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• Portsmouth 2-3 Peterborough; Tranmere 1-1 Bury • Sunderland lose 2-1 deep in stoppage time Luton and Barnsley were both promoted last night without kicking a ball thanks to Portsmouth ’s 3-2 defeat at home to Peterborough and Sunderland’s injury-time defeat away to Fleetwood . Related: Laurence Bassini's Bolton takeover deadline extended amid fixture impasse Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/30/football-league-roundup-promotion-joy-luton-barnsley-bury

Smartphone revenue falls at its steepest-ever rate, but the technology giant is upbeat on the future.

Liverpool winger Sadio Mané has distanced himself from rumours that he is considering a move to Real Madrid this summer. Speaking before his team’s Champions League semi-final first leg tie against Barcelona, the Senegalese footballer said: ‘I have this opportunity [in the Premier League] so I think it’s cool.’ Mané, who has scored 25 goals for the Liverpool this season, also revealed he is ‘jealous’ of Barcelona for having Philippe Coutinho and is confident that Virgil van Dijk can annul the threat of Lionel Messi at the Camp Nou. Liverpool are extraordinary up front, says Barcelona’s Ernesto Valverde Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2019/apr/30/sadio-mane-on-barcelona-jealously-real-madrid-links-and-liverpools-golden-boot-battle-video

The US president wants the central bank to reduce interest rates by 1% to boost the economy.

• Klopp says Champions League opponents are ‘brilliant team’ • ‘We miss Coutinho a lot,’ Liverpool manager admits Jürgen Klopp said Liverpool must be willing to suffer against “brilliant” Barcelona to shatter Lionel Messi’s dream of winning the Champions League for a fifth time. Messi pledged earlier this season that the newly-crowed Spanish champions would “do all we can to bring that beautiful trophy back to the Camp Nou”, having seen arch rivals Real Madrid win it for the past three years. The Liverpool manager accepts his team must overcome one of the toughest tests in football to reach the final for a second year running and prevent the great Argentinian equalling Cristiano Ronaldo’s haul of Champions League winners’ medals this season. But it is a challenge that excites Klopp, who has not lost any of his 10 European knockout ties with Liverpool. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/30/liverpool-must-suffer-barcelona-j...

The steelmaker asked for help after the EU froze UK companies out of its carbon credits scheme.

Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook at a speech in San Francisco

Newly-appointed Johanna Wood is championing diversity as the country rides a wave of interest heading to France “One of the things with people is they’re always watching. They’re watching to see ‘have you got what it takes to be a leader? Can you make the hard decisions? Can you make the tough calls?’ And I think I can.” Talking to Johanna Wood, the recently-elected first woman president of New Zealand Football, you quickly learn that she is used to defying expectations in male environments. “My background is in education,” she says. “When I was appointed principal of a co-ed high school it wasn’t common for women. My husband and I are farmers, so people often wouldn’t speak to me on the telephone because I’m a woman. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/01/world-cup-coming-at-right-time-for-women-says-new-zealand-football-president

The rise of freelance working is transforming the global job market.

• Striker accused of ‘successful deception’ amid melee • Leeds and Aston Villa both charged over players’ conduct The Leeds United forward Patrick Bamford could face a two-match ban after being charged with “successful deception of a match official” while Aston Villa’s midfielder Anwar El Ghazi has had his red card rescinded following the Championship match between the sides on Sunday, the Football Association has announced. Leeds and Villa have also been charged with failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion during the 72nd minute at Elland Road. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/30/leeds-patrick-bamford-charged-aston-villa-anwar-el-ghazi

The US plant-based meat-maker, which is yet to make a profit, increases its share price ahead of its listing.

US politicians join in the criticism of Chase, highlighting pay disparity and its bailout in 2008.

Anki, the company behind Cozmo and Vector, is facing financial difficulties.

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! “Not in the history of football can another story like Tottenham’s be repeated!” Mauricio Pochettino there , as the 10th-richest club in the world prepare for the semi-finals of Big Cup, a stage of the competition reached in the past by the likes of Hibernian, Young Boys, Rapid Vienna, Standard Liege, Dundee, Zurich, Vasas Gyor, Dukla Prague, Spartak Trnava, Legia Warsaw, Ujpest Dozsa, Derby County, Widzew Lodz, Bordeaux, Nantes, Dundee United and Tottenham. Yes, it’s a singular achievement all right, the like of which we’ll probably never see again. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/30/the-fiver

Every drone and model aircraft owner could be charged £16.50 a year under plans by the regulator.

