Searched Word(s): Football
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Eight shocking figures as new report highlights football's looming ‘financial disaster'
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MIKE KEEGAN: The majority of clubs in English football are 'living on the edge of financial disaster'‚ a bombshell investigation has found. The Independent Football Regulator's long-awaited State of the Game report demands 'urgent reform' while delivering the troubling revelation that an incredible 94 per cent of clubs are loss-making‚ with two-thirds of those in the EFL and National League effectively trading while insolvent. A desperate push to keep up with rivals in a world of spiralling player wages has been identified‚ which has created 'a dangerous cocktail of rising debt and over-reliance on owner funding' which 'leaves clubs and their fans at risk'.
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A football fan has admitted to drinking five cans of lager before launching himself from the upper tier of a stand onto rival supporters below‚ leaving a woman injured.
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Why are some football shin pads so small?
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ALEX JENNINGS: Talk to people in football about Davide‚ son of Carlo‚ and their responses might as well be about his dad. Amiable. Unflappable. Intelligent. Tactically flexible. Good man-manager. Tale padre‚ tale figlio‚ as they say in Milan. Like father‚ like son. Where Davide diverges from Carlo is a lack of experience - more specifically the absence of a trophy cabinet full to the point of bursting. While Carlo has won the European Cup seven times as a player and manager‚ the younger Ancelotti will be managing in just his second game in the competition at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night. Work to do‚ too‚ after his Champions League debut saw his Lille side twice blow a lead at home to Real Betis.
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What is tragedy chanting? Punishment for offensive football songs explained
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OLIVER HOLT AT ANFIELD: Manchester City delighted in a delirious dance with their own notoriety at Anfield on Sunday evening. The team belonging to the club branded the biggest cheats in English sporting history embraced their shame and laughed in the face of the scorn of the rest of football.
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Beth Mead: Our fight for girls' football in schools has been pushed back‚ but we won't give up
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OLIVER HOLT: Is this an apparition that we see before us? Is it real? Is Liverpool-Manchester City at Anfield a football match or a ghost-game? Will it remain in the sport's history books or will it be erased when City's guilty verdicts on 114 charges of financial chicanery meet their punishment sometime in the months ahead? There was a time when any Premier League clash between these two sides would have been regarded as the best advertisement for the English game that there could be. Not anymore. This game is being played at a wonderful stadium but it might as well be in a circus tent. It is not a match. It is a giant and terrible curiosity. The great managers who helped to define this collision between modern giants - Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola - are both gone and now this clash stands for something else: it marks the start of a period of slow torture for the top flight in this country‚ a period when we cannot know whether there is any permanence attached to results that involve City. A period when we will not know whether we should believe what we see.
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The Premier League is back. After a tedious‚ extended three-week break for international football‚ the club game is back upon us this weekend‚ and it returns with a bang. Champions Arsenal look to get back to winning ways on Saturday lunchtime as they host an unbeaten Leeds United side at the Emirates. However‚ the main event of the day comes later in the evening. Manchester United are winless in the Premier League since their 5-2 victory over Ipswich in late August and they take on a Tottenham side who are yet to pick up a single win in the league campaign at Old Trafford.
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Riyad Mahrez has risked infuriating his wife Taylor Ward with a comment he made to Dele Alli during the former Tottenham star's live stream. Alli‚ 30‚ was speaking to various footballer friends on his Twitch channel and Mahrez did not appear to appreciate that he was being broadcast live to thousands of fans watching on. Mahrez picked up the call and struggled to hear Alli when he says: 'I'm in London‚ streaming‚ I was just calling people‚ they can hear you‚ they can hear you live on stream bro.'
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IAN LADYMAN: For Enzo Maresca‚ relief finally came thirteen minutes into a quarter of an hour press conference when someone asked a routine question about Erling Haaland's fitness. 'Ah‚ finally‚' the coach of Manchester City smiled. It was the first and only question of the day that had anything to do with the actual football. And this - with City now living some weird post-115 version of reality - is how it will be for the foreseeable future.
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'You can be a mum and a footballer - they can co-exist'
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Arsenal will return to Premier League action with a much-depleted squad after they were hit hardest by injuries during the dreaded international break. There are several reasons why most football fans dislike international breaks - especially when they last three weeks - but chief among them is the fact they regularly leave their club's best players injured. It is usually the league's top teams that are most affected because they have so many high-quality players at international level. And it is no different this time.
