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Richarlison launched a passionate defence of Tottenham team-mate Mathys Tel after the French forward was targeted with racial abuse following their UEFA Super Cup defeat to Paris Saint-Germain. The club also put out a strongly-worded statement expressing their "disgust" at the incident.

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Tottenham had a sensational start in Udine, but their night ended in despair and selective outrage. Leading Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 with just five minutes of normal time remaining in the Super Cup, Spurs seemed destined for glory after Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero struck in either half at the Bluenergy Stadium. But a late collapse saw Lee Kang-in and Goncalo Ramos haul PSG level before a nerve-shredding penalty shoot-out decided the contest.

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The drama intensified when Tel, who joined Spurs permanently from Bayern Munich for £30 million in June, sent his spot-kick wide. PSG sealed a 4-3 shoot-out win, and soon after, the 20-year-old found himself at the centre of a storm of racial abuse on social media.

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Tel’s Spurs team-mate Richarlison was one of the first to leap to his defence, blasting the trolls in a furious post on social media.

"Winning or losing, getting it wrong or right, it’s all part of the game," he wrote. "Racism is not! Tel is still a young lad, great player at the beginning of his journey… and doesn't deserve this, just like anyone else. This type of behaviour has no place anywhere anymore. I hope these people (if I can even call them that) are severely punished!! It's so easy to hide behind a social media profile spreading hate and this kind of speech. Something has to change! We're with you, Tel!"

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Tottenham issued their own statement, branding the racist attacks "disgusting" and the perpetrators "cowards".

"We are disgusted at the racial abuse that Mathys Tel has received on social media following last night's UEFA Super Cup defeat," it read. "Mathys showed bravery and courage to step forward and take a penalty, yet those who abuse him are nothing but cowards – hiding behind anonymous usernames and profiles to spout their abhorrent views. We will work with the authorities and social media platforms to take the strongest possible action against any individual we are able to identify. We stand with you, Mathys."

Chasing a big target, MI were in the hunt courtesy Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya and Tim David, but they fell short in the end

Hemant Brar27-Apr-20242:02

Moody: ‘Fraser-McGurk’s mind in the right place’

In another run fest in IPL 2024, Jake Fraser-McGurk’s 84 off 27 balls proved to be the difference as Delhi Capitals (DC) beat Mumbai Indians (MI) by ten runs in Delhi.Apart from Fraser-McGurk, Shai Hope and Tristan Stubbs also played crucial knocks for DC as they posted 257 for 4 after being sent in. In reply, MI lost three wickets in the powerplay – the big ones of Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav – but Tilak Varma and Hardik Pandya kept their hopes alive.Rasikh Salam, however, turned the game by dismissing Hardik and Nehal Wadhera in the same over. While Tilak and Tim David fought till the end, MI eventually fell short.The win took DC to fifth place on the points table with ten points from as many games. MI stay rooted to ninth with six points from nine matches.2:15

Did Mumbai miss a trick against Fraser-McGurk?

Fraser-McGurk gives DC a blazing startAs he has done often in his fledgling career so far, Fraser-McGurk did not waste time getting his eye in and his bat swinging. With a slightly open stance to left-arm seamer Luke Wood, he smashed the first three balls of the innings for 4, 4 and 6.After taking 19 from the first over, he greeted Jasprit Bumrah in the same manner. Bumrah started his over with a slower ball only to be launched over long-on for a six. To make things worse, Bumrah had overstepped, and Fraser-McGurk drilled the free-hit past long-on for four. Fraser-McGurk ended the over with another boundary, making it Bumrah’s most expensive over (18 runs) of the season.DC reached 50 in just 2.4 overs, the joint-fastest for a team in the IPL. In the next over, Fraser-McGurk got to his own fifty. Coming off just 15 balls, it was the joint-fourth fastest in the tournament’s history.Kishan fined for Code of Conduct breach

Mumbai Indians’ wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan has been reprimanded and fined 10% of his match fee for breaching the IPL’s Code of Conduct. Kishan, who scored 20 off 14, was charged with a Level 1 offence under Article 2.2 of the IPL’s Code of Conduct. Kishan admitted to the offence and accepted the match referee’s sanction.