• Former United captain has met with Ed Woodward • Ferdinand, 40, was a teammate of Ole Gunnar Solskjær Rio Ferdinand is among the candidates being considered for a senior football role at Manchester United. Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman, is seeking to appoint a technical director whose job will include long-term strategy of United’s first team. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/30/manchester-united-rio-ferdinand-technical-director

The TV can pivot from a horizontal to a vertical position, to better display smartphone content.

At the height of the blaze, more than 300 firefighters worked to tackled the flames.

Norwich have been brilliant this season but their promotion to the top flight in 1986 takes some beating for drama By Steven Pye for That 1980s Sports Blog As spring turned to summer in 1985, Norwich fans must have been emotionally drained. In March, the football Gods shone on them as they beat local rivals Ipswich in the League Cup semi-finals and then won the final against Sunderland to qualify for Europe for the first time in their history. But all that glory and hope would be taken away by the end of May. Norwich’s league form collapsed after their big day out at Wembley, with a run of eight defeats in nine games sending them towards the relegation zone. Their season was in danger of falling apart but a win at Chelsea in their final game left them on 49 points, surely enough to keep them up. They just had to hope that Coventry, who still had three games to play, didn’t win them all. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/that...

See if you can guess the footballers who have played at the home of Total Football from their trail of clubs Reipas > HJK > MyPa > Ajax > Barcelona > Liverpool > Ajax > Lahti > Hansa Rostock > Malmö > Fulham > Lahti > HJK Petri Tiainen Jari Litmanen Sami Hyypia Jan Molby Ajax > Twente (loan) > Ajax > Internazionale > Everton > PSV > WKE Davy Klaassen John Heitinga Maarten Stekelenburg Andy van der Meyde Ajax > Barcelona > LA Aztecs > Washington Diplomats > Levante > Ajax > Feyenoord Johan Cruyff Peter van Vossen Ronald Koeman Frank de Boer Ajax > Sporting > Real Zaragoza (loan) > Milan > Ajax Frank Rijkaard Edgar Davids Marco van Basten Clarence Seedorf Kolding > Ajax > Liverpool > Barnsley (loan) > Norwich (loan) > Swansea Christian Poulsen Jan Molby Daniel Agger Jari Litmanen Ajax > Volendam (loan) > Groningen (loan) > Milan > Barcelona > Middles...

But there are claims that "a lot of songwriters are making less than minimum wage".

Jaguar Land Rover will build its next-generation Land Rover Defender in Slovakia rather than the UK.

Mobile phone sales worldwide are declining but is our love affair with them over?

Bolton players refused to play over unpaid wages EFL to decide on Championship fixture on Thursday Bolton’s postponed Championship fixture against Brentford will not take place this week, the English Football League has announced. Originally scheduled to take place last Saturday, the match was called off after Bolton players refused to play in protest at unpaid wages. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/30/bolton-v-brentford-still-no-date-for-rearranged-match-after-player-protest

Vulnerabilities in Italy could have given the Chinese firm access to people's home networks.

Vulnerabilities in Italy could have given the Chinese firm access to people's home networks.

Our cartoonist on who will blink first at the top and the goings-on at clubs limping towards Champions League qualification Take a look through David’s archive of cartoons Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2019/apr/30/david-squires-on-the-premier-league-title-race-and-battle-for-the-top-four

Despite their European Cup pedigree, the Dutch side’s lack of financial muscle make them the outliers of the final four When Tottenham and Ajax kick off in the Champions League on Tuesday, Spurs will be playing in their first semi-final in the competition. Ajax have won the European Cup or Champions League four times. But statistically speaking, Ajax are the great success story of this stage of the tournament. The numbers are stacked against them in almost every way. On paper, Ajax simply don’t have the same quality as their opponents – or that of Barcelona or Liverpool. Based on their Elo ranking – which calculates a team’s quality based on number of victories, margin of victory, quality of opponent and home or away advantage – Ajax are by far the weakest team of the four semi-finalists (Barcelona and Liverpool play in the other tie). Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/datablog/2019/apr/30/ajax-the-success-story-of-the-champion...

Four Seasons Health Care is expected to appoint administrators after struggling with its debts.

It's the third year in a row that the broadband provider has come bottom of Ofcom's customer survey.

It's the third year in a row that the broadband provider has come bottom of Ofcom's customer survey.

