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• Amorim says he has confidence in Onana after errors

  11-04-2025 09:24 via bbc.com
  
  Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim says he is "really confident" in goalkeeper Andre Onana despite his mistakes.
  
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• Matty Godden’s late strike fires Charlton past Wycombe and into playoff final

  16-05-2025 00:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Matty Godden’s late strike sent Charlton through to the League One playoff final after a 1-0 win over Wycombe. Godden scrambled the only goal over the two legs after 171 minutes of attritional football to secure a Wembley date against Leyton Orient on 25 May. The Charlton manager, Nathan Jones, sank to his knees as fans invaded the pitch in emotional scenes after the final whistle.Lloyd Jones had earlier missed a golden chance for Charlton, while Kayne Ramsay made two stunning blocks to de
  
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• Uefa accuses Infantino of pursuing ‘private interests’ on Trump’s tour

  15-05-2025 23:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Fifa president arrives late at congress after Gulf tripEurope delegates walk out in protest at schedule changesUefa has accused the Fifa ­president, Gianni Infantino, of pursuing ­“private political interests” ahead of his responsibilities to football. The shock intervention from European football’s governing body came after several national delegates walked out on the annual Fifa congress earlier on Thursday.The delegates, who included the president of Uefa, Aleksander
  
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• Maresca seeks mood swing and tells Chelsea players to ‘take responsibility’

  15-05-2025 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Team fighting for top five and Conference League trophyMaresca: ‘Show desire to bring club where it has to be’Enzo Maresca has urged Chelsea’s players to take responsibility in the season’s closing weeks, with the club fighting for a top-five finish in the Premier League and preparing for the Conference League final.Fifth-placed Chelsea meet Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Friday night in their penultimate league fixture before a trip to Nottingham Forest, another
  
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• Barcelona crowned La Liga champions after victory over 10-man Espanyol

  15-05-2025 23:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Barça’s 28th title caps fine debut season for Hansi FlickLamine Yamal scores stunner in 2-0 win over local rivalsThe day the league title race began, Wojciech Szczesny was sitting on the beach in Marbella, lighting up a cigarette, enjoying his retirement; the day it ended nine months on, he was there on the pitch at the RCDE stadium 1,000km north, celebrating alongside the old friends and new with whom he had just become a champion again. At 35, the Polish goalkeeper had been convin
  
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• Delegates walk out of Fifa congress after Infantino arrives late from Trump trip

  15-05-2025 22:16 via theguardian.com
  
  FA chair among those to walk out of annual meetingInfantino arrived late after Donald Trump tripRepresentatives from several European Fifa member associations walked out of the governing body’s annual congress in Paraguay in protest of president Gianni Infantino’s late arrival to the proceedings on Thursday. Infantino had been in the Middle East this week along with Donald Trump visiting leaders from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and arrived in Paraguay hours late for a scheduled 10.30am s
  
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• Hull sack head coach Rubén Sellés despite avoiding drop

  15-05-2025 22:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Club escaped Championship relegation on final daySpaniard won nine of 27 league games in chargeHull have sacked their head coach, Rubén Sellés, after less than six months in charge.The club escaped Championship relegation on the final day of the season on goal difference, having been bottom when Sellés was appointed in December. The 41-year-old Spaniard is the third manager sacked by the Hull owner, Acun Ilicali, in the past 12 months and the club now begin their search for
  
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• Bicycle kick winner for Club Atlético Independiente against Independiente Rivadavia – video

  15-05-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Santiago Montiel scored a dramatic goal from outside of the area to seal a 1-0 win for Club Atlético Independiente against Independiente Rivadavia.Continue reading...
  
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• Alexis Ohanian’s £20m investment in Chelsea Women hailed as ‘great respect’

  15-05-2025 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Sonia Bompastor praises ‘game-changing’ cash injectionFunding boosts manager’s Champions League hopesSonia Bompastor has described the £20m investment of the Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in Chelsea Women as “a gamechanging investment for the women’s game” before their FA Cup final against Manchester United on Sunday, at which the new minority owner will be in attendance.“We speak about the investment but it is also the values underpinning it,&r
  
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• Real Madrid’s Raúl Asencio could face trial over alleged sharing of explicit video

  15-05-2025 18:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Asencio and three former Madrid youth players accusedGran Canaria incident in 2023 involved ‘a female minor’The Real Madrid defender Raúl Asencio and three former youth players at the club could face trial in connection with the alleged filming and distribution of a sexual video that has left two women, one of them a minor, with symptoms of post-traumatic stress.In a statement released on Wednesday, a judge on Gran Canaria said he had concluded his preliminary investigation in
  
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• Marcus Rashford could make £40m move to one of Aston Villa’s rivals

  15-05-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  No clause in loan deal that stops other clubs buying himStriker eager to join Champions League sideMarcus Rashford could move for £40m to a team other than Aston Villa should Manchester United receive a bid of this value despite the Midlands club having an option to buy him for that sum.Rashford signed for Villa on loan in January and it is understood there is no clause in their agreement with United that prevents other clubs from buying him for the same price if the parent club and forwar
  
