4 h. ago Football fan turned stalker sent 'scared' Liverpool women's star underwear pics

A football fan-turned-stalker has been handed a two-year restraining order and an 18 month community order after he sent a "scared" Liverpool women's star underwear pictures

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5 h. ago The World Cup is out of reach for many. The hope lies outside the stadiums | Leander Schaerlaeckens

The opportunity for this tournament’s legacy is in the fan fests, camps and tune-ups accessible to more than the lucky fewIn Germany, fans watched the games on screens in crowded town squares, their roars careening off ancient buildings, or from the banks of rivers, peering at floating, double-sided big screens on barges. At the next World Cup, in South Africa in 2010, people gathered in parks and open-air markets and hotel lobbies and unlicensed, makeshift bars in people’s garages. In Brazil, four years later, fans spilled from the bars on the Copacabana or watched in restaurants or in streets closed for the occasion – not as if anybody was driving during the Seleção’s games anyway.During the 2018 World Cup, Russia surprised visitors – and its own citizens – with its friendliness as spontaneous parties broke out all over the country. The reason the 2022 World Cup in Qatar didn’t entirely feel like a real World Cup is that those sorts of spontaneous soccer gatherings just didn’t see...

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26 h. ago Police slam decision not to charge Lucy Letby over further baby deaths

Police hit out at decision after CPS reject file of evidence after several incidents at Countess of Chester and Liverpool Women’s Hospital

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28 h. ago Stalker sent Liverpool star pictures of underwear before being handed restraining order

A man who stalked Liverpool women's star Marie Hobinger has been handed a two-year restraining order after sending her pictures of underwear and telling her he wanted her babies

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28 h. ago 'I couldn’t talk about it for such a long time': Stacey Dooley opens up about ectopic pregnancy

The star went for emergency surgery at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, and called staff ‘amazing’

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34 h. ago Millionaire investor, 42, who stalked Liverpool Women's player Marie Hobinger, 24, by sending her pictures of his underwear is handed two

Mangal Dalal, 42, sent repeated inappropriate and sexualised messages to Hobinger on Instagram over a three-week period before later waiting for her by the side of the pitch following a match.

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60 h. ago Did God fix a football match? Welcome to the great divine intervention debate | Ravi Holy

Vicars, the devout – and some who are desperate – do a lot of praying to get their wishes fulfilled. But it's complicated by lots of dos and don'ts‘I don’t believe in an interventionist God,” sings Nick Cave in the opening line of his 1997 song, Into My Arms. But Jim Sharma, a football fan who is a devotee of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, very much does – and who can blame him?For the detached, the uninformed and nonsports fans, the issue here is that Wolves had a terrible start to the season and, until the other day, looked set to beat Derby County’s unenviable record as the worst-performing team in Premier League history. Then they played my team, West Ham, and had their first taste of victory since April. Wolves 3 West Ham 0.Ravi Holy is the vicar of Wye in Kent and a standup comedian Continue reading...

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64 h. ago Celtic fan chant spelled out to the board by Martin O'Neill lieutenant as message received loud and clear

Martin O’Neill might have skilfully dodged transfer talk like he was back in his winger days but one of his lieutenants spelled it out

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3 d. ago Sterile Celtic prompt pointed fan chant as win over Auchinleck fails to quell dissenters

Progress in Scottish Cup but this was not a convincing afternoon

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3 d. ago London Bees 0, Liverpool FC Women 6: New Signings Fire Reds To Cup Win

London Bees 0, Liverpool FC Women 6: New Signings Fire Reds To Cup Win  The Liverpool Offside

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4 d. ago Three things we learned from Chelsea win as Rosenior's first Premier League victory masks fan unrest

Signs that things are clicking on the pitch, but some fans aren’t pleased

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5 d. ago Football fan who punched boy, 13, in the face after FA Cup match hit with three

Sean Ryan launched an 'unprovoked attack' on the teenager after watching his team win

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5 d. ago Police chief retires after blaming AI for scandal over Israeli football fan ban

The Home Secretary said Craig Guildford has ‘done the right thing’ after an investigation unearthed a ‘catalogue of failings' that 'harmed trust’ in the force

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5 d. ago West Midlands Police Chief who clung on to his job amid anti

Embattled police chief Craig Guildford is expected to quit today after Downing Street called for him to go over the Maccabi football fan scandal

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6 d. ago Tour de France 2027 routes revealed as famous race returns to Britain for first time since 2014

Edinburgh will host the men’s Grand Depart before the peloton head south via Liverpool to Wales, while the women’s edition will begin in Leeds and take in Manchester, Sheffield and London

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6 d. ago Liam Gallagher admits Oasis have put their reunion on hold for the World Cup

Wonderwall rocker Liam Gallagher, a huge football fan himself, said Oasis does not want gigs to clash with the summer soccer showpiece in the US, Canada and Mexico

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6 d. ago Cheryl Tweedy's killer stalker, who 'scared her young child', is back in prison after being secretly freed after just three months

Bannister, 51, was jailed for 12 months in September last year for breaching a restraining order that prevented him from contacting the Girls Aloud star.

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7 d. ago Police chief apologises for error in evidence over Maccabi football fan ban

West Midlands Police Chief constable Craig Guildford wrote to the Home Affairs Committee to apologise.

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8 d. ago Football fan ‘consumed’ by gambling thought he was better off dead – inquest

Oliver Long was found dead in East Sussex on February 23 2024 after sending farewell messages to his family a few days earlier.

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9 d. ago Celtic fan fury after Rangers collapse left Ben Nygren shellshocked as raging front door protests proved one thing

Swedish playmaker Nygren and the rest of the Hoops squad were given both barrels but the mood has flipped under Martin O'Neill

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