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Scottish Sun
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
‘Is this your first time?' – moment David Moyes has cheeky dig at TV presenter live on air
The interviewer is well-known in the football world GAFFER'S GAG 'Is this your first time?' – moment David Moyes has cheeky dig at TV presenter live on air Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) EVERTON manager David Moyes was seen having a sly joke at the expense of a broadcasting legend in his post-match interview this weekend. The Scottish gaffer led his side to a 2-0 win over Southampton in what was the Toffees' men's team's last game at Goodison Park, their home of 133 years. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 3 Everton boss David Moyes won 2-0 at home to Southampton yesterday Credit: PA 3 He launched a dig at broadcaster Richard Keys after the match Credit: X / beIN Sports They're moving to a brand new near-53k capacity ground at Bramley-Moore Dock which was recently confirmed to be named the Hill Dickinson Stadium. After the emotional game ended, the boss was met by long-serving presenter Richard Keys, who was draped in an Everton scarf. The 68-year-old was working for beIN Sports and has been part of countless broadcasting setups in his time, but his turn here as the man in the tunnel wasn't the smoothest. He began the interview: "David, how was that?" Moyes responded: "[It was good] because I was concerned if we'd have shut the back door today and hadn't won it we'd have felt terrible. "Not our best but nevertheless we got the three points." Keys interjected while he was still finishing his sentence: "I didn't mean the game I meant everything that surrounded the match. "At what stage did you realise there was a football game being played here today?" Moyes said: "It was probably only the last five minutes where I thought 'my goodness, I've just got to hope we get this done here'. "But I have to say the noise inside the stadium and, you were witness to it, outside the stadium was unbelievable. 'Normally a bottle of red wine down' - Moyes unhappy at unusual kick-off time "It cries out as a club which is desperate for good times and things to celebrate. "If you look at the disappointments they've had over recent years this now looks like something everyone's looking forward to, a change of stadium. "If I'd turned up for today's game I'd have thought this was for us winning the championship or us being in a cup final, it was amazing. "We have to try and put us on the map in some way, I'll try. "Let's be fair, we've had to try and pull the whole club up by the boot laces. Other people before me as well, other good managers. 3 They've waved goodbye to Goodison Park "We've now got ourselves really in a good position, finished the season really strongly, so I'm hoping we can take the same atmosphere we had today down to the new stadium. "But we'll need to perform the way we have done over the last few weeks." Keys again jumped the gun with his response: "David, thank you, enjoy it and many congratulations, good to see you." Moyes joked: "Good to see you... is this your first time?" Keys laughed: "It might be the last!" The ex-Manchester United boss looks ahead to another season in the Premiership as Everton can't finish lower than 14th. Moyes will end the season above his both of his ex-clubs - United and West Ham, as the Red Devils and Europa League final opponents Spurs are destined to finish just above the relegation zone. Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
Telegraph
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Trio of glorious farewells welcome respite from Gary Lineker's excruciating goodbye
A weekend of farewells and retirement parties – for Danny Care, Jamie Vardy and Goodison Park. It is too soon to say if Gary Lineker will get a lovingly engraved carriage clock or an unceremonious ejection at the hands of a burly BBC security guard, but it was nice to have almost one full day without the former Queen Mum of Football monopolising the sports news headlines. If that wretched row has encapsulated so much that is depressing about modern media and sport, a very welcome antidote arrived on Sunday as TNT Sports covered the stirring and often moving final act at Everton's stadium. Southampton were the perfect guests, the sun was out, and the stars also: Martin