Arsenal’s triumph and Chelsea’s demise are proof of the unpredictability of women’s football and the excitement will surely rise with United and Spurs A lot has been written about the battle at the top of the Premier League and the likelihood of Liverpool finishing in second place with more than 90 points. That two teams have kept pace and driven each other to the limit is hugely impressive. And as a result many a comment piece has lamented the misfortune of the Merseysiders’ bid for a first league title in 29 years. But when we are discussing teams that have run out of luck, spare a thought for Manchester City women. Nick Cushing’s team are one game from an unbeaten Women’s Super League season but on Saturday 11 May they will line up to give Arsenal a guard of honour. Should they slightly dampen the party on the final day at Borehamwood, City would complete their second undefeated season, having achieved the feat in 2016 on the way to their first and only league title . Continue r...

Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver compete in MLS, but an exclusively Canadian professional league is hoping to boost the national team Just a few years ago, young Canadian soccer players like Ryan Telfer and Kadell Thomas had little shot at professional careers. Without a professional domestic league solely based in Canada players entered their 20s with a sense of uncertainty: despite having the talent to progress into academies, colleges and semi-pro leagues, they would either be forced to play abroad – unless they made it to the handful of Canadian MLS teams – or quit the game altogether. “There are so few options,” said Telfer in 2018. But this weekend, Telfer and Thomas entered the annals of Canadian soccer history. And more importantly, they now have a pathway to sustained success. On a windy Saturday afternoon in front of 17,611 spectators at Hamilton’s Tim Horton’s Field, Telfer and Thomas each scored in an entertaining 1-1 draw between York 9 FC and Hamilton’s Forge FC in the ...

The lawsuit aims to stop Deutsche Bank and Capital One from handing over his records to Congress.

Today’s fluff talks a good game on Twitter A widely held view, supported by a Schwarzenegger-like body of evidence, is that Ed Woodward has not shown much canniness when it comes to Manchester United’s transfer dealing. Too emotional or kneejerk in his decisions, people say. So he should hire someone else to oversee transfers, people also say. The problem with that line of thinking is that if Woodward isn’t cool-headed when it comes to signing players, why would he be cool-headed when signing someone to sign players? Like, if the criticism is fair, then wouldn’t he end up appointing, say, Rio Ferdinand as director of football because he liked him as a player and thinks he talks a good game on Twitter? Well that would be – hold on, what’s this? According to the Daily Mail, Woodward has met with Rio Ferdinand to discuss the former defender taking up the position of director of football at Manchester United ! At least one pundit is understood to be certain such a development won’t end i...

The Ajax CEO explains the strategy that kept their thrilling young side together and paved the way for Champions League heroics Last season, as Ajax’s future balanced on a gossamer thread, the club’s hierarchy called in seven of their most talented youngsters for a special talk and presentation. It felt like a pivotal moment. Off the pace in the Eredivisie, without any European football to spice up the season, Edwin van der Sar and Marc Overmars, the CEO and director of football, hatched a plan to try to keep their finest prospects from seeking greener grass. André Onana, Matthijs De Ligt, Donny van de Beek, Frenkie de Jong, Justin Kluivert, Kasper Dolberg and David Neres were called to a meeting. They were shown a video, made just for them, where they were each compared to an iconic player from the club’s past who played in their position. The message was unequivocal. Van der Sar picks up the story. “We said: ‘If you want to be a legend of Ajax you need to win something big’. In my ...

Intelligence sharing will be at risk if countries use the firm to build 5G networks, official says.

The government's plan to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040 is too tame, its advisers will say.

The accountancy giant has been "severely reprimanded" for the way it audited an insurance company.

Talks appear to be reaching the final stretch though both sides remain divided on several key issues.

A supermarket is being piloted in London which has not tills, forcing customers to pay by app. Emma Simpson reports.

Young people on either side of a decades-old conflict seldom meet, but tech is building bridges.

Across the UK, empty department stores are being turned into everything from housing to arts spaces.

Long-distance routes should also be serviced by more than one company to spark competition, they said.

Woman, 48, and man, 62, from Wiltshire arrested, as police say no evidence of break-in at mortuary Two people have been arrested by detectives investigating how an image purporting to show the postmortem examination of the late footballer Emiliano Sala was posted online, Wiltshire police have said. A 48-year-old woman from Corsham in Wiltshire was arrested on suspicion of unauthorised access to computer material (an offence under the Computer Misuse Act) and malicious communications, and was released on conditional bail. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/29/emiliano-sala-two-arrests-after-image-purporting-to-show-body-posted-online

Shares in the internet giant tumble nearly 7% after its sales growth falls short of forecasts.

The US firm which offers shared office space around the world is yet to make a profit.