Hardik brought himself on for the fifth over but there was no stopping Fraser-McGurk, who hammered the MI captain for two fours and two sixes to take DC to 89 for no loss after five overs.For a moment, it looked like Fraser-McGurk might break the record for the fastest T20 hundred – he already has the fastest List A hundred to his name – but he holed out to deep midwicket against Piyush Chawla for a 27-ball 84.Shai Hope smashed five sixes in his 17-ball 41•BCCIHope, Stubbs keep DC on course for big totalWalking in at 114 for 1 in 7.3 overs, Hope ensured there was no dip in the momentum. Over the last one year or so, he has worked on his six-hitting skills and has demonstrated the same in ODIs but was unable to do so in T20s. On Saturday, though, he smashed five sixes in a 17-ball 41 to keep DC going in the middle overs.After Hope fell, Stubbs took over and raced to 48 not out off 25 balls. In the 18th over, he used scoops, reverse-scoops and pulls to hit five fours and a six off Wood. Despite Bumrah dismissing Rishabh Pant in the 19th and conceding only six, DC had no trouble in crossing 250.DC dominate the other powerplay tooMI had a brisk start to their chase with Ishan Kishan hitting three successive fours off Khaleel Ahmed in the second over. But Khaleel made a good comeback and had Rohit Sharma caught at mid-off in his next over. From the other end, Mukesh Kumar had Kishan miscuing one to make it 45 for 2.Suryakumar Yadav started with a flurry of boundaries, including two scooped sixes. But in the last over of the powerplay, he failed to pick a slower ball from Khaleel and fell for 26 off 13 balls.Rasikh Salam sent back Hardik Pandya and Nehal Wadhera in the same over•BCCIRasikh has an impact, againMI had slowed down a bit after the powerplay but Hardik put them back on track. He hit Axar Patel for a six off the last ball of the eighth over and then smacked three fours and a six off Kuldeep Yadav in the ninth. Tilak, who was batting on a run-a-ball eight till then, also got into the act with a six and a four in Axar’s next over.MI were still playing catch-up when Rasikh, after coming in as Impact Player, pegged them further back with a two-wicket over. Hardik ended up skying a back-of-the-hand slower ball to backward point and Nehal Wadhera guided a length delivery straight to Pant. That left MI needing 117 from seven overs with five wickets in hand.Tilak, David fight hard but in vainTilak and David kept the fight going. Tilak hit Kuldeep for two fours and two sixes in a 21-run 15th over to bring the equation down to 85 from five overs. But another excellent over by Rasikh, which went for only seven, made it 64 required from three.David took on Mukesh and hit him for two sixes and a four to start the 18th over but was lbw off the next ball. Rasikh went for 16 in the penultimate over but dismissed Mohammad Nabi, which meant it was Tilak or bust for MI with 25 required from the final over.Tilak went for a risky second run off the first ball of that over only to be caught short, and Mukesh held his nerve for the next five balls to seal the win for DC.

تحدث عمرو السولية، لاعب الأهلي السابق وفريق نادي سيراميكا كليوباترا الحالي، عن رحيله عن صفوف القلعة الحمراء، في الصيف الجاري.

وجاء انتقال عمرو السولية إلى سيراميكا كليوباترا بعد مشوار حافل دام 9 سنوات داخل القلعة الحمراء، وأعلن الأهلي نهايته مؤخرًا، بعدما قرر النادي توجيه الشكر للاعب مع نهاية تعاقده.

طالع| “مثل الأهلي”.. عمرو السولية يوضح أسباب انتقاله إلى سيراميكا كليوباترا

وقال السولية، في تصريحات لقناة الأهلي: “سيراميكا كليوباترا نادي ينافس على بطولات، فريق محترم ومعهم جهاز فني محترم والإدارة نفس الشيء، ومجموعة لاعبين جيدين جدًا”.

