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Emery in spat with Tielemans
Unai Emery, the Aston Villa manager, shoved midfielder Youri Tielemans in a touchline bust-up during the closing stages of their team’s win at Fenerbahce yesterday. Emery lost his cool after substituting the Belgium international in injury time in the...
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Reds roll on
It is now 13 games unbeaten for Liverpool, they are in position to go through to the last 16 of the Champions League and, importantly, this was by far their most convincing game in that run. And Mohamed Salah is back. Not just back but back from the...
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Laughing all the way to the Frank
Quite how far Thomas Frank has pulled himself back from the brink remains to be seen, but the head coach will hope this was the turning point of his Tottenham Hotspur career. What promised to be a public flogging inside the stadium that had echoed...
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Frank’s last stand?
Thomas Frank remains in critical danger of losing his job as Tottenham Hotspur head coach, despite being given a stay of execution for tonight’s home Champions League game against Borussia Dortmund. Tottenham’s Lewis family owners and chief executive...
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‘LIV has spent all this money ... and still gone backwards’
Rory Mcilroy believes LIV Golf no longer poses the threat it once did to the traditional tours, saying that its Saudi paymasters will now have to spend “hundreds of millions” just to ensure it does not fall even further behind in the game’s civil...
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Guardiola’s VAR kiss-off
Pep Guardiola launched an extraordinary rant at VAR and expects clarification from referees’ chief Howard Webb after Manchester City put themselves on the brink of the Carabao Cup final with victory at Newcastle United. Antoine Semenyo had an effort...
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It’s January and United’s dreams of a trophy are already over
Darren Fletcher has warned Manchester United’s players they risk being sold if they “waste the season” and fail to step up after watching the club’s hopes of a trophy effectively end in early January for the first time in 54 years. Five months after...
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Brook clashed with nightclub bouncer hours before match
Harry Brook is on a final warning about his conduct after a late-night altercation with a bouncer just hours before captaining England on the tour that preceded the Ashes series. Telegraph Sport can reveal that: zbrook was close to being sacked as...
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Hammer blow
The morning after waking from a terrible dream, you are compelled to recount its plot to anyone who will listen. This was one of those nights for Nuno Espirito Santo. The anxiety and horror piled up, each turn more traumatic than the last. He watched...
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Amorim blew up at Wilcox before being axed by United
Ruben Amorim was sacked by Manchester United after he “blew up” during a heated meeting with director of football Jason Wilcox. United announced in a 106-word statement yesterday that Amorim had been dismissed following a tumultuous 14 months in...
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Chelsea caretaker outwits Guardiola
Who would have thought that a rookie manager – who only seven months ago was a youth-team coach at Southampton – would play such a potentially significant role in the Premier League title race? This was the first game in which Calum Mcfarlane had been...
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Stadium of fight
do not yet know whether 2026 will be Pep Guardiola’s final year as Manchester City manager, but it has not got off to the best of starts. In a title race that looks like it will grip us all the way to May, it is City who have wobbled first, their...
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Maresca’s future in doubt
Doubts over the future of Enzo Maresca, the Chelsea head coach, have intensified. Sections of the home support booed following the damaging draw with Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday, and the reaction will further test the Italian’s...
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Tiger Woods at 50
a self-avowed “Tiger geek”, Rory Mcilroy is as keen as anyone to discover what happens next in his childhood hero’s extraordinary career and life now that he turns 50. But for the Northern Irishman there is also that inevitable tinge of sadness at the...
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Match of the Gray
has been the year in which Tottenham Hotspur’s home form has collapsed and as the man who has inherited that mess, Thomas Frank took an alternative approach to deliver a flinty away victory at one of the Premier League’s form teams of the last 12...
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‘I had best dad in the world’
Jackson Warne is contemplating a hair transplant just like his father. “Since he passed, it has thinned,” he says, running his hand through his blond hair. It looks fine to me. “Do ya reckon? Really? I’ve always had a thick head of hair, but I might...
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‘Drunk’ Duckett under scrutiny
England chiefs are looking into a video that appears to show an intoxicated Ben Duckett as they investigate claims of players drinking to excess during the Ashes. The England and Wales Cricket Board said it would seek to “establish the facts”...
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Isak surgery shock
As Alexander Isak and Liverpool come to terms with the possible season-ending injury for the most expensive player bought by a Premier League club, there is just one crumb of comfort. “We have signed him for six years, not six months,” Arne Slot said,...
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Mccullum: Blame me
Brendon Mccullum has accepted responsibility for England’s Ashes defeat, admitting that his team were not adequately prepared. England took a controversial approach to warming up for the series, eschewing traditional tour matches in favour of a cosy...