Tyler, Andy Gray and Richard Keys reunited on the Goodison pitch, and an opportunity for Keys to try his hand as a post-match interviewer for current employer BeIN Sports. David Moyes, his subject, joked: 'Is this your first time doing this?' "English football will have lost a little piece of its soul." The last ever men's match at Goodison Park today. Richard Keys & Andy Gray are there to witness history. #EVESOUT #EndOfAnEra #Goodison — beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS_EN) May 18, 2025 There were legends everywhere you looked, and fair play to the TNT broadcast team for taking a deep breath and leaning into the happy chaos inevitably wreaked by a gaggle of men in late middle age let loose for a weekend without their handlers. Peter Reid, in shades, had started early. 'I've had a few shandies,' confirmed The Blue Monkey, to the surprise of nobody. 'Apologies for the sunglasses, but I was on the lash last night,' he expanded, and said sorry in advance if he swore. Another Everton great who knows the importance of keeping your fluid intake up on a sunny day, Duncan Ferguson, turned the air fittingly blue, as did the crowd as they accompanied Ellis Murphy, an Evertonian singer-songwriter, for a naughty-bits-included rendition of It's A Grand Old Team To Play For that had some choice words for Liverpool FC. "UP THE TOFFEES!!" 🔵 Duncan Ferguson and Wayne Rooney say their goodbyes to Goodison Park 👋 📺 @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK — Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) May 18, 2025 Ally McCoist, on co-commentary, rightly made the point about the links between his own Rangers FC and the Goodison club: Gary Stevens, Trevor Steven, Richard Gough, Duncan Disorderly and Gray as aforementioned, Gazza of course, and Walter Smith to name but a few. There could be no better companion for this sort of affair, McCoist's boundless enthusiasm and jocularity to the fore as he and Darren Fletcher grabbed quick words with the great and the good. What a superb assemblage of thirsty Scotsmen it all sounded. Thoughts and prayers are with the bar staff of Merseyside, some shift they will have put in this weekend. 🎶 D̶a̶d̶d̶y̶ ̶C̶o̶o̶l̶ Danny Care rings round Twickenham Stoop, but a spelling error needs some correction in the crowd 😅 Watch live on TNT Sports & Discovery+ — Rugby on TNT Sports (@rugbyontnt) May 18, 2025 A couple of hundred miles or so south, another send-off was soon under way as Harlequins said goodbye to their greatest player, Danny Care. This was altogether a more family occasion, and not because the scrum-half brought his kids out onto the pitch both before and after the match in the modern way. For a while, it looked like Exeter Chiefs might spoil the party, but Care came on and his side did just about enough to ensure that he signed off with a win. Nick Mullins, as he always does, hit the spot with his commentary: 'It's more than the tries he has scored, it is what he has brought to the game on and off the pitch,' he said. Some hardcore fans in the crowd were so into it that they got their placard order wrong. All hail, 'Danny Crae'. It is testament to the esteem in which second-half replacement 'Mr Crae' is held that the man who started in his position, Will Porter, wore number 21 on his back, a highly unusual dispensation that allowed Care to wear the nine. Leicester City fans organized an incredible send-off for Jamie Vardy in his final match at the King Power Stadium. 👏🦊 — NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) May 18, 2025 Another modern-day club great associated with that number, Jamie Vardy, also bade farewell this afternoon but sadly there did not appear to be any live TV coverage of his 200th goal in his 500th Leicester City game. Care says in his book that he was a Sheffield Wednesday kid in the same cohort as Vardy, but he got cut because he was too small. Both of them have had magnificent careers in any event, although you suspect that the Vardy party on Sunday would have been the livelier affair. It was a pleasure to spend a Sunday with these well-earned celebratory send-offs, some uncomplicated and joyful respite before another former Leicester City striker no doubt dominates the sporting news agenda for the next few days.
Tunisie Numerique
10-05-2025
- Sport
- Tunisie Numerique
Foot mondial : sur quelles chaines regarder les matches de samedi ?
