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As bowling alleys remain shut and beauty salons are still restricted. business groups express dismay.

Club director Lee Charnley responds to consortium’s withdrawal Henry Mauriss must show proof of funds if he wants to take over Newcastle’s managing director has raised hopes, admittedly slender, that the club’s collapsed sale to a Saudi-led consortium could be resurrected. “Never say never,” said Lee Charnley as he broke his silence on the £300m takeover saga involving Saudi’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), Reuben Brothers and Amanda Staveley. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/31/newcastle-say-ashley-still-committed-to-saudi-led-sale-never-say-never-lee-charnley

Google and Facebook would pay news outlets in the "world-leading" plan, the government says.

The three clubs went down together 16 years ago. They have all made dramatic, topsy-turvy returns to the Premier League By Richard Foster for the Guardian Sport Network Sixteen years have passed since Leeds last played a game in the top flight, the longest gap between Premier League fixtures for any club. The club were relegated on 8 May 2004 after a 3-3 draw with Charlton at Elland Road. Leeds had been 3-1 up with 15 minutes to play, but two mistakes from Michael Duberry and two goals from Jason Eull confirmed that they would be returning to the second tier for the first time since 1990. “Leeds may be going down, but their fans seem happy enough, as well they might after this six-goal carnival,” read the Guardian’s match report at the time . One optimistic fan at Elland Road carried a banner that declared: “ First Division 2005: champions elect .” Wolves and Leicester were the other two clubs relegated that season, with Leicester also going down after drawing with Charlton . All t...

The tour firm cancels trips to Spain until mid-August but adds more holidays to Greece and Turkey.

Twitter says employees were tricked into handing over credentials to the cyber-attackers.

He was permanently suspended for repeatedly violating Twitter's "hateful conduct" rules.

The Saudi-led takeover’s collapse means years of limbo and misery continue and a sign of hope has disappeared After 16 long weeks, the proposed takeover of Newcastle United – which officially began in January but has been at the forefront of fans’ minds for far longer – has reached a conclusion. The consortium ha s pulled the plug So acute has been the tension over the past few months that at times it’s been easy to forget what exactly we were getting excited about. Most of the headlines that have forensically dissected this seemingly never-ending saga have focused on the buying side, the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which in attempting to purchase a controlling stake in the club alongside Amanda Staveley and the Reuben Brothers, would have made Newcastle one of the world’s richest clubs. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/31/newcastle-fans-view-yes-we-wanted-the-riches-but-mostly-we-wanted-rid-of-ashley

Former Crewe coach is serving 30-year jail term after being convicted of 50 child sexual offences in 2018 The convicted child sex offender and former football coach Barry Bennell has pleaded guilty to nine sexual offences. The 66-year-old former Crewe Alexandra coach, also known as Richard Jones, entered the pleas at Chester crown court on Friday via video link from HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/31/former-football-barry-bennell-coach-pleads-guilty-to-nine-sexual-offences

Moore proud of success but departs with ‘mixed emotions’ Hogan negotiated Liverpool’s £30m-a-year Nike kit deal Liverpool’s chief executive officer, Peter Moore, is to leave the club next month and will be replaced by current managing director and chief commercial officer Billy Hogan. Moore’s three-year contract as Liverpool CEO expires this summer and he is returning with his wife to the United States, where he worked for 36 years for Sega, Reebok, Microsoft and EA before joining his hometown club in 2017. He will oversee a transitional period until the end of August when Hogan, who has worked for owners Fenway Sports Group since 2004, starts as CEO on 1 September. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/31/peter-moore-to-leave-role-as-liverpool-ceo-with-billy-hogan-replacing-him

Pent-up demand and the stamp duty holiday boosted prices, but Nationwide warns it could be a false dawn.

France and Italy also see double-digit contractions as the pandemic hits growth across Europe.

They promoted AirPods clones, whose design may be in breach of Apple's intellectual property rights.