Totenham defender is not surprised by Ajax’s resurgence having been schooled at the club where a ‘win is never enough’ Jan Vertonghen was 19, he had scored a vital goal in a pivotal game and he feared that it had killed his career. On loan at RKC Waalwijk from Ajax, the goal came against his parent club in a 2-2 draw in the fourth-last match of the 2006‑07 Eredivisie season. Related: Tottenham’s story won’t be repeated in football, says Mauricio Pochettino Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/jan-vertonghen-tottenham-ajax-champions-league

• Liverpool defender says team will be ready for Barcelona • Van Dijk is relishing the task that awaits in Spain Virgil van Dijk has said the challenge of silencing Lionel Messi in Barcelona holds no fear for Liverpool because a second Champions League semi-final in succession underlines the quality of Jürgen Klopp’s side. Related: Barcelona win La Liga title as Lionel Messi goal secures victory over Levante Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/virgil-van-dijk-has-no-fear-of-annulling-lionel-messi-threat-at-the-camp-nou

Shares in the internet giant tumble by nearly 5% after its revenue falls short of forecasts.

Dennis Muilenburg says a safety mechanism was only one factor in two fatal Boeing plane crashes.

Rapper Jay-Z, singer Miley Cyrus and the Killers band were booked to play at Woodstock 50 in New York.

A US firm has apologised for a job ad that stated it would prefer white candidates.

Intelligence sharing will be at risk if countries use the firm to build 5G networks, official says.

Phil Watson is "killed" by a zombie baby and a spider.

Forty years ago Mrs Thatcher came to power, is the UK economy at another historic moment of change?

Bob Higgins tells court he was treating boys for cramp and denies allegations of abuse A former Southampton FC schoolboy football coach has told a jury that he gave young players soapy water massages and may have touched their testicles. But Bob Higgins, who also coached at Peterborough United, insisted that any contact would have been purely accidental and denied that he sexually abused junior players. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/29/ex-football-coach-massaging-of-young-players-was-not-sexual

Former Premier League players clash during MLS game Swede threw Englishman to ground during match Galaxy striker went to Salt Lake dressing room to apologise Zlatan Ibrahimovic has once again found himself at the centre of a storm after clashing with Nedum Onuoha during an MLS game on Sunday. Ibrahimovic scored the winner for LA Galaxy in their 2-1 over Real Salt Lake but had clashed with former Manchester City defender Onuoha in the 60th minute, throwing his opponent to the ground. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/zlatan-ibrahimovic-nedum-onuoha-mls-galaxy-real-salt-lake

Shadow chancellor says people want change in a Newsnight series marking Mrs Thatcher's election.

The European Commission says the deal will lead to "lower prices for European retailers to do business".

There was a sense of weakness when Valverde took over but successive La Liga titles have made Barça look untouchable Not long after their 2-0 victory in Vitoria late on Wednesday, with Barcelona four weeks from the finish and three points from the title, Ernesto Valverde was asked if he would like to win the league the following evening or the following Saturday. “What I like,” he said, “is that I get asked that question.” It was done, again. And it was done early, again. Barcelona had beaten Real Madrid, beaten Atlético Madrid and beaten everyone else except Athletic Club and Valencia. Now they had beaten Alavés too, affording them the luxury of choice: they could take the title with a win over Levante three days later or they could be handed it with an Atlético defeat against Valencia the next day, watching it on TV – and no one wanted that. They didn’t want to be handed it in the car on the way to work three days after that, either. “I’d rather win it at home with our fans,” Sergi...

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Arsenal weren’t the only team to charitably gift their opponents an unopposed goal on Sunday afternoon, although the alarming frequency with which they have done so this season means their random acts of kindness are no longer considered headline news. A club it is probably fair to say that are not historically renowned for their fair play, evenhandedness and sportsmanship, Nasty Leeds may not win the unlikely return to the Premier League that was theirs to lose just a couple of weeks ago, but under Marcelo Bielsa they have won an even more unlikely – albeit financially less lucrative – place in the hearts of what the kids these days call “haters”, who had hitherto held them in very little regard. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/the-fiver-nasty-leeds-aston-villa-scenes-no-one-likes-to-see-but-really-do

On paper, Borussia Dortmund should have hammered Schalke but a 4-2 defeat has virtually ended their Bundesliga aspirations If it was going to fall apart maybe it was always going to be here, now and in this way. This was a Revierderby that looked as if it might be Schalke’s worst nightmare in a season full of them. The distance between them and arch-rivals Borussia Dortmund was 42 points at kick-off, a gap that had never been as pronounced at this stage of a Bundesliga season before. This looked like a Saturday afternoon in Westfalen – where Dortmund had been yet to lose in the league this season – in which clichés about derbies and form books could be safely left at home. And yet. A bruised team, mentally and physically, that even the legendary Huub Stevens has struggled to drag towards respectability, found a way to call the cops on Dortmund’s noisy party and to win 4-2. As the majority of Signal Iduna Park stood stunned at the final whistle, the home side had to face the fact tha...

