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WSL takeover: WSL and Championship clubs to move to club-owned structure The FA has announced that England’s two women’s football leagues – the Women’s Super League and the Women’s Championship have agreed to form a club-owned organisation that will run women’s professional football in England from the 2024-25 season.  The organisation will take control of the WSL and Championship from the FA, with each club in the two top tiers acting as shareholders.  Former Nike director Nikki Doucet will be the organisation’s chief executive. A takeover of the WSL has long been planned, and after sifting through several ideas they…

Women’s sport to make £1bn in revenue for the first time in 2024, says report Finance experts Deloitte predict that global revenue generated by elite women’s sports will surpass £1bn for the first time next year.  They predict revenue will reach £1.02bn in 2024 after a year of growth featuring the Fifa Women’s World Cup in 2023.  Football is set to generate £439m, and basketball is predicted to be the second most valuable sport with £280m.  The forecast is based on matchday, broadcast and commercial revenue. Deloitte’s revenue forecast for women’s sport for 2023 was £771.8m and £554.4m in 2022.…

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What time is PMQs today? Rishi Sunak faces questions on diplomatic row over the Elgin Marbles Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will face Sir Keir Starmer at today’s PMQs. With the diplomatic row over the Elgin Marbles and plans to tackle sky-high net migration figures are likely the lead topics. The PM cancelled a meeting last minute with his Greek counterpart after Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the marbles to be returned to Greece. In an interview with the BBC, Mitsotakis compared the separation of the carvings to cutting the Mona Lisa in half. On immigration, several countries are planning to negotiate…

Newcastle and PSG share points in Champions League Group of Death classic following late penalty drama The Metro says Newcastle United have kept their Champions League hopes alive with a 1-1 draw against Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday night – but it was a cruel result for Eddie Howe’s side following late penalty drama. Alexander Isak put the Premier League side ahead in the first half before Kylian Mbappe controversially scored a 98th-minute spot-kick after Tino Livramento was deemed to have handled the ball in the area, with the incident checked by VAR. The result has…

‘He is going to be the future of this club’: Newcastle and Lewis Miley robbed of night to remember The Independent says Gary O’Neil insisted on Monday, after his team were again on the wrong end of a controversial VAR call, that livelihoods were at stake over this misuse of the technology so controversially gaining a further stranglehold over football around the world. But there is something greater at stake – something that is irreplaceable, that untold millions cannot make up for. Lewis Miley’s performance in the Parc des Princes deserved to be talked about for generations of Geordies. The…

Lewis Miley makes his name on biggest stage amid Newcastle’s righteous rage The Guardian says Power finds a way. Albeit for Paris Saint-Germain, the road to redemption here would consist of a scandalous late penalty, a midfield made of sugar syrup and some of the worst distance shooting seen this side of a Soccer AM Crossbar Challenge. At full time the Parc des Princes roared with relief, heaved and exhaled, not with conviction but with the begrudging acceptance of something stolen, not earned. And this really was tough on Newcastle, who were 97 minutes in to perhaps their greatest away…

She enjoyed it ‘immensely’.