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Chaotic Chelsea circus of recent years looms behind ‘optimistic’ Xabi Alonso

Only time will tell if former midfielder will become yet another victim of the conveyor belt of managers at Stamford BridgeIf Xabi Alonso arrived at Chelsea under any illusions about the expectations awaiting him, they were staring out from picture frames hung around Stamford Bri

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France ready to get ‘revenge for the Euros’ in World Cup semi-final against Spain

Zaïre-Emery confident Les Bleus will deliver in DallasDeschamps to bring Tchouaméni into lineup if fitThe France midfielder Warren Zaïre-Emery says his team want to exact revenge on Spain and banish painful memories of their exit in the Euro 2024 semi-final.France and Spain meet

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Who 'came alive' in the semi-final? France v Spain player ratings

Spain produce a masterclass to see off France and reach their first World Cup final since 2010 - but who were the stars?

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Didier Deschamps pays price for breaking free from the shackles that led him to glory | Jo

France finally let loose all their attacking power in this tournament and yet when the big test came against Spain they were too openMaybe Didier Deschamps was right all along. He has been criticised over his 14 years in the France job for being too cautious, for prioritising con

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‘It means love’: Scottish World Cup fans celebrate Boston with orange traffic cone

‘Boston cone’ arrives to fanfare in first-class seat from Glasgow before planned trip to raise money for mental healthFresh off its first-class flight from Glasgow, it received a reception befitting a visiting dignitary: a bagpiper in full regalia playing inside Boston Logan inte

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Love and hate collide: England v Argentina is not simply a grudge match | Jonathan Liew

Look beyond the flashpoints and flare-ups and perhaps this is the greatest and most romantic of footballing rivalriesIt’s about the ball, right up until the moment it isn’t. On Sunday afternoon Godoy Cruz played Defensores de Belgrano in Nacional B, the second division of Argenti

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‘I root for underdogs’: football fans who don’t support their home country

Not everyone supports the country where they were born or grew up. Sometimes fans are won over by a player, place, population or style of playFootballers need to be born in a country or have a family tie to that place to represent them at the World Cup, but those rules do not app

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The World Cup of Calvinball: Fifa’s hasty changes turn refereeing into a free-for-all | Be

Match officials are enforcing tweaks to the laws of the game that have hardly been tested. The results? Drama, ‘mistaken identities’ and lots of confusionIn the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, the titular characters occasionally played a game known as Calvinball.The rules were amo

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Vietnam police rescue hundreds of cats stolen for meat by crime ring

Major operation launched after spate of pet thefts in Ho Chi Minh City, according to local mediaPolice in Vietnam have rescued more than 400 cats in a bust of a cat meat crime ring in Ho Chi Minh City, according to animal welfare groups and local media reports.More than 40 cats w

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‘Cruel hoax’: Canadian healthcare staff decry employer’s email promising fake day off

Unions condemn ‘insensitive’ internal cybersecurity test sent to healthcare workers in Newfoundland and LabradorFor years, healthcare staff in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador have felt overworked and underappreciated. Turnover, burnout and thinning resources we

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‘Institutional threat’: election of far-right leader raises fears for democracy in Colombi

Trump-admiring Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to ‘disembowel’ the left and kill criminals like ‘rats and cockroaches’When more than 20 women accused a Colombian evangelical pastor in 2012 of sexually abusing them, the defendant’s lawyer sought to discredit the allegations by

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Scientists find ‘smoking gun’ evidence of world’s oldest meteorite strike in Western Austr

Curtin University researchers use innovative techniques to date three-billion-year-old impact crater in Pilbara regionA meteorite that struck Earth three billion years ago left behind a “smoking gun” – evidence of the world’s oldest impact crater in a remote part of Australia.Anc

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