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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fox honored at USWNT camp after UWCL glory with Arsenal
Two former winners look ahead to Saturday's UEFA Champions League final Jose Mourinho once called it 'the biggest trophy in the world,' and the wait to crown a champions league winner is now just one day winners and pundits at TNT Sports, Rio Ferdinand and Steve McManaman, join World Sport's Amanda Davies in Munich to look ahead to the match between PSG and Inter Milan. 7:29 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
CNN
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Two former winners look ahead to Saturday's UEFA Champions League final
Jose Mourinho once called it "the biggest trophy in the world," and the wait to crown a champions league winner is now just one day away. Former winners and pundits at TNT Sports, Rio Ferdinand and Steve McManaman, join World Sport's Amanda Davies in Munich to look ahead to the match between PSG and Inter Milan.
The Sun
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Raucous scenes at the races as Michael Owen runs riot and bookies duck for cover on Ladies Day at Chester
RAUCOUS scenes unfolded on Ladies Day at Chester's biggest meeting of the year - as Michael Owen ran riot and bookies took a pasting. The England footie legend bagged two big winners on the day, netting him just short of £50,000. 2 And one of his co-owners almost lost his top in the winner's enclosure as he was left on the brink of tears after victory. Boxing royalty Ricky Hatton and Owen's former England team-mate Steve McManaman were soaking up the sunshine at the famous Roodee. But it was little-known Nick Hughes who stole the show. A co-owner with Owen of 8-1 winner-of-the-first Roman Dragon, Hughes was overcome with emotion in a brilliant ITV Racing interview with Sun Racing columnist Matt Chapman. And earlier footage showed him lying on the grass with his shirt round his head and tummy fully exposed as he celebrated in style. Then again, wouldn't you if you'd just seen your horse bag you a cheque for £23,000? Owen's good form continued in the second race when the Hugo Palmer-trained Tricky Tel - named after the former Ballon d'Or winner's dad - won at 5-6 having been backed right in from 6-1. It's not often you feel sorry for the bookies. But you had to spare a thought for the layers as they saw four of the first five races on the card won by favourites. The 4.10pm, the sixth and penultimate race of the day, was won by the well-backed Paddy The Squire at 4-1., before 10-11 fav Lady Vivian scooped the last. That all came after the first four favourites all won on Wednesday. Those results helped one punter land a life-changing sum from their £5 bet which included ten straight winners. Bookies would have been licking their lips when they saw Ryan Moore struggling on hot fav Mount Kilimanjaro on the Listed Dee Stakes on Thursday. But their rotten run continued - much to the delight of punters - when the jockey showed why so many consider him the best in the world with a ' ridiculous' ride to keep the run going. It wasn't all about the racing, though. A whole host of ladies - including pop star Tulisa - turned up in their finest to take in the action, enjoy a drink or two and have a bet. Bookies will be absolutely desperate for some results on Friday, when the £170,000 Chester Cup takes centre stage. The feature race of the week is one of the big betting races of the year and sees 16 races thunder round the tight, twisting track in search of the £86,632 winning prize. . Remember to gamble responsibly A responsible gambler is someone who:
Daily Mail
06-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Trent Alexander-Arnold will be 'lonely' at Real Madrid and the 'pressure is enormous', warns Steve McManaman after he quit Liverpool for Spain
Trent Alexander-Arnold has been warned of the 'enormous' pressure at Real Madrid after the right-back announced he would be leaving his boyhood club Liverpool. The 26-year-old released a statement and video on Monday to confirm he would be departing Merseyside at the end of the season, with the player set to for a move to Real on a free transfer, as Mail Sport has reported. And as Steve McManaman reflected on his own path between the two clubs, he revealed what Alexander-Arnold should expect in the Spanish capital once the deal becomes official. 'Of course, it was difficult. I had to learn the language. Of course, you go to a new club where you feel slightly lonely at times, where you don't know everybody, but it's, a transition I knew that I had to make,' he told Mail Sport during an ESPN media session ahead of El Clasico. 'I knew it'd be like that, but you go into it with your eyes wide open, and you know that you have to work hard, you have to learn the language, you have to join in with your friends, you have to impress on the football field. So they would be the things that I would be saying to [Alexander-Arnold] if he did go there.' He later continued: 'The pressure to succeed is enormous. You know, you have to add to the history of the club you're joining. 'Liverpool have got a very wide, successful history. And likewise, Madrid - your job as a new player is to add to the history, is to win another trophy. And the bigger the trophies, the better. And it's easier to acclimatize when you are successful. It's easy to win over the fans when you're lifting trophies.' Steve McManaman said he felt 'slightly lonely at times' during his own stay at Real Madrid Life in Madrid should be made a bit easier with the presence of Alexander-Arnold's good friend and England teammate, Jude Bellingham, while La Liga analyst McManaman noted that the likes of Kylian Mbappe and Luka Modric are also English speakers. McManaman said that it would be 'very helpful' for Alexander-Arnold to have Bellingham to lean on, as he looked back at his own move to Real Madrid in 1999. 'When I arrived there, not a lot of people in Madrid spoke English,' he said. 'But as you can imagine, everybody in every restaurant, in every bar, in every hotel speaks English.' '... Of course, away from the football whatever club he joined, he would get lots of help, you know, from player liaison officers, just to help him acclimatize and help him, you know, with relocation, etc., etc., but on the field itself, [having other English speakers] will be very handy.' McManaman, who spent four seasons in Spain, went on to claim that the two clubs are 'very similar', after Alexander-Arnold spoke of his desire to leave his 'comfort zone' following 20 years at Liverpool. 'I feel, and even when I go back to Madrid now, they're both very family- orientated clubs, there's staff there that have worked at the club for 20, 30, 40, years, which is always a nice thing to see,' McManaman added. 