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Spygate: one of football's stranger and more pointless transgressions
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Inside the £1-an-hour official football shirt factories
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MIKE KEEGAN: Southampton manager Tonda Eckert has escaped a ban following the FA's investigation into Spygate. The Saints supremo has been handed a six-week expulsion from all football however‚ the penalty is suspended until the end of next season. Southampton were thrown out of last season's Championship play-offs after Daily Mail Sport revealed the incredible revelation that they had spied on opponents Middlesbrough at a training session.
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How fans are falling in love with football again
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Lionel Messi's Argentina farewell match descended into a Falklands propaganda showcase as the departing footballer embraced a war veteran draped in a 'Malvinas' flag. The superstar winked as he greeted Fabio Santana‚ who sang the national anthem before his swansong against Benin. Santana served for Argentina in the Falklands War‚ and draped himself in a flag that read: 'The Falklands are ours' in Spanish.
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Which footballers have ended scoring droughts with a goal off their backside?
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My 23 favourite pictures after visiting all 92 football league stadiums
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Next Generation 2026: 60 of the best young talents in world football
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Plans for one of the hosts most ambitious venues for 2034‚ a futuristic elevated football stadium have been scrapped‚ worrying fans and pouring £2billion down the drain in the process.
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'A football star reveals the name of the celebrity who sexually abused him: "I confirm it"'
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Malachy Clerkin: Pep Guardiola said Manchester City destroyed football - he didn't know how right he was
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Our women's football newsletter
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Perhaps the most exhilarating feeling for football fans is when your team bags a late goal to snatch the victory right at the death. And the Premier League has proven time and again that‚ as the planet's most exciting division‚ it is never shy of goalscoring drama. Daily Mail sport‚ in collaboration with Opta‚ looks at which Premier League legends have had the most game-winning goals and assists‚ per minute. So‚ who are the top 10 match-winners in the league's history?
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The crisis at Dulwich Hamlet explained - and why all football fans should care
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Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrimsson was forced to end his press conference early after his players were accused of using a racist term by an Israeli journalist one day before the two nations are set to meet again in Nations League action. The first Ireland-Israel tie earlier this week became football's most politically charged match amid calls for the Republic to boycott the fixture due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. While the fixture went ahead‚ Ireland's players voted to wear black armbands to honour civilian lives lost in the conflict‚ lower their heads during the Israeli national anthem‚ and fail to exchange pennants as is custom during international ties.
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The Man City whistleblower whose hacked emails played a role in sparking the Premier League's investigation into the club's finances has lost his witness protection in Portugal‚ and is looking to raise over £2.55million to 'relocate within the next few days'. Through his Football Leaks site‚ Pinto released thousands of confidential documents‚ including confidential emails from inside Man City‚ which formed the basis for reporting by Der Spiegel in 2018. This in turn launched probes from both UEFA and the Premier League into the club's practices‚ the latter's investigation coming to a head this week with the confirmation of a guilty verdict on all of their serious breaches of the league's financial regulations.
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OLIVER HOLT: This is the top flight of English football now‚ this faceless parade‚ this feast of redaction‚ this lawyers' jamboree‚ this case without end‚ this land of double-speak and deflection and filibuster.
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‘Genius' and ‘greatest achievement in football history' emerge from ‘brain dead' Manchester City wreckage
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The football horse that Burnham rode in on is already bucking his vibe
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TOM COLLOMOSSE: Unai Emery claims 'many clubs' have 'inflated their budgets' as English football tries to adjust to its greatest modern scandal. Manchester City were found by a Premier League independent panel to have illegally pumped in more than £900million to swerve financial rules‚ thanks largely to their ownership group topping up commercial partnerships to the tune of £830.69m. The club have appealed against the verdict. Now Aston Villa boss Emery has become the first Premier League boss to comment on the matter. Asked by Spanish publication Diario de Sevilla what might be the effect on the English top flight‚ Emery said: 'It's an issue that was already known. Because we all have our restrictions‚ we have to sell players to comply with Financial Fair Play‚ we have to figure out how to draw up contracts with new people.
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Sir Alex Ferguson on why he had to sell “tremendous footballer” despite Man United fan protests
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Insiders and club doctors reveal the truth about doping in football
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Football in the face of civil war: 'It would be very nice to give the world a different headline'
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England striker Ivan Toney has arrived at court to face an allegation that he assaulted a man at a Soho nightclub. The 30-year-old footballer‚ from Northampton‚ is accused of attacking Saber Da Silva at a nightclub in Wardour Street‚ central London‚ on December 6. Toney was charged on July 31 with assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a Metropolitan Police investigation.
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