it looks like this could be in serious jeopardy now.

"With no place booked to stay on Saturday night, we will now probably look to head straight to Haneda International Airport on Friday afternoon seeing as we have been advised not to venture outside all day Saturday.

"Obviously we are all very upset about the rugby match but the mood has quickly changed as we try and comprehend what nature of events we might be about to face on Saturday.

"In terms of official advice locally, the RFU and British Foreign Office we have received very little information. Other than that, everything else seems to be up in the air."

'We'll hibernate and get some supplies in'

Emma Rivers is staying with her brother, who lives in Tokyo, on a trip that lasts more than a fortnight and says she feels sympathy for those on shorter stays.

"I have actually seen one of the England games. There are fans who have come out just for one match. There's not much you can do about it and hopefully fans will understand the size of the typhoon that's about to hit Tokyo," said the 25-year-old from Solihull.

"We have a flat to hibernate in for 24 hours. If we had a hotel room, there wouldn't be much excitement going on in there - a bit of Japanese TV maybe. We'll hibernate on Saturday night, get some supplies in.

"I've seen the weather forecast. I don't think it's going to be that enjoyable to go and watch a rugby game so I think a lot of people will be relieved at not having to endure that anyway.

"Yokohama stadium can host 70,000 people and a lot of other stadiums don't have that capacity so you're going to have disappointed fans whatever happens."

The parents of an England player

While Ali and Rich Genge are disappointed the France game has been called off, they enjoyed the "holiday of a lifetime" - watching their son Ellis in action for England.

"It's been an amazing experience. I don't think we were prepared for how massive it would be over here and the Japanese people have welcomed us so well," Ali told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"To be involved and actually get that experience, of not just watching Eilis, but the whole World Cup, has been the holiday of a lifetime with memories we will treasure.

"Even though it hasn't ended the way we wanted it to, it is surreal watching him."

Rich added: "We have come to watch three games and France was the biggest one. It was the decider for the group and we were really looking forward to it because we were going home after the game.

"I think England would have won anyway and it would not have made a difference as the boys' have been brilliant. I think they will go all the way."

'I brought my flight forward to escape the typhoon'

Some supporters have at least managed to catch England's other pool games. Londoner Nick Miller watched them beat Argentina 39-10 to qualify for the quarter-finals, which take place on 19 and 20 October.

Miller, 46, arrived in Japan a week ago and was due to return to London on Sunday, but has switched his flight to Saturday "to escape before the typhoon hits".

"We've had an amazing time," he said. "I've never been somewhere as welcoming and the tournament is really well organised.

"I've seen a bunch of people already ranting about the cancellations. I suspect they don't fully get the reality of a typhoon.

"Of course it's spoilt the experience to an extent, but it's not like we can change anything."

Jose Mourinho has turned down the opportunity to speak to Lyon over the vacant manager role, with a source having told ESPN FC he is looking for a project at a top club.

The Portuguese manager has been out of work since he was dismissed by Manchester United in December 2018 and was heavily linked with the Real Madrid job, before Zinedine Zidane returned towards the end of last season.

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Lyon sacked Sylvinho on Monday one day after a last-gasp 1-0 defeat in the fierce derby with Saint Etienne -- their fourth loss in nine matches.

The Ligue 1 side have yet to replace the Brazilian and a source has told ESPN FC that, while Mourinho was grateful to have been offered the opportunity to discuss the role at Parc Olympique Lyonnais, it is not the right fit.

The same source added that Mourinho is open to returning to management at a top European club should the right project arise.

Last season, Mourinho turned down the biggest managerial offer in football history when he rejected €100 million to manage Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande.

Lyon finished last term in third place and much was expected this season following a reshaping behind the scenes where former midfield icon Juninho Pernambucano returned as sporting director and ex-Arsenal defender Sylvinho was hired as manager.

However, they have struggled in Ligue 1 and sit in 14th place, prompting a change.

Sources have told ESPN FC that Arsene Wenger is interested in filling the vacancy, but Laurent Blanc remains the favourite for the role.