Max Rushden , Barry Glendenning , John Brewin and Lars Sivertsen discuss a dismal top-four clash, the PFA Awards, Leeds playing dirty – and then not, plus the Bundesliga title race. Oh, and Lars goes full #teamNeymar Join the conversation on Facebook , Twitter and email . We look back at the weekend of football just gone, starting with Manchester United’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea , in which David de Gea continued his recent trend of dropping clangers at inopportune moments. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2019/apr/29/manchester-city-inch-towards-title-plus-pfa-gongs-and-leeds-football-weekly

Inter v Juventus drew the focus but the cities’ other teams – Milan and Torino – played a more significant match “Game over.” The words stretched out across the second tier of San Siro’s northern stand on Saturday night in an epic display of schadenfreude. Juventus are champions of Italy for the eighth year running, yet their quest to conquer Europe for the first time since 1996 remains unfulfilled. No club’s supporters enjoy that truth more than those of Inter: the last Serie A team to lift the Champions League. Still, the mockery cut both ways. If the game is over for Juventus in Europe, then domestically it never even began. Inter, in their second season under Luciano Spalletti, were supposed to be building towards a title challenge. When the fixtures were first published, this one leapt off the page. A Derby d’Italia in late April ought to have something riding on it for both teams. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019...

Apple says some parental control apps were removed from the App Store because of security concerns.

British-born but US-based investor Edward Bramson is seekng election to the bank's board on Thursday.

Relentless Arsenal seal their title and Chelsea look ready to challenge on all fronts, but Everton need to improve Arsenal were crowned WSL champions with a game to spare after beating Brighton 4-0 in front of a record 5,265 crowd at the Amex. Arsenal flew out of the traps this season and have not relented, although they have had to overcome a few challenges, not least only being able to name three substitutes in their first game of the campaign and losing Jordan Nobbs to a cruciate ligament injury. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/miedemas-fitness-proves-vital-while-city-may-need-a-summer-shake-up

Former Chelsea defender Mario Melchiot was schooled at Ajax and backs them to progress past Spurs in their Champions League semi-final “I was at school and they called me to tell me I had to get the training ground because they wanted me to travel with the first team,” remembers Mario Melchiot. “It was quite impressive because I had never been asked before. And there I was making my way to the Champions League final. Van Gaal was a bit like that …” It’s now 23 years since the defender who would go on to play for Chelsea, Birmingham and Wigan, travelled to Rome for the 1996 final against Juventus, watching on from the stands as Louis van Gaal’s reigning champions were beaten in a penalty shootout. Just 18, Melchiot had already been at Ajax for a decade and was called up as cover for the injured Frank de Boer despite not having made his senior debut. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/mario-melchiot-ajax-makes-you-able-t...

The Office for National Statistics says 31% of graduates are overeducated for their job.

• Chalmers was one of Celtic’s greatest goalscorers • Glaswegian survived meningitis to enjoy stellar career Stevie Chalmers, scorer of Celtic’s winning goal in the 1967 European Cup final, has died at the age of 83, the club have announced. The death of Chalmers, who had dementia in recent years, comes a week after Billy McNeill, captain of the Lisbon Lions, died . Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/stevie-chalmers-celtic-winning-goal-1967-european-cup-final-dies

The former United player took over when the club were in League One and has achieved a remarkable transformation “Every three weeks I need my hair cutting”. There’s a video, much beloved of Sheffield United supporters, of Chris Wilder speaking to local radio during the club’s city-centre celebration of their promotion from League One in 2017. He has, shall we say, been enjoying the day . “I park in Cole Brothers. I walk past the city hall. Hot Pants, I used to go in. Every Saturday night. Best night ever. I walk down there – I’ve dived into the old fountain at the top of Fargate – walk past Josephine’s, how many times have I been in there, how many times were we refused entry when we were players.” Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/chris-wilder-passion-sheffield-united-premier-league

Police warn online fraud is an "epidemic" after a woman is scammed by a man posing as Jason Statham.

Today’s nonsense has burned its tongue Occupational Hazards, specifically the future employment of Belgian brothers Eden and Thorgan , constitute the first order of business in Monday’s Rumour Mill. In the wake of Sunday’s draw between Manchester United and Chelsea , the former hinted that he could be open to staying at Stamford Bridge despite rampant ongoing speculation that he’s off to Real Madrid in the summer, while his younger sibling has announced he has agreed personal terms with Borussia Dortmund and will be joining them from Borussia Mönchengladbach if the two German clubs can agree a fee. “I myself have an agreement with them, now something has to move between the clubs,” he revealed, in an announcement that will come as something of a disappointment to his English suitors at Liverpool and Arsenal. Related: Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/29/footbal...

