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Donald Trump has launched a baseless attack on Bubba Wallace, over an incident last month in which a noose was found in the team garage of Nascar’s only black driver. “Has @BubbaWallace apologised to all of those great Nascar drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to
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Daniel Snyder’s incompetence in the two decades since he bought the team he grew up rooting for has done nothing to compromise his bottom line. Since paying $800m for the franchise back in 1999, Washington’s NFL team has become a national punchline with five times as many head coaches (10) as playoff wins (two) in
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The resumption of this Serie A season was supposed to rescue Lazio from another century of ‘what ifs’. They had lost a chance to become champions of Italy on the only previous occasion that football was suspended mid-season – back in 1915. When the country went into lockdown this March, there were fears of history
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There’s a story the academic Daniel Klivington tells in a new book – Race, Ethnicity and Racism in Sports Coaching – that speaks volumes about how far football has to go to tackle its final frontier. It concerns a British Asian who used his real name when applying for jobs in football only to fail
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Marcus Rashford has said he feels “blessed” to be fit again, as the back injury he suffered in mid-January was more serious than previous similar ones. The Manchester United striker sustained a double stress fracture in an FA Cup win over Wolves that would have ended his season but for the sport’s suspension in March.
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Premier League 21 Jamie Vardy (Leicester) 19 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 18 Danny Ings (Southampton)17 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 16 Sergio Agüero (Man City)16 Sadio Mané (Liverpool) 15 Raúl Jiménez (Wolves)15 Marcus Rashford (Man Utd)15 Anthony Martial (Man Utd) 13 Tammy Abraham (Chelsea)13 Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton)13 Harry Kane (Tottenham)13 Raheem Sterling (Man City) La Liga 22 Lionel
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2.15pm EDT 14:15 14 mins: Ings has a chance to play Armstrong in, but it’s a difficult opportunity, and he mishits his pass pretty emphatically. Ederson collects. 2.13pm EDT 14:13 11 mins: Walker-Peters shadows Sterling’s run towards the ball and then just keeps going when Sterling stops, steamrollering him. 2.12pm EDT 14:12 9 mins: The
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Valtteri Bottas won the Austrian Grand Prix, with Charles Leclerc second and Lando Norris squeezing out Lewis Hamilton to take third 4.06pm BST McLaren didn’t think Norris had the pace to catch Hamilton, which illustrates what a lap he drove. 20 years old! Few strawpedoes for him tonight, I shouldn’t wonder. 4.02pm BST I’m sorry?
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8.14am EDT 08:14 56 min O’Connell accidentally heads the ball onto his own arm inside the Sheffield United are. No penalty, presumably because of the original touch with his head. I haven’t a clue any more, I’ll be honest. The meaning of life is easier to understand than the laws of football. 8.11am EDT 08:11
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Picking the greatest female player of the last 50 years was tough. Last week, five of our writers made the case for the leading candidates – Steffi Graf, Chris Evert, Serena Williams, Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles – before our tennis correspondent gave his verdict, choosing Williams, and hundreds of our readers joined the debate,
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Football clubs should be forced by new legislation to hire more black managers if the structural racism gripping the national game is to be broken, according to one of the sport’s most prominent race equality campaigners. Jason Lee, equalities executive at the Professional Footballers’ Association, said government intervention felt like the only way to tackle
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Moussa Sissoko is considering the situation of Tanguy Ndombele. “Maybe because I am like his big brother, I am a good example because nothing was easy for me at the beginning,” the Tottenham midfielder says of his teammate. Sissoko is close to Ndombele, for whom Spurs paid a club record fee to Lyon last July.
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Frank Lampard said Chelsea will have to deal with pressure for the rest of the season after boosting their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League with a comfortable 3-0 win over Watford. Chelsea kept their nerve after seeing Leicester and Manchester United pick up wins earlier in the day, holding on to fourth spot
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4.53pm EDT 16:53 Full time: Chelsea 3-0 Watford Peep peep! Chelsea move back into the top four with a solid victory over Watford. It was never really in doubt from the moment Olivier Giroud gave them the lead with a smart finish in the first half. Willian’s penalty made it 2-0 at the break, and
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Updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-off at Molineux Scoreboard: all today’s latest scores and results How they stand: the latest Premier League tables And you can email Scott here with your musings 7.02pm BST 74 min: Moutinho floats this one into the mixer, forcing Xhaka to concede a corner out on the right. Moutinho takes
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11.08am EDT 11:08 What a start to the second half. This is all a bit of a mess, and VAR are checking whether a) it came off Bailly’s shoulder or the arm and b) whether it was inside the area. Both are very close. I’m not sure there’s enough evidence to overturn the original decision.
