3 d. ago Punter reveals 'truth' behind vicious pub row after landlords ordered patrons to swap their muddy boots for slippers

Gamekeeper Tom Bane claims he was ordered to get onto his 'hands and knees' and clean the carpet, triggering a dispute which saw the publican's tenancy terminated.

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4 d. ago Newcastle boss Eddie Howe praises VAR and Alexander Isak’s ‘ruthless mentality’

The Magpies had two penalty awards overturned before a third was converted by prolific striker Isak.

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6 d. ago Government ready to back plan for ban on Premier League games abroad

Fans’ groups fear clubs seeking to cash in on global appealFootball governance bill could prevent overseas matchesThe government is ready to back plans to add provisions to the football governance bill that would prevent the Premier League and EFL from staging competitive matches abroad.The move would be welcomed by fans’ groups, who are concerned that clubs will seek to cash in on their global popularity by moving games overseas in a radical break with tradition expected to be approved by Fifa this year. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Premier League manager begged to end contract after realising 'this isn't for me'

Ruud Gullit has reflected on his ill-fated spell as Newcastle United boss which him fall out with Alan Shearer and quit in the wake of a derby defeat to Sunderland

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8 d. ago FA to ban transgender women from playing women's football in England

All trans women will be banned from all levels of the women’s game form June 1, 2025

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9 d. ago Antonio Rudiger banned for six games after throwing object at referee in feisty Copa del Rey final

The defender allegedly threw an ice cube at the referee as Real Madrid lost 3-2 in the dying moments of extra time

Sport

9 d. ago Birmingham bin strikes laid bare as refuse collectors to lose up to £8,000 each year

Unite says Birmingham City Council has "been playing games" after the union found the authority - declared bankrupt in 2023 - has decided to now cut bin lorry drivers' pay

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9 d. ago Dealer’s Choice review – Hammed Animashaun is the ace in a busted flush

Donmar Warehouse, LondonPatrick Marber’s debut play about a group of poker players brims with banter, but this pallid 30th-anniversary revival exposes its weaknessesIn 1995, two British playwrights made their debuts with all-male, six-character chamber-pieces strongly influenced by Pinter and Mamet, and set over one long, tense night in London. Jez Butterworth’s Mojo and Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s Choice proved to be superficially dazzling calling cards rather than enduring classics. Now a pallid 30th-anniversary revival of the latter reveals its weaknesses.Set in a restaurant where the manager Stephen (the Paul Bettany-esque Daniel Lapaine) and his employees Frankie (Alfie Allen), Sweeney (Theo Barklem-Biggs) and Mugsy (Hammed Animashaun) are gearing up for a late-night card game, the play brims with bants.At Donmar Warehouse, London, until 7 June Continue reading...

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1 week ago Dealer’s Choice at the Donmar: savagely comic study of male compulsion

Alfie Allen and Brendan Coyle star in this banter-filled play about a high stakes card game

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1 week ago Dealer’s Choice at the Donmar review: savagely comic study of blokes playing poker

Alfie Allen and Brendan Coyle star in this banter-filled play about a high stakes card game

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1 week ago Bonnie Blue names top Premier League club who have 'BANNED' her after she offered to 'pleasure' fans at a game

Bonnie Blue has been 'permanently banned' by a Premier League club and was 'escorted off the premises', having turned up at their stadium after offering to pleasure fans. 

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1 week ago Why Enzo Maresca isn't in the dugout for Chelsea vs Everton Premier League clash

Enzo Maresca will serve a touchline ban when Chelsea face Everton in a must-win game for the Blues as they look to secure qualification for next season's Champions League

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1 week ago Footballer Sam Finley banned for 13 games after making homophobic comment to opponent

Tranmere Rovers midfielder Sam Finley has been given a 13-game ban for making a homophobic comment to Walsall striker Jamille Matt during a League Two game in January

Sport

2 w. ago Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe reveals pneumonia battle could have had ‘different outcome’

Howe missed games against Manchester United, Crystal Palace, and Aston Villa as he recovered in hospital and at home

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2 w. ago Newcastle boss Eddie Howe seen for the first time since being released from hospital as he reveals how unsung hero's 'quick intervention' prevented 'very different outcome' during pneumonia scare

CRAIG HOPE: Eddie Howe has revealed that without the intervention of Newcastle's club doctor his pneumonia health scare could have had a different outcome.

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2 w. ago Newcastle boss Eddie Howe seen for the first time since being released from hospital as he opens up on pneumonia scare

CRAIG HOPE: Eddie Howe has revealed that without the intervention of Newcastle's club doctor his pneumonia health scare could have had a different outcome.

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2 w. ago Eddie Howe 'not 100%' as Newcastle United boss opens up at first press conference since health scare

The Magpies boss was back in front of the media on Friday morning after a traumatic couple of weeks

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2 w. ago Newcastle boss Eddie Howe returns to work after recovering from pneumonia

The Newcastle manager was hospitalised earlier this month

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2 w. ago Eddie Howe health latest as Newcastle United confirm manager's return date

Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe has returned to work with the Magpies after he was hospitalised with pneumonia causing him to step away

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2 w. ago French PM’s daughter says she was brutally beaten at scandal

François Bayrou faces questions over what he knew about school at centre of allegations of decades of abuseThe daughter of the French prime minister, François Bayrou, has said she was brutally beaten at a private Catholic school at the centre of a growing sexual abuse scandal that has shocked France.Hélène Perlant, 53, told Paris Match that a senior priest at Notre-Dame de Bétharram beat her in front of her peers during a summer camp in the 1980s, when she was 14, but said she had never told Bayrou. Continue reading...

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