Even by the ruthless standards of football and business, 48 hours has to go down as a rapid turnaround for a masterplan to be discarded. Fans are now celebrating after Manchester City confirmed that they would be the first club to withdraw from the European Super League (ESL), with Liverpool, …
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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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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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Haaland’s performances this term for Borussia Dortmund have earmarked the 20-year-old Norwegian as football’s most in-demand young talent, leading to speculation that a transfer tug-of-war is about to begin after Raiola and Haaland’s father, former Manchester City player Alf-Inge, embarked on a whirlwind tour in recent days, meeting with a host of …
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In an interview with The Athletic, the controversial agent first had some choice words for Manchester United and their legendary former manager Sir Alex Ferguson over his treatment of Paul Pogba. “When Ferguson criticized me, that was my biggest compliment anybody could give me. Ferguson is used to people coming in …
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Ruiz earned a unanimous decision victory on the scorecards (29–28, 29–28, 29–27) in the pair’s strawweight bout, but despite the win being a first in the UFC octagon for the Mexican, much of the talk surrounded a contentious ending to the contest. On the final buzzer, Ruiz appeared to taunt …
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Over the last two years, British intelligence has been determinedly brainstorming ways to not only hack into your cellphone for a brief peep at your texts and voicemails but collect heaping scoops of metadata, or any of the more established spying tactics. Agents now want the ability to “log and …
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For almost three decades, the US held a monopoly over low-observable combat aircraft. It introduced the world to stealth with the F-117A Nighthawk in the early 1980s and was the first to enter the age of fifth-generation fighters back in 1997, when the F-22A Raptor took flight. As the world …
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Brady clashed with Mathieu several times as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback won his seventh Super Bowl title on Sunday, including an incident in which he was caught on film appearing to warn his opponent while gesturing angrily at him. “Honey Badger” took to Twitter after the Chiefs’ comprehensive 31-9 defeat …
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To say Springsteen doesn’t like Trump might be a bit of an understatement. The ‘Born in the USA’ singer was so against the former president that he ‘joked’ he’d leave his beloved country if he was reelected. “If Trump is reelected – which he will not be; I’m predicting right …
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