Fans had turned on Chelsea and Russian owner Roman Abramovich ahead of their Premier League fixture on Tuesday, with some taking to the roads around the stadium to express their disgust at the proposals before the visit of Brighton to Stamford Bridge in the Premier League on Tuesday night. Crowds were filmed …
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Liverpool endured a frosty reception at Leeds for their Premier League game on Monday night, where their midtable opponents wore t-shirts with slogans reading “football is for the fans” following the shock news that the Reds are one of five English clubs to break away from established competitions to form …
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Eleven clubs, including Spanish La Liga top three Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona, Italian Serie A club Inter Milan and five English Premier League sides have reportedly signed up for a breakaway league, with the news re-emerging just a day before UEFA was thought to be planning to announce a …
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The 12 founding clubs said in a statement Sunday that they will govern the breakaway league themselves, and the inaugural season will be “as soon as practicable.” Three additional founding clubs are expected to join, and five other teams will qualify annually based on their performance in the prior season. …
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The La Liga giants began without defenders Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane, and were tipped to be there for the taking. But it was the visitors’ back line that proved shakiest with a comedy of errors that now see them on the brink of exiting the competition they won in 2018/2019. …
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Less than a month after making his top-flight debut against Dynamo Moscow, 31-year-old Yerkin and Belarusian midfielder Dmitry Herman were questioned by Russian Football Union chiefs in a development that was said to have been confirmed by his club. Yerkin, Herman and Tambov have always maintained their innocence and have not …
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In a rather amusing coincidence, a poll came out the same day revealing that 34.5% of fans are watching fewer sports due to political and social messaging by leagues and players. As the saying goes, ‘get woke, go broke’, and the poll, conducted by YouGov/Yahoo News, robustly reinforces that mantra. …
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Shamed ex-midfielder Viafara has been handed the sentence by a federal court in Texas after being found guilty last November of helping to import at least five kilograms of the Class A substance into the US, including some missions carried out by speedboats and planes via Mexico. The haul co-organized by …
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Speaking to ESPN on Wednesday, Biden said he would “strongly support” the baseball league moving its All-Star game in July out of the state, in response to a Republican-authored election security law signed by Governor Brian Kemp last week. “I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. I would …
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After much consternation, speculation and hype, the eagerly anticipated Justice League Snyder Cut has finally premiered on HBO Max, and I watched all four hours of it. If you don’t know about the Snyder Cut, then you’re probably a healthy human being living a normal life. But just to get …
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