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Mark King has been banned from snooker for five years after being found guilty of match fixing. An independent disciplinary committee found the 50-year-old Englishman guilty of one count of match fixing and one count of providing inside information on a match. The former Northern Ireland Open champion was suspended by the sport’s world governing body, the WPBSA, in March 2023 after suspicious betting was reported on his match with Joe Perry in the previous month’s Welsh Open. King, who denied the charges, has also been ordered to pay £68,299.50 in costs. He has until November 28 to appeal against…

Chelsea v Man City showdown between WSL top two. Man City were the only team Chelsea failed to beat last season on the way to their fifth WSL title in a row. The top two teams in the English WSL meet on Saturday evening, with Chelsea having the chance to get one over Manchester City with a win. We look ahead to the clash and the key battles to expect at Kingsmeadow. Women’s Super League: Chelsea v Manchester City Venue: Stamford Bridge Date: Saturday, 16 November Kick-off: 17:30 GMT Chelsea v Man City showdown between WSL top two Their first encounter last season was a…

Liverpool star Mohamed Salah shared advice he picked up from Arsene Wenger (Picture: Getty)Mohamed Salah has lifted the lid on a simple yet effective piece of advice he once received from Arsene Wenger when he spoke with the ex-Arsenal manager at Liverpool’s training ground. The 32-year-old Egyptian has established himself as one of the most revered attackers in Premier League history since swapping Roma for Liverpool back in 2017. In that time, Salah has only once dropped below 25 goals-a-season for the Merseyside giants in all competitions and the forward has flown out of the blocks again this term, netting…

Trent Alexander-Arnold is one of Real Madrid’s top transfer targets (Getty)Trent Alexander-Arnold is planning to see out the season at Liverpool with Real Madrid viewing a January transfer as ‘practically impossible’, according to reports in Spain. The 26-year-old’s contract with Liverpool is due to expire at the end of the season, meaning that he will be able to leave Anfield as a free agent. Real Madrid have made Alexander-Arnold one of their priority transfer targets and following the injury to Dani Carvajal, who is set to miss the rest of the season, the Spanish champions are looking to sign cover…

Harry Kane set to be left out by Carsley for England’s crunch match with Greece Harry Kane is set to be a shock omission from Lee Carsley’s England team for Thursday’s must-win Nations League match against Greece in Athens. The captain has travelled to the Greek capital and is not believed to have an injury, with the selection news understood to have caused surprise within a dressing room that has been undermined by a flurry of withdrawals. Carsley has been keen to try new things during his interim tenure; he started Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden as false 9s in…

PGMOL aware of video allegedly showing David Coote snorting white powder Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL) is “aware of the allegations” and “taking them very seriously” after a video appeared to show suspended Premier League referee David Coote snorting white powder. Comments Coote is alleged to have made about former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and the club in previous video footage have led to him being suspended by PGMOL and investigated by the body and the Football Association. On Wednesday evening, another video appeared on the Sun’s website which it said showed Coote snorting white powder during the summer’s Euros in Germany, where he was officiating. Source link

Is Paul vs Tyson free to watch on Netflix? Mike Tyson and Jake Paul will meet in a divisive fight this week, squaring off at the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium in Texas. Tyson, 58, and YouTube star Paul, 27, were due to fight in July but had to delay the bout when the heavyweight icon had a health scare. In late May, Tyson suffered an ulcer flare-up on a flight, leading the contest to be moved to this week. Assuming there are no late issues, the fight will finally go ahead on Friday, streaming live on Netflix in an unprecedented move.…

BBC begins search for Gary Lineker’s replacement as Match of the Day host Speculation about who will replace Gary Lineker as the presenter of Match of the Day has begun in earnest, after the BBC confirmed the former England striker would step down at the end of the season. After weeks of tense negotiations, the BBC confirmed earlier reports that Lineker will step back from its flagship football highlights programme at the end of the 2024-25 season. However, he will stay with the broadcaster to cover the FA Cup in 2025-26 and the 2026 Fifa World Cup in the US,…

Emmanuel Petit fears Enzo Fernandez faces ‘months’ on the sidelines but is confident his manager has done him a favour in the long-run by taking him out of the firing line. The Argentina World Cup winner has shown only flashes of his potential since his £105 million move from Benfica 18 months ago and no longer appears to be a central cog in the plans of new Chelsea manager Ezno Maresca. Such has been the form of Moises Caicedo and the return to full fitness of Romeo Lavia that Fernandez has been ousted from the starting XI and been forced…

