2 h. ago Man Utd's 'poor' transfer window torn into by Jeff Stelling for two glaring reasons

Manchester United spent more than £200m in the summer transfer window, but Sky Sports legend Jeff Stelling believes the Red Devils failed to address two key areas

Sport

3 h. ago Christian Eriksen next club hint after Manchester United exit as update emerges

Former Manchester United midfielder Christian Eriksen has been seen training with Malmo as he looks to find a new club after leaving Old Trafford

Politics

8 h. ago Paul Doyle pleads not guilty to 31 charges over Liverpool parade incident

Fifty-three-year-old was arrested after car was driven into crowd of people during football celebration in May A man has pleaded not guilty to 31 charges, including dangerous driving and causing grievous bodily harm with intent, after a car was driven into a crowd of people in Liverpool in May.Paul Doyle, 53, was arrested on 29 May after driving through a crowd of Liverpool football club supporters during the team’s Premier League trophy parade in the city centre on the evening of 26 May. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Footballer, 25, electrocuted to death as club hold 'final pass' funeral wake on pitch

A 25-year-old footballer has died after being electrocuted, with a funeral wake that saw his coffin carried onto his club's pitch by team-mates and emotional tributes paid to the star

Sport

9 h. ago 'It was essential' – Jeff Stelling's two reasons Man United's transfer window was 'poor'

Manchester United have spent over £200m on fresh talent, welcoming the likes of Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo and Benjamin Sesko, but Jeff Stelling believes it's been a dismal summer for the Red Devils

Politics

30 h. ago Met police chief calls for review of law after Graham Linehan arrest

Rowley says officers should not be ‘policing toxic culture wars debates’ and are in an impossible positionThe Metropolitan police have declined to drop their investigation into the comedy writer Graham Linehan for tweets about trans issues, and said that the law used by officers to detain him needs reviewing.The Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, said on Wednesday officers should not be “policing toxic culture wars debates”, and while any review took place, officers would investigate only more serious cases concerning online messages. Continue reading...

Events

31 h. ago Footballers sacked ‘over adult film star pics’ as furious club issue statement

Three teenage footballers have been sacked after they posed for selfies with an adult film star as the club released a furious statement

Politics

31 h. ago Football club withdraws asset transfer bid after objections from Lochwinnoch community

Calderglen Community SCIO, formed from Calderglen AFC, has pulled its application for the playing fields in Lochlip Road.

Sport

31 h. ago Legacy of a Lion is marked at Uddingston Rugby Football Club

Peter Laurie Duff was part of the 1938 British & Irish Lions side that toured South Africa.

Sport

32 h. ago Wales boss Craig Bellamy says he is ‘not a fan’ of Kazakhstan’s artificial pitch

The 30,000-capacity Astana Arena is used to hosting major club and international football matches.

Politics

40 h. ago OLIVER HOLT: Newcastle will never be a top tier club as long as football's elite stay away

OLIVER HOLT: Alexander Isak's escape from Newcastle United was conducted with the determination of a desperate man.

Society

43 h. ago National League match abandoned after horror collision involving player on loan from Premier League club

A National League clash between Eastleigh and Scunthorpe was abandoned in stoppage time after a sickening clash of heads left two players needing urgent medical attention.

Sport

49 h. ago Football Daily | Are Strasbourg a sister club to Chelsea or just their storage facility?

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Strasbourg, official seat of the European parliament, the jewel of the Alsace region on the west bank of the Rhine. Important historically, geographically and politically. One of the city’s most famous sons, Arsène Wenger, as a boy, was so embedded that his first language was Low Alemannic German, not French. To use a word Wenger brought to the English football vernacular – footballistically – Strasbourg was never too much of a hub. The club reformed after liquidation as recently as 2011, having won just one French title back in 1979 when Wenger was a fringe player already embedded in coaching. In defence was the future France coach Raymond Domenech, the keen astrologist in charge when a very Gallic bust-up ravaged Les Bleus at the 2010 World Cup.We’re all captivated by the journey of Wrexham. It’s been amazing for Welsh football and hopefully now in a number of years we’ll see young players coming through There isn’t similarities t...

