3 h. ago FC 26 first impressions: Could be a footie classic but I've questions about player faces

Your Daily Star has had a hands-on with the new title in the long-running EA Sports football series on PS5 and Xbox Series X and our first impressions offer both gameplay answers and player character modelling questions

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15 h. ago Football’s greatest scorer with initials XG and most goals and assists with initials GA | The Knowledge

Plus: national teams with top-10 scorers in the 21st century, different kits in the same match (2) and a referee’s coin tossMail us with your questions and answers“Who is the most prolific player with the initials XG?” asks Oliver Forrest. “And who has the highest goals and assists of players with the initials GA?”There are only a handful of male* footballers with the initials XG – here is an exhaustive list. The diminutive journeyman Greek midfielder Xenofon Gittas scored 17 goals across his club career (plus three for Greece Under-21s) but cannot match the scoring exploits of Xhevdet Gela, who is our winner with 44 goals across all competitions including the Europa League with the Finnish sides MyPa and Lahti. Unusually, during a spell between 2019-2022 in which Gela was playing for Ekenäs in Finland, he was also the full-time manager of a fourth-tier side, Esbo, a club around 80km away. Gela returned to the manager’s role at Esbo in January this year, although not in a playing ca...

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1 week ago The Guardian view on the ‘twin’ Vermeers: how to spot a masterpiece | Editorial

Two versions of the Guitar Player raise important questions of attribution. In our age of fake images, authenticity in art is more vital than ever“How do you know how much to pay if you don’t know what it is worth?” So ends Theft: A Love Story by the Australian novelist Peter Carey. This scabrous riff on the slipperiness of cultural value in the international art scene asks: is a copy so good that even experts mistake it for the original painting still a fake?Questions of authenticity and attribution are behind a new display by English Heritage at Kenwood House in London to mark the 350th anniversary of the death of Johannes Vermeer. For the first time in 300 years, two nearly identical paintings of the Guitar Player, one signed by the Dutch master, the other on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and until recently believed to be a 17th- or 18th-century copy, will hang side by side. Experts have puzzled over the relationship between the two paintings for 100 years. Now visito...

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2 w. ago Women's rugby league player is sent off for allegedly asking a referee a shocking X

A women's Super League star was shown a red card on Saturday after the player allegedly made an inappropriate comment to a referee.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift's 'clues' in Travis Kelce engagement pics – date, nails and emoji

Taylor Swift is engaged after her NFL player other half Travis Kelce popped the question, and fans reckon their romantic photos feature some cryptic clues

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3 w. ago Mystery Diogo Jota Foundation website offline after taking £50k donations

A foundation which claims to have raised almost £50,000 in memory of Diogo Jota is facing questions after Liverpool revealed that both the club and the player's family have no connection to it

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3 w. ago Did Kairat Almaty field ineligible player against Celtic? Burning question answered as star man to miss 2nd leg

Celtic fans raise prospect of reprieve amid team sheet puzzle

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