Chris Hughton’s position looks uncertain after five successful years, Youri Tielemans catches the eye but Leicester will face a battle to keep him and Wolves show the way forward When was the last time Manchester City finished a Premier League match with four centre-halves on the pitch? Pep Guardiola, who admitted he had been “trembling”, said he would have brought on another one if he had not already used all his substitutes and Sean Dyche said, with some pride, that he could tell the City manager was anxious. “I saw Pep Guardiola with my own eyes – and I heard it too – screaming, ‘Get it in the corner.’ That’s some compliment.” It was certainly not a stress-free afternoon at Turf Moor for the league leaders and reigning champions but 12 league wins in a row suggest City can handle the pressure. If they can make it 14, it will guarantee the championship trophy staying in Manchester and there are no signs that they will not be able to cope now the heat of the battle is close to intole...

The UK should make "independent" decisions about whether to work with the tech firm, China's ambassador says.

Prosecutions may not go ahead if police are not given access to emails, messages and photographs.

Jenny Sealey MBE, CEO of Graeae Theatre Company, says too much bullying exists in business.

With 40 days to the tournament and the BBC showing all matches, the spectacle must not hide the game’s need for big investment You know you’re getting on a bit when life suddenly jolts you into the present, when baby steps that happened while you were busy pottering from the tooth fairy to life insurance have somehow become a revolution. Let me tell you a story. Not far away lives a teenager I’ve known since she started primary school in the same year as my daughter. From reception class onwards she was an amazing sportswoman – the fastest runner, the most agile tag rugby player with the quickest hands and, above all, the noblest footballer. She is driven and ridiculously competitive and each time she tried a new sport a coach would sidle up to her mum asking if she’d perhaps like to take the activity further. But it was always football and only football she wanted. She was noticed by a scout at six, who said he didn’t usually look at girls but she was exceptional. Now in her teens sh...

Many people have "pressed pause" on their summer plans because of Brexit uncertainty, Thomas Cook says.

• Liverpool defender beats Raheem Sterling to award • City’s Sterling wins young player of the year Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk and Vivianne Miedema of Arsenal have been crowned Professional Footballers’ Association players of the year for the 2018-19 season, with Raheem Sterling and Georgia Stanway named as young players of the year. Netherlands defender Van Dijk saw off stiff competition from Manchester City’s Sterling to take the award after a brilliant season that has seen Jürgen Klopp’s side concede just 20 goals from their 36 matches so far. Van Dijk, who moved to Anfield in January 2018 from Southampton for £75m, has helped Liverpool record 17 clean sheets this season and becomes only the fifth defender to receive the award after Norman Hunter, Colin Todd, Gary Pallister, Paul McGrath and John Terry. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/pfa-player-of-year-virgil-van-dijk

• Striker says team were not ‘mentally’ ready for West Ham game • Repeat performance risked Champions League semi-final defeat It took most of Tottenham’s players over an hour to leave the dressing room after falling to West Ham but, when he finally emerged, Fernando Llorente’s message cut straight to the point. If Spurs produce a repeat performance against Ajax on Tuesday, their dreams of reaching the Champions League final risk evaporating before the second leg has even begun. Llorente had been brought on midway through the second half to pose West Ham a different threat with the game goalless. Within a minute Michail Antonio had finished decisively at the other end and the overriding theme, after a sluggish attempt to come back, was that Spurs need to liven up and quickly. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/tottenham-hotspur-fernando-llorente-west-ham-ajax

• Bundesliga title race to go to wire after surprise result • Dries Mertens equals Diego Maradona’s Napoli record Bayern Munich stumbled to a 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened Nürnberg on Sunday to leave the Bundesliga title race wide open with three games left in the season. Serge Gnabry rescued a point for Bayern with a 75th-minute volley after the hosts, who also saw a last-minute Tim Leibold penalty hit the post, took an unexpected lead after the break through Matheus Pereira. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/bayern-munich-draw-nurnberg-bundesliga-napoli-la-liga

Your weekend roundup of the best photography from England’s top flight View the Dozen archive Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2019/apr/28/the-dozen-the-weekends-best-premier-league-photos