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Real Madrid president Florentino Perez is considering a move for Tottenham's Christian Eriksen in January, but manager Zinedine Zidane's priority remains Manchester United's Paul Pogba, according to ESPN FC sources.

Zidane made public his admiration for Pogba, but Madrid were unable to meet United's valuation. Eriksen, who hinted at a Spurs exit in the summer, is in the final year of his contract.

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Injuries in midfield have hampered Madrid this season and sources have told ESPN FC Perez believes an offer of €30 million for the Denmark international could be enough to seal the deal in January.

One potential stumbling block, though, is that Eriksen would prefer a summer move as he could then request a higher signing-on bonus as there would be no transfer fee.

However, according to ESPN FC sources, Zidane still has his heart set on signing Pogba.

Despite having been told by Perez that United refuse to sell Pogba, Zidane is unconvinced as he believes his compatriot has a strong desire to make the switch to the Bernabeu.

Perez is hoping to convince Zidane the club need to sign a player with Eriksen's profile in order to get the deal through in January.

Meanwhile, Madrid will also be looking to offload players in January with Mariano a player looking to leave while Brahim Diaz could also go out on loan.

Misbah-ul-Haq has been welcomed into his dual position of head coach and chief selector with a 3-0 whitewash in the T20I series at the hands of a second-string Sri Lanka side. That has left Misbah and captain Sarfaraz Ahmed "clueless" with "lots of questions to answer".

Pakistan have been No.1 in T20Is for nearly two years now and losing this series at home, where they don't play too often, will hurt them further. Both Misbah and Sarfaraz answered questions at the post-match press conference about what went wrong since Mickey Arthur left.

"It's an example for us the way they have beaten us in every department," Misbah said. "They won the games in almost one-sided fashion leaving us in tatters and with lots of questions to answer. We played very poor cricket and definitely it's my responsibility but I am still thinking what really happened because these are the same set of players that have been playing for long and made the team No. 1."

When asked if the loss was because of a strategy change in the dressing room since Arthur left, Misbah said: "I haven't done anything in the last 10 days that could have deterred anything. If you want to put responsibility on me you can but in this brief time since I took charge how big a difference could I created with my coaching. The strategy was simple: to cash in on the Powerplay and later go all out in the last five overs. These are the same players who took Pakistan on top [in the T20I rankings] but in this series they were not able to execute things well with the bat, ball and while fielding."

These reasons may not comprehend properly how a top-ranked side can slide so quickly against a Sri Lankan team without their top players. But when Misbah was asked again, he got sarcastic.

"Maybe I did something? Probably I made our right-hand batsmen switch to left-handed batting or maybe made our right-handers bowl with the left arm or vice-versa? In terms of strategy, nothing really has changed but I am thinking what went wrong."

Sarfaraz came to the rescue of his coach and brushed aside any change of strategy or thought process in the T20 format.

"Everything is the same [in our planning] but the difference was our performance on the ground," Sarfaraz said. "We were not able to apply ourselves, we didn't click at the right time, we were not able to clinch the key moments. We shouldn't have let them cross the 150-mark but we did, we did not capitalise in the middle overs, we dropped catches…so all this played a part.

"Whether it's the last management or this, our message [to the players] was clear and almost the same. It's then the responsibility of the captain and players to deliver at the ground. But we didn't perform. There are good and bad days for almost everyone but we have to learn quickly from this. We have to regroup and stand together again and it will be good if we get our momentum back as soon as possible."

Pakistan have had a prolific run in the last two years in T20Is, winning 21 of their 29 matches with a win-loss ratio of 2.6, the best among teams that have played at least 15 matches in this period. Babar Azam, the No. 1-ranked batsman in T20Is, has played a crucial role in Pakistan's form in these 24 months by scoring 858 runs in 22 innings with a stellar average of 47.66 and strike rate of nearly 127.

But his lack of form, combined with Fakhar Zaman's, while opening in this series dented Pakistan's chances of getting off to dominating starts as Babar scored 27, 3 and 13 in their opening stands of 0, 9 and 13.