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Join the club
After joining the most exclusive club in golf, Rory Mcilroy has crowned a fairy-tale 2025 by becoming the first golfer in 36 years to win the BBC’S coveted Sports Personality of the Year award. Mcilroy took his place alongside only Tiger Woods, Jack...
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Two-goal Garnacho lifts Maresca mood
After all the cryptic messaging, Enzo Maresca allowed his players to do the talking as Chelsea survived a scare against Cardiff City to book their place in the Carabao Cup semi-finals. The manager proved his worth with a series of key decisions, from...
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Flippin’ heck!
Bournemouth’s Eli Junior Kroupi is head over heels at his 84th-minute equaliser as Manchester United had to settle for a draw in a game they led three times
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Blue Moon rising
Is Erling Haaland the cheat code that will mean Manchester City win yet another Premier League title? But for a fortuitous late, second own goal against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, Pep Guardiola’s side would already be top in a season in...
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Youri the man
Unai Emery is being touted as the only manager who can stop Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola from again turning the Premier League title race into their own personal duel. But the Aston Villa manager still has a strong attachment to the Europa...
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We’re Mad for it!
At the spaceship-like rebuilt Bernabéu, Manchester City had lift-off. It was only their second win in this celestial stadium and it propelled them into the top eight in the Champions League table. The significance of that cannot be overestimated. If...
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Slot: Your move, Mo
Arne Slot has suggested that Mohamed Salah should question whether he has made a mistake with his bombshell interview as he considers peace talks over the coming days. Salah was axed from the Liverpool squad last night at Inter Milan after claiming he...
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Slot ‘no clue’ if Salah will play again
Arne Slot said he could not guarantee Mohamed Salah would play for Liverpool again after axing the Egyptian from their trip to Inter Milan as punishment for his bombshell interview. The storm around Salah escalated last night as Jamie Carragher, the...
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Top of the world
After taking the chequered flag in Abu Dhabi for the third place he needed to secure a maiden world title, and having performed a few crowd-pleasing donuts on the finish line, Lando Norris finally parked up his Mclaren. But Britain’s 11th Formula One...
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Not your ‘Average Joe’
From “Average Joe” to England’s greatest: Joe Root answered all the insults about his batting in Australia with a shrug of his shoulders and a hundred that makes him the undisputed king of English batting. On a sultry evening in Brisbane, a floodlit...
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The barmy Arne!
Not for the first time, Anfield could hail the most impressive recruitment team in the Premier League. Take a bow, Sunderland. Had they been in attendance, John W Henry and his moneyball disciples might have led the standing ovation for the visitors’...
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City survive in nine-goal thriller
on this scale – a rare moment when the league’s great competitive depth gives us the sort of game where the goals keep coming and no one can be certain of anything until the very end. This was one of those evenings: rain-soaked, dramatic and full of...
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In the pink England get to grips with new ball
headlines from Joe Root’s press conference at the weekend were about him calling into question the need to play a day-night Test in the Ashes, but the more revealing comment was one possibly aimed at himself. “I know I’m a good player, I know I’m...
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Crisis? What crisis
West Ham 0 Liverpool 2 Isak 60, Gakpo 90+2 Was this the first proper glimpse of Liverpool 2.0? The first sign that Arne Slot’s costly evolution is, at last, beginning to take shape? It certainly felt that way as Slot dropped Mohamed Salah to the bench...
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Villa police clash with Swiss yobs
Police and stewards at Aston Villa were attacked by supporters of Swiss club Young Boys, and striker Donyell Malen sustained a cut head after being struck by a missile. Fans of the Bern club threw punches at police and stewards in the away section and...
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It’s code red, Slot
Arne Slot insisted he had the backing of Liverpool’s hierarchy after the humiliating 4-1 defeat by PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League last night. It was a ninth defeat in 12 games, Liverpool’s worst run since the 1953-54 season – the last time they...
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’Stevao wonder!
There is a tradition in the recent history of modern Barcelona of brilliant players coming to Stamford Bridge and delivering something spectacular, although on this Champions League night that honour belonged to Chelsea’s own teenage...
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Moment of madness
Idrissa Gueye was sent off for slapping team-mate Michael Keane as the 10 men of Everton bounced back to beat a dismal Manchester United at Old Trafford. The Everton midfielder apologised after being shown a red card by referee Tony Harrington for...
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Three and Eze
“Who’s Eze?” We all know that Thomas Frank was joking. But rarely has a quip come back to crack like a whip and to such a painful extent. There will be a scar. Tottenham Hotspur were not just beaten but beaten up as Arsenal extended their lead at the...