Will Rishi Sunak's £190bn superpower be enough to counter the economic effects of coronavirus?

Office workers in England can soon go back to their desks - but many want to keep working remotely.

Frank Lampard does not want to lose the Brazilian despite having no shortage of attacking options, with more to come At first glance it might seem odd Frank Lampard is so keen for Willian to stay at Chelsea. Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech are already training with their new teammates, Kai Havertz is close to joining from Bayer Leverkusen and there is a danger that the manager is going to become Brentwood’s answer to Ossie Ardiles when he starts working out how to deploy his attacking options next season. Something surely has to give. Werner is going to be competing with Tammy Abraham and Olivier Giroud up front and can also operate from the left. Ziyech can play on the right or in the hole. Christian Pulisic and Callum Hudson-Odoi are exciting options on either flank, Ross Barkley, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Mason Mount all play advanced roles in midfield and although Chelsea are right to focus on improving their goal threat after losing Eden Hazard to Real Madrid last summer that attack i...

Old Firm are the only serious rivals to each other in a Premiership where third place to the rest represents glorious success If we are to assume a suitable element of normality will have returned by May, any Celtic celebration of a 10th Premiership title in succession will be quite the sight. Less is more has never applied to the Old Firm, especially where the making of history is concerned. Celtic will begin their season on Sunday as the legitimate favourites to become the first Scottish club to deliver 10 in a row. Inside Scottish football’s parochial cauldron, that achievement is a key theme to the point where it is already all-consuming. Can Steven Gerrard – who hasn’t won a trophy in two seasons in charge of Rangers – break the run at such a crucial point? All logic would suggest not. Yet if Rangers somehow do win the league, the eruption will be felt in the southern hemisphere. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/j...

IAG group says recovery will take at least three years as it announces plans to raise billions in new funds.

The bank has put aside another £2.1bn, expecting more defaults on loans because of the pandemic.

Lords blame the design of the benefit payment for "soaring rent arrears and use of food banks".

The luxury British retailer and China's tech giant have joined forces amid growing national tensions.

Fans of the esports league say they were right to highlight Saudi Arabia's human rights record.

The luxury British retailer and China's tech giant have joined forces amid growing national tensions.

Pendragon, which owns Evans Halshaw, said it needed to ensure the "long-term health" of the company.

The chain says its now ready to welcome back customers to some of its venues from 7 August.

The heads of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google faced accusations of bias and unfair competition.

The video sharing app launched a $200m fund for American users earlier this month.

Dutch defender leaves after Cherries’ relegation City reached deal for Ferran Torres on Wednesday Manchester City have agreed to sign Nathan Aké from Bournemouth for £40m, rising to a possible £41m with add-ons. It takes their outlay in two days to more than £64m after a deal was struck to buy the winger Ferran Torres from Valencia . Pep Guardiola turned to Aké after hitting problems in his pursuit of Napoli’s Kalidou Koulibaly. The fee represents a significant profit for Bournemouth, who signed the Netherlands international from Chelsea for £20m in 2017. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/30/manchester-city-land-bournemouth-defender-nathan-ake-in-39m-move

The Chinese firm has overtaken Samsung as the world's biggest smartphone vendor.

USA defender on her new Just Women’s Sport podcast and the squad’s resolve to carry on fighting for what they believe in After the USA won the Women’s World Cup in France last year, Kelley O’Hara wrote on Instagram , “Maybe one day I’ll be able to put this journey into words”. One rollercoaster year on and she still can’t. “I don’t know if I ever will be able to because there was just so much emotion and it’s difficult to express through words,” she says with a laugh. The 31-year-old defender has just finished playing in the NWSL Challenge Cup, hosted by her club, Utah Royals. “It wasn’t the ideal ending,” she says of their one win, one draw and three defeats in the first return of professional sport in the US. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/30/usa-world-cup-winner-football-kelley-ohara-voice-female-athletes

The retailer says it will remove the last of its catalogues from stores by the end of the year.

