65 h. ago Killer Albanian mafia kingpin who plotted to bomb a football stadium begs not to be deported for fear HE will be murdered by gangsters

Maksim Cela, 59, is walking free on the streets of Britain after serving 23 years in jail for killing a policeman and planning to detonate a bomb at a 12,000-seater football stadium in 200.

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2 d. ago What Liverpool would get from buying Malaga: Taking their pick of a world

A squad packed with young talent including three Under 19 internationals, a recently inaugurated new training complex, the ninth-best attendance in the whole of Spain, and the promise of a new stadium that will host the 2030 World Cup.

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3 d. ago Chris Brown at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium seating plan, capacity and map for UK tour 2025

Chris Brown will perform in London in the summer as part of his Breezy Bowl XX Stadium World Tour

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3 d. ago Chris Brown at Birmingham's Villa Park seating plan, capacity and map for UK tour 2025

Chris Brown will perform in Birmingham in the summer as part of his Breezy Bowl XX Stadium World Tour

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3 d. ago Chris Brown at Cardiff's Principality Stadium seating plan, capacity and map for UK tour 2025

Chris Brown will perform in Cardiff in the summer as part of his Breezy Bowl XX Stadium World Tour

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8 d. ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe sent new Man United stadium warning with 'unique' £760m point

Latest Manchester United news as Everton's £760m stadium designer sends United a warning about 100,000-seater designs

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9 d. ago Brisbane Olympics 2032: David Crisafulli breaks election promise and announces controversial new stadium

Historic Gabba stadium to be demolished and replaced by residential development, with new $3.8bn stadium at Victoria Park to host Olympics, AFL and cricketFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Queensland government has announced it will build a new $3.8bn 63,000-seat venue at Brisbane’s Victoria Park as part of plans for a main stadium and other venues for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.According to the government’s “delivery plan”, the state will build several new facilities.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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9 d. ago England vs Latvia offer: Get 50/1 on the Three Lions to win with Parimatch

Parimatch is offering new customers the chance to back England to beat Latvia at huge 50/1 odds ahead of their World Cup qualifying match at Wembley Stadium

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1 week ago Nations League losses and sparse crowds have US momentum at low ebb

SoFi Stadium will host the US for two of its World Cup group games, but it was barren for their two lackluster gamesMauricio Pochettino looked sullen. Occasionally, he would shake his head in despair. Mostly, he just looked on with a frown.The United States men’s national team manager understood that there would be a lot of recriminations to go around. Following a second competitive loss in four days in the Concacaf Nations League finals, it was hard to pinpoint where, exactly, to lay the blame for a dispiriting international window for the USA. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Track and feud: Queensland to announce third 2032 Olympic stadium plan in four years. Will this one stick?

The widely expected construction of a new 60,000-seat venue at Victoria Park will take a chunk of the largest green space near the inner cityGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAlan Patching led the construction of the largest-ever Olympic stadium. It took 30 months to finish the designs for Sydney’s 110,000-seat Stadium Australia, build it, and hold its first major event.“That’s not going to happen [in Brisbane],” Patching said. “The climate’s changed, the building environment has changed, [and] goodness knows how we’re going for resources.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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1 week ago A temple to extravagance. And that goes for Manchester United’s new stadium, too | Rowan Moore

Could Norman Foster’s £2bn design for the club, which will be seen 25 miles away, turn out to be a case of hubris before ruin? There’s a phenomenon in architectural history whereby great empires build their grandest monuments just before they fall. The Parthenon was completed just before Athens embarked on the devastating Peloponnesian War. Manhattan’s most celebrated skyscrapers went up on the brink of the Great Depression. The British inaugurated the imposing government buildings of New Delhi 16 years before the end of the Raj. I won’t say that this will definitely be the case with the £2bn stadium designed by the Mancunian Norman Foster for Manchester United Football Club, but it’s striking that it’s proposed at a time when the club has closed its staff canteen and made redundant hundreds of workers to cut costs.Every good thing is promised. It is to be “the world’s greatest football stadium”, iconic AND sustainable, with both rainwater harvesting and a “trident” of 200m-hig...

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1 week ago Wales' Jeremiah Azu becomes world champion after stadium screen shows wrong winner

The sprinter initially thought he had been beaten after a mistake inside the stadium

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1 week ago Your Heathrow Airport fire questions answered by the Mirror's travel expert

The impact of the fire at Heathrow Airport is huge. Heathrow’s four terminals were scheduled to have 665 departures, or more than 145,000 seats, with a further 669 flights due to arrive, around 146,000 seats.

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2 w. ago Man Utd reveal where club will play home games while new £2bn stadium is built

Manchester United unveiled plans to build a new 100,000-seater stadium this month and the club have now confirmed where they will play their games while the ground is being constructed

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2 w. ago Paul Scholes tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe 'words are cheap' as Man Utd legend slams stadium funding

Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has hit out at Sir Jim Ratcliffe over the funding for the proposed new 100,000-seater stadium, accusing the billionaire of begging

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2 w. ago Sir Jim Ratcliffe suspicions raised by Paul Scholes after Man United's 'begging'

Former Manchester United star Paul Scholes has aried his reservations over the Sir Jim Ratcliffe's lofty ambitions to knock down Old Trafford and build a new 100,000 seater stadium

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2 w. ago A new Manchester United stadium isn’t about regeneration and never will be | Jonathan Liew

If ‘New Trafford’ is such a nailed-on wealth generator, then why aren’t Ratcliffe and the Glazers funding it themselves?The roof of the proposed new Manchester United stadium has three points, which is more than can often be said for the team who will play underneath it. According to Nigel Dancey of the architectural firm Foster + Partners, the three giant masts will “create a distinctive presence on the skyline”, presumably in the same way that Roy Keane created a distinctive presence on Alf‑Inge Haaland’s knee.But of course aesthetic quibbles are the least of our concerns here. If Manchester United want to erect a giant plastic canopy over their new 100,000-seat stadium in a way that evokes a chicken being wrapped before roasting, then frankly who are we to demur? Beauty is in the eye of the freeholder, and all that. The more pressing question – as someone who, unlike part-owner Jim Ratcliffe, still pays income tax in this country – is what exactly the rest of us ar...

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2 w. ago The £70m plan to bring 25,000 visitors a week to Greater Manchester area

The plans include creating a 3,000-seater sports arena.

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2 w. ago 'I paid £8,000 for a suite in the sky – here's what's included with the ticket'

A man who has travelled to 131 countries has shared his experience of flying first class after spending a whopping £8,000 on a seriously luxurious plane seat

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2 w. ago 'World's greatest stadium' with 70,000 seats abandoned for 16 years resumes construction

Valencia's Nou Mestella was supposed to be the 'best stadium in the world', but instead it was left to rot for 16 years - with construction now set to resume

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