وتابع: “مركزين جدًا هذا الموسم نحقق أشياء أكثر من التي تحققت الموسم الماضي، بداية من مباراة يوم الجمعة المقبلة أمام الزمالك، ونقدر نفوز بالثلاث نقاط”.

ويعد السولية أبرز لاعبي خط الوسط في الكرة المصرية خلال العقد الأخير، حيث شارك في 342 مباراة بقميص الأهلي في مختلف البطولات، سجل خلالها 34 هدفًا وصنع 29، وفقًا لموقع “ترانسفير ماركت”.

Marizanne Kapp had earlier rescued South Africa from 125 for 5 with a quick 72 but it went in vain

Vishal Dikshit01-Oct-2023New Zealand 210 for 4 (Kerr 100*, Halliday 37*, Malta 2-41) beat South Africa 209 (Kapp 72, Devine 3-33, Tahuhu 3-43, Kerr 2-43) by six wickets (DLS method)A calm and composed Amelia Kerr took New Zealand over the line with an unbeaten century after they were set a target of 210 in 45 overs, in Durban, on what their captain Sophie Devine called a “tricky surface”. It was a consolation win for New Zealand as hosts South Africa had already won the series by claiming the first two ODIs. But two points took New Zealand to the top half of the Women’s Championship table, where they are now fifth and South Africa second, behind India.Even though South Africa lost a fired-up Marizanne Kapp after she had bowled just three overs in the chase – her heart rate spiked up and she left the field as a precaution. CSA had later said she was “doing well and resting in the changeroom” – they will also rue the fielding lapses, dropped catches and missed run-out chances that might have changed the result. New Zealand’s batters, led by Kerr’s fourth ODI century, cashed in on the slip-ups and got home with ten balls to spare.After opting to bowl, New Zealand had the hosts in a spot of bother when their quick bowlers Hannah Rowe, Lea Tahuhu and Devine combined to reduce South Africa to 43 for 3 in the 12th over. When it looked like in-form captain Laura Wolvaardt and Kapp were going to keep them steady, Devine sent Wolvaardt back for a 54-ball 24 with a drag-on while playing her trademark drive. From there, Kapp not only salvaged the innings but pushed along at a brisk pace even though wickets fell around her.She was mainly assisted by Chloe Tryon, playing her 100th ODI, in a fifth-wicket stand of 58 and then by Sinola Jafta for a partnership of 41 for the seventh wicket. Once Jafta was caught behind off Tahuhu, Kapp also edged behind, for 72 off 73 off Kerr, with the score on 188. South Africa were soon bowled out for 209 in 44.3 overs.Morning showers had turned this into a 48-over game at the start, a further interruption in the middle reduced it to 45 overs a side and since the hosts were all out, New Zealand had to chase 210 and not a revised target.South Africa started their defence in strong fashion when Suzie Bates, playing her 300th international game, was caught at midwicket by a diving Tazmin Brits off Masabata Klaas for 9. The ease with which Kerr and Devine then put on 64 for the second wicket, taking them past 100 in the process, made it look like the visitors would stroll to the target. But Nonkululeko Mlaba’s double-strike and Maddy Green’s duck added a twist. Devine and Green were both victims of misfortune: the New Zealand captain tried to push a seemingly innocuous ball to the covers, but it kept low and rolled onto her stumps. In the next over, Green danced down the track and went for a drive, she missed it as did Jafta but the ball bounced off the wicketkeeper’s gloves and hit the stumps. Georgia Plimmer’s cut, away from the body, offered a simple catch to point off Mlaba. It had New Zealand tightly placed 127 for 4, having lost 3 for 21 in the previous 49 balls.The wickets added to a boundary drought that lasted over 12 overs, but Brooke Halliday broke the shackles in the 31st over. The fifth-wicket stand saw off a tense phase with Kerr surviving a close lbw shout, off Tryon, and Halliday’s chip down the ground falling just short of mid-off in the same over. Halliday soon survived a run-out chance as well, thanks to a full-length dive. She got another life when Klaas put down a sitter at midwicket in the 41st over. By now, Kerr had reached a solid 87 with the help of 11 fours, most of them coming behind square and through the covers, and she, with Halliday, had ensured the asking rate never crossed six an over for most of their partnership. And when it did, Halliday smacked Klaas for three fours in an over before Kerr got to 99 with a four next over and tapped the ball towards point to pinch the single that completed her match-winning century along with the game.

