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BBC News
11 minutes ago
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Palace 'dismayed' by Uefa's decision
Crystal Palace say they "are extremely dismayed by Uefa's decision to exclude the club from the Europa League."The Eagles were ordered on Friday to compete in the Conference League by Uefa for breaching multi-club ownership Forest, who finished seventh in the Premier League last season, could replace FA Cup winners Palace in the Europa a statement, the club said: "It's clear for everyone to see that we are not part of a multi-club operation and never have been. Further with the completion of the sale of Eagles's football's shareholding to Woody Johnson there will be zero possibility of conflict of interest once the competition begins. "We will continue to press our case and work with Uefa to achieve the fair and just outcome so that we may take our rightful place in the Europa League, as well as taking legal advice to consider our options, including an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport."
Times
13 minutes ago
- Times
England vs India third Test live: score, updates from day 2 at Lord's
The full India squad are out on the pitch going through warm-ups (Elizabeth Ammon writes). England have been through theirs and they are back in the changing room having a chat. The five-minute bell which is situated on the balcony of the Bowlers Bar in the Pavilion will be rung today by Cheteshwar Pujara. Joe Root registered his 37th Test hundred on the first ball of day two but had been left stranded on 99 not out overnight and revealed that it had affected his sleep (Elizabeth Ammon writes). 'I don't think I have been 99 not out overnight before,' the former England captain said. 'I woke up in the night and couldn't get back to sleep I went through every shot I could have played to start the day and every possible dismissal. 'Then I realised 'stop making it about you', there's so many more important things to consider throughout the day. The frustrating thing is I managed to get to 100 but that is when you should make it count. So I'm a bit disappointed [with not turning it into a bigger score].' Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. The four players in the England squad who are not in the team were released yesterday from the camp (Elizabeth Ammon writes). Jacob Bethell, Jamie Overton and Sam Cook went back to their counties to play in the T20 Blast. Gus Atkinson, however, will play club cricket today in the Surrey Premier League. He will play for his club, Spencer, against Sunbury at Sunbury CC. He is allowed to bowl 10 overs and bat. I will keep you posted on how he goes. The Surrey seamer is recovering from a hamstring injury sustained during the Zimbabwe Test in May but the ECB wanted to keep him away from county cricket and just get some overs in the slightly gentler environment of club cricket. If you are in the Sunbury on Thames area, Sunbury CC is a lovely little ground and they have a really nice bar so pop down there! 'A bowler who can change the mood of a game in an instant.' After an absence from Test cricket of 1,597 days, it took Jofra Archer only three balls to confirm that the optimism behind Ben Stokes's pre-match assessment was not mislaid, when, with Lord's buzzing, he sent one on to Yashasvi Jaiswal's outside edge and into the hands of Harry Brook at second slip (Mike Atherton writes). Who writes your scripts, Jof? Archer had been given a warm reception when he walked out to bat at the end of England's innings, hitting his first ball for four, and expectation was undeniably in the air when he marked out his run from the Pavilion End shortly afterwards, midway through the afternoon. His first ball was on target; his second fizzed past the edge of Jaiswal's bat, and the third, delivered at 89.8mph, moved just enough down the slope to take it, squaring up the young left-hander. Archer set off sprinting towards the grandstand, then, all the frustration of four years of injuries to spine and elbow forgotten in a moment of pure delight, and he stopped only when met by the open arms of Shoaib Bashir, the first team-mate to catch up in celebration. A wicket maiden followed, with the fastest ball of the series — 93.3mph — delivered for good measure, in an opening spell of five overs that clocked 89.8mph on average. It would have been impossible to match that moment of theatre and drama, and Archer's comeback wicket remained the highpoint of a day that also included a 37th hundred and a record 211th catch in Tests for Joe Root — the former brought up from the first ball of the day after a night spent sweating on 99 — and a first five-wicket haul at Lord's for India's champion bowler, Jasprit Bumrah. • Mike Atherton's report: Archer's rapid return and Root's historic catch give England the edge Good morning everyone from a very, very hot Lord's (Elizabeth Ammon writes). It's going to be an absolutely sweltering one today and MCC have over the last couple of days put extra protocols in place to make sure that visitors and staff are able to cope with the heat. There's a limited amount of shade at Lord's, so everyone is having to be very careful. Extra medical teams have been brought in and have been given a extra spaces in the shade at the back of the pavilion where they can treat people who are feeling the effects of the heat. Yesterday, 26,000 bottles of water were bought or given away which is more than they usually shift over the five days of a Test match. Everyone seems to agree that England having runs on the board already puts them in a slightly better position than India, although no one is quite sure what the pitch is likely to do over the next couple of days. It might start to break up, but maybe not much. Jofra Archer's long-awaited return to Test cricket added to the excitement of yesterday's proceedings as the 30-year-old fast bowler took a wicket in his first Test over since the beginning of 2021 and Root said it was a 'genuine joy for Jofra, the team and the spectators' to see him back and bowling with fire and menace (Elizabeth Ammon writes). 