A promising first-half performance against Chelsea from Solskjær’s team was undone by another self-inflicted mistake This was not the result Ole Gunnar Solskjær was looking for. The Manchester United manager admitted beforehand that only a win would be good enough, though with Chelsea doing most of the attacking at the end he must have been pleased to avoid a third defeat in eight days. Related: David de Gea’s blunder hands Chelsea a point at Manchester United Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/ole-gunnar-solskjaer-manchester-united-romelu-lukaku-david-de-gea-chelsea

Steven Gerrard admits he is not satisfied with second best as he strives to make Rangers real challengers next season after the Light Blues guaranteed the Ladbrokes Premiership runners-up slot by beating Aberdeen with two James Tavernier penalties. Their 2-0 Ibrox win - Gers’ first against the Dons in Glasgow this season - also further delayed Celtic’s wait for the title as they closed the gap on the champions-elect to nine points with nine still available. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/rangers-will-be-challengers-next-season-says-steven-gerrard-after-aberdeen-win

Vivianne Miedema has been outstanding all season long, helping Arsenal make light of their injury problems on their march to the title Sari van Veenendaal 6 Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/arsenal-wsl-champions-vivianne-miedema

This draw frustrates Manchester United and cheers Chelsea who after Arsenal’s capitulation at Leicester City earlier on Sunday now have a Champions League berth in their control. Related: Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea: Premier League – live reaction Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/manchester-united-chelsea-premier-league-match-report

• Manager delighted with his side’s ability to handle pressure • Win at Burnley puts City top with two games remaining Pep Guardiola praised Manchester City’s “overwhelming” capacity to handle pressure after they overcame the challenge of Burnley to reassume the box seat in the Premier League title race. Sergio Agüero’s second-half goal gave them a narrow win and, while City could have won by more, they saw out the final stages with four centre-backs on the pitch as their opponents attempted an aerial bombardment. They escaped with few real scares and Guardiola was delighted with the way they have refocused after recent disappointment. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/pep-guardiola-manchester-city-response-tottenham-setback

The Liverpool manager had jokingly offered to sign the Burnley striker if he scored against title rivals Manchester City Once bitten, twice shy. All week Manchester City had been warned that Burnley, a banana skin and wrecking ball in one grimly-organised package, had it in their gift to ruin everything. They had been held to a draw here 14 months ago , not that it ultimately mattered, and the thought of a repeat was enough to set spines tingling across Merseyside. Yet by the end it was Ilkay Gündogan, rather than a home player, who was being yellow carded for delaying a set-piece and City, as opposed to Jürgen Klopp’s team, who again wrested a level of control they are unlikely to let slip. You might not thrash Burnley here; you might only edge past them by 29.51mm. This, though, felt like a deflating blow for City’s rivals given the hopes they had invested in the buildup. This cleanest-cut of title races had finally been injected with a shot of mild mischief by Klopp. He had taken t...

Forty-four games in, the Premier League title race did stray dangerously close to becoming an ordeal for Manchester City. For over an hour, it had looked as though they might blink in their staring contest with Liverpool. Something had to give and Pep Guardiola’s players certainly toyed with the emotions of their supporters during those passages of play when they lacked their usual sureness of touch. Related: Mané and Salah doubles help Liverpool see off Huddersfield to reclaim top spot Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/burnley-manchester-city-premier-league-match-report

• Chelsea 1-1 Lyon (agg 2-3) (Ji; Mjelde og) • Lyon will face Barcelona in Champions League final Chelsea crashed out of the Champions League semi-finals to holders Lyon after a third own goal in three games gave the French champions the away goal that cancelled out Erin Cuthbert’s first-leg volley. Amandine Henry’s strike ricocheted cruelly off the leg of Maren Mjelde and trickled underneath Ann-Katrin Berger before a Ji So-yun free-kick ensured a draw in front of a sold out 4,670 crowd. But though Chelsea battled, they could not get the goal that would take the game to extra time against a Lyon team that, much like in the first leg, never really seemed like they got out of second gear. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/chelsea-lyon-womens-champions-league-match-report

Leeds missed out on automatic promotion to the Premier League as Marcelo Bielsa insisted that fair play was more important than a victory for his team on an extraordinary afternoon against Aston Villa at Elland Road. A 1-1 draw meant Leeds’ Yorkshire rivals Sheffield United secured promotion, but Bielsa will draw praise for his actions after Mateusz Klich put the Whites in front in hugely controversial circumstances. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/leeds-aston-villa-championship-match-report

• Brighton 0-4 Arsenal (Miedema 6, McCabe 31, Mead 70, Van de Donk 77) • Arsenal win title In the 70th minute Beth Mead picked up the ball in midfield, advanced towards the Brighton area as Fern Whelan backtracked and from 30 yards unleashed a brilliant shot that arrowed into the far corner of the net. Arsenal had established a three-goal lead and there could be no doubt now: after a seven-year gap, they would be champions once more. It was an irresistible goal, suitably celebrated, and a fitting way for the Gunners to seal a title for which they have appeared destined since they launched their campaign with an avalanche of goals and points, and nine successive wins. So the visit of last season’s champions and this season’s closest challengers, Manchester City, for the final league fixture in a fortnight, a game which could have engendered so much trepidation had they failed to secure a result here, can instead be an occasion of pure celebration. While a team that has lost only one ...