The economy shrank by 10.1% in the April-to-June period, official figures show.

A headset that can measure your brain's reaction to images could improve mental health.

The Lazio striker stands one shy of Gonzalo Higuaín’s record and, 14 penalties or not, he has enjoyed a stellar campaign To listen to Ciro Immobile on Wednesday night was to wonder whether he might be in the wrong line of work. “I hate it when I absolutely have to score,” he said at the end of Lazio’s 2-0 win over Brescia. “It just doesn’t sit right.” A surprising sentiment, for a man who has made his living scoring goals – and who happens to be very good at it. Immobile netted his 35th of this Serie A campaign just a few minutes earlier, running on to Joaquín Correa’s through-ball and sweeping one of his calling-card sidefoot finishes beyond the goalkeeper Lorenzo Andrenacci. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/jul/30/ciro-immobile-goldilocks-footballer-or-deserved-goal-record-chaser-lazio-serie-a

Britain's biggest retail bank sees profits wiped out as it sets aside another £2.4bn for possible bad loans.

The government can retrain and support people, but are there the jobs to provide employment?

This week’s round-up also features Annika Sorenstam, Jürgen Klinsmann and the latest in dropped trophy woes 1) Arsenal meet Chelsea in the small matter of the FA Cup final on Saturday. They contested the final in 2002 , of course, when ‘Ooh-aah’ Ray Parlour scored that screamer. Can you remember who scored the goals in the 2017 final, when the Gunners defeated Chelsea 2-1? Neither can we, so here are the highlights . To level things up a touch, here’s a stonking Peter Osgood volley for Chelsea in a 1973 quarter-final. 2) A very happy birthday to former dual-code flyer Jason Robinson. Give him a rugby ball and a bit of space and this is what happens . Here he is giving Chris Latham a terrible time for the British & Irish Lions at the Gabba in 2001. Then there was Robinson’s pivotal try in the 2003 final against Australia, arguably featuring the best try celebration in history . And here’s a five-minute compilation of fine Six Nations finishes for England , just for good measure...

Furloughed workers losing their jobs will be eligible for redundancy pay based on their normal wages.

The Juventus forward on joining Common Goal, winning another Serie A title and the Champions League challenge ahead It is only a few days since Juventus beat Sampdoria to seal their ninth consecutive Scudetto, and Paulo Dybala already has his mind on other challenges. Football still has plenty of those in store for him, of course, particularly with his team taking a one-goal deficit into next Friday’s Champions League game at home to Lyon, but recently he has been considering other matters entirely. The most significant outcome is his decision to join Common Goal, pledging at least 1% of his salary to a collective fund which uses football as a tool to educate and empower children and young people and joining Juan Mata, Jürgen Klopp, Megan Rapinoe and his clubmate Giorgio Chiellini on its list of donors, now 159 strong. It is a movement that is slowly increasing in size and momentum, a process that Dybala’s intervention – as the first major South American footballer to sign up – could...

The bank, whose biggest market is Hong Kong, faces criticism for its stance on China's actions in the city.

The world's biggest producer of memory chips sees demand jump as data centres expanded during lockdowns.

The one-tonne vehicle will search for signs of Martian life and prepare rocks to send home to Earth.

Criminals are exploiting the coronavirus pandemic for gain, according to one leading investigator.

The world's biggest producer of memory chips sees demand jump as data centres expanded during lockdowns.

The executives of the four US tech giants defend their records at a five-hour hearing in Congress.

A study of young people finds a fine line between getting results and becoming "obsessed".

The firms sign a deal allowing Universal to show films in homes after just 17 days in cinemas.

The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), deficit has more than tripled in two years.

Barclays and Deloitte join a group of business leaders committed to increasing workplace diversity.

Twitter was accused of inaction and delay over anti-Semitic remarks posted by the music star.

