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Dean Lewington, MK Dons’ record appearance holder, is to stop playing for the club at the end of the season. The left-back has made 915 appearances for the club over 22 years, breaking John Trollope’s 40-year record for the most league appearances for a single club in the EFL in 2023. The 40-year-old, son of...
Trophies have been stolen during a burglary a golf club in Devon, police have said. Devon and Cornwall Police said officers were called at about 10:30 GMT on Wednesday 2 April to Teignmouth Golf Club. Intruders forced their way into the club and a number of trophies were stolen, the force said. Anybody with any...
Brentford head coach Thomas Frank has described the Club World Cup as “ridiculous” ahead of its new format launching this summer. The revamped inter-continental tournament, which is switching from a seven-team competition to one consisting of 32 sides, takes place in June. Chelsea, Manchester City and Real Madrid are among those competing in the enlarged...
Matt BerningerBrudenell Social Club, Leeds3rd April 2025 The National’s frontman makes his long-awaited solo debut with two intimate shows in Leeds. This is, quite incredibly, only Matt Berninger’s second solo show proper; the first was last night, at this same venue. As frontman for one of the world’s biggest and most revered indie rock bands,...
Chelsea have confirmed they are in talks with Uefa over their financial sustainability following a potential breach of the governing body’s Financial Fair Play rules. The Blues are in talks with Uefa over a settlement relating to their financial results for the year ending June 2024, where the club posted a pre-tax profit of £128.4m,...
Club Leon have filed an additional appeal against the decision by the Fifa secretary general to be reinstated in the competition. Cas said the appeals will be expedited and heard during the week beginning Monday, 5 May. On Monday, Fifa said it was considering a one-off play-off match between LAFC and Mexican side Club America...
BlueCo’s influence has been huge. Strasbourg have the youngest average age in Ligue 1 this season at 21.3 years. After bottom-half finishes in three of their past four seasons since promotion from Ligue 2, they are dreaming of Europe under former Hull City boss Liam Rosenior. But despite this being their strongest era in a...
Reading owner Dai Yongge has been given more time to sell the club by the English Football League. The EFL previously said that he must complete a sale or move on from the Royals this week, but this has now been extended to 22 April. Last month the EFL also announced that Yongge had been...
Graham was a consultant at Tottenham from 2007-2012 but “they never really had the ambition to make more” of data whereas he said “Liverpool were the first team to have an in-house analytics department”. He was at Liverpool from 2012 to 2023 and was a key part of the ‘Moneyball’ strategy – the statistical method...
Bulgarian side Arda Kardzhali welcomed club great Petko Ganchev as a special guest to their match against Cherno More on Wednesday – two weeks after holding a minute’s silence for him. Arda mourned Ganchev before their match with Levski Sofia last month, wrongly believing he had died, with both teams lining up on the centre...
Rovers are 11th in the Championship table and five points outside the play-off places heading into the final stages of the season. Despite being just outside the top six on points, however, Rovers have lost their past four games and are winless in six matches. Waggott, Pasha and head of football operations Rudy Gestede were...
Tottenham manager Ange Postecolgou hopes Mauricio Pochettino returns to the club one day and said he did not “feel disrespected” by recent comments from the Argentine. Pochettino, who managed Tottenham from 2014 to 2019, said last month that he wants to reunite with Spurs in the future. He has had spells with Paris St-Germain and...
There is no simple or clean answer to that straightforward question, but the downturn has been stark. Killie had accrued an impressive 51 points by the time the league split last year, but the best they can hope for after 33 games this term is 38 points. Their success last term was built on solid...
Reuters Mark Daly BBC Scotland Disclosure More than 20 legal claims of historical abuse at Celtic Boys Club have been settled for a seven-figure sum. About 30 former players had launched a class action against Celtic for damages. Thompsons Solicitors said that 70% of those cases had now been settled and that further settlements are...