15 m. ago Arne Slot gives verdict on Mohamed Salah's upset at Liverpool benching – 'miss the fire'

Mohamed Salah was left on the bench for Liverpool's Champions League win against Eintracht Frankfurt and Arne Slot has addressed the winger's attitude and ability

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24 m. ago West Ham: Nuno Espirito Santo makes tactics admission as strikerless experiment fails once more

Hammers are 19th in the Premier League table

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55 m. ago Man Utd chief confronts Premier League as Old Trafford concern laid out

Manchester United are preparing for the chaotic festive schedule, but one of their chiefs has raised one issue to officials at the Premier League

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67 m. ago Thomas Frank praises Mauricio Pochettino after matching his Tottenham start

Thomas Frank has six wins from his opening 13 matches at Tottenham like predecessor Mauricio Pochettino.

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68 m. ago Tottenham: Thomas Frank makes Mauricio Pochettino comparison in call for patience

Dane has led north Londoners to sixth in the Premier League table

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68 m. ago Mikel Arteta makes bold admission over Arsenal team and singles out 'world class' star

Mikel Arteta watched his side blow Atletico Madrid away in the Champions League in midweek and admits even he has been take aback by some of his side's recent performances

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85 m. ago Aaronson and Rodon punish woeful West Ham as Leeds race to victory

If Nuno Espírito Santo had considered a relaxing cruise after being sacked by Nottingham Forest, he finally got to enjoy the feeling by watching his West Ham defence look all at sea while the driving rain was his ocean spray. Two lapses in concentration within the opening quarter of an hour gave Leeds victory and further highlighted that the Hammers are in a relegation battle.West Ham sit second bottom of the Premier League nine games into the season, and their only win came against their current head coach. They had the majority of the ball at Elland Road and were eventually rewarded with a late consolation goal from Manuel Fernandes, but the stuttering start under Nuno continues, thanks to early close-range strikes from Brenden Aaronson and Joe Rodon. Continue reading...

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96 m. ago NFL reminds players of league gambling policy in light of federal indictments

The NFL is reminding players they are prohibited from taking part in any form of illegal gambling and betting on league games

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97 m. ago Average premiums for health insurance through Obamacare set to jump by 30%, report reveals

Price rises could impact up to 17 million Americans who buy their health insurance through the government

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1 hour ago Pep Guardiola fires warning to Arsenal with bold Liverpool title prediction

Arsenal go into the weekend at the top of the Premier League table but Manchester City and Liverpool are ready to take advantage if the Gunners slip up between now and May

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1 hour ago Man United CEO Omar Berrada 'confronts Premier League' with huge Old Trafford concern

With the hectic festive schedule firmly on the horizon, Manchester United CEO Omar Berrada has reportedly communicated a concern to the Premier League

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2 h. ago Premier League dressing rooms full of jealousy & frustration it’s time for Liverpool to consider moving on from Salah

MO SALAH is a fantastic player. He’s two goals away from 250 for Liverpool, which is phenomenal. But we are entering that phase with him now where the conversation, rightly or wrongly, will be: Is the time coming soon for him to be moved on? It is just like when people were questioning Steven Gerrard...

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3 h. ago NBA podcaster Zach Lowe warns that ‘prop bets are an absolute menace’ right after touting them in FanDuel ad spot

‘Everyone is in bed with the sports betting companies We’re all complicit,’ Zach Lowe acknowledged on his podcast.

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3 h. ago Football can’t solve geopolitical crises but it must not give in to them either excluding fans must be last resort

ASTON VILLA’S Europa League meeting with Maccabi Tel Aviv next month has become a test case of how Europe handles the collision of sport, identity, and geopolitics. The decision that no away fans will be permitted at Villa Park — followed by Maccabi’s declaration they would refuse any tickets regardless — ignited a debate that...

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3 h. ago Premier League boss fined for 'kicking ball that hit Sky Sports floor manager'

Premier League match manager Rupert Bush had to take evasive action, and the ball struck Sky Sports floor manager Tony Murtagh, who was able to put his hand up to deflect it

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3 h. ago Mafia returns to center stage in NBA betting scandal that included rigged poker games

Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player and nearly three dozen others in a betting scandal highlights the mob’s persistence and adaptability

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4 h. ago Alan Shearer delivers defiant Premier League manager sack verdict

Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer has predicted this weekend's Premier League results as he also weighed in on whether Wolves should sack Vitor Pereira.

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4 h. ago NBA gambling scandal shines harsh light on US sports’ embrace of betting

Two sweeping federal indictments have implicated big names in basketball and raised uncomfortable questions about who benefits from legalized gamblingThe NBA gambling scandal is the biggest story of the year in US sports, a culmination of the years-long embrace between professional leagues and the multibillion-dollar gambling industry that has now crossed the line from synergy into scandal.In two sweeping federal indictments unsealed in Brooklyn on Thursday, prosecutors charged more than 30 people – including the Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and former NBA player and assistant Damon Jones – with schemes that turned inside information and rigged card games into engines of profit for organized crime. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Horror moment woman screams for help in Paris 'train attack' before hero jumps in

Jhordana Dias, 26, a Brazilian national, was allegedly sexually assaulted by a man on a Paris train on October 16 until a fellow passenger's filming forced the attacker to flee

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4 h. ago ‘Next Hall of Fame player arrested for illegal gambling’: Wagering site takes prop bets over NBA Mafia scandal

More than 31 people were arrested across two indictments following a sprawling FBI investigation

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