65 h. ago Alisha Lehmann joins shock new club where she can be 'expressive' after Juventus exit

Alisha Lehmann has made a surprising move from Juventus as the world’s most followed female footballer on Instagram joins fellow Italian side Como

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69 h. ago ‘FC Como just felt right’: Alisha Lehmann on her surprise switch from Juventus

Winger with millions of followers explains how the ‘female-first mentality’ at the Serie A minnows was a big drawIt is not difficult to understand why any Italian club would want to sign Alisha Lehmann: last season she helped Juventus win a league and cup double, she is an international winger who accumulated 19 goals and 10 assists in England’s Women’s Super League and, yes, there is the small matter of her 16.7m Instagram followers and 12m TikTok followers, an online presence that commands a commercial power vast for any athlete and pretty unique in women’s football.What is perhaps not so immediately obvious is why, aged 26 and with her peak football years probably ahead, she would opt to join a club that finished in the bottom half of Serie A last season and cannot yet offer European football. However, the Switzerland forward’s reasons for signing a three-year deal with FC Como Women, she says, have a deeper meaning. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Superman actor Dean Cain reveals shock decision to join ICE 'to help save America'

Dean Cain, who played Superman in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman from 1993 to 1997, announced this week that he has joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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3 w. ago ‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years onIt was the moment comedy broke with sexism – yet it happened in a strip club. It was a fervour of free creative expression – yet it retained a commercial, careerist edge. It was one of the longest-running and most successful brands in UK comedy history – which few people could now recognise.At the Edinburgh fringe this summer, The Comic Strip Presents will be memorialised in a series of film screenings and Q&As with its creator and prime mover Peter Richardson. Richardson was the impresario behind the legendary comedy club The Comic Strip, which opened in 1980. When he and his star performers – Rik Mayall, Alexei Sayle, French and Saunders among them – created Channel 4’s The Comic Strip Presents a couple of years later, he could legitimately claim to be the man who brought...

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3 w. ago Meet Gen Z's female David Beckham: How Swiss footballer Alisha Lehmann became the world's sexiest footballer

Alisha Lehmann has become the female David Beckham with lucrative brand deals, underwear campaigns and romances with fellow footballers.

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4 w. ago Why 'World's sexiest footballer' Alisha Lehmann's now has a bodyguard at Women's Euros, as she faces online hate over glam looks on the bench

Lehmann is involved with the Switzerland squad, who will take on Spain on Friday night for a spot in the semi-finals of the tournament. They will, however, go into the match as huge underdogs.

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4 w. ago Juventus want Man Utd double deal as they muscle in on Marcus Rashford transfer

Marcus Rashford is expected to leave Manchester United during the summer transfer window and despite being heavily linked to Barcelona, the forward could have a new exit route amid interest from Juventus

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