The academic and former Athletic Bilbao head of talent ID explains why the issue is not as simple as it appears Last month I was chatting to my friend Ernesto Valverde, the former Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona coach who I got to know well when I was Athletic’s head of talent ID. For once we were disagreeing. He, like many in football, thought that the temporary rule change to allow five substitutions from an extended bench of nine players favoured the big clubs. I insisted it wouldn’t. At the time it felt like the debate didn’t matter much either way, given the rule was only expected to last until the end of the season. Now, however, Ifab has agreed to extend it , to the dismay of many. Burnley’s manager, Sean Dyche, and Aston Villa’s Dean Smith are prominent critics – and one well-regarded journalist recently claimed it “really does not take the brains of Lloyd George to work out that it is a rule which will favour richer clubs who have squads packed with larger numbers of higher-q...

The bank's boss, who has said big offices might be outdated, now wants staff back in the workplace.

Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube will now need to comply with requests to remove content.

The pop star was censured for sharing a video about a coronavirus conspiracy theory.

Appeal against 12-point deduction to be heard on Friday Cook linked with Birmingham and Bristol City Paul Cook has resigned as manager of Wigan Athletic after they were handed a 12-point deduction and relegated from the Championship . The club’s appeal against the punishment will be heard on Friday but Cook departs in search of a fresh challenge after three years at the club, including a title-winning season in League One. He led Wigan to 10 victories from their last 18 matches, a return that would have secured their Championship status but for the penalty applied on the final day of the season after their owner put the club into administration in July. The club will argue at the hearing, expected to last about a week, that the deduction should be waived owing to “ force majeure ” circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. There is little expectation their appeal will be successful and Cook, who has been linked with vacancies at Birmingham and Bristol City, is understo...

The airport's boss says there needs to be an alternative to the "cliff edge" of quarantine.

The five young women are sentenced to two years in prison and fined almost $19,000 (£15,000) each.

Cas judgment outlines reasons for finding in favour of City, but shows the club’s case wasn’t as ‘irrefutable’ as it made out So Manchester City’s hierarchy won the war they waged furiously against European football’s governing body Uefa, but the reality of the victory does not quite match the claims they made during their long campaign. The panel at the court of arbitration for sport decided 2-1 in City’s favour to overturn the comprehensive guilty finding and two-year Champions League ban imposed by Uefa’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) in February, but the published judgment nevertheless exposes a core of contradictions in the club’s case. In May 2019, after the CFCB’s “investigatory chamber” (IC) referred charges to the “adjudicatory chamber” (AC) that City – owned by Sheikh Mansour of the Abu Dhabi ruling family – overstated sponsorships by the state airline Etihad and telecoms giant Etisalat, the club publicly accused the IC’s chairman, Yves Leterme, of bad faith and “a ...

Plus: more floods of first-half goals, vertical kit sponsors and who is England’s worst goalkeeper? • Mail us your questions or tweet @TheKnowledge_GU “Stockport County have just signed Connor and James Jennings, from different clubs. They are brothers. Have there been many other clubs who have done the same?” asks Dan Levy. It depends what is being asked, Dan. If it is brothers coming from different clubs and signing for the same team and crossing paths there are quite a few examples, but if you are asking if other brothers have signed from different clubs at exactly the same time, as the Jennings did at Stockport, we’re struggling. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/29/which-siblings-have-been-signed-from-different-clubs-at-the-same-time

The government signs a fourth deal, securing doses of a treatment being developed by GSK and Sanofi.

An audacious mission to bring rock samples from Mars back to Earth is about to begin - find our more with our illustrated guide

Japan's second largest carmaker had already been struggling to cut costs and return to profitability.

A website offering £50 bike repair vouchers from the government did not work for about four hours.

The former camera maker moves into drug making and secures a major loan from the US government.

Regulators are scrutinising Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook. How much power do the 'big four' hold?

