Tottenham have had the measure of Manchester United this season, beating them home and away in the Premier League and also in the Carabao Cup. They will also likely back themselves to score against the Red Devils, having hit 21 more league goals than them, despite sitting fourth from bottom with United a place above....
Early exits from the Champions League and EFL Cup mean City will play a total of 57 games in all competitions this season. Last season they played 59, while in the 2022-23 Treble-winning campaign they had 61 games. With 60, Tottenham and United will both play more matches than any other Premier League club this...
Brentford forward Bryan Mbeumo says it feels “crazy” to have been nominated for the Premier League’s player of the season award. The 25-year-old Cameroon international has scored 18 goals and provided seven assists in 36 league outings for the Bees, who are chasing a place in European competition for the first time. “I didn’t really...
An Australian man who was captured by Russian forces while fighting alongside Ukraine has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security prison, Russian-installed prosecutors have said. Oscar Jenkins, 33, was convicted in a Russian-controlled court in occupied eastern Ukraine on Friday of fighting in an armed conflict as a mercenary. Mr Jenkins, a...
Jake Sullivan has been, along with Anthony Blinken, one of the top players in the Democratic foreign policy world for a decade and a half. He is so good at his job that you could call him a key architect of the great policies that brought us the color revolutions, the Libyan collapse, the “Arab...
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Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has seen his wealth fall by £6.473bn – more than a quarter of his fortune – in the last year, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List, external. The 72-year-old’s wealth has declined from £23.519bn to £17.046bn in the past 12 months. He has slipped from fourth to...
A man has been jailed for 13 years for raping and sexually assaulting a woman. Christian Dodd, 46, was arrested in August 2022 after police received a report of rape. A jury at Truro Crown Court found Dodd, previously of Cliff Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, guilty of one count of rape of a woman and one...
A 20-year-old man from Plymouth has been arrested on suspicion of rape, police say. Devon and Cornwall Police were called to Gibbon Lane at about 06:25 BST on Thursday. They said officers were supporting a woman after reports of a sexual assault. Police cordons were put in place at different locations, and one remains in...
To make the stadium pay, Elvin could not rely solely on annual events like the FA Cup final. So he added regular sports such as greyhound racing and motorcycle speedway, which could be held several times a week. These became Wembley’s bread-and-butter, with Elvin describing in a BBC programme how even after the cup final...
Manchester United have decided not to hold an end of year players’ awards night for the second season running. United cancelled their plans 12 months ago as the senior men’s team finishing eighth in the Premier League, even though they won the FA Cup. This year, the club have opted not to arrange anything. The...
A man who marched into a Wetherspoon pub armed with an axe and threatened two men in the beer garden has been jailed. Jason Semple, 54, of Tavistock Road, Okehampton, Devon, admitted two charges of threatening a person with a bladed article at the White Hart Hotel in Okehampton. The incident happened at about 18:00...
City – and O’Reilly – have grown accustomed to winning but the team have fallen short of the high standards they have set in recent seasons. They have been deposed at the top of the Premier League by new champions Liverpool, relinquishing their four-year grip on the trophy, while being knocked out of the Champions...
German referee Felix Zwayer, who once served a ban for alleged involvement in a match-fixing plot, will take charge of next week’s all-English Europa League final between Tottenham and Manchester United. Zwayer, now 43, was given a six-month suspension in 2006 after he was investigated for taking a £250 bribe from official Robert Hoyzer, who was...
Nine people have appeared in court charged over a fatal acid attack on a man in his home. Danny Cahalane, 38, was attacked on Lipson Road, Plymouth, on 21 February and died in hospital on 3 May, Devon and Cornwall Police said. Seven men from London and two women from Plymouth made separate appearances at...