Month: May 2021

5:00 AM ET Music icon Ed Sheeran is a big Ipswich fan. Richard Calver/Getty Images Championship side Ipswich Town announced a new shirt sponsor this week which might not be headline news were it not for the famous face involved. 2 Related A budding local musician by the name of Ed Sheeran (who has sold more than 150
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3:30 PM ET Adriana Garcia Eden Hazard has apologised to Real Madrid fans after laughing and joking with Chelsea players following his team’s exit from the Champions League. Cameras showed the Belgium international laughing with former teammate Kurt Zouma and goalkeeper Edouard Mendy on the Stamford Bridge pitch after Wednesday’s 2-0 defeat. Hazard, who spent
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11:33 AM ET The United States women’s national team wil play a trio of June friendlies for preparation for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The USWNT will play a pair of matches at Houston’s BBVA Stadium, the first coming against Portugal on June 10 followed by Jamaica three days later. The final match will
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7:16 AM ET Tottenham Hotspur are expected to save approximately £9 million ($12.5m) in compensation payments to Jose Mourinho after he accepted the head coach job at Roma, sources have told ESPN. The 58-year-old initially agreed a severance package worth around £20m ($27.8m) following his sacking by Spurs last month. That figure comprised Mourinho receiving
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5:52 PM ET Liam Wheeler Manchester United booked a Europa League final place for the second time in five years despite slipping to a 3-2 defeat against Roma at the Stadio Olimpico. The hosts started brightly and should have taken the lead as Gianluca Mancini, Lorenzo Pellegrini and Henrikh Mkhitaryan all squandered chances, only for
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6:31 AM ET The image of Eden Hazard joking with Chelsea players after Real Madrid‘s Champions League elimination at Stamford Bridge has generated a “monumental” anger at the club, sources have told ESPN. Cameras showed the Belgium international laughing with former teammate Kurt Zouma and goalkeeper Edouard Mendy on the pitch after Madrid’s dream of
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5:04 PM ET Premier League clubs have set a new record for overall European performance in one season after Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United reached the finals of the two competitions. The coefficient score is an average of all an association’s teams in Europe over the course of the campaign, and English clubs’ coefficient
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4:54 PM ET Chelsea reached their first Champions League final since 2012 as goals from Timo Werner and Mason Mount secured a 2-0 victory Real Madrid in their semifinal second leg at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday to win the tie 3-1 on aggregate. Their away goal in Madrid had given Chelsea a narrow advantage heading
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2:21 AM ET Philadelphia Union is the last Major League Soccer side standing in this season’s CONCACAF Champions League after Portland Timbers lost 4-2 on aggregate to Club America. With the quarterfinal poised at 1-1 from the first leg, Liga MX’s Club America sealed its place in the last four with a smooth 3-1 win
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2:14 PM ET UEFA are ready to pursue severe disciplinary action against clubs who signed up to the Super League and have yet to sufficiently distance themselves from the project, multiple sources familiar with the situation have told ESPN. This could result in the maximum punishment under the organisation’s disciplinary pathway, which is a two-year
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