MARTIN SAMUEL: If football’s willing to listen, the push for BAME coaches can be a real game changer

Real change does not happen with T-shirts or slogans. Real change is one great idea and people brave enough to implement it. Over to you, at the Premier League. Over to you, at the Football League. Over to you, UEFA and FIFA. The Premier League players now pressing for a BAME coach to be installed … Read more

Willie Thorne placed in induced coma in Spain after former snooker star suffers respiratory failure

Snooker legend Willie Thorne, 66, is placed in an induced coma in Spain following respiratory failure as battles infections after having treatment for leukaemia Willie Thorne had been taken to hospital with a dangerously low blood pressure The 66-year-old snooker legend announced he was battling leukaemia in March Now his carer has confirmed the former … Read more

Sky Sports WON’T keep screening free Premier League matches once football returns to normality

Sky Sports WON’T keep screening free Premier League matches once football returns to normality… as analysts reveal 80 per cent of subscribers have frozen their sports packages Live Premier League football returns to Sky Sports on Wednesday evening It will be the first action from English top flight screened live in three months Analysts say … Read more

Tyson Fury blasts Anthony Joshua’s ‘bull****’ Black Lives Matter speech

Tyson Fury has slammed Anthony Joshua‘s Black Lives Matter speech as ‘bull****’ and claims he would have been ‘crucified’ for making similar comments. Joshua, the IBF, WBA, WBO and IBO world heavyweight champion, was criticised after addressing protesters in his hometown of Watford earlier this month. In part of his speech, which came in the … Read more

Premier League stars want their clubs to install a quota of at least one BAME coach in their set-up

Top stars want Premier League to bring in quota of at least one BAME coach at EVERY club amid pressure to increase diversity – and talks have been held with the FA, who introduced same rule with England teams Top-flight players want clubs to have at least one BAME coach on first-team staff The FA … Read more

Radical report to call for ban on gambling advertisements in sport

Radical report by powerful group of MPs to call for ban on ALL gambling advertising in sport after year-long inquiry into damaging impact of betting on communities All-party parliamentary group have conducted year-long gambling inquiry  Report will recommend stopping betting adverts on TV, online and in stadiums  They will also call for ban on football … Read more

Troy Deeney claims there is probably one gay player in every team

‘I think once the first comes out, there would be loads’: Watford captain Troy Deeney says there is ‘probably one gay player in every football team’ Troy Deeney claims there is probably one gay player in every football team He says gay players are worried about the responsibility of publicly coming out  Deeney believes that … Read more

Man United star Marcus Rashford urges Government to continue providing free meals for children

Manchester United and England star Marcus Rashford writes open letter to MPs urging them to continue food voucher scheme during the school holidays: ‘I encourage you to hear their pleas and find your humanity’ By Jonathan Spencer For Mailonline Published: 00:00 BST, 15 June 2020 | Updated: 00:12 BST, 15 June 2020 Marcus Rashford has … Read more

Callum Hudson-Odoi says Met Police will take no further action on rape allegation made last month

Callum Hudson-Odoi confirms Met Police will take no further action on allegation of rape made against him after a model he met online said she was attacked at Chelsea star’s Battersea apartment Callum Hudson-Odoi was arrested last month at his apartment in Battersea The Chelsea star was accused of rape by a model he is said … Read more

Players’ names WILL be replaced with Black Lives Matter when the Premier League resumes

Players’ names on the back of shirts to be replaced with ‘Black Lives Matter’ when Premier League resumes… as stars are given the green light to ‘take a knee’ before or DURING games Premier League stars will have Black Lives Matter on kits when football returns   The words will replace their surname in a display … Read more

Dele Alli handed one match ban for appearing to mock Asian man over coronavirus

Dele Alli is BANNED for Tottenham’s first match back in the Premier League against Manchester United over the ‘racist’ social media video he posted mocking an Asian man over spreading coronavirus Dele Alli appeared to mock an Asian man over coronavirus in February Alli posted a video showing a man of Asian descent with the … Read more