36 h. ago After the glory and the afterparty Levy faces Postecoglou crunch time

No one left Spurs’ club celebrations when the lights went on at 3am but will the lights go out on the manager’s tenure?The Tottenham afterparty was in full swing at the Hotel Carlton in Bilbao; players, management and family members just surrendering to the moment. Many of the players were still in their full match kits, medals draped around their necks and the centrepiece was the Europa League trophy, 15kg of the purest bliss.It is heavier than you think, according to Son Heung-min. “Very heavy, very heavy,” he said. The Spurs captain had accidentally head-butted it as he hoisted it high into the sky after the 1-0 win over Manchester United, a teammate having pushed into him as he performed the move he had dreamed about ever since signing from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015. The angry red cut on Son’s forehead was a part of the tapestry. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Lines of disappointment etched into Spurs fans’ faces evaporate into the Bilbao air | Max Rushden

Emotion of Europa League final victory hits hard, particularly tangled in with homesickness watching from Australia at 5amI didn’t really cry until Son Heung-min was handed the trophy – the camera hadn’t cut to him enough at full time. Of all the players who look sad when they’re sad, Sonny really looks sad. Building up to the Europa League final all I could imagine was a disconsolate South Korean walking around the pitch applauding mournfully. The Harry Kane walk. His smile when shiny-shoed Aleksander Ceferin hands him the trophy broke me. Apparently the Uefa Cup weighs 15kg – the same as my three-year-old. That trophy certainly looked lighter than when young Ian demands to be carried home from the park.As a very sleep-deprived middle-aged dad of young kids, the emotion of football back home hits a lot harder than it used to. I found myself weeping at the videos of Crystal Palace fans after the FA Cup final. Someone focused from person to person, pausing for just enough time on eac...

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38 h. ago The agony and ecstasy of watching Spurs win a trophy from 10,000 miles away | Max Rushden

Emotion of Europa League final victory hits hard, particularly tangled in with homesickness watching from Australia at 5amI didn’t really cry until Son Heung-min was handed the trophy – the camera hadn’t cut to him enough at full time. Of all the players who look sad when they’re sad, Sonny really looks sad. Building up to the Europa League final all I could imagine was a disconsolate South Korean walking around the pitch applauding mournfully. The Harry Kane walk. His smile when shiny-shoed Aleksander Ceferin hands him the trophy broke me. Apparently the Uefa Cup weighs 15kg – the same as my three-year-old. That trophy certainly looked lighter than when young Ian demands to be carried home from the park.As a very sleep-deprived middle-aged dad of young kids, the emotion of football back home hits a lot harder than it used to. I found myself weeping at the videos of Crystal Palace fans after the FA Cup final. Someone focused from person to person, pausing for just enough time on eac...

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3 d. ago Marquess of Ailesbury cut son and granddaughter from his will before falling to his death from window as documents reveal who aristocrat left his estate to

Michael Brudenell-Bruce, a distant relative of Prince Harry 's model ex Florence Brudenell-Bruce, was ruled to have taken his own life last year aged 98.

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7 d. ago Iranian criminal who wouldn't be able to cut son's hair 'remotely' if deported was allowed to stay in UK

An Iranian criminal was allowed to stay in the UK after an immigration judge said that he wouldn't be able to cut his son's hair 'remotely'.

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7 d. ago Prince Harry accused the Sun of printing story linking him to P Diddy out of revenge

Exclusive: court documents reveal Harry claimed front page story and other articles had ‘hugely negative impact on his mental health and that of his wife and children’Prince Harry accused the Sun newspaper of being motivated by revenge when publishing a front page story reporting that he had been named in a lawsuit accusing Sean “Diddy” Combs of sex trafficking, according to claims in a newly disclosed court document.The story was said by the Duke of Sussex to be among “a large number of false and highly derogatory articles” published by Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) “in retaliation” for his claims of phone hacking and unlawful information gathering. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago UB40 star died penniless after 'long and heroic' cancer battle, documents reveal

UB40 were the most commercially successful reggae band of all time, selling more than 100million records over a glittering three-decade career.

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9 d. ago Western countries gave Mossad information used to track and killi Palestinian terrorists in 1970s

Declassified documents reveal secret support by intelligence agencies without oversight by elected politiciansA secret coalition of western intelligence agencies supplied Israel with crucial information that allowed the Mossad to track and kill Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorist attacks in western Europe in the early 1970s, newly declassified documents have revealed.The support was offered without any oversight by parliaments or elected politicians, and, if not actually illegal, would have caused a public scandal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kate Cassidy breaks her silence after bombshell documents reveal Liam Payne's £24m fortune will not be going her way

The former One Direction member's girlfriend has posted on social media for the first time since it was revealed Payne left a £24,280,000 legacy after tragically dying without a will.

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2 w. ago Jesus survived crucifixion then had kids with Mary Magdalene in France, says expert

Filmmaker and musician Mark Christopher Lee believes the Vatican is suppressing documents that reveal Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion, married Mary Magdalene and started a family in the South of France

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2 w. ago Police criticised by jury after man, 40, jumped to his death from bedroom window

An inquest into Ashley Crews' death has now ended

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3 w. ago Russell Brand accused of dragging woman to male toilet, court documents reveal

Former comedian and actor Russell Brand is due to appear in court tomorrow after he was charged with rape and sexual assault last month following a police investigation

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3 w. ago Foreign Beggars star fell 40ft to his death from flat window during psychotic episode after string of failings by NHS

Ebow Graham, 40, who founded band Foreign Beggars, was reportedly behaving erratically on April 17, 2020, leading his concerned friends to call 999 to his flat.

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3 w. ago Holly Willoughby won't be 'retraumatised' by sick kidnap and murder plot as new details emerge

A new TV documentary will reveal the kidnap and murder plot that was hatched against Holly Willoughby

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3 w. ago Melania Trump 'happy to be in spotlight' as insiders reveal truth to Amazon documentary

Melania Trump's Amazon documentary surrounding her life is set to expose private details of life as a First Lady and the president will also make an appearance

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4 w. ago Freddie Flintoff's face injuries in full, massive net worth, model wife he 'put through hell'

England cricket legend turned TV personality Freddie Flintoff's life was flipped upside down in 2022 after a Top Gear crash - and the 47-year-old will reveal all in a new documentary

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