11 h. ago Football Daily | Infantino awaits his ‘big bang’ as Club World Cup refuses to slide away

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Like Dr John Hammond and his scientists in Jurassic Park, Gianni Infantino and his fawning Fifa lickspittles have spent recent years so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should. The upshot is that a preposterously lucrative tournament described by its creator as “a big bang” has been crowbarred into an already jam-packed calendar. And the largesse of its in-no-way unethically sourced prize-money for those participating now threatens to destroy several already under-threat footballing ecosystems around the world.I want to talk about my mate. My buddy. The bloke I loved and will miss like crazy. I could talk about him as a player for hours, but none of that feels like it matters right now. It’s the man. The person. He was such a good guy. The best. So genuine. Just normal and real. Full of love for the people he cared about. Full of fun. He was the most British foreign player I’ve ever ...

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31 h. ago Scots town with picturesque vista set to host fan favourite whisky festival

The whisky festival returns to Helensburgh on 20 September with two sessions running from 12pm to 3.30pm and 4.30pm to 8pm

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62 h. ago ‘I genuinely love this place so much!’ Fatboy Slim’s 100th Glastonbury set – picture essay

Norman Cook estimates that he’s reached a centenary of sets at Worthy Farm, from big stages to tiny tents. Guardian photographer David Levene joined the celebrations in the DJ boothIrreverent, bouncy and as suitable at 4am in a club as it is at 4pm in a field, the music of Fatboy Slim dovetails perfectly with Glastonbury. And the man himself, Norman Cook, seems to know it.This year’s festival marked a big milestone: Cook has now played 100 Glasto sets – or thereabouts – over the years, popping up everywhere from vast stages to tiny tents. To document the occasion, Guardian photographer David Levene bedded in with the DJ for the weekend, while Cook explained why it holds such a special significance for him.Cook tries to find his daughter for Burning Spear at the Pyramid Stage Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Lobster wars and extraterrestrials! Get set for Arles photography festival – in pictures

From moving family reunions to voguing drag stars, this year’s Recontres d’Arles is promising a host of ‘disobedient’ images Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Lobster wars and superheroes! Get set for Arles photography festival – in pictures

From moving family reunions to voguing drag stars, this year’s Recontres d’Arles is promising a host of ‘disobedient’ images Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Glastonbury Festival fans surprised with secret set from iconic DJ and his son

Glastonbury Festival 2025 fans were over the moon with Fatboy Slim's secret set, with his son Woody Cook joining him on stage

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6 d. ago EastEnders' Zoe Slater return emerges as star is pictured back on BBC set

EastEnders star Michelle Ryan has been pictured back on set as she films her second stint on the BBC soap, which will see her character Zoe Slater reunited with her family

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6 d. ago Zoe Ball spotted holding hands with Fatboy Slim lookalike at Glastonbury Festival

Zoe Ball was spotted at Glastonbury Festival with a mysterious man who resembled her ex-husband, Norman Cook, as the pair enjoyed the live music.

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6 d. ago Zoe Ball spotted holding hands with mystery Fatboy Slim lookalike at Glastonbury

Glastonbury 2025 has kicked off this week and plenty of well-known faces have already been spotted in and around Worthy Farm, including former BBC Radio DJ Zoe Ball

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6 d. ago EastEnders' Michelle Ryan pictured back on soap set as Zoe is set to reunite with Slaters

Michelle Ryan has been spotted back filming on the EastEnders set for the first time just weeks after her character Zoe Slater made a surprise return to the soap

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7 d. ago Adam Thomas sends Emmerdale fans wild as he returns to ITV soap set

Adam Thomas sent Emmerdale fans into a frenzy after he shared a picture of himself on the set of the ITV soap, seven years after his character Adam Barton left the Dales

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7 d. ago Adam Thomas tells Emmerdale fans 'I'm back' as he returns to ITV soap set

Adam Thomas has shared a picture of himself on the set of Emmerdale set as he tells fans 'I'm back' seven years after leaving the ITV soap

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8 d. ago ‘We thought hippies would throw mud at us’: Billy Bragg, Kate Nash and other stars on their Glastonbury debuts

Every artist dreams of playing the world’s greatest festival, but what’s it actually like? Artists returning this year, including Fatboy Slim and Self Esteem, look back at their first showsYou can tell it’s 1984 by my shirt. I’d just played the Jobs for a Change festival, in the middle of London, easy to get to by tube. But Glastonbury was like being on an island. You had to deal with the weather, the food and the toilets. It was also mainly populated by Bristolians. I performed once solo, but also got up on the Pyramid stage with [country and western singer] Hank Wangford to do (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66. The original Pyramid was made from corrugated iron and doubled as a cowshed. I remember it being swampy backstage. There were no bars, you had to bring in your own beer. Keith Allen and [Scottish poet] Jock Scott blagged their way in, pretending to be a Belgian film crew, and sold cans of Red Stripe for 50p. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The Original by Nell Stevens review – queering the Victorians

This flamboyant tale of fakers and forgery, straddling the turn of the 20th century, is a smart and witty investigation into love and authenticityWe become ourselves by copying others, whether dutifully or audaciously, in acts of homage or appropriation. What is education if not a prolonged process of copying, and isn’t the same true, Nell Stevens asks in her latest novel, of falling in love? Suddenly besotted with another young woman, her protagonist Grace begins to wear her scarf at the side of the neck as her lover does, and to feel “clearer and more deliberate and more like myself” as she does so. “When we fall in love with a person, we fall in love with the copy of them, inexpertly done, that we carry around with us whenever they aren’t there.”At its heart The Original has two strands of copying: both are preoccupations of the late-Victorian era the book is set in. There are the pictures made by Grace when she’s brought, penniless, to her uncle’s house aged 10 after her pa...

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2 w. ago Kieran Trippier marriage update after England star addressed Chloe Ferry rumours

Kieran Trippier, who has been married to wife Charlotte since 2016, is reportedly set to divorce just days after the Newcastle United defender was pictured with Chloe Ferry

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2 w. ago Becky Hill to sing national anthem at 2025 British Grand Prix at Silverstone

The 31-year-old singer will perform God Save The King before the F1 race gets under way on July 6.

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4 w. ago Rivals in HUGE spoiler leak as Disney+ cast is pictured on set of series two for the first time after finale's major cliffhanger

Nafessa Williams was pictured on set filming Rivals series two alongside her co-stars Aidan Turner and Alex Hassell on Wednesday.

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