Liverpool have discovered the team of officials who’ll be involved in next Sunday’s Premier League clash against Brighton, and rarely will the appointments have drawn such attention from Reds supporters.The fallout from last Saturday’s controversial defeat to Tottenham rumbles on amid the top flight confirming the assignment of match officials for next weekend’s fixtures (via premierleague.com).Anthony Taylor will be the man in the middle at the Amex Stadium, with Gary Beswick and Adam Nunn as his assistants. Craig Pawson is the fourth official, with Chris Kavanagh on VAR, assisted by Matthew Wilkes.There are two notable absentees from the Matchweek 8 appointments.…
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England have enlisted an Indian sidearm specialist to help them prepare to face left-arm fast bowling in the World Cup.The sidearm, the device that resembles a dog-thrower, has become ubiquitous in the professional game over the last decade and is used extensively by coaches in England’s training sessions. England’s core coaching staff in India comprises head coach Matthew Mott and his assistants Marcus Trescothick (batting), Carl Hopkinson (fielding), Richard Dawson (spin bowling) and David Saker (seam bowling).But in order to reduce the burden on their main coaches, England will employ Saurabh Ambatkar, who played age-group cricket for Mumbai and Vidarbha,…
India 202 for 4 (Jaiswal 100, Rinku 37*, Airee 2-31) beat Nepal 179 for 9 (Airee 32, Jora 29, Avesh 3-32, Bishnoi 3-24) by 23 runsYashasvi Jaiswal has had a memorable 2023 already. In May, he smashed the fastest half-century in the IPL off just 13 balls. In July, his old-school 171 in Dominica, which lasted 501 minutes and 387 balls, was the longest by an Indian Test debutant. Two months on, in Hangzhou, at a ground that may have reminded him of the Mumbai maidans in terms of dimensions, he became the youngest Indian to smash a T20I century…
32 Jonny Evans has revealed that Erik ten Hag first proposed the idea of bringing him back to Manchester United last season when the club faced Leicester City at the King Power Stadium in September 2022. A goal from Jadon Sancho clinched all three points for United. Evans, who recently chalked up 200 appearances for United in a brilliant personal performance against Burnley at Turf Moor, told club media that Ten Hag made a move for him after that match. He said, “I think back to when we played last season actually. We played quite early on in the season,…
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A man walks with his bicycle past election billboards in Russian-controlled Melitopol on September 26, 2022. Alexander Ermochenko/ReutersIn Russia, Friday was a call for celebration. In Ukraine, it was a worrying reminder of the dangers civilians face on the front lines.It has now been one year since Russia said it would annex the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. The regions together account for 100,000 square kilometers (38,600 square miles) of Ukrainian territory, a fifth of the country’s land mass. It marked the largest forcible annexation of land in Europe since 1945.The Kremlin’s decision to seize the territories in…
Trump’s fraud trial beginsDonald Trump yesterday began his first of many trials — a civil fraud case that imperils his company and threatens his image. The New York State attorney general’s office accused the former president of inflating his riches by more than $2 billion to obtain favorable deals with banks and bragging rights about his wealth.The trial’s opening day brought Trump face-to-face with one of his longest-running antagonists: the attorney general of New York, Letitia James, who filed the case against him, his adult sons and their family business. If her office proves its case, the judge overseeing the…
Australia do not have an issue halting the momentum of rival batters, captain Alyssa Healy insists, despite falling victim to a Hayley Matthews masterclass in the second T20I against West Indies.Matthews clubbed 132 from 64 balls on Monday night to help West Indies pull off the biggest chase in women’s T20I history, as the tourists ran down their target of 213 at North Sydney Oval.The loss marked Australia’s third defeat in four T20Is, having previously enjoyed a 12-match winning streak before being shocked twice by England in this year’s Ashes.Matthews’ knock came after Australia faced similar challenges in that series,…
24 Manchester United’s strategic review, announced last year, is showing no signs of nearing an end and the latest update suggests it is going to rumble on. The Peoples Person covered a report which stated that Sir Jim Ratcliffe was mulling over acquiring a minority stake of the club. The INEOS chairman, along with Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani were the bidders who wanted to buy the club outright in different ways. Sir Jim’s U-turn While the petrochemicals billionaire was willing to keep the Glazers on as minority shareholders, Sheikh Jassim wanted to buy the club outright and went as…
Beaumont, winner of the women’s award in 2016, collected the accolade for a second time after a stellar summer in which she broke the record for the highest individual international score for England Women with her double-hundred in the Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, as well as finishing as the second-leading run-scorer in the women’s Hundred.Brook, who won Men’s Young Player of the Year in 2021 and 2022, added the senior award to his collection on the back of a prolific run of form in the Test team, as well as helping England to win the 2022 T20 World Cup.”I’m…