'The noise, the pure joy for everyone seeing him back in whites, everyone's genuine excitement to see him playing Test cricket,' Joe Root said yesterday. 'It created a great atmosphere. Bowling at 94mph, getting a wicket first over, that's the kind of player he is He's X-factor and he's going to play a big part with this team going forward. He also really complements the attack we have and they are all going to need to work together on this pitch to get 20 wickets. It's a bit like India turning to Bumrah, he can create something different for you. 'I'm just excited for him. It's been great to see him back in and around the group, and then to come in and take a wicket in your first over, to then get a tap on the shoulder when their best player throughout this series, with nearly 600 runs, comes out to bat, and you're the man that is turned to to try and get him out. I think that's a great compliment, and it must fill him with confidence going into the rest of this game.' Please enable cookies and other technologies to view this content. You can update your cookies preferences any time using privacy manager. Speaking yesterday, Joe Root said that the recurring issue of time being lost during the day's play due to the Dukes balls going soft or out of shape could be solved by each team being limited to three challenges to umpire to get it replaced (Elizabeth Ammon writes). Fifteen overs were lost on day two of the third Test for various reasons including the on-field umpires being asked by the fielding side to check the shape of the ball and it has been happening regularly throughout the series leading to frustrations for both players and spectators. 'I personally think that if you want to keep getting the ball changed, then each team gets three challenges every 80 overs, and that's it,' Root said. 'So if you want to get it changed that would be, I think, a nice way of compromising and saying it's not all on the manufacturer. Sometimes these things happen, but you can't just keep asking and wasting time and slowing the game down at the same time. 'I do know that they are hand-made, so you're never going to get two balls exactly the same and I do think that this summer has been a bit of an anomaly for us in this country. We're not used to getting this much sun and this much heat, getting squares as hard and outfields as firm as they are, so whether that plays a part or not in them going soft or out of shape — maybe.' Good morning and welcome to The Times' coverage of day three of the third Test at Lord's. It promises to be an enticing day as India look to reply to England's 387 all out with the series level at 1-1. They start today on 145-3 with dangermen KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant at the crease. All eyes will be on fast bowler Jofra Archer, after an electric return to Test cricket yesterday when he took the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal in a blistering first over back — his first Test over since 2021 — after a torrid time with injuries. Lets get into it.
BBC News
14 minutes ago
- BBC News
How have global football fans embraced Club World Cup?
Amid a cacophony of European cynicism, Fifa hype and roaring transfer gossip, the newly expanded Club World Cup has had a tough time finding its more than a million empty seats due to selecting stadia that were larger than the interest, an average attendance of nearly 39,000 is just a few hundred below the Premier League and Bundesliga last while many fans in Europe have been fantasising about dream signings, elsewhere others shrugged off unsociable kick-off times to embrace the tournament. 'The craziest time in our football lives' "There was not a single place that didn't have the Al-Hilal game on, and everyone was off the streets and watching it," says Fayad, a 25-year-old content creator in Riyadh, recalling the quarter-final between Saudi Arabia's most successful club and Brazil's Fluminense."The freeway was so empty. On a Friday night, that never happens, not even during Ramadan."Al-Hilal's Club World Cup adventure included a 1-1 draw with Real Madrid and a memorable 4-3 last-16 defeat of Manchester City after extra-time that gripped at least 1.5m viewers, even though it kicked off at 04:00 Saudi games were on Dazn, the exclusive global broadcaster who sublicensed some matches to local TV companies like MBC Group, a pan-Middle East don't release viewing figures and neither Fifa nor any sublicensed broadcasters replied to according to analysis by Media Rating Company in Saudi Arabia, 5.1m people have watched the 25 games broadcast by MBC Group in the kingdom, with the 22:00 kick-off against Real Madrid the highest at contrast, in the only figures released by Channel 5 for their coverage, a peak of 1.6m watched Chelsea's opening match against LAFC in an 20:00 BST watched Hilal's games in his local cafe. So many had the same idea that everyone had to pay a $30 entry fee, which came with a drink and a pastry or shisha."Fans and staff were all wearing the Al-Hilal shirt," he says. "Everyone's anxious. In the Real Madrid game, everyone was like, 'don't talk to me, I'm trying to focus on the game'."But the Man City one was absolutely fantastic. The game finishes around 7am and then everyone's out in Riyadh, beeping their horns, no-one wants to sleep, you've just got this big adrenaline hit."It was absolutely euphoric. Just the craziest 45-75 minutes in our football lives." 