8 h. ago Steven Gerrard breaks silence on talks with Rangers chiefs as he reveals he was ‘very close’ to returning as manager

STEVEN GERRARD has revealed he was "very close" to returning as Rangers manager. The Liverpool legend emerged as the No1 candidate to replace Russell Martin and looked set to complete a stunning return to Ibrox before talks collapsed at the final stages. Sources close to Rangers confirmed that talks fell through after Gerrard told them...

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8 h. ago Motherwell 1 St Mirren 4: Mikael Mandron haunts old side as controversial opener helps sink sorry Steelmen in semi

Motherwell crashed out of the League Cup at the semi-final stage for the second year running

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26 h. ago This is no mere disgrace, it is a regal cancellation... Andrew has been reduced to the rank of 'Traitor': ROBERT HARDMAN

Time, perhaps, for a last-minute addition to the final stages of Celebrity Traitors?

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5 d. ago Crunch time nears for Australia as selectors try to fit Ashes batting puzzle pieces together | Martin Pegan

Plot twists have thrown up more uncertainty over which six batters will be included in the hosts’ squad just under a month out from the first TestThe Great Australian Bat Off has returned for a brand new season with fresh faces and forgotten favourites bidding to join the cast for the Ashes series opener. In a major subplot, captain Pat Cummins is officially out of the first Test and is all but certain to be replaced by understudy Scott Boland, while the final auditions to claim a spot in the squad will be staged across the Sheffield Shield matches that begin on Tuesday as much as the T20 series against India.The main storyline will be familiar to seasoned fans as the Australia selectors largely repeat last year’s search for an opener to partner Usman Khawaja. But the return to form of Marnus Labuschagne, and injury concerns for Cameron Green and Beau Webster, are plot twists that have thrown up more uncertainty over which six batters will be included for the Perth Test. Continue re...

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7 d. ago Tammy Beaumont looking at bigger picture with World Cup semi

England face New Zealand in their final group game seeking momentum for the final stages.

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8 d. ago Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution

The experimental annex of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its homeSomething is rotten in Swedish theatre. In front of Elverket – a former power station that for much of the last 30 years has been at the centre of Stockholm’s experimental dramatic output – posters proclaim that theatre is dead. Inside the former turbine hall, either side of a red chandelier-lit platform surrounded by contorted bodies, Hamlet and Ophelia, brilliantly played by Gustav Lindh and Gizem Erdogan, are furiously channelling the rage of a generation, loudly hitting the walls with bars. In the play’s final seconds, gravediggers give way to builders dressed in high-vis come in to cover the stage in tarpaulin and start work.This adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, not so cryptically subtitled The Death of Theatre, is the venue’s last ever theatre production before it is shut down. Dramaten, the roy...

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1 week ago Kim Jong Un channels 'Danny from Grease' in mad new images of tubby despot

The North Korean supreme leader took a mooch around the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm for the final stages of its development - but that was the least interesting part of the tour

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1 week ago Parker vs Wardley undercard takes major hit as Lewis Edmondson pulls out due to hip injury

BRITISH light-heavyweight champion Lewis Edmondson has pulled out of Saturday's bout against Ezra Taylor after a" hip injury" following the pair's heated face-off. Edmondson, 29, reportedly suffered the blow during the final stages of training, leaving Queensbury Promotions scrambling to find a replacement opponent for 31-year-old Taylor. The British title clash was set as chief...

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1 week ago Female darts star dramatically 'pulls out of tournament AGAIN after being drawn against transgender opponent Noa

Deta Hedman, 65, had been due to compete against Noa-Lynn van Leuven. who was born a male, in the quarter-finals of the PDC Women's Series on Saturday.

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2 w. ago ‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sense of what happened?‘It is so rare, in fact it never happens, that crimes are so well documented.” Manon Garcia is the French feminist philosopher whose thinking featured so prominently in the final stages of the Dominique Pelicot trial. There are, she points out, 20,000 videos and photos of Gisèle Pelicot “being raped, unconscious, by complete strangers”. One might struggle to understand why, in the face of such compelling factual evidence against her husband Dominique and a further 50 men, prosecutors would need to bring in a philosophical argument to explain why this was wrong. But since they did, they couldn’t have found a clearer or more persuasive voice than Garcia’s, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive and The Joy of Consent.Last November, six weeks into the trial, Garcia ar...

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2 w. ago ‘Can we get some help?’ – Tennis star falls off stage as cousin seals historic Masters win with both in tears at speech

A TENNIS star fell off stage in agony after losing to his COUSIN in a historic final. Arthur Rinderknech faced his relative Valentin Vacherot, the world No204, in a shock Shanghai Masters final line-up. Vacherot was an alternate for qualifying, getting in when others withdrew, then came through the entire field, beating Novak Djokovic in...

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3 w. ago Trump floats 'everlasting success' beyond Gaza as delicate peace deal enters final stages

Donald Trump claims the Israel and Hamas peace deal will bring an everlasting peace to the Middle East, where residents have been dancing in the streets celebrating the deal.

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3 w. ago Luke Littler throws brilliant 152 checkout to keep World Grand Prix hopes alive

The 18-year-old was 2-0 down and survived three match darts to stage a comeback against the Welshman in their quarter-final in Leicester.

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4 w. ago Ozzy Osbourne's 'biggest fear' before death and honest reaction to Black Sabbath gig after spinal surgery

He returned to the stage for the final time, months after undergoing spinal surgery, before his sad death, aged 76

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