Ocon hits out at 'fabricated' stories of rift with Haas
MONTREAL, May 21 : French driver Esteban Ocon hit out on Thursday at 'fabricated' stories about a rift with his Haas Formula One team.
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Southampton manager Eckert authorised spying scheme, commission says
May 21 : Southampton manager Tonda Eckert accepted that he had signed off on the plan to spy on opponents' training sessions that led to the club's expulsion from the Championship playoff final, an Independent Disciplinary Commission said in its ruling.
England World Cup Roster Update: Foden, Palmer, Maguire Out; Toney, Madueke In
Ahead of England's official squad confirmation on May 22, a series of high-profile omissions have shocked the English football landscape.
Canada’s Cyle Larin's late-season revival takes strange turn
Cyle Larin’s star-crossed career took another strange turn this week.
Relegation fight, Salah’s last game and Guardiola’s likely exit as Premier League reaches finale
LONDON: The Premier League will say goodbye to West Ham or Tottenham on Sunday. Mohamed Salah and Bernardo Silva, too. Likely Pep Guardiola as well. Emotions are sure to run high in the final round of a season that has already delivered a relatively new champion — Arsenal hadn’t won the title since 2004 before clinching it on Tuesday — but still has plenty of stories to tell when all 10 games are played concurrently. Like which of two recent winners of European competitions — 2023 Conference League champion West Ham or 2025 Europa League champion Tottenham — will be the final team to drop into the Championship, joining Wolverhampton and Burnley in getting relegated. West Ham have it all to do to maintain their 14-year top-flight status. The team that plays in the 68,000-capacity Olympic Stadium in east London occupy third-to-last place — the final relegation spot — and are two points behind Tottenham with an inferior goal difference of 12. West Ham must, therefore, beat Leeds at home and also need Tottenham to lose at home to Everton in north London. Everton have collected more points away than at home this season and Spurs have won only once at home in the league since the opening weekend, so all is not lost for West Ham. Tottenham being relegated would be a huge development for English soccer. Spurs have been an ever-present in the Premier League since the competition was rebranded in 1992 and last played in the second tier in the 1977-78 season. Salah’s Liverpool exit turned sour
UK sending three police officers to World Cup for ‘cultural’ help
LONDON: British police are sending just three officers to the US as “cultural interpreters” during the World Cup given the lack of any US funding, UK police said on Thursday. By contrast, 40 officers went to Germany for the 2024 European Championships, with financing by the hosts, said Mark Roberts, who leads football policing. “The States are not funding mobile travel delegations this time,” Roberts told reporters of next month’s tournament where England and Scotland will play their three opening group games in the US Both nations have a huge traveling fan base and the English have a history of hooliganism, though the exorbitant cost may put many off this tournament which is being co-hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico. “Our fans at World Cups are really well behaved ... I’m not anticipating problems, but clearly we’d rather have a presence there that can get involved if we are seeing issues develop,” Roberts added, stressing that he was not criticizing the US decision nor was there hostility to a UK deployment. The White House Task Force for the FIFA World Cup 2026 did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Two additional British officers will be working with US authorities at the Washington-based International Police Cooperation Center. “Most of the other European countries just aren’t bothering” to send their own officers to the tournament, Roberts added.
‘Historic moment’: Fighters walk the red carpet ahead of ‘Glory in Giza’
GIZA, CAIRO: The boxers taking part in “Glory in Giza” on Wednesday spoke to international media and walked the red carpet at the venue where the event, part of Riyadh Season, will take place on Saturday.
Classy Aston Villa cruise to Europa League glory in Istanbul
Aston Villa ended their 30-year wait for a trophy as they strolled to an emphatic 3-0 victory over Freiburg in the Europa League final in Istanbul.