Sport

53 h. ago It’s another Labour reboot challenge: how many adults do they need ‘in the room’ before they start telling the truth? | Marina Hyde

The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? “If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic,” a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, “I will scream.” No need for shrieks. The prime minister’s No 10 hokey cokey on Monday wasn’t so much shuffling the deckchairs as restructuring the deck crew and announcing that some fresh faces will enable the team to work with new focus towards their ultimate goal of reshuffling. Expect the first strategy whiteboard to be broken out 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.For now, hold on to your aperitifs and continue to dress for dinner, because the erstwhile chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, becomes something called chief secretary to the prime minister. To Starmer, Darren is a Mr Fixit; to many of his cabinet colleagues, he is a Mr Fuxit. That’s not the official line Downing Steet is going...

Politics

53 h. ago Now showing: it’s Keir Starmer’s march of the ‘grownups’ – the disaster movie we’re all being forced to watch | Marina Hyde

The PM has brought in Darren Jones, whose superpower is ‘relentless delivery’. If that won’t save the world, what will? “If I hear one more of our people saying that deckchairs are being shuffled on the Titanic,” a government supporter of Keir Starmer confided to the Daily Mail, “I will scream.” No need for shrieks. The prime minister’s No 10 hokey cokey on Monday wasn’t so much shuffling the deckchairs as restructuring the deck crew and announcing that some fresh faces will enable the team to work with new focus towards their ultimate goal of reshuffling. Expect the first strategy whiteboard to be broken out 370 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.For now, hold on to your aperitifs and continue to dress for dinner, because the erstwhile chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, becomes something called chief secretary to the prime minister. To Starmer, Darren is a Mr Fixit; to many of his cabinet colleagues, he is a Mr Fuxit. That’s not the official line Downing Steet is going...

Events

54 h. ago London City Lionesses: The rise of a football club unlike any other

London City Lionesses: The rise of a football club unlike any other  Sky Sports

Politics

3 d. ago Rayo Vallecano take Barcelona to the edge as fans rebel against their president | Sid Lowe

The small, proud Madrid club are back in Europe this season but playing against a backdrop of a civil warThe drunk, the brainless and the idle enjoyed this. They had said they wouldn’t sing, but the best nights aren’t planned they just happen, and in the end it was their kind of night. Chaotic, wild, a lot wrong but alright, like a picture of who they are, sticking it to the man up here and down there. Packed into crumbling, filthy stands, Rayo Vallecano’s fans didn’t see their team get a deserved victory against Barcelona on Sunday but on a torn-up, dried-out pitch with not much grass, in a ground where VAR became the latest thing to fail, they did watch them fight and do it their way too, flying into the team with a budget 18 times bigger as if they weren’t big at all. “Fantastic,” Hansi Flick called them.It started as a protest and never stopped being one but it became something else too, something fun; they had been infuriated, worn down over years, and then they had been insult...

Politics

3 d. ago Why Randal Kolo Muani transfer to Tottenham makes sense but also shows fear inside club

Why Randal Kolo Muani transfer to Tottenham makes sense but also shows fear inside club  Football London

Politics

3 d. ago Transfer Deadline Day LIVE: Club 'awaiting' news on £6m Celtic deal, Rangers and Aberdeen outgoings latest

All the latest Scottish transfer headlines and rumours as the clock ticks towards 11pm on deadline day.

Economics

4 d. ago The Guardian view on the killing of Gaza’s journalists: Israel wants to stop the world from seeing what it’s doing | Editorial

This is the most lethal war for the media in recent times. A generation of journalists is being wiped outDay by day, the death toll rises, the war crimes mount, and the outrage grows. Last Wednesday, the pope demanded that Israel stop its “collective punishment” of Gaza’s population. A day later, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, warned that “the levels of death and destruction are without parallel in recent times”. More than 500 UN staff have pressed the human rights chief, Volker Türk, to call it genocide. Half of registered voters in the US have already concluded that that is what Israel is doing in Gaza.The agony is deepening. On Friday, the Israeli military declared famine-hit Gaza City to be a combat zone, intensifying its assault and ending “tactical pauses” that allowed limited – if utterly inadequate – food delivery. Many inhabitants are physically incapable of fleeing again, and fear that they would be no s...

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