The best stories from the beautiful game that you may never have heard before, written by some of the world’s leading sports journalists, and spanning more than 100 years of sporting history from across the footballing planet. In this episode: after English clubs were banned from Europe in 1985, the Football League created a consolation competition for them. Read the text version here . Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2020/jul/29/forgotten-stories-the-1985-english-super-cup-podcast

The former camera maker moves into drug making and secures a major loan from the US government.

Social media users complain they can't access the government website to get a £50 bike repair voucher.

Insolvencies slow during lockdown, but experts say the worst is yet to come.

The charity says a database containing details of its volunteers and fundraisers has been affected.

Faye Carruthers , Barry Glendenning , Jacob Steinberg and Jonathan Fadugba discuss the play-off semi-final first legs, this summer’s potential moves and look at Juventus’ record ninth straight Serie A title We start off by looking back at the Championship play-off semi-final first legs, as Swansea and Fulham both defeated Brentford and Cardiff, respectively. We are joined briefly by Fulham podcaster (and occasional Football Weekly producer) Sammy James to discuss their impressive away display in south Wales on Monday night. In part two, we take a deep dive into this summer’s potential moves as the transfer window opens. We look at who the top sides in the Premier League might look to recruit, and who the relegated sides might need to let go. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2020/jul/28/championship-play-offs-transfer-talk-and-juventus-latest-title-football-weekly

We picked Manchester City to win the title and Newcastle, Brighton and Sheffield United to go down. Oh dear The Premier League is too predictable these days, isn’t it? Not for us, apparently. We thought Manchester City would retain their league title; they surrendered it with seven games to spare. We thought Sheffield United would finish last; they ended up challenging for Europe. We thought Newcastle and Brighton would go down; they were safe weeks ago. We thought Norwich, Bournemouth and Watford would stay up; they are off to the Championship. We thought Spurs would canter into the Champions League places; they celebrated Europa League qualification on the final day. Although, to be fair, we knew that Chelsea would finish fourth. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/28/premier-league-2019-20-review-our-predictions-versus-reality

No 10 also of interest to Palace, Villa, Newcastle and West Brom Hammers look to offload Felipe Anderson and Manuel Lanzini West Ham have stepped up their pursuit of Eberechi Eze, with David Moyes determined to win the race to sign the Queens Park Rangers forward. QPR are holding out for as much as £20m for Eze, who is also attracting interest from Aston Villa, Crystal Palace, Newcastle and West Bromwich Albion. Although West Ham are unlikely to be able to spend heavily, they have indicated that they are prepared to make funds available to sign the 22-year-old. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/28/west-ham-chase-for-qpr-20m-rated-eberechi-eze

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now ! With just 70 days to go until the transfer window slams shut and The Fiver dreading the nonsensical t1ttle-tattle that will fill every single one of them, now seems as good a time as any to revisit our ambitious and utterly unworkable idea for a blanket rumour blackout around the world. In this utopia, transfer speculation of any kind would be strictly forbidden and all player moves would remain shrouded in secrecy, thereby ensuring fans would not find who has joined or left their club until the team-sheets are announced an hour before kick-off on the opening day of the new season. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/28/the-fiver-jack-grealish-aston-villa

US president's son's use of Twitter is limited for 12 hours after he broke its misinformation rules.

A phone app will enable shoppers to avoid long waits in socially distanced queues outside stores.

The grime artist posts new inflammatory comments amid criticism over his previous anti-Semitic rant.

An economic research group says there is a risk the scheme is coming to an end prematurely.

Upmarket department store chain Selfridges is cutting 450 workers, 14% of its workforce.

