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There is finally some talk about where Benoit Badiahshile might play next season, with a Serie A loan on the cards. If you enjoy Talk Chelsea coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content. While the focus was on Chelsea’s friendly against Western Sydney Wanderers today, there was also a rumour emerging about Benoit Badiashile. The central defender is up for sale, and we finally have some talk about where he might go. FootMercato are claiming that Napoli are trying to…
Celtic are the favourites at 5/6 to land another William Hill Premiership winner crown, but Rangers and Hearts are both in the conversation as the new season gets going. The market points to familiar names, yet last season’s title race showed there is still room for a surprise. Here, William Hill News look at the leading contenders in Scotland’s top division – with the Hoops once again clear favourites to land yet another domestic crown. Who are the favourites to win the 2026/27 William Hill Premiership? Celtic head the 2026/27 William Hill Scottish Premiership outright market at 5/6, with Rangers…
“Errol Spence may have a better resume than Crawford kinda nuts cause he lost to him, but if you look closely you can see that it’s the truth,” Ryan wrote. Crawford settled the head-to-head matchup by stopping Spence in their undisputed welterweight championship fight. Ryan’s point, however, focuses on the paths both men took to reach the top rather than the result of their meeting. Spence captured Kell Brook’s IBF title in Sheffield in 2017, though Brook was returning from the orbital injury suffered against Gennadiy Golovkin. After that victory, Spence defeated Lamont Peterson, Mikey Garcia, Shawn Porter, Danny Garcia…
In September, the France national team will have a new face on the touchline for the first time in 14 years.By the time the appointment was announced on Tuesday morning, it had long been an open secret that Zinedine Zidane would succeed Didier Deschamps this summer.Talks between the former Real Madrid manager and the French football authorities kicked off as early as February 2025 – after Zidane’s former team-mate Deschamps announced a few weeks earlier he would step down following the 2026 World Cup.At his unveiling in Paris, Zidane was keen to highlight the time he had spent waiting on…
Everyone and their nan knows about Wrexham by now. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney turned a sleepy Welsh non-league side into a Disney-backed global phenomenon, and fair play to them, it’s been proper box office. But Hollywood’s love affair with English football didn’t start and end at the Racecourse Ground. Scratch beneath the surface of the pyramid and there’s a surprising number of A-listers quietly bankrolling clubs up and down the country. With Premier League odds already being thrown about for another blockbuster season, it’s worth remembering that stardust isn’t confined to the top flight. Some of the biggest names…
(Dylan Trevino / Premier Boxing Champions) Lamont Roach Jnr lands a double-rich opportunity Saturday by headlining a Las Vegas fight card and earning another chance to become a two-division champion. After consecutive draws last year to WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis and WBC interim 140lbs champion Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz, Washington’s Roach 25-1-3 (10 KOs), tops the second edition of TNT/DAZN’s “The Fight” Saturday night at Virgin Hotels Resort Casino versus recent lightweight title challenger William Zepeda, 33-1 (27 KOs), of Mexico. “To me, it’s being a two-division champion,” Roach said of which achievement means most to him. “It’s my dream…
The week clearly began on a lighter note for the Kettering pro, but she is deadly serious about the challenge ahead.Were Hull to go one better than her five major runners-up finishes, she would continue a remarkable storyline of British success in this event when staged here at Royal Lytham and St Annes.Scotland’s Catriona Matthew was champion in 2009 and nine years later England’s Georgia Hall triumphed over the famed Lancashire links.Hull and world number five Lottie Woad are among the favourites for this, the last of the year’s five majors. Unlike Blackpool’s lottery tickets, the hope of maintaining Lytham’s…
Leicester City are the early League One favourites at 5/2, with Sheffield Wednesday, Luton Town and Stockport also in the hunt for the title. The market points to a tight race, but the League One winner conversation already has plenty of bite – and William Hill assess the current state of the market ahead of the new campaign. Who are the favourites to win League One in 2026/27? Leicester City lead the way in the 2026/27 League One winner market at 5/2, and that price looks fair for a side with top-end quality and recent Premier League pedigree. Sheffield Wednesday…
Aziz Abdul never met his grandfather. He was a military dictator and died in exile when little Aziz was a toddler. His name was Idi Amin.Globally, he had another name. The Butcher of Uganda. Amin took charge of his homeland in a coup in 1971 – becoming the country’s third president – and ran a brutal regime for eight years. It’s estimated half a million people were killed and the country’s entire Asian population were expelled.He married six times and fathered around 60 children. Or, rather, that’s how many he acknowledged. Somewhere among all that, belongs Abdul. This week, the…
Crystal Palace are now leading the race to sign Stade Brest defender Raphael Le Guen, as their search for a Maxence Lacroix replacement continues. Chelsea are now on the verge of signing Lacroix, which means Palace will need to sign a new centre-back, and Le Guen has received plaudits from former Angers midfielder Olivier Auriac. Auriac said: “He’s intelligent on and off the pitch, he’s strong and powerful. His areas for improvement lie in his technique; he needs to add more variety to his passing.” At just 19-years-old, the youngster has only made six Ligue 1 appearances, but he emerged…