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Norwich City: Krul, Aarons, Godfrey, Klose, Lewis, Tettey, McLean, Buendia, Duda, Hernandez, Drmic.Subs: Rupp, Vrancic, Cantwell, Stiepermann, Trybull, Pukki, McGovern, Idah, Martin. Brighton & Hove Albion: Ryan, Lamptey, Webster, Dunk, Burn, Propper, Bissouma, Mooy, Trossard, Maupay, Connolly.Subs: Duffy, Stephens, Mac Allister, Gross, Murray, March, Montoya, Button, Bernardo. Referee: Stuart Atwell (Nuneaton). Get link
Major League Baseball side Cleveland are to review the use of their team nickname the ‘Indians’ in light of recent anti-racism protests. Cleveland replaced their logo two years ago, swapping a cartoon of a Native American named Chief Wahoo with a letter C. The review was announced hours after NFL side the Washington said they
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Cricket Australia and its players have reached a peace agreement, resetting and postponing last month’s financial revenue forecast. They have been in dispute since last month when CA predicted a near 50% drop in revenue for the 2020-21 financial year. On Saturday the Australian Cricketers’ Association withdrew its notice of dispute. CA will retain the
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While the rest of England edges closer to normality on Saturday, lockdown has been reimposed on Leicester this week owing to a rise in Covid-19 infections. The city has more serious concerns than its football team’s sputtering form. Still, supporters will hope for whatever relief they can bring when the side host Crystal Palace on
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Jake Cooper pounced on Dillon Phillips’ error to steal Millwall a 1-0 Championship victory at Charlton. Centre-back Cooper gleefully took advantage after goalkeeper Phillips spilled Connor Mahoney’s long-range strike, to hand Millwall their first win since the league’s resumption and keep them in the race for the play-offs. The Lions had lost to Derby and
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“Through tough times, you can forget how much you love the game,” Jordan Henderson says. “You can take it for granted a little bit. When you’re a small kid, you don’t really think about trophies and winning things. You’re just thinking about playing football. But as you get older, your dreams get bigger. When you
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The administrator of Wigan Athletic has said lawyers have been appointed to investigate the circumstances of the club’s collapse, including the rumour of a possible gambling connection cited by the EFL chairman, Rick Parry. The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, and Wigan MP Lisa Nandy also jointly wrote to Parry calling for the EFL
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As a snapshot of Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s evolving Manchester United, rewind to Bruno Fernandes’s second goal in the 3-0 win at Brighton on Tuesday. On 50 minutes a commanding Harry Maguire header initiated a wow moment. Wow because of what it suggested of Nemanja Matic, whose best days are supposedly gone. And wow because it
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Not even Gian Piero Gasperini knew if Bergamo was ready to start watching football again this June. Before the coronavirus outbreak, his Atalanta team had been enjoying the finest season in their 113-year history. A club representing a city of 120,000 people sat fourth in Serie A, outscoring the giants from Milan, Rome and Turin.
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The Liverpool manager, Jürgen Klopp, says being crowned Premier League champions last week had no impact on his team’s 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Manchester City. Klopp said the defeat hurt, and that says City had a point to prove while Liverpool failed to capitalise on their chances. The result is the Reds’ second
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Pep Guardiola paid tribute to the attitude of his Manchester City players as Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden inspired them to a 4-0 victory against the newly crowned champions Liverpool. A scintillating first-half performance from the 2018 and 2019 Premier League winners, after they had performed a guard of honour to Jürgen Klopp’s side
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Six AFL teams will relocate to Queensland after a rise in Covid-19 cases forced the clubs to seek a home outside Victoria. St Kilda, North Melbourne, Essendon, Western Bulldogs, Richmond and Carlton will be hosted in Queensland for the foreseeable future, the state’s premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed on Friday. The teams will have to quarantine
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