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Sticking with Daniel Farke last summer,shrewd signings and players buying into the ideas of a collective spirit have lifted the Canaries into the top flight It was just after a 3-0 home defeat that people at Norwich started to think they were on the right track. The Canaries had won just one of their first five games, James Maddison and Josh Murphy had been sold in the summer and most of the arrivals were relative unknowns. After a disappointing 14th-place finish last season, the waning faith from the stands in manager Daniel Farke was understandable. But afterwards a few Norwich players commented that for the first 30 minutes or so of that game things clicked, and they realised they could play the sort of football that Farke had been talking about since his appointment the previous summer. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/apr/28/patience-scouting-system-norwich-promotion-premier-league

Images purportedly showing Argentinian’s remains posted on Twitter before being removed Police are investigating how mortuary photographs of the body of footballer Emiliano Sala were circulated online, three months after he was killed in a plane crash in the Channel. The images were posted on Twitter several weeks ago before being quickly removed. They purported to show the Argentinian’s remains at Bournemouth public mortuary. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/apr/28/emiliano-sala-police-investigate-reports-of-online-pictures-of-footballers-body

Acrimony and underachievement have given way to stability and nous and taken the Netherlands’ most storied club to the verge of an unthinkable achievement Dennis Bergkamp’s answer is short. No, he doesn’t want to talk about Ajax. Today the former Holland and Arsenal legend is coaching the youth team his son Mitchel plays for at Almere City, a first division side located in Flevoland. His thoughts about Ajax, the club that he was part of for so long as a player and coach, will not be shared. For all that a young and celebrated Ajax side have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, where they face Tottenham Hotspur, Bergkamp is no longer part of the famous Dutch club’s story. At the heart of Ajax’s European success, after beating Real Madrid and Juventus in sensational style, lies a bitter story of former teammates who once seemed friends or at least allies departing the club in acrimonious circumstances. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardi...

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• City manager says focus will be on a Sunday defeat of Burnley • ‘Our mentality every single second is to score goals’ Jürgen Klopp has been trying his best to suggest Manchester City’s visit to Turf Moor this afternoon could be a stumbling block in their attempts to retain the title but after twice beating Burnley 5-0 this season Pep Guardiola has his own opinions about that as well as about the Liverpool manager’s effort to gee up their opponents. “Klopp said he always knew we would win the Manchester derby , which was more than I did,” the City manager said. “I wasn’t quite sure we would win at Old Trafford but he seemed to have more confidence in my team. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/apr/27/manchester-city-pep-guardiola-rejects-jurgen-klopp-burnley-warning

Norwich confirmed their return to the Premier League with a swagger, winning here with the brio that has become a leitmotif under their German manager, Daniel Farke. Marco Stiepermann scored early and Mario Vrancic soon added a second and, despite Lewis Travis’s goal for Blackburn, Norwich never looked like collapsing to a defeat that would have delayed their promotion to the top flight after a three-year absence. They will go up as title winners if they earn point or more next week at Aston Villa. Norwich knew it would take freakish results in the last week of the season to deny them promotion but Farke was warning against complacency. Few managers know better than him how quickly fortunes can change. There were some Norwich fans who wanted rid of him earlier this season, when his team mustered one win in their first six league matches, an ominous start on the back of last season’s ho-hum 14th-place finish. But the faithless did not get their wish and instead Farke demonstrated the b...

Reactions to the social-media boycott show the players’ union still has much to do to win over sceptics and persuade Twitter et al to act It wasn’t easy at first to know what to make of the Professional Footballers’ Association’s #enough campaign. It was difficult to be sure if it was genuinely the work of its equalities team or an idea dreamt up by a PR agency. A suspicious mind might have wondered whether the relevant people needed some positive publicity after all that unfortunate business with Gordon Taylor and, even if you were willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, I couldn’t help but feel they were pushing their luck to think a 24-hour boycott of social media , a hashtag and a new buzzword would make a lasting difference. More than anything, it all felt, well, a bit tame. This was the first time ever in England and Wales that the people who play the sport professionally had been invited to protest, as one, about the racism many of them have to endure. It needed somethi...