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Oxford United chairman Dusan Bogdanovic issues an open letter after fans express concerns with the club under a temporary transfer embargo. The embargo prevents the registration of new players until the issue is resolved, relating to League One’s Salary Cost Management Protocol (SCMP). Under the rules, clubs must demonstrate at the start of the season they can fund their planned player expenditure and afford their playing budget. Oxford haven’t been able to provide all of the required funding, and now fans have since called for more transparency, with it leaving more questions than answers, in the words of Jerome Sale…
Errol Spence Jr. recently admitted his body could no longer handle the welterweight limit, comments that have taken on added significance after his camp successfully pushed Tim Tszyu’s July 26 fight to the full middleweight limit of 160 pounds. News emerged Wednesday that the bout had been increased from the previously agreed 158-pound catchweight after another request from Spence’s side. Tszyu trainer Jeff Fenech confirmed the change while discussing the final stages of negotiations. “They’re wanting to go up two pounds, want the fight at 160,” Fenech told Fox Sports Australia. Asked whether Spence was struggling to get the weight…
Birmingham City have signed defender Millie Turner and midfielder Lisa Naalsund from Manchester United.The pair, who announced their engagement last month, are believed to have joined for six-figure fees as Birmingham prepare to return to the Women’s Super League (WSL).Birmingham won the WSL 2 title last season to end a five-year absence from the top flight.It is understood Turner, who has two England caps, and Naalsund, who has made 39 appearances for Norway, have signed three-year contracts.Turner, 30, made 189 appearances during eight years at United and was part of the squad that won a first major trophy, the FA…
(Michael Bishop / Premier Boxing Champions) With July 26 drawing ever closer, the date on which Tim Tszyu and Errol Spence Jnr are due to fight in Australia, there is a sense of last-minute chaos in the air. According to Jeff Fenech, Tszyu’s trainer, the comebacking Spence – out of the ring since a brutal welterweight loss to Terence Crawford three years ago – requested the weight limit for their bout to be 160lbs. A catchweight of 158lbs had previously been agreed after 156 was initially on the table at the start of negotiations. Before that, the 27-3 (18 KOs)…
Prosecutors in Milan have requested that a sports fraud case against Gianluca Rocchi, the man in charge of assigning referees in Italy’s top flight, be dismissed.The former international referee suspended himself in April after being placed under investigation for “complicity in sporting fraud” during the 2024-25 season.Rocchi, the National Referees Commission’s referee designator for Serie A and Serie B, has always protested his innocence.According to Italian news agency Ansa,, external prosecutors concluded after a two-year inquiry that there was no evidence of match-fixing, saying they did not “identify a structured system aimed at interfering with appointments”.It was claimed that Rocchi…
The independent football regulator has issued a warning notice to Morecambe after their owners failed to respond to requests about the running of the club.It is the first time the IFR has taken action since the Football Governance Act passed into law a year ago.Morecambe directors Kuljit Singh and Harjit Singh failed to reply to two requests for information under section 65 of the Act.”The IFR has issued a warning notice to Morecambe Football Club Limited and to the club’s two owners,” an IFR statement read.”It has been provisionally determined that the owners breached information requirements imposed upon them without…
Here is something that sounds wrong until you think about it carefully: you can win more than half your bets and still lose money over a season. Equally, you can lose more bets than you win and end the year in profit. The difference is not your win rate. It is whether the odds you are backing reflect the true probability of the outcome. That is the whole of value betting, and everything else in this guide is just the process for finding it. Value betting in football means placing bets where the odds offered by the bookmaker imply a…
Langston, who primarily fights at light heavyweight, has victories over undefeated fighters Isaac Carbonell (9-0) and Caleb Hernandez (8-0), as well as a majority draw with unbeaten boxer Dante Benjamin (7-0). Romero obtained a sixth-round technical knockout over seasoned veteran Vaughn Alexander in February. Three months later, the orthodox boxer from Olathe, Kansas, stopped late replacement Andre Sherard in the first round with a hard right hook to the body in his last outing. Romero has won every round (35) he has fought as a professional, on all three judges’ scorecards. “My performance has been getting better. I stopped Alexander…
Chief executive Mark Darbon says the R&A is “getting pretty close” to staging an Open Championship at Portmarnock Golf Club in Dublin. The R&A – the governing body which organises and runs the Open – first revealed the possibility of Portmarnock hosting golf’s oldest championship in 2023, with the Irish government announcing its support of up to 40 million euro (£34m) in 2024.Portmarnock, which has previously hosted the men’s and women’s amateur championships, would become the first venue outside of the United Kingdom to host the Open or Women’s Open. “I think we’re getting pretty close. It’s a complicated venue…
Next weekend, Australia is set to stage its biggest boxing event of the year as Tim Tszyu collides with the returning Errol Spence Jr on home turf, but 11 days out from the fight there has been a request to change the weight. Tszyu has found it difficult stateside despite prior expectation that he could take over the division, holding a 1-3 record when fighting in the U.S. compared to his 26-fight unbeaten streak Down Under. Now, against the biggest named opponent of his career, it is he who will have the home backing, as Spence enters the lion’s den…