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Here we are in the dog days of May, with the European club football season playing out a slow, sultry finale as the Geopolitics World Cup bangs ever louder on the door. Legendary managers and beloved players have made tearful farewells, shiny pots handed out, spies spotted in slapstick circumstances. But wait! The big closing number is still to come. Paris Saint-Germain. The Arsenal. Budapest. Saturday, er, 5pm BST. It’s Bigger Cup Final!
Was the repeat reference to Phil Taverner’s punishment (Thursday’s letters) a rare slip on Football Daily Ed’s part, or was his original offence deemed so heinous that he’s to be named and shamed on a daily basis for the foreseeable? Just asking for a friend” – Phil Taverner.
Donyell Malen played 46 times for Aston Villa and scored just seven goals, then scored 14 times in 18 games for Roma to finish as second-top scorer in Serie A this season after arriving in January. This might explain how Scott McTominay won Serie A player of the season, and why Italy failed to qualify for their third World Cup in a row” – Noble Francis.
Re: George Smith’s letter. Not only is the $100+ fee for a train ride to the MetLife Stadium gouging, it is virtually mandatory. There is no pedestrian access during GWC, and the Meadowlands area has swamps that are foul with toxic waste” – Steve Hibbert [Big Website gave it a go – Football Daily Ed].
Continue reading...The New York mayor scored a range of responses attending Eid prayers in an outfit combining football and faith
Since Arsenal won the Premier League for the first time in 22 years this month, the visibility of the club’s shirts has soared, with celebrities including Romeo Beckham and the singer Mahalia wearing them.
One particularly notable fan moment occurred when Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, wore a kurta made out of the team’s 2025-26 away kit to attend Eid al-Adha prayers in the Bronx.
Continue reading...The loud online hate aimed at two pop stars with polar-opposite styles suggests a shrinking realm of acceptability in which women can exist. That is, you suspect, the point
For an eye-catching spring/summer 2026 look, why not try one of the infinitely fun ways you can dress up misogyny? There’s buttoned-up faux concern. The haughty pince-nez of high dudgeon. The splashy feather boa of outrage. If you’re really bold, why not the full birthday suit of naked disgust? There are far more acceptable options, apparently, than there are for actually dressing as a famous female pop star in 2026. Between the parallel uproar over extremely different outfits worn recently by CMAT and by Olivia Rodrigo, it almost seems as though there are in fact no options at all for how a woman should look in public. Funny, that.
Yesterday, the Irish and American musicians each commented on recent backlash over their appearances that came from the scummy bottom of the internet. On Sunday, CMAT performed at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Sunderland. When the BBC posted clips of her performance on Instagram, comments about her body were so vile that the broadcaster had to disable them; tellingly, clips from the same festival featuring smaller-bodied female performers still have comments enabled. “It’s been very hard to try and describe how difficult the last few days since the bbcr1 big weekend have been,” CMAT posted, saying the commentary caused her “deep sadness”.
Continue reading...‘Tennis became a race against time’ after 2005 diagnosis
‘The suffering was less than my passion,’ says tennis great
Rafael Nadal has revealed he spent most of his career in pain as he willed himself to play through a chronic foot injury and went on to win 22 grand slam titles while spending two decades ruling men’s tennis alongside Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic.
The Spaniard, who retired in 2024, said he took immense risks with his health to keep his career going, after a Netflix series called Rafa provided an in-depth look into his physical and mental struggles to pursue greatness.
Continue reading...Nu de salderingsregeling stopt, vragen bezitters van zonnepanelen zich af hoe het verder moet. Is de thuisbatterij een uitkomst? Op een informatieavond praat de gemeente Noordwijk inwoners bij over de opties.
Kyu John has added a photo to the pool:
Een groep van zes mensen heeft vernielingen aangericht bij de Mevlana Moskee in Rotterdam-West. Dat gebeurde op het moment dat er in het gebouw mensen aanwezig waren, meldt de politie.
De moskee heeft aangifte gedaan en meldt dat de aanwezigen erg geschrokken zijn door het incident. De daders zijn met een taxi gevlucht. De moskee heeft beelden van de vermoedelijke daders gemaakt.
"We hebben sterke vermoedens dat het gaat om een groepje beschonken personen die de vernielingen hebben gepleegd", zegt een politiewoordvoerder. "We hebben camerabeelden veiliggesteld en doen onderzoek."
Reactie burgemeester
Burgemeester Carola Schouten spreekt haar afschuw uit over het incident. "Dit soort intimiderend en vernielzuchtig gedrag is volstrekt onacceptabel en staat haaks op de waarden van respect en vrijheid van godsdienst die wij in onze stad en in Nederland hooghouden."
"Ik heb contact opgenomen met het bestuur van de moskee om onze steun te betuigen en te bespreken welke ondersteuning de gemeenschap verder nodig heeft", vervolgt Schouten. "De politie doet nader onderzoek naar het incident. Iedereen die iets gezien of gehoord heeft dat het onderzoek kan helpen, meldt deze informatie aan de politie."