The best players, greatest games and notable signings – plus those that didn’t work out, and what needs to change Ed Aarons: The performances of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Sadio Mané and Jordan Henderson were crucial for a brilliant Liverpool team that left Manchester City floundering in their wake but Virgil van Dijk held it all together. An inspirational leader in a team inspired by their manager’s vision. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/28/premier-league-2019-20-season-review-our-writers-best-and-worst-players-games-signings

Our cartoonist reflects on the culmination of the 2019-20 campaign, featuring Roy Keane, Jordan Henderson and Watford Buy copies of David’s cartoons at our print shop Take a look through his Guardian cartoon archive Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2020/jul/28/david-squires-on-the-end-of-the-longest-premier-league-season

Clarke says some members declined to back options raised These included new role for Paul Elliott and extra board seats The professional game representatives on the Football Association board have effectively blocked a review of the diversity of its members, FA chairman Greg Clarke has claimed. Clarke has written to FA Council members to say the board met last week and a number of options were discussed with a view to making the board more diverse. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/28/fa-board-rejected-plans-to-increase-its-diversity-chairman-greg-clarke-claims

The bakery chain saw losses in the first half of 2020 but says sales are now 72% of last year's level.

Car loans that encourage dealers to increase interest rates to get extra commission are to be banned.

Liverpool’s key advantage over Manchester City was their ability to better organise attacks and manage the transition to defence It has become increasingly clear this season that, at elite level, two attributes separate the very best managers from the rest: their capacity to manage the transition from attack to defence; and their ability to organise an attack, particularly against deep-lying opponents. Jürgen Klopp has excelled at both and the Swabian school of pressing, of which he is the leading practitioner , becomes ever more widespread. The figures have been muddied by Liverpool’s recent relaxation but, after 31 games of the season, the week the title was confirmed, Manchester City had scored seven more goals than Liverpool; Liverpool had conceded 12 fewer. Essentially, what separated them this season was that Liverpool defended better. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/jul/28/premier-league-2019-20-what-we-learned...

The tech giant plans a new high-end transatlantic data cable to go from the US to Bude, in Cornwall.

The two players transformed Manchester City into serial winners but will be remembered very differently “Sign Silva first, I will come.” In the summer of 2010, so the story goes, Manchester City’s chief executive Garry Cook was trying to pull off two of the biggest deals in the club’s history. But there was a problem. Yaya Touré was on the verge of joining, but wanted to make sure City signed David Silva first. The Valencia man’s response? “Sign Yaya first, I will come.” They both did and the rest – at least, as of Sunday evening – is history. As Silva took his leave from the Etihad Stadium pitch after his final appearance in English football , the absence of a crowd barely detracted from the warmth of his reception: not just the affection of his teammates and coaches, but weeks and months of tributes and superlatives from the wider game. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/jul/28/david-silva-adulation-yaya-toure-manchest...

The head of the trade union Unite warns the airline that it plans to move towards industrial action.

The tech giant plans a new high-end transatlantic data cable to go from the US to Bude, in Cornwall.

Same or next-day delivery will now be free for Prime subscribers in London on orders above £40.

Tuesday's verdicts centred on $10m transferred from a wealth fund to Najib Razak's private accounts.

The world's biggest long-haul carrier is making the offer to get people flying again.

The Premier League’s poor response to the coronavirus pandemic and VAR’s persistent failings have stuck in the craw Was this the season when partisanship became rather too acceptable? There was a time when TV and radio pundits had to show a modicum of balance but now much of the chat in the commentary box or studio goes along the line of who supports who. Gary Neville can never hide his allegiances and his and Jamie Carragher’s joshing over Manchester United and Liverpool has become the latest USP for the Sky Sports machine, the professional big-club fan. Micah Richards now operates in this role covering Manchester City. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/premier-league-2019-20-review-gripes-of-the-season

A midfielder who barely played, a forward who barely scored and a once-lauded goalkeeper all had seasons to forget Players | Managers | Goals | Young players | Signings | Matches Welcome to theguardian.com review of the 2019-20 Premier League season. We have nominated some contenders for this category but this is just to get the discussion going: offer your suggestions below the line … Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/premier-league-2019-20-review-flops-of-the-season