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• Liverpool poised to trigger Jeremie Frimpong’s €35m Leverkusen release clause

  15-05-2025 17:03 via theguardian.com
  Dutch international came through Manchester City ranksTrent Alexander-Arnold exit leaves right-back gapLiverpool are set to trigger Jeremie Frimpong’s €35m (£29.5m) release clause after contacting Bayer Leverkusen and holding talks with the defender as they seek a replacement for Trent Alexander-Arnold.The Netherlands international has been of interest to his compatriot Arne Slot for a lengthy period. Frimpong was born in Amsterdam but spent much of his childhood in Manchester a
  
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• Football Daily | Ajax and a potential title choke of apocalyptic proportions

  15-05-2025 16:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Denied a nail-biting denouement by the Best League In The World™, where the champions and relegated sides were all but mathematically confirmed about 15 matches ago, more than a few Premier League observers have spent the past couple of weeks glancing towards the Netherlands while exhibiting hitherto unprecedented symptoms of a malaise Football Daily is diagnosing as Eredivisie Envy. For so long the neglected cousin of Europe’s Big F
  
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• Son Heung-min tells South Korean police he is victim of blackmail attempt

  15-05-2025 16:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Spurs captain said to be target of false pregnancy claimKulusevski could miss start of next season after surgerySon Heung-min has filed a complaint to South Korean police alleging he was the victim of a blackmail attempt, his agency said, after media reports that a woman had threatened the Tottenham captain with a false pregnancy claim.“The police are currently investigating, so we will let you know the results as soon as they are available,” his agency, Son & Football Limited, s
  
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• Manchester City and PSG to face no action over alleged breaches of EU competition law

  15-05-2025 15:33 via theguardian.com
  La Liga complained about state aid to European CommissionSubmission reportedly provided insufficient evidenceManchester City and Paris Saint-Germain will face no action from the European Commission after allegations they breached EU competition law. La Liga’s president, Javier Tebas, had filed complaints about the clubs’ alleged use of state resources under the EU’s foreign subsidies regulation.Tebas alleged in his submission in July 2023 that City and PSG receive resources und
  
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• ‘Right now all of us lose’: Shakhtar claim Ukrainian Cup in glimpse of past life

  15-05-2025 15:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Final against Dynamo Kyiv had edge, flares and burning Russian flags but some of the enmity has gone; as one fan says: ‘Aggression must stay in the war zone’Valeriy Bondar vaults a perfunctory metal fence, is handed a flare from somewhere in the melee and waves it around in the night sky. Shakhtar Donetsk have won the Ukrainian Cup, finally beating Dynamo Kyiv on penalties: light and smoke fill the air in Polissya Stadion’s south-west corner but there is something else, too. A
  
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• Liverpool negotiating Jeremie Frimpong transfer with Bayer Leverkusen

  15-05-2025 14:32 via theguardian.com
  Dutch international player has £30m release clauseTrent Alexander-Arnold exit leaves right-back gapLiverpool are in talks with the Bayer Leverkusen defender Jeremie Frimpong as the Premier League champions seek a replacement for Trent Alexander-Arnold.The Netherlands international has been of interest to his compatriot Arne Slot for a lengthy period and Liverpool are set to trigger his £30m release clause. Frimpong was born in Amsterdam but spent much of his childhood in Manchester a
  
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• Fifa breaching own human rights rules over Saudi Arabian World Cup, lawyers say

  15-05-2025 14:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Fifa ‘under an obligation’ to see ‘human rights are upheld’Group including ex-Fifa adviser makes official complaintA group of leading lawyers has submitted an official complaint to Fifa, alleging the governing body has failed to follow its own human rights rules in relation to the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia. The 30-page complaint has been filed via Fifa’s official grievance mechanism and calls for immediate action in five areas.The complaint has been authored by
  
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• Fifa breaching own human rights rules over Saudi Arabia World Cup, lawyers say

  15-05-2025 14:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Fifa ‘under an obligation’ to see ‘human rights are upheld’Group including ex-Fifa adviser makes official complaintA group of leading lawyers has submitted an official complaint to Fifa, alleging the governing body has failed to follow its own human rights rules in relation to the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia. The 30-page complaint has been filed via Fifa’s official grievance mechanism and calls for immediate action in five areas.The complaint has been authored by
  
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• Ismaïla Sarr: the bargain buy who has become Crystal Palace’s unsung hero

  15-05-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Senegal forward’s signing last summer was years in the making and his double helped fire Palace to the FA Cup finalIsmaïla Sarr hasn’t had many more memorable weeks. But most remarkable about his match-winning performance for Crystal Palace in the FA Cup semi-final against Aston Villa is that it came after his wife, Fatou, had given birth to twins a few days earlier. “It was a surprise – nobody knew,” said the manager Oliver Glasner after Palace’s thrilli
  