In the third T20I on Wednesday night, Fakhar was bowled on the first ball of their 148 chase before Babar and Haris Sohail steered the innings but they managed only 35 runs together in the Powerplay. Babar was later caught behind for a 32-ball 27 and Sohail brought up half-century off 46 balls but their asking rate kept climbing, leaving much of the work for the lower order. Pakistan were left to score 54 runs off 29 balls when Sohail fell for 52 and they eventually fell short by 13 runs.

"It's not that they (the top-order batsmen) were being selfish, they were unable to adapt to the slowness of the pitch," Misbah explained. "They were trying to hit but weren't able to which led to more dot balls and frustration. Babar wasn't able to time the ball in all three innings.

"It's unfair to say that both (Babar and Harris) were playing for themselves. Their position in the team is not uncertain and nobody is challenging their positions at the moment. It was Sri Lanka's good bowling which never allowed our batsmen to adapt properly. A big factor has been the impact of their wristspinner (Wanindu Hasaranga). We didn't pick his googly whereas they played our spinner nicely and batted well."

Incumbent Australia opener Marcus Harris knows his Test spot is up for grabs but he views his lean Ashes series as a positive learning experience rather than a negative.

Harris managed just 58 runs in six innings after coming in for the last three Tests of the series as the replacement for Cameron Bancroft.

He returned from England acutely aware that his spot was in jeopardy for the first home Test against Pakistan in November and that runs in the first four Sheffield Shield matches were needed to maintain his place.

Harris delivered on the opening day of the new season with 116 against South Australia at Junction Oval with national selector Trevor Hohns watching on. But even after his century, he admitted he was still under pressure to keep his Test place.

"I'm not sure there's many spots in the team that's anyone's at the moment," Harris said. "Probably Smithy [Steven Smith] is the only one who has his name written in black permanent marker. So obviously technically it's mine at the moment but I'll have to do quite well to make sure it's mine at the start of the series. A hundred in the first game is probably going to help a little bit."

Harris said he could have easily doubted himself after his Ashes performance, but wants to use it to make him a better player.

"I think it's a great learning curve in hopefully an early part of my career and I can look back on it and learn from it rather than looking at it in a negative way. I'd played in England and done well in all the tour games leading up to the Test matches, so I felt like I was batting really well. It was probably just the level of bowling with the way Broad and Archer bowled.

"I probably hadn't faced too much bowling like that before, and it was probably just the way the ball reacted over there. I wasn't as used to it seaming as far as it did. That was a good challenge. And to be fair it was a challenge for every player in the series besides Smithy. Everyone had their moments in the series where they really battled."

Harris credits Victoria coach Andrew McDonald and his batting coach Lachie Stevens for getting him back on track.

"I spoke to Ronnie [Andrew McDonald] about if I were the only player in the whole series that battled you'd be like 'oh well I've got some serious issues'," Harris said. "But a lot of people battled. So that's why I sort of come out of it looking at it as a great experience, great to be a part of, I didn't do what I wanted to do but it doesn't affect me too much so I can learn from it and use it as a positive."

Dominic Sibley has signed a contract extension with Warwickshre, committing to the club until the end of the 2022 season.

Opening batsman Sibley earned a maiden call-up to England's Test squad for the upcoming tour of New Zealand off the back of an oustanding County Championship season in which he was the leading scorer with 1324 runs at an average of 69.68 and including five centuries.

Paul Farbrace, who stepped down as England assistant coach this year to become sport director at Warwickshire, said he was delighted that Sibley had re-committed to the club.

"He's been the standout batsman in the 2019 County Championship and has proven that he doesn't just have the ability to score hundreds but dominating hundreds, with double centuries recorded earlier this year versus Kent and Nottinghamshire," Farbrace said.

"We're thrilled for Dom that he's secured a place in England's Test squad for the winter series with New Zealand, which is an excellent opportunity for him to cement a place in the team and to potentially enjoy a long career in the international game."

