Gareth Southgate believes England are blessed with their current crop of attacking full-backs or wing-backs, going as far as to argue that the right side is possibly the strongest area of the squad.
The England manager denied favouring attacking qualities over defensive ones when Manchester United’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka was left out of the squad and Chelsea’s Reece James included despite having to serve a suspension in the Nations League, explaining that on present form it was impossible to leave out James and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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“It’s an area of the pitch where we are blessed,” he says. “Reece and Trent have both played as…
Scientists can’t quite agree on how long it will be until the universe ends. The most trigger-happy astrophysicists have it at around 22bn years, but if we’re lucky it could keep chugging away for 200bn. Earth has slightly less time – becoming a burnt-out lifeless rock in about 5bn, after the sun runs out of fuel and enters what’s known as its “red giant phase”.
Which brings us to Manchester United – who appeared to run out of fuel in 2013. As a gaunt, expressionless Erik ten Hag stood in his technical area at Old Trafford on Sunday, it was hard not to feel that this Groundhog Day paint-by-numbers crisis might be put out of its misery only by the demise of the entire planet.
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Police have arrested at least six people and raided the headquarters of the Spanish Football Federation and a residence belonging to its former president, Luis Rubiales, as part of an investigation into allegations of corruption and money laundering.
Spanish police told the Associated Press that Rubiales, who made headlines around the world after an unsolicited kiss and defiant refusal to step down, was not among those arrested on Wednesday. However, a source connected to the operation said Rubiales was among five additional people officially put under investigation.
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If your goal is to win your Week 1 matchup in fantasy football this season, I got a guy for you: Anthony Richardson.The Colts open at home against the Texans in what could be the shootout of the week.Richardson passed for 223 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 40 yards and another score on Opening Day—his NFL debut—last September in a 31-21 home loss to the Jaguars.It made the rookie one of the highest-scoring quarterbacks in any fantasy league that week and gave the few who could have projected such success a leg up on the competition.But as those who pumped their chests over Richardson can attest, fantasy football titles aren’t won in Week 1. And they’re definitely not won with quarterbacks who play only two full games before suffering a season-ending injury.There’s a reason…
Tiger Woods’s post-tournament interview on CBS featured one surprising revelation: that the four-time Masters champ dislocated his wrist after catching his club on a root early in the day, leading to “a bone popping out” but that “I put it back in.” Euphemisms aside, this sounds both painful and perhaps implausible? See his statement—and video of the shot—above. [CBS] To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] ( PGP key) or find him on Twitter @bubbaprog. …
If you love dick and you love fashion, then what the fuck are you doing standing here reading this blog post? You should have been at Rick Owen's fall/winter 2015 showcase, where the hottest trend was visible dick. Underboob was so 2014. This year, it's all about the underdick. At first glance, you might think the cock and balls peeking out from under this tall male model's dress is a case of a tailor who didn't get his measurements quite right. But you would be completely wrong. According to The Cut, the Dick Count in the show was three. To recap: that's three visible penises on stage at Paris Fashion week. The show wasn't all penis parade. Apparently, it started out relatively normally. Just a buncha health goth dudes walking down the catwalk, nothin…
Major League Baseball got its final-day “bonanza,” which it will use as a selling point whenever they get around to expanding the playoffs for good. While the American League slots had been sorted for a while, the National League had a smorgasbord of teams that got lost on their way to somewhere else and got roped into this timeshare presentation that were either fighting for playoff spots and seeding. With all the games starting at the same time, what baseball wants you to believe is that it was wild swings of momentum and emotions across the nation. But because they’ve expanded the playoffs to include teams that would normally have been kicked out of the bar long ago for trying to make out with the Golden Tee girl, what they got was a competition to see who could fall down last. …
From here out, when you talk about Aaron Hernandez being accused of committing murder, you're going to have to specify which one. Hernandez has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts of first-degree murder, stemming from a drive-by shooting outside a Boston club in 2012—a year before the alleged murder of Odin Lloyd. On July 16, 2012, Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado were killed when an SUV pulled up alongside their car at a red light and fired into the vehicle. The deaths initially went unsolved, but Hernandez emerged as a possible suspect last summer, when a club security guard told police he had overheard that the killings were related to the murder of Odin Lloyd. Since then, evidence against Hernandez has mounted: The SUV used in the drive-by was found at the Bristol, Co…
The Atlanta Braves acquired outfielder J.P. Martinez from the Texas Rangers on Friday for minor league right-hander Tyler Owens. Martinez, 27, batted .225 (9-for-40) with one homer and four RBIs in 17 games with the Rangers last season. He hit .297 with 14 homers, 60 RBIs and 41 stolen bases in 82 games split between three different levels of minor league baseball. Owens, 23, posted a 0-6 record with four saves and a 3.03 ERA in 29 games (15 starts) last season split between Double-A Mississippi and High-A Rome. He is 5-15 with nine saves and a 4.37 ERA in 77 career minor-league appearances (32 starts). —Field Level Media …
data-mm-id=”_gr972ibwu”>Cam Newton remains a member of the Carolina Panthers, but that hasn't stopped football prognosticators from playing matchmaker. A new destination for the quarterback, placed on injured reserve last week, was one of Colin Cowherd's topics on Thursday's edition of The Herd. Cowherd listed seven teams in urgent need at the quarterback spot, teams that could invite Newton in if he parts ways with the Panthers. Which team would be the best fit for Cam Newton next season? @ColinCowherd sees 2 options: pic.twitter.com/VjPGbSWfO8— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) November 14, 2019Cowherd first declares that the Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins would pass (citing they would "start over" with a rookie, namely Joe Burrow or Tua Tagovailoa). T…