Max Rushden , Barry Glendenning , Jonathan Wilson and Lars Sivertsen discuss the final day of the Premier League season, as Manchester United and Chelsea clinch Champions League places, and Aston Villa avoid relegation by a single point. We start by looking back at the race for the Champions League places, as Manchester United and Leicester played a winner-takes-all contest at the King Power Stadium, while Chelsea just needed a point to secure their spot in next season’s competition. In part two, we cross our attention to the bottom of the league as Aston Villa, Watford and Bournemouth all battled to avoid relegation to the Championship. We discuss the futures of Jack Grealish, Troy Deeney and Eddie Howe after a turbulent year. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2020/jul/27/winners-and-losers-as-premier-leagues-352-day-season-ends-football-weekly

Winning the scudetto was the minimum requirement but in a difficult season Sarri kept his team on track without excelling Juventus had just won their ninth consecutive Serie A title, but their manager was nowhere to be seen. As the final whistle sounded at the end of a 2-0 win over Sampdoria, Maurizio Sarri headed immediately down into the tunnel, leaving his players to celebrate on the pitch at an empty Allianz Stadium. They would catch up with him soon enough. Wojciech Szczęsny barged in on Sarri’s post-game interview to hand him a lit cigarette, telling him “you earned it”. Back in the changing room, Juan Cuadrado maintained his Scudetto tradition of smothering his boss in shaving foam. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/maurizio-sarri-serie-a-title-juventus-win-convince-scudetto

This year’s suggestions are made up of players who were aged 21 and younger at the start of the season Welcome to theguardian.com review of the 2019-20 Premier League season . We have nominated some contenders for this category but this is just to get the discussion going: offer your suggestions below the line … Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/premier-league-2019-20-review-young-players

From scurrying strikers to impulsive wingers, here are our pick of the top flight’s best new arrivals Welcome to theguardian.com review of the 2019-20 Premier League season . We have nominated some contenders for this category but this is just to get the discussion going: offer your suggestions below the line … Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/premier-league-2019-20-review-signings

As travellers from Spain to the UK are told to self-isolate, the firm urges a "regionalised" policy.

Forecasters say the economy might not bounce back to its pre-coronavirus size until 2024.

Jaden ‘Wolfiez’ Ashman from Essex is the youngest esports player ever to win a million dollars.

Watford’s jaw-dropping win over Liverpool and Brighton and West Ham’s slapstick six-goal draw stick in the mind Welcome to theguardian.com review of the 2019-20 Premier League season. We have nominated some contenders for this category but this is just to get the discussion going: offer your suggestions below the line … Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/premier-league-2019-20-review-matches-of-the-season

We select a few contenders for the Premier League’s goal of the season – and invite you to have your say Welcome to theguardian.com review of the 2019-20 Premier League season. We have nominated some contenders for this category but this is just to get the discussion going: offer your suggestions below the line … Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/premier-league-2019-20-review-goals-of-the-season

We select a few contenders for the Premier League’s player of the season – and invite you to have your say Welcome to theguardian.com review of the 2019-20 Premier League season . We have nominated some contenders for this category but this is just to get the discussion going: offer your suggestions below the line … Sadio Mané (Liverpool) Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/premier-league-2019-20-review-players-of-the-season

As the latest Premier League campaign ends, we nominate some manager of the season contenders Welcome to theguardian.com review of the 2019-20 Premier League season . We have nominated some contenders for this category but this is just to get the discussion going: offer your suggestions below the line … Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/27/premier-league-2019-20-review-managers-of-the-season

Home workers can claim tax allowances for their lighting, heating and other expenses.

Dickson Yeo, a PhD student-turned-agent, targeted Americans that had access to private information.

The airline made a loss of €185m in the April-to-June period, when most of its flights were grounded.

The airport has installed a number of tech-based measures to help keep travellers safe.