The 24-year-old Sibley, a unanimous pick as opener in ESPNcricinfo's County Championship team of the seaon, joined the Bears on a three-year deal mid-way through the 2017 season from Surrey after finding limited opportunities at the top of the order. He has since formed a strong partnership with Will Rhodes - theirs was the most productive opening pairing in the 2019 Championship season at 1103 runs.

"It's been a good first few years at Edgbaston in many ways," Sibley said. "I've settled well, relished the opportunities, made some firm friends and I'm really happy to be extending my commitment as a Bear.

"It's an exciting time for the club and, with so many young exciting players in the squad, we're going to keep improving and hopefully success and trophies are just around the corner."

Warwickshire finished seventh in the Championship's eight-team first division, avoiding relegation because only one team (Nottinghamshire) went down under a restructuring of the competition for next year, which will see 10 teams in the top flight and eight in Division Two.

Australia left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen is back at the top of the ICC women's bowling rankings, replacing her team-mate Megan Schutt, while opener Alyssa Healy has moved one place up to achieve her career-best ranking of No. 3 among batsmen. These changes in the rankings come following Australia's stellar performances against Sri Lanka in the recently-concluded three-match ODI series.

Australia's dominance in ODIs continued with them having won a record 18 consecutive matches as well as 17 of their 18 games in the ICC women's championship, where they are 10 points ahead of the second-placed England.

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Both Jonassen and Healy played an important role in Australia's whitewash of Sri Lanka in Brisbane. Jonassen picked up six wickets in the series, including a four-wicket haul in the second ODI, which had helped achieve her career-best rating of 758 points. Healy, who scored 189 runs in the series, including an unbeaten 112 in the third ODI also reached a career-best tally of 738 points, having reached the top three for the first time. Rachael Haynes, who scored her maiden ODI century in the series, jumped seven places up to 21st.

Sri Lanka's Chamari Atapattu moved two spots up to No. 12 after her 124-ball 103, which went in vain in the third ODI. Among other changes in the rankings following the series are top-order batsman Harshitha Madavi's move into the top 50 for the first time after making 85 runs in the series, and Achini Kulasuriya's leap by 24 places to occupy the 70th spot among bowlers.

Tasmania 0 for 4 trail Western Australia 337 (Stoinis 61) by 332 runs

Marcus Stoinis responded to his omission from Australia's T20I squad by top-scoring for Western Australia and Tasmania debutant Lawrence Neil-Smith claimed three wickets on a closely-contested opening day at the WACA that was briefly interrupted by a small fire.

Stoinis' 61 was the only half-century in Western Australia's 337 as five other batsmen fell between 30 and 48. Neil-Smith finished with 3 for 81 while Jackson Bird and Riley Meredith also took three wickets apiece before Tasmania's openers survived five overs to the close.

Western Australia were in some early bother after winning the toss, losing Sam Whiteman and Shaun Marsh cheaply to be 2 for 19. Cameron Bancroft and Mitchell Marsh steadied the innings until Bancroft was caught in the gully short before lunch.

The interval was called a few minutes early in unusual circumstances when there was smoke spotted behind the pavilion. Firefighters were called and the fire, caused by an air conditioning unit, was soon under control although WACA employees were pictured receiving treatment for smoke inhalation.

Mitchell Marsh soon departed on resumption and at 4 for 99 the innings was in the balance. Then came Western Australia's most dominant period of batting as Stoinis and Josh Philippe added 120 in 23 overs which included a pulled six onto the grass bank by Philippe.

The breakthrough came from 20-year Neil-Smith who claimed his maiden first-class wicket when he removed Philippe shortly before tea and Stoinis followed in the next over from Bird as Tasmania went into the break on a high.

In the evening session Western Australia's lower provided useful contributions as runs continued to come at a healthy rate. Josh Inglis (42) and Ashton Agar added 51 for the seventh wicket before both fell to Neil-Smith. The home side's total was boosted by 39 extras which included 14 no-balls, 11 of them from Sam Rainbird.

