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Man Utd supporters’ groups have had to issue a joint statement urging the club to pause a clampdown on ticket touts. They have claimed that it is targeting innocent fans who are fearing that they could end up losing their season tickets despite doing nothing wrong. Steven Railston, the Manchester United reporter for Manchester Evening News tweeted: “Further points on United’s operation to address touting: “mufc sources say fans who received the email have six accounts linked or more. “No sanctions have been handed out yet. “I’ve been told a human is responsible for going through the cases. “It sounds…
The bout carried enormous significance. Usyk entered the ring holding the WBC and WBO cruiserweight titles after victories over Marco Huck and Mairis Briedis in the WBSS tournament, while Gassiev brought the WBA (Super) and IBF championships following knockout wins against Krzysztof Wlodarczyk and Yuniel Dorticos. The winner also claimed the vacant Ring Magazine championship. Recognition as the lineal champion came with the victory. The Muhammad Ali Trophy awaited the WBSS champion. Many expected Gassiev’s punching power to pose the toughest test of Usyk’s career. Instead, the Ukrainian produced one of the cleanest technical performances ever seen in a cruiserweight…
World number one Luke Littler threw a thrilling nine-darter as he booked his place in the quarter-finals of the World Matchplay with a 11-8 win over Nathan Aspinall. Littler began the contest at Winter Gardens in Blackpool in sensational fashion with a perfect leg, finishing on double 15.The Warrington teenager cupped his ears to lap up the adulation of a delirious crowd while fellow Englishman Aspinall laughed in disbelief before he gave Littler a high five.Excitement levels were raised further in the fourth leg when Littler had double 15 remaining for a second nine-darter, only for his arrow to land…
Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and James from @gunnerblog. In this episode James is back in London after his spell in Chicago, and we begin by talking about the World Cup final in which Spain beat Argentina and pretty much everyone outside of Argentina was happy about that. We have some reflections on the tournament as a whole, before we discuss the Morgan Rogers news and his decision to join Chelsea when he was strongly tipped to join Arsenal this summer. We chat about how it played out, whether the price paid is too high,…
Heavyweight prospect Leo Atang took just two rounds to improve to 8-0 (7 KOs) with victory over Glen Williams in Los Angeles last weekend.Still only 19, the Matchroom-promoted Atang sees himself as one of the next crop of young heavyweight stars coming through, including Irishman Adam Olaniyan and Australia’s Teremoana.“As it stands, fair enough, [Moses] Itauma’s probably up there [at the top now],” said Atang. “He’s in talks for getting world title fights and stuff like that. But skill-wise and everything else, I see myself up there with them all and I think that they’re the names which are going…
He was a spectator at Glasgow 2014, watching Wightman. Being overlooked four years later for Gold Coast was one of the biggest disappointments of his career, he says. Then an untimely blow-up in Birmingham in 2022, finishing last in the 1500m. Glasgow will be his redemption.”This is something we were dreaming about as kids,” Kerr says. “I was in a Scottish development squad talking about the Commonwealth Games all the time and that is the kind of stuff that you don’t forget.”Being part of Team Scotland is just everything I wanted to do when I got into the sport. You…
The report is an evisceration of the way of things among these two clubs and the way in which their Ultras groups behave. Blackbourne catalogues that day in detail, a cup tie won on penalties by Celtic, a victory that sparked a “wholly inexcusable” pitch invasion by hundreds among the more than 8,000 visiting fans. Then there was an “immediate hostile” counter invasion by Rangers supporters, many wearing face-coverings and carrying “poles and reinforced gloves”. It is said in the report that it’s “a minor miracle that no-one suffered serious injury”.It took police four minutes and 28 seconds to establish…
Nicolas Otamendi is content that Argentina gave everything in his final World Cup campaign, having fallen agonisingly short of defending the trophy. Otamendi had already confirmed in March that he would retire from international football after the World Cup, which was his fourth representing the Albiceleste. Even though the 38-year-old only started one of Argentina’s eight games, he made seven appearances, including replacing the injured Lisandro Martinez in the first half of Sunday’s final versus Spain. Otamendi was part of a stubborn rearguard action as Argentina became the first team in World Cup final history to not have a single…
“This is prime time. This is my time. This is the year for me. I’m going to unify these titles,” Kelly said during an interview with Sky Sports. “Everything just looks different. You don’t know what something like this does. Spiritually, energetic, motivation-wise, everything. It’s another level.” “It’s actually took a lot of expectation off. Now I can just let loose and enjoy everything. I’ve already done what people said I couldn’t do. It’s a dangerous time to face me because I’ve got literally nothing to lose.” Although Kelly spoke confidently about his future, he dismissed any suggestion that he…
Physical season tickets are a thing of the past in the Premier League.Clubs now use digital systems where fans download tickets to their phones. The change has been accompanied at many clubs by stricter rules on how, and how often, ticket holders can transfer their tickets to other people.At Manchester United, for example, fans can have their season ticket revoked if they do not attend or forward their ticket to approved friends and family members for at least 16 out of 19 Premier League fixtures.Last season, the club moved 500 season ticket holders from seats they had used for years…