Author: News Desk

Hearing into Manchester City’s 115 Financial Fair Play charges to begin in September The highly-anticipated hearing into Manchester City’s 115 alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules is set to begin very soon. The charges have been hanging over City for years – a dark cloud that has overshadowed their historic success in the Premier League and Champions League. Now, the matter looks set to finally be resolved with The Times reporting that the hearing will begin in mid-to-late September, around two months earlier than expected. The date has been moved forward because the outcome of City’s separate case…

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Olympic breakdancing judge reveals why Raygun scored zero An Olympic breakdancing judge admits Raygun’s level ‘was not as high other competitors’ after she failed to score a single point in Paris. Australian B-girl Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn scored zero in all three of her heats during the event on Friday but became a global sensation after her performance went viral on social media. The 36-year-old was unable to impress the five-strong judging panel with her moves, which included the now-infamous kangaroo hop. However, Olympic breaking head judge, Martin Gilian, who performs as MGbility, has defended Raygun’s performance and insists her score…

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Imane Khelif launches legal complaint over online abuse at Paris Olympics Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has filed a legal complaint over online harassment following her gold medal success at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Khelif eased to a dominant victory over China’s Yang Liu to secure the gold medal in her 66kg event on Friday night, roared on my thousands of Algerian’s in attendance. But her participation in the French capital over the last two weeks has been under intense scrutiny after she was disqualified from last year’s Women’s World Championships for allegedly failing International Boxing Association (IBA) gender eligibility rules.…

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Tuesday’s front pages cover various domestic and international political stories as tensions across the Middle East and Europe continue to escalate. Many of the newspapers feature images of British diver Tom Daley – who announced his retirement just weeks after securing a silver medal at the Paris Olympics. 

Elsewhere, many of the papers react to the report on the failings in the treatment of the Nottingham attacker, Valdo Calocane. The papers pick up on comments that a doctor had warned years earlier that Calocane could end up killing someone.

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