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Stokes hits out
Ben Stokes dismissed criticism of his team’s Ashes preparations by “has-beens” and insisted it would be “balls to the wall” in their inhouse warm-up game against the Lions this week. A long line of former players have criticised England’s absence of...
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…as England unveil their secret weapon
Emma Raducanu received a kicking masterclass from Marcus Smith and traded lessons in leadership with Maro Itoje after being invited into the England rugby camp before this weekend’s showdown with the All Blacks. England head coach Steve Borthwick...
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England’s next No8?
Saracens are in talks to sign former All Black Hoskins Sotutu who could provide a solution to England’s problem position at No8. Sotutu is English-qualified through his mother and has not represented New Zealand since coming off the bench in the 25-25...
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Slot slams referee ‘error’
Arne Slot hit out at an “obvious and clear” mistake after Liverpool had a goal controversially ruled out in their 3-0 bludgeoning by Manchester City. A fifth defeat in six Premier League matches leaves Liverpool eighth in the table, eight points behind...
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Discrimination wins out on night of shame
Long before darkness fell over Birmingham, a Jewish man, nervous about giving his name or revealing his full face for a photograph, opened his bag to show the small Israeli flag he had brought. In a heartbeat, the drivers of two passing cars wound down...
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Foden’s fireworks display
At half-time a caption on the big screens at the Etihad Stadium flashed the words “vintage Phil Foden” as the midfielder’s masterful goal was discussed. Vintage? Foden is only 25 but we know what was meant. After all he has already achieved so much....
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We’re the Real deal
Even the best teams must evolve, but when it came to the greatest test that European football has to offer, Arne Slot reverted to the midfielders who served him so well last season and they delivered against Real Madrid for a second time. Slot’s team...
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An emotional homecoming
Trent Alexander-arnold returns to Anfield tonight as a Liverpool legend; a home-grown emblem of a golden era, hero of two Premier League triumphs and a European Cup win. His contribution to the successes of Jürgen Klopp and Arne Slot will not be...
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Goal hero celebrates with ‘robot’ dance
Can Rayan Cherki be Manchester City’s new Kevin De Bruyne for Erling Haaland? Cherki provided two assists for the phenomenal striker as Manchester City beat high-flying Bournemouth, and provided some compelling evidence that he can fill the creative...
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England accuse Australia of ‘illegal and dangerous’ tactics
England have raised serious concerns about Australia’s “illegal” breakdown tactics before their first autumn Test against the Wallabies tomorrow. Telegraph Sport understands that Steve Borthwick, the England head coach, highlighted dozens of examples...
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It’s all gone to pot, Slot
Arne Slot defended his Carabao Cup team selection that backfired against Crystal Palace, insisting he was protecting his squad from injuries and suspension. The Liverpool head coach saw his struggling side fall to a sixth defeat in seven games after...
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England’s wing plan for Pollock
Henry Pollock is training as wing cover for England’s autumn international against Australia on Saturday as part of Steve Borthwick’s latest “hybrid player” system. The England head coach also revealed that Pollock’s fellow backrower Ben Earl was in...
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Ford edges Smith for No 10 shirt
George Ford looks set to retain the fly-half position for England against Australia at Twickenham on Saturday with Fin Smith to be named on the bench. England are also seriously considering playing a back line featuring both Ford and Smith in a 10-12...
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Arteta: This was the best yet
Mikel Arteta said Arsenal’s narrow victory over Crystal Palace was their most valuable of the season after his side went four points clear at the top of the Premier League. Arsenal’s win, secured by a fabulous goal from Eberechi Eze against his former...
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Porto The Dyche is right
Nottm Forest 2 Gibbs-white 19 pen, Jesus 77 pen Porto 0 Sean Dyche is back and you will be relieved, or annoyed, to know he has not changed. He has not mellowed, he has not altered, but after two training sessions and one game he has already shifted...
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Slot stops the rot
Arne Slot said that his Liverpool team had at last taken their chances to secure a decisive Champions League 5-1 win against Eintracht Frankfurt and end their four-game losing streak. The win came at a cost though, with an injury to Alexander Isak,...
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To the Viktor, the spoils
Mikel Arteta hopes Viktor Gyokeres is at the start of a “beautiful run” after he ended his drought with two goals in Arsenal’s dismantling of Atlético Madrid. Gyokeres, the £64m summer signing from Sporting Lisbon, had gone nine matches without a goal...
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Hard to watch
On a night when protesting supporters organised a boycott, West Ham simply failed to turn up. Nuno Espirito Santo’s first home game as their manager turned out to be a limp defeat at the hands of a Brentford team who had lost all of their previous...
