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Premier League clubs have voted to temporarily block teams from striking lucrative deals with businesses that have links to their club's owners after the Saudi Arabia-backed takeover of Newcastle. The Guardian newspaper reported 18 clubs voted in favour of the ban at an emergency meeting on Monday, with Newcastle voting against and Manchester City abstaining.…
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England must play their next home match in a UEFA competition behind closed doors following disorder at the Euro 2020 final at Wembley, European football's governing body ruled on Monday.
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Real Madrid midfielder Luka Modric has criticised FIFA's plans for a biennial World Cup and expressed dismay that players have not been consulted.
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Barcelona wants to build for the future with the tantalising prospect of another group of teenage talents emerging together, but for now, reality still bites.
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Diego Simeone accepts Atletico Madrid are meeting a Liverpool side back to their best led by the “extraordinary” Mohamed Salah, reports...
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Team Lagos has clinched the gold medal in the female football event at the ongoing sixth National Youth Games holding in Ilorin, Kwara State. The state of the Centre of Excellence
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Monday his controversial plans to hold a World Cup every two years will help spread the fund's football generates away from a handful of super clubs.
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A 66-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a charge in relation to the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in a light aircraft crash in 2019, a British court heard on Monday.
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Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema goes on trial in France on Wednesday accused of complicity in the attempted blackmail of former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena in a case known as the "sex tape affair".
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Kevin De Bruyne says he can understand Raheem Sterling's frustrations after the England forward revealed he would be open to a move away from Manchester City to get more game time. Sterling has been with City since 2015, when he moved from Liverpool, and has won three Premier League titles with the club. However, the…
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Bayern Munich defender Lucas Hernandez has until October 28 to enter prison "voluntarily" after he appeared before a Madrid court on Monday for violating a restraining order in 2017. France left-back Hernandez has 10 days from Monday to enter prison "voluntarily", unless his appeal is accepted, The 25-year-old was arrested four years ago for violating…
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Arsène Wenger, the head of global football development at FIFA, will meet this week with Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr and other men’s national team coaches to discuss reforms to the international calendar from 2024 and the controversial proposal to play the World Cup every two years. Wenger is the frontman for the plan that…
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Three persons have been reportedly trapped while one has been confirmed dead in a fresh building collapse on Monday night in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. Two other persons were rescued from the collapsed two-storey building by residents of the area. Confirming the incident on Tuesday,, the South West Coordinator of the National Emergency Management…
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Comedian and magician Phil Butler has died at the age of 51. His cause of death remains unknown as it has not yet been announced. Phil’s agents Chris Davis Management issued a statement following his sad passing. Sharing a statement on Twitter, they confirmed: It is with huge sadness we have to announce the passing…
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Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson has opened up on her weight loss noting that she understands why people are obsessed. The actress says her 60-lb. weight loss is not only about size but "about loving yourself and loving the journey that you're on." She noted that she is getting more attention now that she has…
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Forty-eight emerging leaders from around the world, including Nigeria, Togo and Sierra Leone, join the inaugural 24 fellows to build a network of 72 active fellows working to tackle global drivers of inequality. LAGOS, Nigeria, 19 October 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- New York – October 19, 2021 – The Ford Foundation has today announced its 2021 Ford…
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Attackers rely on small-sized patterns to avoid detection, as predicted by Nexusguard researchers SINGAPORE, October 19, 2021 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Small bit-and-piece DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) boomed by 233% in the first half of 2021, revealed Nexusguard researchers in the Threat Report FHY 2021. As the pandemic carried on into 2021, hackers experimented with new attack…