1 hour ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe makes decision on attending final Man Utd match ahead of fan protests

Manchester United will host Aston Villa on Sunday and bring to an end what's been their worst season in Premier League history, with the Red Devils potentially dropping down to 17th place

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54 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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54 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 Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United: Europa League final – live

Europa League updates from Bilbao; kick-off 8pm BSTRead today’s edition of Football Daily | And email ScottC’mon kids, let’s stop talking this down. Because while it might be true that yeah, that because while that might be true, two genuine European heavyweights are facing off in Bilbao tonight. For a proper European trophy. Never mind what it means for Champions League qualification, the size of the summer purse, the destiny of the managers silvery shimmering glory is up for grabs here, and you can be sure that’s what every last one of the fans who have battled so hard to wind their way down to Bilbao are preoccupied with. So yes, let’s stop talking this down. Up! Up! Up! It’s the Europa League final! It’s Tottenham Hotspur! It’s Manchester United! It could well be a wild nonsensical classic!!! Kick-off is at 9pm Basque o’clock, 8pm BST. It’s on. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Kids who kick footballs over garden fences are breaking the law, rules the High Court after couple SUED school next to their £2m home over 'nuisance'

The High Court has ruled that repeatedly kicking footballs over a neighbour's fence is a nuisance and breaches common law.

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5 d. ago Kids ask policeman to try football challenge and are gobsmacked by his reaction

A police officer in Cheshire has gone viral after he was invited by a group of children to show off his football skills - and he certainly rose to the challenge much to their amazement

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5 d. ago Kids repeatedly kicking footballs into a garden breaks the law, says judge after couple sue school next to £2m home over 'nuisance' 5

The High Court has ruled that repeatedly kicking footballs over a neighbour's fence is a nuisance and breaches common law.

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8 d. ago The Little Sister review – a discerning drama of queer Muslim coming

Cannes film festival Hafsia Herzi manages sexuality with confidence in her first Palme d’Or competition film, featuring an affecting lead performance from newcomer Nadia MellitiActor turned director Hafsia Herzi presents her first feature in the Cannes competition: a coming-of-age story of queer Muslim identity, with all the painful, irreconcilable imperatives that this implies, complicating the existing insoluble agonies of just getting to be an adult. It is adapted from La Petite Dernière, or The Last One, the autofictional novel by Franco-Algerian author Fatima Daas about growing up as the kid sister, the youngest of three girls, in an Algerian family in a Paris suburb with her mum, dad and siblings.Non-professional newcomer Nadia Melliti plays Fatima, a smart kid battling with asthma who likes books, likes football, likes freestyling, likes running – and likes girls. (This last interest is secret.) As Fatima prepares to leave school and start her first year at university (while ...

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1 week ago University of Miami college football star Adarius Hayes injured in crash that killed two kids

Police don’t believe alcohol was a factor in crash

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2 w. ago Christine Lampard admits she worries her children could be exposed to sexual content online and confesses it's 'extremely unsettling'

The Loose Women presenter, 46, shares two kids with her football legend husband Frank - Patricia, six, and Freddie, three - after marrying the former England captain in 2015.

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2 w. ago Christine Lampard admits she is worried her and Frank's young children might be watching sexual content online and confesses it's 'extremely unsettling'

The Loose Women presenter, 46, shares two kids with her football legend husband Frank - Patricia, six, and Freddie, three - after marrying the former England captain in 2015.

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2 w. ago ‘I punched another dad’ – your stories of the worst parent behaviour at kids’ football

From rocks being thrown at cars to spectators being given the red cards, readers share their experiences of the most shocking scenes at children’s soccer gamesThe first manager my son had, when he was seven, got the parents together and told us how shouting could affect our sons’ development and behaviour, not only as players but as human beings. Usually, I don’t behave so badly. The worst I’ve done is to complain to the referee and I’ve sworn once or twice. But mostly I’ve been civil. There was one time, though, when a game was interrupted because the other team had fielded ineligible nine-year-old players. There was a lot of swearing and shouting from managers and dads. My wife decided enough was enough and took our son from the field to go home. He was the team’s only keeper so without him there was no game and several of the other team’s dads taunted us, shouting: “Are you running?”, “Are you scared?”. My wife ignored them and headed for the exit but one of the dads pushed her. ...

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2 w. ago Inside wild life of Flavio Briatore – Wonderbra model marriage, Heidi Klum kid, football failings

Flavio Briatore is back in F1 after taking over at Alpine, and the Italian has certainly lived a colourful life away from the grid with supermodel exes and a failed attempt at football ownership

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2 w. ago 8 best football goals that are sure to score you some points with the kids

These top-rated football goals are ideal for garden kickabouts

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2 w. ago Father of London student nurse murdered in Texas threatens to sue police and landlord

Tamilore Odunsi was days away from graduating from university when she was stabbed to death

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2 w. ago Antony’s Real Betis transformation has Isco threatening a United heist | Sid Lowe

From flop in Manchester to prince of Seville, flying winger is rivalling his new best friend for title of La Liga’s finest payerAntony Matheus dos Santos has played football with some bad men. Raised in Inferninho (Little Hell), a favela outside São Paulo, the way the Real Betis winger tells it, he grew up without shoes to play in or a bed of his own to sleep in, surrounded by drugs and guns. Some days he wouldn’t eat and one day, when he was six or seven, he had to jump over a dead body to get to school. Life was just the way it was, even on the rough concrete courts where his bleeding feet moved faster than the rest. “I played against traffickers and all sorts,” he said. “If you ask if I was scared, of course I was. But I always had a strong personality and the harder it was, the more I wanted to be there.”So when someone threatened to kidnap him a week ago, Antony just laughed – and so did everyone else. This wasn’t São Paulo, this was Seville. And, like a lot of what is said the...

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2 w. ago David Beckham's son Romeo's birthday speech revealed after Brooklyn's devastating no show

Romeo is the second eldest son of footballer David and so he gave speech from the kids on Saturday night

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3 w. ago David Beckham at 50: his gorgeous, outrageous life in 50 pictures

One of the most photographed men in the world, he has gone from captain of the England football team to elder statesman. We look back at the red cards, redemption, scandals, fashion and family lifeIt’s swings and roundabouts being a titchy kid in football. David Beckham first played for Chingford-based youth team the Ridgeway Rovers, where he was coached by his dad, Ted. Back then, he didn’t make the England schoolboys squad because he wasn’t burly enough – his father subsequently employing the somewhat nauseating tactic of feeding his son Guinness with raw eggs to gain weight. On the other hand, it did mean he could be a match mascot at Manchester United, his dad’s passion, at the age of 11, because he was still so cute and shrimpy. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Dan Osbourne is supported by his kids for his latest charity football match

Dan Osbourne was supported by his children for his latest charity Sellebrity Soccer match after his 'make or break holiday' with Jacqueline Jossa. 

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4 w. ago Footballer's wife and son set free by Narcos gang after kidnapping while he hid under bed

The wife and five-year-old son of a footballer have been freed after armed Narcos gang members kidnapped them while he hid under a bed in his home

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