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2024 Olympics TV schedule This covers a gold medal match/race/event in all of the 45 disciplines (which are listed in gold, obviously). Thought this might be useful for people.
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No spoilers, but this is the cleverest football advert I've ever seen.
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6 years
This is the absolute best. Footballer as inspiration.
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Making the armbands black and white so you can't see the rainbow. We see you.
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Why is the mirror image of David Beckham in the window Paul Chuckle?
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A three-match ban costs Chelsea about £1.2m. Incredible
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I'm not saying it's going badly, but Bury have won away from home more recently than Manchester United and they aren't a club anymore.
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Wolves fans chanting "Raheem Sterling, he's top of the league" That has *not* gone down well at Anfield.
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Big fan of Adnan Januzaj playing for Man United, Sunderland and now joining Real Sociedad, like he's on a weird David Moyes tribute tour.
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3 years
My favourite criticism of Alex Scott getting the Football Focus gig (which she will be great at) is that "she didn't play at the highest level", as if Dan Walker took off his shin pads after his last England hattrick and walked straight to the studios.
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AFCON 2021 QFs: Senegal, Egypt, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Cameroon, Tunisia AFCON 2023 QFs: Nigeria, DR Congo, Angola, South Africa, Mali, Cape Verde, Guinea, Ivory Coast Every single nation replaced by another. Unprecedented in major tournament history.
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I'm not buying Luke Shaw saying he's fit for the new season, to be honest.
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Anfield chanting that Luis Suarez is a cheat. Wait until you hear about the racism, guys.
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4 years
If you think Gary Neville was wrong for pointing out the Prime Minister's history of saying racist things, you are playing down the significance of the Prime Minister saying racist things. Which is part of the problem.
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After some deliberation, my England right-back XI.
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Story of the weekend in the EFL at Wigan.
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According to UEFA report, Tottenham wage bill is €148m. So you could double the wages of every single Tottenham player, they could sign seven new players on £100,000 a week, and they would *still* have a lower wage bill than Manchester City. That's why Pochettino gets praised.
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Since August 2015, Dimitri Payet has created 28 more chances than any other West Ham player. He left in January 2017.
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This has put women in the firing line for misogynistic abuse when the decision should already have been made higher up the chain. It's a lamentable abdication of responsibility.
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🚨 BREAKING: Man United 'DELAY making a decision on Mason Greenwood's return because they want to consult their Women's World Cup players' READ MORE:
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Tottenham are reportedly paying Jose Mourinho £15m a year. That would mean he earns £88,000 a week more than any of the club's players.
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Pour shit on a footballer for having a gun tattoo because it 'glamourises violence', then romanticise an actual World War as motivation for a sporting contest to your millions of followers. Classic Morgan.
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Manchester United have spent two months negotiating only to pay the original asking price, when they could have had him throughout preseason. Good to get their man, but they are such a bizarre club at boardroom level.
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Spanish coach Jorge Vilda's name is announced in the stadium, to widespread boos. The name of every player was cheered.
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5 years
David Moyes' initial contract as Manchester United manager still has five months to run.
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In the last two years, Leicester City have sold three players for £200m who cost them £17.4m to buy. Have gained more points in each season. If you sit outside the financial elite, selling is a sign of sense not an admission of weakness if you get the recruitment right.
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7 years
Odd way of spelling 'human rights lawyer encourages the UN to investigate allegations of genocide against ISIS'.
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4 years
Tottenham have become the first team to fail to have a shot on target against Bournemouth since Middlesbrough in the Championship in March 2015.
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4 years
This is a ridiculous Premier League season. Five weeks ago Southampton were in the bottom three. Now they're three points off fifth.
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5 years
Love the idea that Wayne Hennessey takes an interest in World War I history, but binned off the sequel.
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4 years
Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's permanent appointment, Manchester United have won fewer league games than Burnley.
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4 years
Do as I say, not as I...said.
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6 years
Buys expensive things = lavish, extravagant, extreme. Buys cheap things = cheapskate This is the absolute pits of journalism, whipping up a faux controversy about how a young, black sportsperson spends his money.
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Dele Alli has reached 75 club goals at the age of just 22. Steven Gerrard was on the same number at the age of 27, Frank Lampard 26.
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Anthony Martial is only 21 months away from being eligible for a Manchester United testimonial.
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4 years
"Feed the Scousers," sing Arsenal supporters, because poverty and austerity are the best banter topics at Christmas.
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5 years
Adidas have created a pair of football boots that deserve to be crowned Miss World 2019.
