Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves has had a rape conviction overturned on appeal by a Spanish court. The appeals division of Catalonia’s High Court of Justice unanimously upheld the appeal by the 41-year-old and acquitted him, saying the case against him had “inconsistencies and contradictions”. Alves was sentenced to four and a half...
Aged 11, Burn was let go from the Newcastle academy and by 16 he was pushing trollies at a supermarket in his hometown of Blyth once a week. He played for non-league club Blyth Spartans before joining League Two Darlington on a youth contract in 2009. The lush green turf of St George’s Park must...
