8 h. ago ‘I was lost but football gave me strength’: Afghan women refugees on their fight for recognition

Exiles from the Taliban in England and Australia are using the sport to battle prejudice and give a voice to women and girls in Afghanistan“I felt quite lost,” says the goalkeeper Elaha Safdari. “I didn’t know anyone, but little by little football gave me the strength and power to start again, to start from zero, to build, to keep going and to keep pushing myself forward.”It is four years since a 17-year-old Safdari arrived in England, part of the Afghanistan women’s development team evacuated first to Pakistan then to the UK after the US withdrawal of troops and the concession of power to the Taliban. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Ruben Amorim told he is "lost" and running out of time at Man Utd

Ruben Amorim has one Premier League win this season and may not last until Christmas, according to ex-Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham defender William Gallas

Politics

8 d. ago 'I saw Queen Camilla getting tearful before she made a devastating admission to me'

Queen Camilla was the Duchess of Cornwall when she visited a women's refuge in Reading to meet the residents living in the building, and one journalist has spoken about the royal's emotional remark

Politics

8 d. ago Football’s Financial Shame: The Story of the V11 review – so moving you’ll pity these poor footballers

This gripping documentary follows early Premier League footballers who lost it all following investment advice that went wrong. It perfectly captures the melancholy of being an ex-proSympathy for the financial plight of former Premier League footballers, you say? No, wait, hear us out. You might be surprised by this previously untold story. Richard Milway’s documentary, Football’s Financial Shame: The Story of the V11, is a gripping, moving and human enough tale to inspire more than a little fellow feeling.The V11 may sound like a fictional spy ring from a shonky airport novel but they’re actually a group of retired footballers whose careers spanned the 90s and early 00s. This era-specificity is crucial. They are members of the Premier League’s in-between generation. They’re mid-rankers: household names but it depends on the household. Danny Murphy. Rod Wallace. Brian Deane. Tommy Johnson. Michael Thomas. Craig Short. If you know, you know. And they played at a time when wages were ...

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9 d. ago 'I spent a day with Queen Camilla and her emotional remark left a deep impression on me'

The Queen has long been a champion of survivors of domestic abuse, and has been there to help survivors through her support of Women's Refuge in recent years

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9 d. ago Sainsbury's will use facial recognition tech to fight Britain's shoplifting epidemic

The UK's second largest supermarket chain has informed staff in two stores that it will start an eight-week trial before potentially rolling out the technology nationwide.

Science

9 d. ago Premier League players including Match of the Day pundit Danny Murphy are among 200 footballers who say they lost tens of millions of pounds through financial advisers

Affected footballers joined the V11 campaign group comprising individuals who invested with Kingsbridge Asset Management in the 1990s and 2000s.

Sport

1 week ago Football club pay tribute to 'terrific' teen who lost life in crash with other boys

Jordan Cameron has been remembered by his football club Fort William FC after he died in the accident with Fergus Ward and Lewis Knox on Thursday evening.

Events

1 week ago Man City fans may already have lost out in Champions League draw

Manchester City fans are ready for another year of Champions League football but space on the trips may be limited in the group stage

Sport

2 w. ago Women working for refugee charities facing ‘disgusting’ sexual comments from far

Charities have warned staff not to wear lanyards and ID badges, and have had to provide workers with additional security

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3 w. ago Linking sex attacks to migration is 'dangerous racist diversion' warn women's rights groups

In a letter to Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, organisations including Rape Crisis England and Wales, the End Violence Against Women Coalition and Refuge called on ministers to stand up to the 'dangerous narrative'

Events

3 w. ago ‘Not in my hands’: diplomatic Howe has lost control of Isak’s Newcastle future

The £150m-rated Sweden striker has effectively gone on strike as he holds out for a transfer to champions LiverpoolAs a player at Bournemouth and Portsmouth Eddie Howe could invariably be found reading the foreign news pages of the then broadsheets while travelling to matches on the team bus.More than two decades on, the Newcastle manager’s ability to construct carefully worded, supremely diplomatic, sentences loaded with cleverly calibrated between-the-lines subtext make it easy to imagine him as some sort of international envoy. Continue reading...

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