'You know, every time you walk around Anfield, or every time you walk around the Bernabeu, there's pictures on the wall of past history, there's always ex-players walking around. So I always feel like they're very close to each other.' Alexander-Arnold will leave Liverpool with a glittering resume that includes two Premier League titles, one Champions League, one FA Cup and two Carabao Cups. Alexander-Arnold will leave Liverpool after helping the club win the Premier League this season In a statement posted to social media on Monday, Alexander-Arnold wrote: 'After 20 years at Liverpool Football Club, now is the time for me to confirm that I will be leaving at the end of the season. This is easily the hardest decision I've ever made in my life. 'I know many of you have wondered why or been frustrated that I haven't spoken about this yet, but it was always my intention to keep my full focus on the team's best interests, which was securing No.20. 'This club has been my whole life – my whole world - for 20 years. From the Academy right through until now, the support and love I have felt from everyone inside and outside of the club will stay with me forever. I will forever be in debt to you all. 'But, I have never known anything else and this decision is about experiencing a new challenge, taking myself out of my comfort zone and pushing myself both professionally and personally. 'I've given my all every single day I've been at this club, and I hope you feel like I've given back to you during my time here. From the bottom of my heart, I thank everybody – my coaches, my managers, my teammates, the staff and our incredible supporters - for the last 20 years. 'I've been blessed enough to live out my dreams here and I will never, ever take for granted the special moments I've been fortunate enough to have lived through with you all. My love for this club will never die'. Alexander-Arnold's status at Liverpool has been a long-running saga, as he allowed his deal to run down in December and was free to speak to other clubs from that point. Real even tried to sign him early over the winter with an offer of £20million, but Liverpool rejected that offer before going on to clinch the Premier League last week.
New York Times
13-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Julian Alvarez's ‘two-touch' penalty: Should UEFA rethink rules after Atletico striker's miss?
'Surely not, on a night like this….' Steve McManaman's commentary on TNT Sports echoed the feeling of many neutral observers as Atletico Madrid's Champions League hopes wilted in the most bewildering and dramatic circumstances on Wednesday. There are many painful ways to lose a European tie against your bitter rivals, but this had to be among the worst. Advertisement The VAR (of course it was) system became the protagonist as the video referee ruled out Atletico striker Julian Alvarez's penalty in the shootout that followed a tense last-16 second leg against Real Madrid. It was deemed that Alvarez's standing left foot made contact with the ball as he scored from a shot with his right, and referee Szymon Marciniak disallowed the 'double-tap' penalty. Repeated viewing of the incident doesn't make it obvious. Álvarez's penalty is overturned by VAR after a double touch 😳 📺 Watch the Champions League LIVE on @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) March 12, 2025 For readers in the United States 'He does touch it… that's the rule.' Thierry Henry and @MicahRichards analyze Julián Álvarez's disallowed penalty against Real Madrid 🗣️ — CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) March 12, 2025 Perhaps the Real Madrid players who gestured there had been an infraction and protested afterwards have superhuman eyesight, or perhaps they were trying their luck given Alvarez slipped, but the VAR — and not in-ball technology — confirmed a rule breach. Yes, Alvarez had tumbled but it is unlikely that anyone in real-time could have spotted a conclusive double-touch as he struck the ball. But by the most minuscule measure, the VAR's scrutiny spotted a law breach, and it was both correct (probably) and decisive as Real went on to win the shootout and progress to the quarter-finals. The IFAB (International Football Association Board) laws of the game prohibit a player taking the penalty kick from playing the ball twice before it has touched another player, or the ball stops moving or goes out of play. It won't help a crestfallen Alvarez or fuming Diego Simeone (there is a smudge of irony that the masters of the dark arts coming a cropper to such an obscure rule breach), but to expand on McManaman's point, perhaps given the context of Wednesday night and the specific incident, UEFA and IFAB need to reconsider the rules. Advertisement Is it really good for the game to have contests settled by something like this? By the letter of the law, the VAR was right, but the spirit of the law should encompass whether the accidental double-touch creates any advantage. A slip is not a deliberate attempt to cheat and the ball appears to move cleanly without any change in direction that could have flummoxed Real keeper Thibaut Courtois. It was just well struck and beat him. A slip and two-touch could just as well prompt a miskick that flies off-target. If anything, Alvarez was disadvantaged as he lost his footing, but the former Manchester City man's technique was still sharp enough to find the net. Still, he was punished. There is also the question of why in-ball technology, which involves microchipped balls and is designed to help improve the accuracy of decision-making, was not in use. UEFA used it at Euro 2024 last summer but it is only deployed in European Championships, not the Champions League. Surely the most high-profile and lucrative domestic cup competition in the world needs every bit of help it can get to avoid such head-spinning controversy? This is not to suggest the VAR or UEFA have somehow been callous. The rules have been followed as much as possible. But a rule that then disallows the spot kick feels overly cruel. The player should at least be allowed to re-take the penalty. Perhaps it can stand as a salutary lesson for other penalty takers. Only Alvarez and the Atletico kit team will know if he was wearing the optimal boots for a shootout, but with pitches frequently watered before and at half-time of games, there may be logic in changing into grippier footwear for shootouts. For now, though, Real's death-grip on the Champions League knockout stages persists, and fair-minded fans can only sympathise with Alvarez and the home supporters at the Metropolitano stadium who will never forget the way they exited. 'If someone present here saw Julian touch the ball twice, raise your hand,' demanded a fiery Simeone afterwards. 'Who raises their hand? You didn't raise it. Right, next question.' The question for UEFA is whether the spirit of the law should prompt a rethink.