LOS ANGELES -- Rich Hill scoffed at the notion that Clayton Kershaw carried the blame for the Los Angeles Dodgers' stunning elimination.

"No," Hill said forcefully, "we wouldn't be here without him."

And then, for nearly 15 seconds, Hill paused, gathering himself, trying desperately to avoid breaking down with the cameras recording him. Hill, a soon-to-be free agent and a soon-to-be 40-year-old pitcher, knows this one will weigh on Kershaw for a while. The agony will extend to the rest of his teammates.

"People say it's just a game," Hill said, pausing once more. "It's a lot more than that."

The Dodgers' dream season -- of 279 home runs, 12 walk-offs, 106 regular-season victories and a seventh consecutive division title -- evaporated in the National League Division Series, in the decisive fifth game, when Kershaw surrendered a two-run lead and Joe Kelly served up a game-winning grand slam. Moments after a stunning, season-ending 7-3 defeat on Wednesday night, emotions remained raw in the Dodgers' clubhouse.

Walker Buehler, the starting pitcher who exhausted 117 pitches and held the Washington Nationals to only one run in 6 2/3 innings, was grieving the death of his aunt when faced with the reality of a longer-than-expected offseason. The 25-year-old right-hander was visibly shaken.

"I've been putting that in the backburner," Buehler said, "and then it ends like this and it's just tough."

Kershaw, who surrendered eighth-inning home runs to Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto on back-to-back pitches, was uncommonly introspective in the aftermath.

"I'm not going to hang my head," Kershaw said. "I'm going to be here. I'm going to continue to try to fight, continue to try to compete. I'm not going to try to shy away from it. Everything people say is true right now, about the postseason. I understand that. Nothing I can do about it right now. It's a terrible feeling. It really is."

Kershaw was expected to pitch out of the bullpen in the winner-take-all Game 5, but his turn didn't come until there were two on and two outs in the top of the seventh and the left-handed-hitting Adam Eaton was due to bat. Kershaw, who rarely makes postseason relief appearances with a half-inning still in progress, recorded a strikeout on three consecutive pitches -- then trouble began.

To lead off the eighth inning, Kershaw threw a 1-0, 89-mph pitch to Rendon that registered as a fastball but could have also classified as a slider. The offering -- whatever it was -- traveled 381 feet for a home run. The next pitch -- also 89 mph, this one up in the zone instead of below it -- was launched 449 feet by Soto for another home run.

And with that, Kershaw -- his postseason ERA at 4.43, nearly two full runs better than his career mark in the regular season -- came out of the game, sat on the bench, and sunk his head. Two innings later, he watched former teammate Howie Kendrick hit the grand slam that would deny his team a chance at a third consecutive trip to the World Series, extending the Dodgers' championship draught to 31 years.

"Our season, you can put it as a failure," Dodgers utility man Enrique Hernandez said. "Maybe down the road, when all of us retire, we can look back and look at all the records that we broke as a team this year for an historic franchise like the Dodgers. But for us to be one and done, it's tough. And I don't think anyone in this clubhouse expected us to be going home this soon."

The Dodgers had spent the entire summer looking like a special team on the verge of capturing an elusive crown. Cody Bellinger turned himself into a potential MVP and Hyun-Jin Ryu contributed a Cy Young-worthy season. Max Muncy, Corey Seager and Buehler took steps forward. Kershaw, Kenley Jansen and Justin Turner fought the aging curve and contributed to varying degrees. And a slew of rookies -- Alex Verdugo, Will Smith, Gavin Lux and Dustin May among them -- emerged

The Dodgers' offense was a force. Their defense was among the game's best. Their starting pitching was elite. And their depth and versatility went unmatched.

They once again fell vulnerable to the harsh realities of short postseason series, a fate they know too well.

"We all knew what we had," Muncy said. "We know that we're better than what we showed out there. That's how it ends."

"It was such a fun ride, and right now it's just sucks," Jansen said. "It sucks to just stomach this right now."