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Plymouth, 4.35am. Two coaches of supporters ready to leave for the 3pm kick off in Sunderland.
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'Scientists insist that players can only contract the Coronavirus in the last 10 minutes of every half.'
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PFA chief Gordon Taylor claims matches might be LESS than 45 minutes per half when Premier League returns
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I'm not sure people realise how mad a 48-team, 104-match World Cup is going to be. Between June 13 and June 27 2026, there will be 68 group games. That's almost a fifth of an entire Premier League season in 15 days.
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Firmly believe that one way to improve FA Cup would be to have any match between non-league club and opponent from top two tiers guaranteed live TV coverage. We're missing Kidderminster upset for West Ham vs Leeds, which is on TV next weekend too.
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Another potential help to fill time. Here's a link to download Championship Manager 01/02 with up-to-date squads.
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Over the last 25 league games, Arsenal and Chelsea have taken exactly the same number of points (42). My brain cannot compute how this can be the case.
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5 years
Rafael Benitez close to confirming a move to Dalian Yifang. Huawei the lads.
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Blackpool fans at Wembley: 2010 vs 2017. This is what the toxic running of a football club does to its fanbase.
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Chelsea's longest-serving professional player is Matej Delac. He's been loaned out nine times and never made an appearance for Chelsea.
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4 years
FFP has passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u. Really cant believe this. @
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The failure to beat West Ham means that Jose Mourinho now has the lowest league win percentage of any Tottenham manager since Juande Ramos.
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6 years
Gibraltar have won more competitive matches in the last four days than Germany have won in the last year.
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Nathan Jones only won one Premier League game this season. It was against... Frank Lampard's Everton
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Frank Lampard has a 14% win ratio as a Premier League manager this season, across two clubs. He's just ahead of Nathan Jones, on 13%.
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3 years
It's here and it's beautiful
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6 years
Didn't spot this, and criticised Kane for missing the chance. This is arguably one of the greatest ever saves, given the match situation. If this goes in, England make the final.
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Stearman and Weimann scoring for Wolves, whose names sound like a Geordie lady begging her husband not to leave.
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5 years
Mark Hughes was always going to be sacked this week. You can't concede two goals to this Manchester United and hope to get away with it.
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Dusan Tadic has now scored or assisted 50 goals for Ajax this season. Fifty! By himself!
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Hearing that our game on Monday may be called off.
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RIP Nottingham Powerleague
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The manner in which Liverpool's brilliance has become normalised is madness. They have won 26 of their last 27 league matches. If that happened on a computer game you'd laugh at how unrealistic it was.
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Newcastle United's starting XI tonight cost around £40m. They have beaten Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham and Arsenal under Rafael Benitez. Imagine what he and they could be...
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5 years
@richardajkeys Richard, do you pay the wages of guests that come on BeIn Sports? If a camera needs replacing, do you chip in to buy it?
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3 years
The European Super League story is absolutely grim. I just hope that supporters remember it when their club claims to care about them as a means of emotional blackmail to increase their brand loyalty. They don't care about you, whatever the marketing slogans might imply.
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England are the first country in history to win three major men's underage tournaments in a single year. Truly exceptional.
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4 years
53 Days Later.
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4 years
Using the 'Alex Ferguson took seasons to get it right' argument to justify faith in Solskjaer is so deeply flawed. Ferguson had won three league titles, five domestic cups and two European trophies before joining them. He had a CV that argued for perseverence; Solskjaer doesn't.
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Pep Guardiola's coat is so bad that Juanma Lillo's eyes have popped out their sockets.
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@TotallyMUFC Fairly catch-all tip: If your tweet about racist abuse is followed by the word 'but', you're more a part of the problem than the solution.
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Brilliant photo of Germany team protesting against being silenced by FIFA.
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The only team to lead against Manchester City in any competition since November 21 are Cheltenham Town.
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3 years
Some professional news: Beyond delighted to say that I have been appointed as the Chief Football Writer of The i newspaper ( @theipaper ). A dream role - my best Monday morning in a long, long time.
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Alvaro Morata has been caught offside more times in the Premier League this season than Bournemouth.
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3 years
Under weaknesses you've put 'everything'
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Eden Hazard played in 33% of Chelsea's Europa League campaign, and scored in one of their 15 matches. Named Europa League Player of the Season.
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4 years
It's really weird to hear about so many famous people having Coronavirus, until you realise they are merely the ones being tested.
