7 h. ago M6 crash moment of madness as drivers play football after traffic grinds to a halt

Pictures show people ditching their cars on the M6 following major travel disruption on the motorway in Lancashire due to a crash that brought Easter traffic to a grinding halt

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49 h. ago 'I won Champions League and Premier League – I know who the greatest player ever is'

Former Manchester United striker Louis Saha has named Portugal icon Cristiano Ronaldo as the greatest to ever play football, describing his former team-mate as a "robot"

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68 h. ago It’s complicated: Awkward marriage of Maresca and Chelsea provides great drama | Barney Ronay

Enzo Maresca loves controlled buildup play from the back. Chelsea fans tend to like forceful, direct football. Conflict of some kind always seemed inevitableThere was a new story this week about a team of a hundred scientists who have spent nine years analysing a single cubic millimetre of mouse brain. The one hundred scientists have finally published their results. And those results are basically: “Whoah, have you seen this stuff?”What they found inside the cubic millimetre of mouse brain was an eternity of wiring, just miles and miles of tiny wire to be untangled, pictured in the accompanying article clumped into a single mass, like a pan of mouse brain vermicelli left overnight in the sink. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Amorim to play youngsters in Premier League as United focus on Europe

Semi-final against Athletic Bilbao now the priority Amass, Obi and Heaven in line to get more game timeRuben Amorim will use younger players in Manchester United’s next three Premier League fixtures as he prioritises the Europa League semi-final against Athletic Bilbao.United play at Athletic on 1 May and host the return a week later. Matches against Wolves and Bournemouth precede the first leg and United go to Brentford in between the European fixtures. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Why do Manchester United play 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' before home games?

The John Denver track is played before every Man United game at Old Trafford, but how did the idea come about?

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4 d. ago Chelsea: Winning the Conference League unlikely to heal the rift at Stamford Bridge

There appears a fundamental fracture between manager and supporters over the type of football each want their team play

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5 d. ago David Coulthard says cheating death in crash on Rangers chairman's plane changed his F1 career for ever

In 2000 the then McLaren driver made a miracle escape after a private jet he was travelling in crashed, killing the captain and co-pilot

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8 d. ago Lawyer becomes first woman to play alongside men in Scotland Transplant football

Jelina Berlow-Rahman, who had a kidney transplant in 2009, has become the first woman to compete for Scotland alongside men in an ­international football competition.

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1 week ago A1 crash: Moment drink driver flips car in 116mph crash was captured on dashcam

Michael Bailey had to be released from his car by firefighters following the crash on the A1 near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, and a blood test found him to be more than twice the legal alcohol limit

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1 week ago Helicopter crash: Horror moment cockpit plunges into Hudson River after 'rotor breaks off'

The horror moment the cockpit of a helicopter crashed heavily into the Hudson River was caught on video by an eye witness, with all six people on board believed to be dead

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1 week ago Hudson River helicopter crash LIVE: 'Three dead' as moment cockpit plunges to Earth captured

A helicopter crashed into the Hudson River tonight, as New York police launch an urgent rescue mission to find any passengers on board the chopper, after claims a propellor broke off in mid-air

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1 week ago Trump brags to NASCAR drivers that friend Charles Schwab made $2bn from stock market chaos

Video captured by the White House shows Donald Trump bragging that friend and investor Charles Schwab made two billion dollars from the current stock market chaos.

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1 week ago Heartstopping moment drink driver flipped his own car in 116mph crash was captured on his own dashcam

Michael Bailey, 30, was found to be driving dangerously on the northbound A1, at Water Newton, near Peterborough at around 1.30am on October 18 last year.

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1 week ago Unlicensed driver who killed motorcyclist, 21, when he made a U

Garry Arnold, 58, had been behind the wheel of his van when he made a right turn onto gravel on Ranmore Common Road in Dorking, Surrey.

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1 week ago Lando Norris told he's already made huge mistake in Max Verstappen F1 title fight

Max Verstappen beat Lando Norris at the Japanese Grand Prix and the McLaren driver has been told he made a huge mistake during the race that may have cost him victory

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2 w. ago Matt O'Riley told he CAN play big part in Brighton's European push as 'special' Celtic hero given Seagulls reprieve

The Denmark midfielder was given a rare start for the Seagulls in Saturday's grudge match with Crystal Palace

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2 w. ago The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay

If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays moreBritain is facing an unusual crisis: carspreading. Our road vehicles are getting bigger as people buy more and more SUVs of increasing dimensions and weight. At the same time, our streets and parking places remain the same size.The consequences of this uncontrolled vehicular expansion have become profound. Potholes are being created in greater numbers as our roads are pounded by heavier vehicles; multiple parking spaces are being taken over by single, giant cars; and road accidents are now producing more severe injuries to drivers and passengers of other vehicles. This last issue is of particular concern. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago I play in the system Ruben Amorim uses and want to return to Manchester United to get into the first team

A Bolton-born Man United fan who arrived from Morecambe could be playing twice at Wembley in the coming months.

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2 w. ago Key Hibs player may not play again this season as bleak outlook spelled out ahead of Rangers match

Another operation considered for Easter Road midfielder

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2 w. ago Olmo and Pau Víctor cleared to play on but La Liga says Barcelona have failed FFP

Spanish sports council upholds Barça’s complaintLeague queries disappearance of €100m from accountsDani Olmo and Pau Víctor can continue to play until the end of the season after the Spanish sports council (CSD) upheld Barcelona’s appeal against the league’s decision to unregister them because the club did not meet a 31 December deadline on financial controls.The judgment comes a day after La Liga said Barcelona still did not comply with the salary limit set and that it would report the club’s former auditors after €100m effectively disappeared from their accounts. Continue reading...

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