Richard Thompson says he will speak to ICC after disappointment of Old Trafford draw

Matt Roller27-Jul-2023

Richard Thompson, the ECB chair, has said that he will lobby ICC chair Greg Barclay “to ensure that schedules can be more flexible” after England’s hopes of regaining the men’s Ashes were washed away in the Manchester rain on Sunday.The fifth day of the fourth Ashes Test at Emirates Old Trafford was abandoned without a ball bowled, after only 30 overs were possible on the fourth day. With several overs lost due to slow over-rates on the first three days, Joe Root proposed that greater flexibility should be introduced in the hours of play to ensure all overs are bowled.Thompson, speaking to the programme on BBC Radio 4, stopped short of saying he would call for the introduction of reserve days across the board in Test cricket, but said: “It’s a debate that we need to have.”Thompson said: “I will talk to Greg Barclay, the chair of the ICC, for sure, just in the sense of him understanding what England has done to Test cricket. We’ve elevated that format and reinvented the way Test cricket has been played now.”There’s significantly more excitement and interest around Test cricket now, and this is part of that broader conversation, to ensure that schedules can be more flexible to accommodate this type of strange eventuality. But we need to have that conversation.”Related

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Speaking ahead of the final day in Manchester, Root questioned the lack of flexibility in the hours of play in England, where the vast majority of Tests start at 11am regardless of whether overs are lost the previous day, and play rarely extends beyond 7pm.”In England, it doesn’t get dark until 10pm,” Root told the BBC’s . “Why not start earlier?”Whatever it is, if you need to make overs up, instead of punishing teams for being slow on over-rates, can you find other ways of maximising play and finding chances of getting as much cricket in as possible? Why do you have to have hard and fast rules? Why not play until the overs are done?”According to the ICC’s Test match playing conditions, the hours of play are determined by the home board, rather than the governing body. “You could have a look at the schedule, in terms of the times you play,” Thompson said.”Fundamentally, people are buying a ticket expecting play to start at a certain time and end at a certain time, so from that perspective, you’re going to have to inject certain flexibility to broadcasters’ schedules, people with travel arrangements, all sorts of practicalities.”We are in the entertainment business. You want people to leave happy and entertained. Having a reserve day – as there was in the World Test Championship [final] – would be a great idea but you’d need to do that for each Test. That’s another five days you’d need to find in the schedule. There will be a lot of debate after this series.”

Liverpool are heading toward a critical juncture.

Arne Slot’s side are way ahead at the top of the Premier League having also reached the Carabao Cup final. A meeting with Newcastle United at Wembley looms large.

But FSG know their Dutch head coach’s lightning-fast start to life in Jurgen Klopp’s seat will only be preserved through calculated investment this summer.

There’s still hope Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah will extend their deals, though there’s a sense of resignation that Trent Alexander-Arnold may have been tempted by Real Madrid.

While each of these superstars’ positions will need to be filled if they leave, Liverpool also have several other priorities, with Darwin Nunez likely to be sold this summer and a high-class forward needed in his stead.

He’s not the only one, though, with the left side of defence also in desperate need of renovation. Bournemouth’s Milos Kerkez has been picked as the man for the job, it seems.

Liverpool's interest in Milos Kerkez

Anfield’s left-back berth has required very little attention over the past eight years, with Andy Robertson ruling supreme and Kostas Tsimikas joining from Olympiakos in 2020 to add depth.

However, neither is performing to the highest standard in Slot’s system. Robertson turned 31 this week and is suffering after so many full-throttle years under Klopp’s wing.

