2 h. ago Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup

Ex-Fifa boss shows support for boycott callsSecurity concerns over tournament have risenFormer Fifa president Sepp Blatter on Monday suggested he supports fans boycotting World Cup matches in the United States this year due to security concerns.Blatter gave his support to comments from Swiss anti-corruption lawyer Mark Pieth, who worked with Fifa on potential reforms when Blatter was president, saying fans should stay away from the US for the tournament. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Rangers hero Barry Ferguson laughs off Celtic fan’s ‘cheeky’ suggestion for nephew Lewis

BARRY FERGUSON watched his nephew Lewis take on Celtic in the Europa League last night. But there's no way he can imagine the former Hamilton Accies and Aberdeen midfielder play for the other side. With current Celtic midfielders Arne Engels and Reo Hatate linked with moves away this window, some ambitious Hoops supporters believe Lewis...

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3 d. ago BBC The Traitors fans suggest new role that would 'add another dimension'

BBC viewers think it would solve the disappointment over changes made this series.

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7 d. ago Tickets, travel and Trump: How the 2026 World Cup is shaping up six months from the final

The champion will be decided on 19 July in New Jersey. Here’s a rundown of the issues that will shape the tournament as it comes to North AmericaWe’re only six months from the biggest single sporting occasion in the world. On 19 July in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the men’s World Cup final will kick off and a champion will be crowned (although it will be hard to top the last one).The final will be more than a coronation (or confirmation, if Argentina repeat as champions). It will also be a culmination of six weeks of near non-stop soccer played across three countries, four time zones, and 16 cities. It’s likely that conclusions will already be drawn at that point on how the whole tournament fared. But for now, at this semi-convenient milestone, it’s worth taking stock of where we are six months out. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago BBC legend Steve Davis unimpressed by crowd's behaviour at the Masters and calls them out

Steve Davis branded the Alexandra Palace crowd's chanting as 'Mickey Mouse' during the Masters semi-finals, suggesting fans should show a little more class at the Triple Crown event

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9 d. ago Love Island fans claim Charlie Frederick is USING villa girl as a ‘winning ticket’ and doesn’t really fancy her

LOVE Island: All Stars may only be two days in, but the connections are already forming between the islanders - particularly for Charlie Frederick. The personal trainer, 31, has a blossoming romance with 2021 show winner Millie Court, but some fans think the relationship is part of a gameplan and have suggested Charlie isn't really...

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1 week ago What’s the easiest way to get healthy? I tried biohacking my life to live longer

Small changes to sleep, diet, and exercise can have significant benefits – and I’m all for barely perceptible adjustmentsA week into the first lockdown of the pandemic, I vowed I would never set foot in a gym again. This pledge seemed in keeping with the confused fatalism of the moment, but it turned out to be one of the few promises to myself I have ever kept.Since then I’ve become a fan of evidence suggesting that minimal changes to one’s lifestyle make a big difference to overall health, and this week there was more: a new study from the University of Sydney found that even small changes to three key behaviours – sleep, diet, and exercise – can have significant benefits. For those with the least healthy habits, an additional 5 minutes of sleep, 2 minutes more exercise and minimal dietary adjustments could add another year of life. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Can the tiniest of changes to sleep, diet and exercise help me live longer?

A study found small changes to key behaviours can have significant benefits, and I’m all for barely perceptible adjustmentsA week into the first lockdown of the pandemic, I vowed I would never set foot in a gym again. This pledge seemed in keeping with the confused fatalism of the moment, but it turned out to be one of the few promises to myself I have ever kept.Since then I’ve become a fan of evidence suggesting that minimal changes to one’s lifestyle make a big difference to overall health, and this week there was more: a study from the University of Sydney found that even small changes to three key behaviours – sleep, diet, and exercise – can have significant benefits. For those with the least healthy habits, an additional five minutes of sleep, two minutes more exercise and minimal dietary adjustments could add another year of life. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘A group of people decided to kill me’: Michel Platini on Fifa, Uefa and the fight to clear his name

Former Uefa president – caught between moving on and settling scores – talks candidly about his downfall, Infantino and the snakepit of the game’s governance“There are millions and millions of romantics in football,” Michel Platini says. He has been asked whether, after a decade frozen out of the game, its lustre has vanished for him. “Millions who share the ideas that I have. But in the end, it’s big business.”It is an industry whose peaks Platini scaled before, in one of football’s biggest falls from grace, it spat him out. He maintains he would have become Fifa president if he had not been banned from football over an alleged unlawful payment made to him in 2011, when he was running Uefa, by Sepp Blatter. The scandal led to a criminal case but both men were acquitted for a second time, definitively so, by a Swiss appeals court last year. Nothing hangs over Platini any more, bar a conviction that he was cheated. Continue reading...

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1 week ago How football fans face missing out on World Cup due to Trump's latest travel ban

With the World Cup games heading to the US in less than five months, many international fans are anxious about missing out due to Trump's travel bans.

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1 week ago Trump’s latest travel ban leaves fans unable to travel to support their World Cup team

The restrictions include an exception for players, officials and immediate relatives. But no allowance has been made for supporters

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1 week ago Man City XI vs Newcastle: Predicted lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Carabao Cup today

City travel to defending champions in League Cup last four

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1 week ago Can Antoine Semenyo play for Man City vs Newcastle? Carabao Cup rules explained

Manchester City travel to Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night

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1 week ago How to watch Newcastle vs Man City: TV channel and live stream for Carabao Cup today

Injury-hit City travel to defending champions in League Cup last four

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2 w. ago Man City XI vs Newcastle: Confirmed team news, predicted lineup and injury latest for Carabao Cup

City travel to defending champions in League Cup last four

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3 w. ago Following England to the USA, Canada and Mexico? Here's your ultimate World Cup 2026 travel guide

Sixteen cities, three countries and the perfect excuse to plan the football-fuelled trip of a lifetime

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3 w. ago When racists shout ‘Go home’, and you come from 15 places, what to do? | Hugh Muir

A DNA test showed me that theoretically I have links to a long list of countries – and that the way we look at belonging makes little senseWhile accepting that David Lammy, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary is, for many, the human embodiment of Marmite – loved or hated, with not much in between – one can still question whether, for all his faults, he should “go home to the Caribbean”. Whether you agree with him over this or that utterance or the broad sweep of government policy, he has, unquestionably made his contribution to Tottenham, in north London, whose people he has represented for a quarter of a century, to parliament, as a senior MP, as foreign secretary and now as an important figure with several key portfolios.So when a lieutenant of Nigel Farage, admittedly no fan of Lammy’s, suggests, without notable contradiction or condemnation from Reform, that Lammy “should go home to the Caribbean”, one is tempted to look at that askance. But then, in the year just pa...

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3 w. ago From World Cup to Winter Olympics plus Wimbledon and The Masters: your ultimate guide to the 2026 sporting calendar

IF YOU thought the sporting calendar couldn't get more packed, 2026 will prove you wrong.  The new year promises a global itinerary that reads like a dream for the dedicated travelling fan.  From the slopes of the Italian Dolomites to the heat of Mexico City, the world’s biggest stages are set. The year kicks off...

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3 w. ago ‘Alarm bells should be ringing’ at Fifa as England fans snub World Cup ticket prices

Guidance from the England Supporters Travel Club has revealed that allocations for World Cup matches from the quarter-finals to the final are currently undersubscribed

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