Ci-après le programme TV détaillé des principales affiches officielles qui auront lieu sur les pelouses arabe, africaine, européenne et internationale ce samedi 10 mai (heures tunisiennes) : Samedi 10 mai Tunisie – Ligue 1 pro 15:00 EGS Gafsa – AS Gabès (Watania 1) 15:00 JS Omrane – US Ben Guerdane (Watania 2) Angleterre – Premier League 15:00 Fulham – Everton (beIN Sports HD 2) 15:00 Ipswich Town – Brentford (beIN Sports Xtra 2) 15:00 Southampton – Manchester City (beIN Sports HD 1) 15:00 Wolves – Brighton (beIN Sports Xtra) 17:30 Bournemouth – Aston Villa (beIN Sports HD 2) Espagne – La Liga 13:00 Valencia – Getafe (beIN Sports HD ) 15:15 Celta – Sevilla (beIN Sports HD ) 17:30 Girona – Villarreal (beIN Sports HD ) 17:30 Mallorca – Real Valladolid (beIN Sports HD 5) 20:00 Atlético Madrid – Real Sociedad (beIN Sports HD ) Italie – Serie A 14:00 Como – Cagliari (STARZPLAY, Abu Dhabi Sports HD 1) 17:00 Lazio – Juventus (STARZPLAY, AD Sports Premium 1) 19:45 Empoli – Parma (STARZPLAY, Abu Dhabi Sports HD 1) Allemagne – Bundesliga 14:30 Bochum – Mainz 05 (ARD Mediathek) 14:30 Union Berlin – Heidenheim (ARD Mediathek) 14:30 Werder Bremen – RB Leipzig (beIN Sports HD) 14:30 Kiel – Freiburg (beIN Sports HD 5) 17:30 Bayern – Borussia M'gladbach (CRTV Sports, Canal+ Sport 1 Afrique) France – Ligue 1 20:00 Montpellier – PSG (beIN Sports HD 1) 20:00 Monaco – Lyon (TV5Monde Maghreb, beIN Sports HD 5) 20:00 Brest – Lille (beIN Sports HD 2) 20:00 Toulouse – Lens (beIN Sports Xtra 2) 20:00 Reims – Saint-Étienne (beIN Sports Xtra 3) 20:00 Rennes – Nice (beIN Sports HD 6) 20:00 Le Havre – Marseille (beIN Sports HD 4) 20:00 Angers – Strasbourg (beIN Sports Arabia 9 HD) 20:00 Auxerre – Nantes (beIN Sports Xtra) Qatar – Qatar Crown Prince Cup 17:00 Al Sadd – Al Duhail (beIN Sports HD 4) Turquie – Süper Lig 14:00 Konyaspor – Rizespor (Digiturk Play, beIN Sports 2 Turkey) 14:00 Eyüpspor – Kasımpaşa (Digiturk Play, beIN Sports 1 Turkey) 17:00 Trabzonspor – Galatasaray (beIN Sports 1 Turkey) Que se passe-t-il en Tunisie? Nous expliquons sur notre chaîne YouTube . Abonnez-vous!
The Guardian
08-05-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Wenger wants to fix VAR offsides but broken handball rule is the real problem
Five years ago, Fifa's chief of global development, Arsène Wenger, outlined his bold plans to change the offside law. 'The most difficult [issue] that people have [with VAR] is the offside rule,' he said. 'You have had offsides by a fraction of a centimetre, literally by a nose. It is the time to do this quickly. 'There is room to change the rule and not say that a part of a player's nose is offside, so you are offside because you can score with that. Instead, you will be not be offside if any part of the body that can score a goal is in line with the last defender, even if other parts of the attacker's body are in front. That will sort it out and you will no longer have decisions about millimetres and a fraction of the attacker being in front of the defensive line.' I can't actually recall someone being offside literally by a nose – VAR came in after Alan Smith stopped playing (many apologies Smudge, first big-nosed player that came to mind; a compliment if anything). Fortunately for all of us, Wenger's plea to do this quickly didn't materialise. And it is astonishing that neither he, nor anyone around him, has noticed how absolutely disastrous this change would be. Five years later, on beIN Sports this week, he reiterated this position. 'In 1990 we decided that [there is] no offside any more when you are on the same line [as the defender]. In case of doubt the doubt benefits the striker. That means when there's a fraction the striker could get the advantage. With VAR this advantage disappeared … It's frustrating. That's why I propose that as long as any part of your body is on the same line as the defender then you are not offside.' Now to be absolutely clear, I am a big daylight fan. My kids love daylight. I spend a great deal of time in daylight, I see some of my best friends in daylight. I'm also a big admirer of Wenger. The football Arsenal played under him was glorious at times – even if they did on occasion just try to walk it in. This is not suggesting he's past it and we should ignore his views on the game in the way people should definitely stop asking Des Lynam what he thinks of female pundits. However frustrated we are talking about toenails and shoulders, and any other pointy bit you can score with – your knees, your chins, your Adam's apples – this would just change the discussion to heels and protruding backsides. Terrible implications perhaps for the buttock augmentation industry (I confess to not being an expert in this particular field). If you consider a striker sprinting through and a defender stepping out, if the attacking player is deemed onside if the point of the toe of his fully extended trailing leg is just in line with the heel of the centre back, it would weigh things in the attacking team's favour to a ludicrous extent. High lines would disappear, and we love high lines – Barcelona, Spurs, Aston Villa, etc – however terrifying they are for the supporters. It is extraordinary that someone in such a position of influence, or at least someone who has watched so much football, can't see how this would change the game. Low blocks everywhere. Set pieces would be impossible to defend. A couple of months