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I spent four months in the company of #Millwall captain Jake Cooper
It was an eventful period that ended with a painful defeat in the playoffs this week
This tells the story of that time and what life looks like for an EFL footballer
(Free to read)
nytimes.com/athletic/7272721…
Galatasaray fans celebrate their 4-2 win in Lille tonight outside the Stade Pierre-Mauroy
Their first victory in this season’s Champions League
Lille home supporters hold up a banner reading 'Lille contre les casseurs, soutien aux commercants' ('Lille against the vandals, support for the shopkeepers') following last weekend’s riots
LOSC had been leading Galatasaray 2-1, but currently trail 4-2
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FIFA’s controversial Peace Prize could be scrapped at the end of the year — only 12 months after U.S. President Donald Trump received the award.
Full story from @Dan_Sheldon_ — free to read ⬇️
bit.ly/4ypbC2U
Report from Lyon, where Pierre Sage had an unhappy homecoming
His first nine games at Crystal Palace has seen 33 goals. There’s no shortage of entertainment under the Frenchman, but too much of it is coming at Palace’s expense
Brighton (a) next
#CPFC
nytimes.com/athletic/7694199…
Chants of ‘Pierre Sage’ from the home Lyon supporters at the Groupama Stadium
Not the homecoming the Crystal Palace manager wanted this evening. A much improved second half for Palace, but so open defensively again
#OLCRY
▪️ How Arteta's triple change had the desired effect (again)
▪️ The power of the Arsenal bench
▪️ Eze's first goal of the season
▪️ The Madueke left/right wing conundrum
#AFC briefing from their 3-0 #UCL victory over Lille with @LiamTharmeCoach
nytimes.com/athletic/7683697…
A warm reception for Olivier Giroud on his return to the Emirates tonight
Now 40 years old, Giroud scored 105 goals for Arsenal over almost six years
Rui Pinto - the Portuguese whistleblower whose leaks led to the investigation into Manchester City - features in the new mural in the tunnel outside the Emirates Stadium
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For the first time since Manchester City were found guilty of more than 100 Premier League charges, supporters of English top-flight teams returned to stadiums this weekend, with City's fate inevitably a hot topic of conversation.
We spoke to fans at Premier League games up and down the country to find out how they feel about City now - and what sanctions they feel would be fair if an appeal fails.
📝 @TBurrows16
Free to read: bit.ly/4zqINDQ
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Nothing will keep this story and the pressure for sanctions stronger than Man City continually winning and being dominant. It’s going to be the season-long drumbeat. Even more so if they did know in summer about this and went even harder in transfer market as a result.
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Manchester United fans will welcome back the historic Stretford End ‘ticker’ for Saturday’s home game against Tottenham Hotspur.
The flag first appeared hanging from the newly built upper tier of the Stretford End in 2000 with ‘24 YEARS’ — marking when rivals Manchester City had last won a trophy, their 1976 League Cup triumph — but was taken down after City won the FA Cup in 2011, by which time it had risen to ‘35 YEARS’.
📝 @AndyMitten
🔗 nyti.ms/4hQe4ZQ
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🚨 Exclusive: The Friedkin Group (TFG) is open to a full sale of Everton as it seeks external investment in the Premier League club.
More from @David_Ornstein
🔗 nyti.ms/4eoHOvU
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How did Manchester City introduce 'sham' spending?
What was the extent of it?
How much did it increase over nine years?
In the first part of a special four-part series, @CWeatherspoon_ explains the numbers behind the financial scandal engulfing the Premier League leaders.
Free to read: bit.ly/4zrqeQd
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Southampton head coach Tonda Eckert has been given a suspended six-week ban by the FA after its investigation into the ‘Spygate’ scandal that saw the club kicked out of the Championship play-off final in May.
More from @David_Ornstein
🔗 nyti.ms/4AS9t27
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Exclusive: Inside #MCFC vs the Premier League
🔷 How Manchester City were hacked
🔷 The story behind the club's defence
🔷 Bitter battle to prevent disclosure
🔷 Breaches of almost £100m in a single season
🔷 True significance of Aguero's famous goal
nytimes.com/athletic/7651933…
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Manchester City have lodged their appeal against the verdict delivered by the independent regulatory commission which found them guilty of almost all charges relating to breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.
More from @JordanC1107
nyti.ms/4yvUNnM
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Karamoko Dembele was only 13 when a clip of him dancing around the Barcelona team went viral.
He played in the same England youth team as Jude Bellingham and Jamal Musiala. He had the football world at his feet.
Here, in his first sit-down interview, he speaks to @JordanC1107 about why it went wrong and why he is determined to deliver on his talent.
🔗 nyti.ms/4xWwcav
‘This man is built like an Adonis. I’m built like a blancmange’
A piece from last night’s Fury/Joshua presser - a largely convivial affair, which included references to Ryan Giggs, Dua Lipa and Fury calling Eddie Hearn a ‘sausage’
nytimes.com/athletic/7647271…
Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury entering the stage for tonight’s press conference - the first meeting of the pair, ahead of a fight that’s been years in the making
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With the FIFA Presidential election six months away, and the embattled Gianni Infantino seeking to hang on for a final term, The Athletic wrote to all 211 federations to ask about their voting intentions.
The results paint an uncertain picture, with Infantino facing a complicated and precarious path to reelection.
@PJBuckingham on the kingmakers who will decide on FIFA’s future leader.
🔗 nyti.ms/3T9VB2j