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Maguire’s Anfield party
Harry Maguire admitted it was “embarrassing” that Manchester United had taken so long to achieve back-to-back wins in the Premier League under Ruben Amorim, after a famous victory over champions Liverpool yesterday. Amorim himself dismissed...
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Israeli fan ban sparks outrage
The Prime Minister has joined a ferocious backlash against the police-led shut-out of Israeli fans from Aston Villa’s Europa League fixture against Maccabi Tel Aviv. After officers’ warnings of unrest in Birmingham, an effective ban on Maccabi fans...
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Match of the Day in ratings dive
Match of the Day has shed hundreds of thousands of viewers since Gary Lineker was axed by the BBC. Average television ratings for the corporation’s flagship football programme have plunged by more than 10 per cent so far this season compared to the...
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We’re the big noise
England fans mocked Thomas Tuchel’s criticism of their support and branded Gary Neville a “w---er” on the night the Three Lions qualified for the World Cup. The songs aimed at manager Tuchel appeared pointed during the first half, but became less...
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Grin it to win it
It is inconceivable that England will not beat Latvia – ranked 137th in the world and whose only victories in the past two years have been 1-0 wins against the Faroe Islands and Andorra – and duly qualify for next year’s World Cup. It is also almost...
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Lapping it up!
Only Steve Borthwick knows the front-runner to start in the England fly-half jersey this autumn, but one thing is for sure: Marcus Smith cannot be discounted just yet. At the Stoop yesterday, Smith returned to club action to inspire Harlequins to...
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Tuchel hits out at ‘silent’ England fans
Thomas Tuchel took a swipe at England fans for a lack of support at Wembley after his team raced to victory against Wales last night. Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins and Bukayo Saka had Tuchel’s team 3-0 up within 20 minutes but the manager was upset by...
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Tuchel’s team talk
Thomas Tuchel says he will not necessarily pick “the most talented players” as he builds a team capable of winning the World Cup next summer. The England manager, who left Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish out of his squad to face Wales at...
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Arsenal eye move to Wembley as part of Emirates expansion
Arsenal are planning a major expansion of the Emirates that could force them to move their home matches temporarily to Wembley Stadium. Detailed work has gone into a potential overhaul of the north London stadium that would increase Arsenal’s 60,704...
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We’re all behind you, Lewis
I was having a coffee at about 7.05am yesterday and checked my phone to see that our 2003 World Cup winners’ Whatsapp group was far busier than normal. As it turned out, that was because Lewis Moody had just let us know that the news of his...
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Jack grabs winner
After five games in a new arena, it feels like Everton truly have a place to call home. The same can be said of Jack Grealish. This was the day Hill Dickinson Stadium absorbed the vibrancy of Goodison Park in its prime. All the dogged, snarling...
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‘Sacked in the morning’ Fans turn on Postecoglou
Ange Postecoglou was taunted by his own fans with chants of “You’re getting sacked in the morning” as he fell to the worst start of any Nottingham Forest manager in 100 years. Postecoglou is now winless in his first six games after his side suffered...
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City pay penalty
Erling Haaland accused himself and his Manchester City team-mates of not being good enough after they conceded a 90th-minute equaliser to drop two valuable Champions League points away against a depleted Monaco side. City appeared in control of the...
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Are you watching Ruben?
There have been precious few nights like these for Marcus Rashford in the last two seasons, and yet once his confidence soared so there was a glimpse of the player whom Manchester United once had and lost. If his first goal for Barcelona before the...
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Up for the fight
Diego Simeone, the Atlético Madrid manager, said he had been constantly insulted before he confronted fans in astonishing scenes after Liverpool’s dramatic Champions League winner last night. Simeone was held back by stewards after Virgil van Dijk’s...
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Arteta’s bench warfare
For all the money spent, for all the attacking talent that Arsenal have recruited this summer, it was two forwards whose futures appeared to lie elsewhere who earned a hardfought victory in their opening Champions League group game. Arguably, away to...
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Floating on air
The competition at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo was almost 2½ hours old when it finally got serious. On went the special “claw” shoes, an innovation by Puma with a hooked spike hanging off the toe at the front, and Mondo Duplantis duly...
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Hatton’s saddest salute
The Heartbreak, Ricky Hatton called his house. It was intended as a nod to his love of Elvis Presley, an expression of his desire to design his own Heartbreak Hotel. Under a pitiless rain in Hyde, the place that moulded him, the sign on the gate...
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I was injured collecting MBE
“Mahogany hard,” said Lord Coe and, while Keely Hodgkinson seemed somewhat perplexed by the compliment, she certainly got the drift. “I don’t know what that means,” Hodgkinson says, “but I feel like Seb’s always been a really nice supporter of me and...
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