ago, Wenger supported the continuation of trials over 'torso offsides' discussed at an International Football Association Board (Ifab) meeting in Belfast. According to our reporting, moving the line back, to where the player's torso is in line, is gaining favour among lawmakers, with the rationale that not only would it be a more balanced cutoff point but that the torso is easier to capture using tracking software, potentially allowing for quicker decisions. So is it daylight, is it the torso, or is it where we are currently? Can we stop moving the goalposts – apologies, probably best not to bring goalposts into this. The torso idea is interesting. When it was first suggested, there were a number of offside goals in the Premier League that would have counted in a torso world. I'd be interested to see a game of profile but no importance (eg the Community Shield) try it out so we could all see. Sign up to Football Daily Kick off your evenings with the Guardian's take on the world of football after newsletter promotion But if the problem is that really close VAR offsides are frustrating for everyone (and really close VAR offsides are frustrating for everyone), then moving the line doesn't change anything. There will always be a line, there will always be decisions made by millimetres. When does daylight begin? 1cm? 1mm? 0.1mm? What's the right amount of daylight? When does a torso begin? Do players start hitching their shorts to Simon Cowell heights? Offside wasn't introduced for any of this. It was introduced to stop goalhanging. The endless delays for offside are one of the main reasons my VAR journey has gone from vaguely pro to indifferent to in favour of getting rid. But I disagree with Wenger that offside is the most difficult issue fans have with VAR – when I say fans, I mean me. And with no apologies for repeating myself, VAR has broken the handball law. Myles Lewis-Skelly's handball in Wednesday's PSG-Arsenal game is one such example. No one in the ground or at home noticed it. In fact, when 'Potential penalty check' appeared on the screen, a hoard of Arsenal fans being filmed at Boxpark Wembley presumed it was for them because the ball was up the other end. We are so far down the handball rabbit warren that people just accept it. Thank goodness Sue Smith on the international co-comms made all the important points: 'It's so close, he's turning his back, his arm is out for balance, I think that's a really harsh penalty.' In no world should that be a penalty. And everyone involved in managing the laws of football should be ashamed that they've let the game get to this stage. That PSG get an 80% chance of a goal because the ball brushes Lewis-Skelly's hand when goals are such a rarity in football is ridiculous. And goals being a rarity are what makes football the greatest sport. If we are determined to penalise all handballs, make this a free-kick. Hopefully someone at Fifa or Ifab, even Arsène Wenger, will acknowledge this and try to change it. Yours, desperately hoping someone will see the (day)light. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.
Broadcast Pro
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Broadcast Pro
Sport's Growing Grip on MENA Media
With CABSAT 2025 set to spotlight the convergence of sport, streaming and strategy, the region's media economy is being redefined from hyper-local fan coverage to global rights battles, and from grassroots passion to platform innovation. There's an unusual energy rippling through the Middle East's broadcast and streaming landscape – a sense that the game is changing, both literally and figuratively. Sport, in particular, has become a compelling force, not just for audiences but for those bringing it to them. From international rights deals to hyper-local fan engagement, sport is opening commercial doors and reconfiguring the media economy. Smashi Sports, for instance, has tapped into grassroots passion, venturing into club-level coverage in the UAE to capture local content. At the other end of the spectrum, we see mega-rights deals being snapped up, aligning the Middle East with global viewership trends and creating both opportunities and challenges around monetisation, localisation and scale. Until recently, that space was largely the domain of beIN Sports. But as our cover story this month reveals, evision and StarzPlay are making a huge impact, particularly in the world of cricket. It's against this backdrop that CABSAT takes place this year. The show has become a convergence point for technology, creativity and strategy, with vendors, broadcasters and content platforms looking to the future together. As content consumption habits evolve and sport continues to attract new investment, I'm excited to be moderating a panel at CABSAT focused on the role of sport in driving broadcast innovation. It's a timely conversation that reflects the pace, complexity and promise of the market we serve. But that's just one of many conversations shaping the region that will be explored at CABSAT. In the meantime, the third edition of the BroadcastPro Manufacturer Awards returns this year with a brand-new Satellite element. These awards have become an important platform for innovation, visibility and recognition, particularly for those pushing boundaries without the marketing muscle to make themselves heard. I hope you participated in the awards. If not, there's always next year.
