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      Ratcliffe rules out Manchester United spending big ‘on couple of great players’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 10:57

    • He says patience Arsenal have shown with Arteta has been ‘nice’
    • Ratcliffe reveals new stadium could have 100,000 capacity

    Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said Manchester United will not be trying to land superstar signings such as Jude Bellingham or Kylian Mbappé.

    The Ineos chairman has taken control of footballing operations at United after his minority shareholding purchase and wants to turn them back into the force they once were. However, he believes spending big on marquee signings is not the way to prosper.

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      ‘This will change women’s soccer’: why KC Current’s stadium has set a new standard

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 09:00

    Players in Kansas City used to get changed in parking lots. On Saturday, the city’s latest club opened the first purpose-built stadium for a women’s professional sports team

    Through strength, speed and courage, Temwa Chawinga created an opening in the Portland defense. She sprinted past a defender to beat oncoming Portland goalkeeper Shelby Hogan to the ball, which spilled out into space. Teenager Alex Pfeiffer saw an opportunity, closed in and buried her left-footed strike. Music, smoke and pyrotechnics burst from the Kansas City Riverfront. Kansas City Current led Portland Thorns, 5-1.

    The brand-new CPKC Stadium, the world’s first purpose-built for a women’s professional sports team, billowed with the joy of 11,500 fans in the midday Missouri sun. At 16 years, three months and 20 days old, Pfeiffer became the youngest goalscorer in National Women’s Soccer League history.

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      The cultural division of football fans only serves those who wish to exploit it | Jonathan Liew

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 08:00

    The battle between ‘true fans’ and ‘plastics’ weakens the ties between supporters and their inclination to unite and organise

    Leaving early is a bit of a red flag. Booing your own players, obviously. Wearing a half-and-half scarf, purchasing a half-and-half scarf, expressing any opinion of a half-and-half scarf short of pathological hatred: forget it. Fake merch. Supporting a club from a place where you do not live. Supporting more than one club. Getting fewer than 10 out of 15 on a multiple-choice clickbait quiz.

    Yes, these days there are multiple ways of outing yourself as that most abhorred of footballing species: “not a true fan”. Who gets to call themselves a football fan? Ostensibly this is a church open to all who want to believe, and yet somehow the very idea of fandom is constantly being challenged and contested, revoked and downgraded. English football has more words to describe ersatz fans than real ones: “plastics” and “casuals”, “fakes” and “frauds”, “tourists” and “day-trippers”, “trolls” and “haters”, “fair-weather fans” and “glory-hunters”.

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      The Joy of Six: football ‘houses, ‘housing and ‘housery | Daniel Harris

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 08:00

    Mischief-makers and provocateurs in football, from Dennis Wise to Emmanuel Adebayor and more

    In traditional parlance, a shithouse is a toilet , but fear not, this is not a piece on Wembley’s … rustic bogs and nor – though the word has since evolved to mean “a filthy or disgusting place” – is this a piece on the conscience of certain politicians. Rather, given the extension of the term’s scope to characterise “ an obnoxious or despicable person” , and though we already enjoy an ancient four-lettered one which satisfies that definition, it would be remiss – with all due respect to Steve McMahon – for us to begin with anyone other than Dennis Wise.

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      Amine réunit les plus grands joueurs de foot pour sa coupe du monde sur Twitch

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 06:35

    Amine Kings World Cup Foot

    Neymar sera au casting de la coupe du monde de football organisée sur Twitch par le streamer Aminematue.
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      English football regulator close as government confirms ‘historic’ bill

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 22:30

    • Football governance bill to be published on Tuesday
    • Prime minister: bill will ‘prevent a breakaway league’

    An independent regulator for English football is imminent after the government confirmed plans to put a bill before parliament under which clubs could be fined up to 10% of revenues if they breach agreed conditions.

    The long-awaited football governance bill is to be published on Tuesday and will define the powers of the regulator according to three objectives: “to improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure financial resilience across the leagues, and to safeguard the heritage of English football”.

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      Brazil’s Gabriel Magalhães pulls out of squad for England and Spain games

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 20:25

    • Arsenal defender will hope to return for Manchester City clash
    • Griezmann’s record run of 84 straight France games to end

    The Arsenal centre-back Gabriel Magalhães will miss Brazil’s friendlies against England on Saturday and Spain next week because of injury, with Juventus’s Bremer named as his replacement.

    Brazil’s coach, Dorival Júnior, gave no details on the injury when announcing the news, but Arsenal will be desperate for Gabriel to be fit for their Premier League trip to Manchester City on 31 March. Dorival said: “Today we had another casualty. Unfortunately, Gabriel Magalhães is uncalled. In his place, we’re calling up Bremer, from Juventus.”

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      Emma Hayes wary of Ajax’s threat to Chelsea in Champions League

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 20:20

    • WSL champions visit Amsterdam in quarter-final
    • ‘They are a club with serious ambition in Europe’

    Emma Hayes praised the development of Ajax and said their rise had come as no surprise, as she prepared her Chelsea side for Tuesday night’s first leg of the Champions League quarter-final in Amsterdam.

    Ajax were the first Dutch team to make the group stage this season and then escaped a section with Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Roma with three home wins at the Johan Cruijff ArenA. They welcome Chelsea as the ­underdogs, but their threat is real, said Hayes.

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      Supporters should blame club owners – not the rules – for points deductions | Barney Ronay

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 19:00

    Clubs may not like what they sign up to and object to the extent of sanctions, but cannot cry corruption if rules are transparent

    Welcome to the Premier League’s latest sensational product innovation: the courtroom drama relegation battle. Two things seem certain after the decision to dock four points from Nottingham Forest over breaches of profitability and sustainability rules. First, this isn’t over by any measure.

    Buckle up for some really excellent legal wrangle content over the coming months as Forest, Everton and at least four other clubs cling like Indiana Jones on a collapsing rope bridge to a league table primed to shuffle and rejig with every fresh tribunal hearing and special circumstances appeal.

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