9 d. ago Scotland denied automatic Euro 2028 qualification despite being hosts as UEFA throw Tartan Army a safety net

The Scots are joint hosts along with England, Wales and Republic of Ireland but there will be no automatic qualification slots

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1 week ago Football Daily | It’s Bilbao or bust for Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!With more than 80,000 English football fans expected to descend on Bilbao for the Bigger Vase final, it’s safe to assume that approximately half of them will return home in despair, while almost all of them will be seriously out of pocket. But despite its status as a fine location with a proud football heritage, Bilbao doesn’t have the infrastructure to cope with the myriad demands that come with hosting a game between the 16th and 17th best teams in England. With “budget” flights costing well north of a grand and even the most low-rent accommodation priced up at £500-plus a night, one can but hope for the sake of those Spurs and Manchester United fans who use plane, train, automobile or boat to arrive in northern Spain for this season-defining match that Bilbao has no shortage of doorways and park benches. Expect plenty to be occupied on Tuesday evening by green-around-the-gills landlubbers who set off on Sunday evening’s Portsmout...

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1 week ago The golden boy...who has finally been shown a red card: How Gary Lineker went from England star, face of Walkers crisps and MOTD host to being axed after antisemitism row

Aside from his footballing career and hosting Match of the Day for 26 years, Gary Lineker is also known for fronting Walkers crisps commercials having originally signed a £200,000 deal in 1994.

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1 week ago Gary Lineker set for I'm A Celebrity as star 'quits BBC' in antisemitism row

Match of the Day host and England legend Gary Lineker is reportedly tipped for the ITV jungle following reports that he's quit the BBC and its coverage of the World Cup

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1 week ago Gary Lineker's net worth hit as he quits £1.35m BBC job and World Cup in antisemitism row

Match of the Day host and England legend Gary Lineker is quitting the BBC and its coverage of the World Cup after an antisemitism row with huge consequences to his net worth

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2 w. ago FIFA chief urges FA to launch bid for England to host 2038 World Cup

The UK has not hosted the World Cup since the nation’s only success in 1966 but a FIFA big wig is backing a fresh bid to see the tournament returning to the home nations very soon

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2 w. ago FIFA chief urges England to bid to host the World Cup in 2038 for the first time since 1966 after last effort fell flat on its face

1966 - which is now 59 years ago - represents the nation's only success in a tournament which saw them beat West Germany 4-2 at Wembley courtesy of a Sir Geoff Hurst hat-trick.

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2 w. ago New Women’s Rugby World Cup trophy unveiled to mark 100 days to go until tournament

England will host a record-breaking tournament later this year with the Red Roses favourites to lift the new prize on home soil

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3 w. ago England could host Indian Premier League as India and Pakistan hostilities escalate

There are 16 remaining fixtures in the IPL and the England and Wales Cricket Board could be tempted to offer itself as a venue for those matches to be fulfilled, with both the IPL and it's Parkistani counterpart, the PSL, both currently suspended

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3 w. ago England open to hosting IPL after border hostilities prompt suspension

ECB has reached out to BCCI after IPL halted PSL also suspended with UAE unwilling to step in as hostThe England and Wales Cricket Board is open to hosting the remainder of the Indian Premier League in September after escalating cross-border tension between India and Pakistan prompted the suspension of the world’s most lucrative Twenty20 tournament on Friday.In a chaotic 24 hours matches in both the IPL and the Pakistan Super League were cancelled or abandoned, schedules torn up and foreign players told to start packing and book flights home. The Pakistan Cricket Board announced that the last eight fixtures of its tournament were being relocated to the United Arab Emirates, only for the Emirates Cricket Board apparently to reconsider its decision to host because it was “wary of being perceived as an ally of the PCB”, leading to that tournament also being suspended. Continue reading...

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last month Lord’s to host Women’s T20 World Cup final as venues revealed for 2026 tournament

The ground also hosted the final in 2009 when England triumphed on home soil

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