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Football fans were left in hysterics after watching Jose Mourinho’s failed attempt at a knee slide while celebrating Fenerbahce’s 102nd minute winner against Trabzonspor. In a dramatic match in the Turkish Super Lig on Sunday, former Manchester United star Fred opened the scoring for Mourinho’s side before Trabzonspor fought back to lead 2-1. Source link

This is the horrifying moment a footballer was killed and five others were left injured after being hit by lightning during a match in Peru. Jose Hugo de la Cruz Meza, 39, was killed instantly as both sets of players made their way off the pitch after the referee ordered the game to be halted. The ref made the decision as the sound of rumbling thunder echoed around the stadium. Goalkeeper Juan Chocca Llacta, 40, also received a direct strike and was rushed to hospital in a taxi with serious burns to his body. The other casualties, two teenagers aged…

Former Chelsea boss Graham Potter says Manchester United’s interest in Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres ‘makes sense’. The Red Devils have been linked with the Swedish star following their appointment of Ruben Amorim from Sporting on a two-and-a-half-year deal. Gyokeres, 26, has established himself as one of Europe’s leading strikers during his two seasons in Lisbon since joining from Championship club Coventry, scoring 59 times in 65 matches. The Swede, who played under Potter at Brighton, would cost in the region of £58m. And Potter says the deal ‘makes sense’ given United’s struggles in front of goal. ‘You put two…

00s metal band with iconic earworm to play huge UK show after resurgence Noughties nu-metal icons Deftones are set to return to the UK for a huge London show next year. The My Own Summer rockers – including vocalist Chino Moreno, lead guitarist Stephen Carpenter and drummer Abe Cunningham, and keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado – will perform at Crystal Palace Park, London on Sunday, June 29. They will be joined by Buddy Holly hitmakers Weezer and English hardcore band High Vis, famed for songs such as Talk For Hours and Trauma Bonds. Deftones will host an artist pre-sale at…

Appeal launched after artist vanished on Saturday morning in Camden | UK News Police are urgently searching for an artist who went missing in Camden during the early hours of Saturday morning. Sarah Cunningham, 31, was last seen leaving an apartment block in Jamestown Road, Camden, to get into a car with a male at around 3am on Saturday morning. The 5ft 3in-tall artist was wearing a black top, black skirt and black converse trainers at the time of her disappearance. She has links to Wandsworth and Camden, police say. Jamie Klingler, co-founder of women’s safety group Reclaim These Streets,…

WWE announces ‘unprecedented’ shows bringing WrestleMania fever to UK WWE is bringing WrestleMania fever to the UK and Europe with a string of huge shows. For the first time ever, Raw and SmackDown will take place across different cities in the UK and Europe over three consecutive weeks in March 2025. For fans in the UK, Raw is coming to Glasgow’s OVO Hydro on March 24, with SmackDown heading to the O2 Arena in london on March 28. Three days later, Raw takes over the O2 as part of what WWE has described as an ‘unprecedented’ run on the Road…

How a dry cleaning receipt caught a 1940s serial killer | UK News Serial killer John George Haigh his victims were ‘sacrifices’ and that he wanted to drink their blood To his friends in london, John George Haigh seemed like a perfectly respectable English gentleman. He mingled with the upper class, was a regular at concerts and sported the very best suits from Savile Row. The businessman claimed to have profitable links to the nylon industry and rented a small workshop in Crawley. Wealthy clients were occasionally invited there to discuss investment opportunities. However, once they passed through the door…

Domestic abuse: ‘My partner secretly drugged and filmed me – I still don’t know what he did to me’ It took a year for Hannah’s* abuser to start to show his true colours – when he began telling her to lose weight and banning her from cutting her hair, or dyeing it particular shades. But at the beginning of the relationship, she thought everything was perfect. Her partner had love-bombed her, told her she was his dream woman and called her an amazing mother. “He would make you feel really secure and you like were the one,” Hannah tells The…

Small boat smugglers to be fast-tracked through courts like rioters People responsible for smuggling refugees on small boats will be fast-tracked through the courts in the same way as those who participated in the summer riots, as part of a wider crackdown on channel crossings. As part of a £150m package of measures to tackle the small boat crisis being announced on Monday, the prime minister will order the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to speed up charges for people smugglers. The prime minister is looking to replicate efforts earlier this year that delivered swift justice following the August riots that…

UK politics live: Badenoch arrives at Tory HQ to unveil shadow cabinet amid anger over Partygate comments Kemi Badenoch has arrived at the Conservative Party headquarters to unveil her new shadow cabinet after winning the Tory leadership contest. In her first media appearance as Tory leader, Ms Badenoch claimed to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that the Partygate row was “overblown”, prompting swift condemnation from her political opponents and people whose loved ones died during the Covid pandemic. Lobby Akinnola, a spokesperson for the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice who lost his father during the pandemic, described Ms Badenoch’s remarks as…