Mario Melchiot believes Chelsea should have done more to target ‘unstable’ Ben White during their 1-1 draw with Arsenal at Stamford Bridge. Gabriel Martinelli opened the scoring for Mikel Arteta’s side but Pedro Neto capped an impressive performance by netting the equaliser in the 70th minute. Neto started on Chelsea’s left flank but was switched to the right side of Chelsea’s attack shortly before his low strike from distance beat David Raya. Melchiot, however, believes Enzo Maresca should have kept Pedro Neto on Chelsea’s left, claiming that White had become ‘irritated’ after coming up against the Portuguese winger. ‘Even Chelsea…

Juventus are interested in signing Manchester United centre-back Victor Lindelof in January, with the Red Devils facing a decision on whether to cash in on the defender while they can. The Sweden international is out of contract at the end of the season and it seems very unlikely that he will stay on at Old Trafford beyond that point. The 30-year-old has made just four Premier League appearances so far this season and all of them have been as a substitute. While new manager Ruben Amorim will surely have some say on matters, it seems that Lindelof’s time with the…

Arsenal forward Gabriel Martinelli has picked out Manchester City’s Kyle Walker and Liverpool’s Ibrahima Konate as the two defenders he finds the ‘toughest to beat’ in the Premier League. Martinelli, 23, is enjoying his sixth season with Arsenal and has come up against several of the most highly rated and decorated centre-backs in world football in that time. With games coming thick and fast for the Gunners, Martinelli is set for plenty more intriguing tussles heading into the winter period, starting at home to Nuno Espirito Santo’s high-flying Nottingham Forest in ten days’ time. An out-of-sorts Arsenal may well be…

Sir Chris Hoy revealed his cancer was terminal last month (Picture: ITV)Sir Chris Hoy and his wife Sarra say their thoughts immediately went to their children after they were given devastating diagnoses by doctors just weeks apart from each other. Six-time Olympic champion Hoy, one of Britain’s most successful ever athletes, was first informed he had prostate cancer in September 2023 and revealed last month that his condition was terminal. Tragically, Hoy’s partner Sarra – whom he married in 2010 – was herself diagnosed with a ‘very active and aggressive’ form of multiple sclerosis shortly after the track cycling legend…

Premier League referee David Coote suspended over video of X-rated rant at Jurgen Klopp Referee David Coote has been suspended while the Premier League’s refereeing body investigates a video appearing to show the official calling former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp “f*** arrogant” and a “German c” in an extraordinary rant. The footage circulating on social media appears to show Coote, 42, in conversation with an unknown man, who asks what he thinks of an unspecified Liverpool game. “Liverpool were s***,” the man appearing to be Coote replies. Asked what he thinks of Klopp, he responds: “C. Absolute c,” before adding:…

Defending champion Mark Allen is eyeing up the Champion of Champions trophy again after booking his spot in the semi-finals on Monday night. The Pistol came through the opening group of the tournament, beating World Seniors champion Igor Figueiredo 4-2 and then downing World Championship finalist Jak Jones 6-4. It was a tough scrap with the Welshman after Jones took a 3-0 lead, including a brilliant break of 137 in the third frame, looking very good indeed. The world number three showed his quality, though, with breaks of 72, 64, 104, 66 and 82 to win five on the spin.…

Ecuador and LDU Quito footballer Marco Angulo has died from his injuries following a car crash at the age of 22. Angulo was involved in a collision in Ecuador’s capital, Quito, in the early hours of October 7. The promising young midfielder, capped three times by the Ecuador national team, was rushed to hospital and underwent surgery to release pressure inside his head resulting from the trauma. He had also sustained a lung contusion which required a chest tube, though no active bleeding was discovered. Messages of love and support have flooded in for Angulo in the intervening 35 days,…

Rio Ferdinand has tipped Max Dowman to become the next Arsenal academy star to break into Mikel Arteta’s first-team squad. The 14-year-old is regarded as one of Arsenal’s brightest academy prospects and he even trained with Arteta’s squad last weekend before their 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Sunday. In September, Dowman also made history by becoming the youngest-ever goalscorer in the UEFA Youth League. Ethan Nwaneri is already making a strong case for more first-team minutes having impressed since making the jump from Arsenal’s academy, and Ferdinand believes Dowman is on the same path to making a similar impact. ‘This…