'It was only on a video game - now it's real' But Hilal's fun was ended in the quarter-finals by Fluminense, some of whose fans watched on Copacabana beach."Everybody was singing the stadium songs like we were there," says Bruno Stefano, a 36-year-old self-proclaimed Fluminense fanatic."Even if you cannot be [in the US] because it's too expensive or you're working, you try to live the same environment by going to these fan-fests and being among yours."The Copacabana fan-fest has hosted around 100,000 across the tournament. The highest attendance has been 10,000, it's full capacity, for Bayern Munich's 4-2 win over Flamengo."For us, it's a chance to play against the best in the world," Bruno added. "It's a joke in Brazil that if Fluminense play Inter Milan, it's only on a video game. But now it was real."More than real, because Flu eliminated the 2025 Champions League finalists 2-0 in the last 16. Brazilians have arguably bought into the Club World Cup more than fans from any other nation."It's almost like a World Cup. I am really more attached to Fluminense than the Brazil national team so it's better to be in the Club World Cup," says Bruno."Everybody is saying it's a shame that it's ending because they were watching four matches a day, even Borussia Dortmund against Ulsan HD, because we like football."That mood was boosted by the quartet of Brazil's clubs - Fluminense, Flamengo, Botafogo and Palmeiras - reaching the knockout rounds, with the former making it to the last four."Fluminense played Manchester City two years ago. We lost 4-0 so we always had in mind that the Europeans are far ahead of us. But now, we see that we are not that far behind. For us, it's somehow a recovery of Brazilian pride," says Bruno. 'People are more into Women's Euros' Away from the caffeinated and the caipirinha'd, the appeal for many was the unusual match-ups of teams whose orbits would never normally on the World Football podcast, Real Madrid fan Eduardo Alvarez felt the tournament lived up to his positive expectations."In some matches, there were just not enough fans or the pitches were not up to the standard we are used to seeing, but the fact is that it's football, and football is fun," he says."When you have the chance to see Flamengo-Bayern Munich or Inter Miami and PSG, a fantastic Manchester City-Al-Hilal [match], I think the tournament has been a lot of fun."But in Spain, where one game a day was sublicensed to Mediaset Espana channels, Alvarez's compatriots have found it hard to turn their attention away from transfer rumours."There's a bit of that, sure. The silly season is huge in Spain. No Barcelona [in the tournament] and Atletico were eliminated in the first round so a good portion of Spanish fans have been less interested," he says."But the most interesting matches have been followed, no doubt, and the semi-finals were a hit."In France, where terrestrial channel TF1 has only been given two matches by Dazn, one of which is the final, other sport has overshadowed most of the tournament, according to Paris-based journalist Bruno Ahoyo."People were more into the Women's Euros and the women's friendlies [beforehand] than the PSG games," Ahoyo says."But from the PSG-Bayern game [in the quarter-finals], I started to see jerseys in the city. I heard people on the Metro speaking about it, especially the kids who are on vacation now, asking their parents how they can watch it." Like France, South Africa had a single representative in perennial champions Mamelodi Sundowns, but time difference and other competing sports kept down the viewing numbers, according to Cape Town-based journalist Mo Allie."Some games started at midnight and 3am," he says. "The tournament has also been overshadowed by the Proteas winning the World Test Championship and you have the rugby Springboks kicking off their international season against the Barbarians and Italy."But I tell you what, after Sundowns' performances against Dortmund and Fluminense there's been a lot of pride in the team. Thankfully those games kicked off at reasonable local times."At the other end of Africa, Moroccan journalist Amine El Amri says fans still had players to cheer for, even after their club Wydad were knocked out in the group stage."People kept watching, but to follow the Moroccan stars Achraf Hakimi and Yassine Bounou mainly, as Brahim Diaz is not playing that much with Real Madrid."Meanwhile, Lagos-based sports commentator Babatunde Koiki says that many Nigerian fans approached the Club World Cup from an entirely different angle."The fan response to it has been rather interesting. Because of the preponderance of sports betting in Nigeria, football fans know quite a lot of the participating clubs, especially the non-European ones," he says."And with the end of the European football season, the tournament was the primary source of betting odds for them. So from what I gather, many people followed the tournament primarily for this reason." 'It was the ultimate fairy tale' One of the eye-catching aspects of the early games was the noisy and energetic support by Urawa Reds fans. Japan's best-supported club went home with no points but still took $9.5m for turning up."Among the fans, there was an element of pride that their team was playing on the world stage. The players, too, were excited about playing on a different stage," says Sean Carroll, author of Between the Lines: Navigating the World of Japanese Football."There were an awful lot of Reds fans there, so the Reds fans here would have been watching the games as well. But I don't think many people are waking up at 4am to watch Real Madrid play Borussia Dortmund. It's a fixture that happens in the Champions League every other year anyway."In New Zealand, where most kick-off times fell during the day, journalist Michael Burges says part-timers Auckland City's 10-0 defeat by Bayern Munich sparked a lot of interest."There was a curiosity factor as they were an amateur team, but a lot of people outside football probably had barely heard of them," he explains."After the 10-0, everybody had - even my builder who admitted he knows nothing about football. It was the talk of the town for a day or so - just because of that bizarre scoreline - and increased interest in their next two games. It also made the 1-1 draw with Boca become the ultimate fairy tale."But what about the future of this tournament?Manchester United and East Bengal fan Sanghapriyo Mandal, in the largely untapped but potentially lucrative market of India, has this advice for Fifa."A reason why it hasn't had a huge response [here] is that clubs like Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Barcelona did not play. They have a lot of fans here."These fans won't watch matches of South American or Asian teams, but they will do anything for their clubs."I think some clubs should be invited and some should have to qualify."
