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Team of the Week - 31.10.25

Resilience and progress headline this week’s Team of the Week.

Women’s sport continues its rise, grassroots basketball gets a major boost, and England’s Wheelchair Rugby League side deliver a strong comeback. Add Tom Lockyer’s inspirational return to the pitch, and you’ve got a week that sums up everything great about sport.

Who’s in your Team of the Week?

Tom Lockyer

Bristol Rovers defender

If you had told Tom Lockyer at the start of 2024 that he’d ever return to a football pitch, he would’ve told you that you were crazy. After suffering a cardiac arrest on the pitch in December 2023, Lockyer’s heart stopped for almost three minutes — something that would usually be a career, if not life, ender. But not for Tom. Just 22 months later, he returned to the pitch for Bristol Rovers, and despite the result not going his way, I think we can all agree that the result wasn’t the most important thing.

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