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@MattHancock Look forward to you calling out other extremely wealthy people in industries that are less easy targets to enable you to deflect attention.
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Australia's semi-final against England was the most watched event in Australian TV history - 11.15 million on Channel 7 alone. Not just women's football, not just football, not just sport. Any TV programme.
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Bruno Fernandes has just totally stopped playing over the last 15 minutes - shoved the assistant referee, moaned about everything, stopped running after the ball. Embarrassment tbh.
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hE's GoInG tO gO aNd MaKe A dIfFeReNcE bY cOnTiNuInG tO bE aN aLlY iN sAuDi ArABiA
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1998: Denmark vs France. Final Group C match at World Cup. Denmark won first game 1-0. Denmark drew second game 1-1. Schmeichel in goal. 2018 Denmark vs France. Final Group C match at World Cup. Denmark won first game 1-0. Denmark drew second game 1-1. Schmeichel in goal.
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The thing with Solskjaer is that he has to tread the line carefully when talking about Manchester United's recruitment. Because if the club was efficient and committed to fulfilling its potential, he wouldn't be manager.
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I reckon that Manchester United's bench on Sunday - Henderson, Bailly, Alex Telles, Matic, Pogba, Van de Beek, Mata, Greenwood, Cavani - was probably the strongest of any team in Europe this weekend. This idea that the squad isn't good enough is surely nonsense.
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Call me a killjoy, but unless the FA Cup's magic beats Covid-19 in a fight then this is bloody awful.
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Welcome to Marine .... they take on #THFC on @talkSPORT in the @EmiratesFACup
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Former Tottenham striker Steffen Iversen now looks like a Gordon Ramsay super fan who has had surgery to look more like his idol.
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Saw a Leeds fan on Twitter describe Jesse Marsch as "Yank Lampard" earlier, and it's not left my head since.
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4 years
For those that think this match is over, worth remembering that Wigan were 6-0 up against Hull in 2017 and lost. Although that was rugby league tbf.
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Tremendous error from Benjamin Mendy.
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In 2006, a student in Manchester wore an old England top to a fancy dress party and sold it on eBay. It gave him and his mate a brainwave. They now have the largest collection of shirts in the world. For @BBCSport , this is their remarkable story.
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The greatest thing about this Marcelo Bielsa press conference is the massive 'eff you' message being sent to Derby County by giving away all of his extensive analysis on them to the world (and every Championship team) for free. He could have chosen any club, but no. What a guy.
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Thank you Jordan for growing the game so efficiently that you're ready to return a hero after six months. Rome wasn't built in a day - but you weren't on that job 👏👏👏
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Leeds United have made Kiko Casilla their captain tonight. Again, this man has not apologised to Jonathan Leko for racially abusing him. This is unacceptable (and thankfully most Leeds fans totally agree). Do better.
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Last time lost consecutive league matches: Manchester City - 1 month ago Tottenham - 4 months ago Manchester United - 5 months ago Arsenal - 5 months ago Chelsea - 10 months ago Liverpool - 40 months ago
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Marcus Rashford has as many Premier League goals and assists as Raheem Sterling and Mohamed Salah this season, and more than Sadio Mane, Harry Kane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
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Most expensive defence of all time: RB - Kyle Walker (England) LB - Luke Shaw (England) CB - John Stones (England) CB - David Luiz (Brazil)
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Not saying that the England Under-21s are in good form, but 25-year-old Harry Kane started their last competitive defeat.
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You love to see it
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Big fan of Adnan Januzaj playing for Man United, Sunderland and now joining Real Sociedad, like he's on a weird David Moyes tribute tour.
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There is no reasonable excuse against it, if English football is serious about climate change: air travel to domestic matches must be banned immediately. Column.
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No player has more Premier League goals this season than Raheem Sterling. No player has more Premier League assists this season than Raheem Sterling. No player has had more touches in the penalty area in the Premier League this season than Raheem Sterling.
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4 years
Since Roy Hodgson took over at Crystal Palace, they haven't paid a fee for a defender. They've kept more clean sheets than everyone but Tottenham, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City in that time.
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After 4,618 pieces and too many hours, I have finally made St James' Park. Lockdown completed.
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Newcastle Jets' Riley McGree with a type of goal I have never seen before. Stunning.
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Liverpool are on course to record the fourth biggest points total in Premier League history, and still come second. Beware anyone who accuses either of these two teams of 'bottling' the title race. This is unprecedented.
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I think it's fair to say that Unioners are making their point.
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