2 h. ago 'Disgusting' and violent elbow caught on camera as fans demand footballer 'banned for life'

Furious football fans were left calling for a lifetime ban for one Trearddur Bay player on Saturday, as he was caught on camera seemingly knocking out a CPD Porthmadog talent with a violent elbow

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10 h. ago ‘It doesn’t make sense’ – Emma Raducanu blasts Australian Open scheduling as she faces brutal opening match

EMMA RADUCANU took a shot at Australian Open schedulers on Saturday, saying that playing late at night "doesn’t make much sense". The British No 1 will play Mananchaya Sawangkaew of Thailand in the night session on Margaret Court Arena on Sunday, but only after the completion of a men’s match, played over the best of...

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13 h. ago Andre Agassi leaves court after ‘d***’ comment during Roger Federer match at Australian Open

The tennis legend played alongside Roger Federer in a doubles exhibition match against Lleyton Hewitt and Pat Rafter as part of the Australian Open opening ceremony

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13 h. ago Andre Agassi leaves court after comment during Roger Federer match at Australian Open

The tennis legend played alongside Roger Federer in a doubles exhibition match against Lleyton Hewitt and Pat Rafter as part of the Australian Open opening ceremony

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13 h. ago Andre Agassi told ‘you’re such a d***' as Roger Federer Australian Open match takes a turn

Andre Agassi took tennis sledging to another level while playing with Roger Federer in their Australian Open exhibition doubles match against Lleyton Hewitt and Pat Rafter

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16 h. ago Police chief who refused to quit over lies that led to ban on Israeli football fans 'may sue for constructive dismissal and six

The West Midlands chief constable was allowed to depart with his full pension by the area's police and crimecommissioner (PCC), who even praised his 'honour' in stepping down.

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17 h. ago Emma Raducanu reveals reason for her frustration before Australian Open campaign

The British number one will play her first match – against Mananchaya Sawangkaew – in Sunday’s night session.

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26 h. ago Police chief who refused to quit over lies that led to ban on Irsaeli football fans 'may sue for constructive dismissal and six

The West Midlands chief constable was allowed to depart with his full pension by the area's police and crimecommissioner (PCC), who even praised his 'honour' in stepping down.

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31 h. 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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32 h. ago West Midlands police chief steps down after row over Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban

Craig Guildford’s retirement comes after inquiry found force used ‘exaggerated and untrue’ intelligence to justify banCraig Guildford has announced his retirement as chief constable of West Midlands police, after an official inquiry found his force used “exaggerated and untrue” intelligence to justify a ban on fans of an Israeli football team.The pressure on one of Britain’s most senior chief constables had been intense after the basis for his force’s claims about the ban unravelled and the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said she had no confidence in him. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago West Midlands police chief to retire after Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban row

Craig Guildford’s exit comes after inquiry found force used ‘exaggerated and untrue’ intelligence to justify banCraig Guildford is to retire as chief constable of West Midlands police, the Guardian understands.His departure comes after an official inquiry found his force used “exaggerated and untrue” intelligence to justify a ban on Israeli football fans. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago West Midlands police chief to retire after row over Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban

Craig Guildford’s exit comes after inquiry found force used ‘exaggerated and untrue’ intelligence to justify banCraig Guildford is to retire as chief constable of West Midlands police, the Guardian understands.His departure comes after an official inquiry found his force used “exaggerated and untrue” intelligence to justify a ban on fans of an Israeli football team. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago ‘He’s taught me more about living than life itself’: on the road with Niki and Jimmy

At 17 Niki vowed to give her newborn son, born blind and profoundly disabled, the best life she could. Thirty years on she and Jimmy are travelling Australia in a Toyota Troopy, balancing hard-won freedom with constant careOutside a supermarket in Exmouth, a small town 1,250km north of Perth, a man notices Niki carrying Jimmy on her back. She is 152cm tall and he weighs 45kg. “He should be carrying you!” the man says.Strangers often misjudge Niki’s son, who is 30 but looks, she says, “like he’s eight or nine”. Jimmy is blind and has panhypopituitarism, a hormonal disorder that affects fewer than one in 100,000 Australians each year. This condition halted his development, leaving him unable to walk or speak, with severe intellectual disability.Niki hoists Jimmy on to her back for a walk along the beach in Exmouth. She has always carried him Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Cardiff City transfer ban lifted as green light given to announce signing

The Bluebirds were placed under a temporary transfer embargo for failing to submit paper work on time

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39 h. ago US responds to fears Trump's visa ban could unleash World Cup CHAOS

Football fans said they feared the 'hostile' visa ban handed down by Donald Trump's White House could stop them from following their team at this year's World Cup

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48 h. ago Footballer banned for 'violating rival's private parts', leaving him unable to speak, PLAYS in match despite seven

Swindon Town captain Ollie Clarke, 33, was hit with a seven-game suspension after leaving a Cardiff City player 'very emotional and struggling to speak'.

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60 h. ago ‘A group of people decided to kill me’: Michel Platini on Fifa, Uefa and the fight to clear his name

Former Uefa president – caught between moving on and settling scores – talks candidly about his downfall, Infantino and the snakepit of the game’s governance“There are millions and millions of romantics in football,” Michel Platini says. He has been asked whether, after a decade frozen out of the game, its lustre has vanished for him. “Millions who share the ideas that I have. But in the end, it’s big business.”It is an industry whose peaks Platini scaled before, in one of football’s biggest falls from grace, it spat him out. He maintains he would have become Fifa president if he had not been banned from football over an alleged unlawful payment made to him in 2011, when he was running Uefa, by Sepp Blatter. The scandal led to a criminal case but both men were acquitted for a second time, definitively so, by a Swiss appeals court last year. Nothing hangs over Platini any more, bar a conviction that he was cheated. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Shameless! Scathing report condemns West Midlands Police's lies over its call to ban Israeli football fans as Home Secretary says she's lost confidence in under

It is the first time in more than 20 years that a Home Secretary has put such pressure on the head of a police force to go, a move which received widespread cross-party support.

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3 d. ago Chelsea v Arsenal live: Garnacho pulls one back after Sanchez’s error in Carabao Cup semi

Liam Rosenior takes charge of his first match at Stamford Bridge but will be without several key players for the visit of the Premier League leaders

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3 d. ago Will Mohamed Salah be back for Liverpool's next match after AFCON semi

Mohamed Salah's hopes of finally clinching the Africa Cup Of Nations were dashed on Wednesday evening, when Senegal achieved a 1-0 win over Egypt in the semi-finals - but he will not play in Liverpool's next match

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