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• Jamie Vardy opting to make Leicester farewell on home soil against Ipswich

  15-05-2025 12:33 via theguardian.com
  
  38-year-old to miss away finale and bow out at homeTitle-winning teammates expected for Sunday’s gameJamie Vardy is expected to call time on his Leicester career after his 500th appearance for the club this weekend. Vardy, regarded by many as Leicester’s greatest ever player, has spent 13 years at the club and is poised to make his final appearance for them at home to Ipswich on Sunday and then not feature in their final Premier League match, at Bournemouth.The 38-year-old striker, w
  
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• Bologna’s unlikely Coppa Italia triumph ends long wait for silverware

  15-05-2025 12:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Dan Ndoye’s goal secures a 1-0 win over Milan and sparks scenes of joy in the Piazza Maggiore once againVincenzo Italiano knew there was a little bit of poison in the chalice offered to him last summer but accepted it anyway. The opportunity to manage Bologna was a chance to lead a Champions League team for the first time in his career. It was also an invitation to become the public face of a project that had nowhere to go but backwards.What could he possibly do to improve on the work of t
  
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• ‘Proving people wrong’: how Central Coast Mariners reached A-League Women grand final

  15-05-2025 12:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Emily Husband, one of only two female coaches in the league, can create history against Melbourne Victory on SundayThe Central Coast Mariners weren’t supposed to crash the A-League Women grand final, but they face Melbourne Victory at AAMI Park on Sunday.Two years ago they didn’t even exist. The Mariners’ women’s programme was in its 13th year of inactivity after being mothballed for financial reasons (serious concerns over the ever-impecunious club’s viability stil
  
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• ‘Boring … horrific’: Erling Haaland on Manchester City’s season of defeats

  15-05-2025 09:59 via theguardian.com
  Striker puts focus on FA Cup final against Crystal Palace‘We need to finish well and get a trophy,’ he saysErling Haaland has described Manchester City’s season as “horrific” and “boring” owing to the champions losing so many games, and said that makes winning Saturday’s FA Cup final against Crystal Palace even more vital.City, the Premier League title winners in the past four seasons, are fourth, 18 points behind the champions, Liverpool, having l
  
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• Stunned Sampdoria relegated to Serie C: how did it come to this?

  15-05-2025 09:04 via theguardian.com
  
  One of the most beloved Italian clubs of the past 40 years now face a long way back to return to glory daysIt was not meant to go like this. On a Tuesday evening on the outskirts of Naples, Sampdoria – one of the most beloved Italian clubs of the past 40 years – slipped into Serie C with a whimper – the first time in the club’s history that they have been relegated to Italy’s third tier.At the final whistle, following a dismal goalless draw at Juve Stabia, Sampdoria
  
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• The big FA Cup final quiz

  15-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  As Crystal Palace and Manchester City prepare to meet at Wembley, how well do you recall the previous 143 finals?By The Football Mine Continue reading...
  
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• Colin Harvey: ‘How do you go from being a kid watching Everton to having a statue?’

  15-05-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Elegant player and legendary coach looks back on some of his finest moments at ‘iconic’ Goodison ParkStanding outside a pawnbrokers on Goodison Road, waiting for his dad to emerge through the crowd after the match, a young Colin Harvey could not have imagined what lay in front of him. Standing in the same place today, the great Evertonian would face a statue of himself immortalised alongside fellow members of “The Holy Trinity”, Howard Kendall and Alan Ball. Time has not
  
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• Leyton Orient stun Stockport in shootout to reach League One playoff final

  15-05-2025 00:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Leyton Orient held their nerve in a penalty shootout to reach the League One playoff final after a gripping semi-final battle with Stockport.Jack Diamond and Ryan Rydel missed from 12 yards as Orient prevailed 4-1 on spot-kicks after an absorbing tie had ended 3-3 on aggregate following a breathless 1-1 draw at Edgeley Park. Continue reading...
  
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• Real Madrid’s last-gasp winner against Mallorca delays Barcelona title party

  15-05-2025 00:08 via theguardian.com
  This may have done no more than delay the inevitable and no one truly believes in a miracle, but suddenly there was a roar, a release, some life at the Santiago Bernabéu. The day before, Carlo Ancelotti had talked about the many wonderful comebacks over his years at Real Madrid, moments he said would never be forgotten, and now here in his penultimate game in this stadium was another, the 20-year-old centre-back Jacobo Ramón scoring with the last touch of the game to defeat Real Ma
  
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• Awoniyi’s injury should lead to a rethink over flawed offside protocol | Jacob Steinberg

  14-05-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Assistant referees need more scope to use their common sense as opposed to simply relying on VARIt was an accident waiting to happen. Anyone with an ounce of common sense could see the potential for the International Football Association Board’s offside protocols in the era of the video assistant referee (VAR) system to cause serious injury. Needless collisions are inexcusable. It should not have been allowed to reach the point where we are wondering whether Nottingham Forest’s Taiwo
  
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