Kerkez, 21, is the full package and the perfect long-term solution.

With the Daily Mail reporting Liverpool’s interest is already in the advanced stage, there’s plenty to get excited about. The Hungarian’s pace and energy down the left is perfect for Slot’s high-energy and technically-shaped team.

Indeed, he’s scored two goals and provided five assists across 28 Premier League matches this term, as per Sofascore, also completing 81% of his passes and averaging 4.7 ball recoveries per game.

All this said, Liverpool run the risk of losing Trent this summer and will then need to target full-backs on either side to bring Slot’s vision to fruition.

It’s a shame the perfect rising defender has already been offloaded, for he is thriving in England’s top flight this year and is maybe even outperforming Kerkez.

Liverpool may regret selling "relentless" PL star

Through the genius of Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool fans have been reminded of the joy in witnessing one of your own emerge from the academy and make a marked impact over a number of years.

Oftentimes, promising prospects fall by the wayside at their first club, but many go on to forge impressive careers. Neco Williams is one such player, having found his feet and then some at Nottingham Forest.

Hindsight always portrays a different picture, and few – if any – of a Liverpool persuasion felt the £17m fee that FSG claimed when Forest purchased full-back Williams was anything other than a bona fide success.

And, in fairness, it still is, though Nuno Espirito Santo has pulled every ounce of ability from this product of the Kirkby talent factory, a core part of the high-flying Tricky Trees’ campaign.

Williams is reaching the end of his second season at the City Ground, and having played 18 times from the outset last year, he’s already equalled that number this season with two months still to be played.

Nuno hailed his team’s “ruthless” ability in front of goal during January’s 7-0 demolition of Brighton, Williams among the scorers. He’s complete in his approach, with such performances surely not unworthy of a spot in Slot’s squad.

The current term may not convey the most awe-inspiring of playmaking metrics but it’s important to remember Williams is moonlighting on the wrong side of the pitch. Even so, the right-footer has excelled as his team defy expectation to challenge for a place in next season’s Champions League, something they are firmly on course for as we enter the business end.

In spite of this, the Welshman has still managed to showcase his athleticism and ball-carrying approach, all the while maintaining a steely defensive game. As per Sofascore, he’s won a whopping 60% of his duels this season, battling against right wingers such as Salah.

Goals

0.05

0.07

Assists

0.05

0.18

Shot-creating actions

1.65

2.21

Progressive passes

2.92

4.38

Progressive carries

2.18

2.68

Successful take-ons

0.62

0.59

Ball recoveries

3.45

4.85

Tackles + interceptions

4.14

2.65

Clearances

4.30

2.98

Blocks

1.65

1.07

Aerials won

1.87

0.63

It’s perhaps also worth noting Williams has averaged a dribble every two Premier League matches this season, whereas Kerkez, despite what you may think, records 0.6 dribbles per top-flight fixture in 2024/25.

Statistics only tell so much of a story. Forest have held the least possession of any side in the Premier League, and yet are flying high at the top. This is why Williams’ ball-carrying and playmaking numbers are down, but even so, you can see that he performs well in the conditions provided.

Could it be that Williams is a superior defender with an attacking game that doesn’t always get highlighted, due to the way in which Forest set up?

It must be said, Klopp once commented on Williams’ “incredible” quality in attack when he played for Liverpool, and with six assists from only 33 senior appearances with the Reds, this is hardly baseless.

He was also praised for his “relentless” running by Liverpool writer Leanne Prescott, further strengthening the claim he’d be fit for purpose in Slot’s framework.

Bringing it back to Trent, FSG may find they have parted with their next version of the Three Lions star, an exciting and dynamic wide defender who distinctively can play across both flanks.

If Alexander-Arnold does leave this summer, Liverpool are going to need to sign a new player to provide competition for Conor Bradley. It’s just a shame that this could have been prevented, had Williams’ potential been properly recognised, and a decision on his sale withheld.

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