Theresa May is giving MPs yet another chance to vote on Brexit Theresa May is giving MPs another vote on Brexit in the form of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in early June, Downing Street has said. If successful, the bill will incorporate May’s Brexit plan into UK law. If defeated, the UK will be set […]

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This is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from a man they call ‘Jimmy Danger’ Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion’s Championship play-off semi-final on Tuesday night was a typically heated affair which eventually saw the sending off of Baggies’ skipper Chris Brunt for two bookable offences. Both Brunt and midfield partner Stefan Johansen […]

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Steer started the season as Aston Villa’s fourth choice goalkeeper Jed Steer was the hero on Tuesday night as Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion 4-3 on penalties to reach the Championship play-off final at Wembley. It’s been a remarkable turnaround of fortunes for Steer who started the season on loan at League One side […]

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Game of Thrones has absolutely fucked it so let’s reminisce about the good times The career arc of Game of Thrones reminds me now of a whole host of footballers that have started their journeys incredibly brightly and then got even better before, inevitably, they start to believe their own hype and suddenly find themselves […]

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We were given just a brief ray of light in the form of Glenn Murray When Sadio Mane put Liverpool up against Wolves after just seventeen minutes, with Manchester City still goalless away at Brighton, you couldn’t help but feel the sharp tug of history pulling on their coattails, dragging them ever closer. Minutes later, […]

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seriously mate no joking please just don’t play again pm not suited to u pal you’re crap no hard feelings just not worked out Theresa May is doing that thing she does again. That thing where she takes a seemingly normal, everyday occurrence – such as dancing to ABBA, holding a snooker cue or in […]

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“Because all of the spies, are hidden away” Leeds United beat Derby County 1-0 today in the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final at Pride Park. It may seem like a distant memory now but there is still bad blood between the two teams due to ‘Spygate’, after it emerged that Leeds manager Marcelo […]

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The Stoke City Twitter account will probably think twice the next time they @ someone Stoke City attempted to do the unthinkable on Twitter this evening: publicly brag about a 2-1 win in a game that occurred five years ago, for some reason. The number one reason you don’t do this is because, simply, who […]

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This is a very Jermaine Jenas take If you’ve been paying even the slightest bit of attention to the Champions League this season you’ll know that, in the form of Matthijs De Ligt, Ajax have an absolute colossus of a centre-back. Only 19 years of age, he is already captain of the historic club, who […]

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UEFA are at it again Arsenal and Chelsea will play the UEFA Europa League final on June 29 in Baku’s Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan. Unfortunately, of the 64,000 capacity, only 12,000 tickets will be sold to supporters of the two clubs. According to the UEFA, they have put 37,500 to a ballot for the ‘football […]

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An accountant stole £240,000 from AFC Fylde over the course of two and a half years Semi-professional football team AFC Fylde narrowly avoided going bust after an accountant who worked as a financial director for the club transferred £239,900 to his personal bank account. Andrew Barnbrook, from Bispham, Lancashire, used the money to fund a […]

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The most successful basketball coach in recent years has paid homage to Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool You may not be keeping up to date with the NBA playoffs but on Wednesday night the reigning champions, the Golden State Warriors, earned a hard-fought 104-99 victory over the Houston Rockets in their Western Conference semi-finals match-up. The […]

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“Heads up, chest out” Ajax have quite rightly earned plaudits for their remarkable run through the Champions League this season, a campaign that has seen the historic Dutch club draw with Bayern Munich twice in the group stages and then knock out Real Madrid and Juventus in consecutive rounds. It’s been an incredible journey to […]

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Grab a Kleenex boys and girls Wednesday night couldn’t have gone much better for Lucas Moura. Not only did he score a second-half hattrick to send Tottenham through to the Champions League final, but he was also awarded the honour of a 10/10 match rating by those notoriously hard to please football journalists at L’Equipe […]

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“Ciao” I have to be honest here. I have absolutely no affiliation with Spurs but I fucking adore this man. Mauricio Pochettino is everything you could ever want in a coach and watching him fall to his knees as Tottenham completed the most remarkable comeback since that other remarkable comeback, to go through to the […]

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What a performance from the Brazilian Tottenham Hotspur looked down and out after only 35 minutes of Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final second leg against Ajax at the Johan Cruyff Arena. Fortunately for them, Lucas Moura had different ideas and scored a wonderful second-half hattrick – including the 95th-minute winner – to send Spurs through to […]

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FORTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARYDOOS!? TOBIAS! The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has had a shocker lads. Honestly. They’ve fucked it. They’ve absolutely fucked it. They rolled out a new $50 banknote in October last year that not only contains fancy polymer technology which prevents counterfeiting but also features Australia’s first female member of parliament, Edith Cowan. […]

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[Spoilers, obviously] A coffee cup, sudden amnesia and a hundred million people gradually caring a lot less The fourth episode of the final series of Game of Thrones (‘The Last of the Starks’) came and went in exactly the same fashion that ‘The Long Night’ did before it: initial excitement, confusion, scrutiny and finally, most damning of […]

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Marca quoted the defender after the game saying that he’s glad he doesn’t have to play Messi every season, but Van Dijk isn’t having it Liverpool’s Virgil Van Dijk has hit back at Marca after they attributed quotes heaping praise on Lionel Messi to the defender after Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat away to Barcelona on Wednesday. […]

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And Chris Sutton absolutely bloody loved it because he is Chris Sutton Michael Owen had an interesting take during BT Sport’s Saturday Morning Savage show today, making the rather bold prediction that Liverpool and Barcelona will somehow conspire to contest the Champions League final – despite playing each other in the semis. Even better, he […]

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The boy is back in town Or, he could be, following the news that Serie A club AS Roma have offered Jose Mourinho a three-year contract to return to the world of football management, as reported by L’Equipe. The Portuguese tactician has been without a job since being sacked by Manchester United on December 18 […]

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All 136 passengers and seven crew members were OK A Boeing 737 plane flying into Florida skidded off the runway as it attempted to land during a thunderstorm and ended up in the St. Johns River. Fortunately, however, the plane was not submerged and only in shallow water. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s office confirmed that there […]

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This is it. The very pinnacle of art Some days, the internet can be a very bad place, full of angry gammon and Game of Thrones fan theories and misery. Some days, like on Thursday when Tommy Robinson had a milkshake smashed off his bonce, the internet can be a very special place full of […]

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A host of Europe’s biggest clubs were vying for his signature Real Madrid have reportedly secured the signing of Eintracht Frankfurt’s wonderkid Luka Jovic, who has been turning heads all season long thanks to standout performances in both the Bundesliga and the club’s Europa League campaign. Just 21 years old, Jovic has notched nine goals […]

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Marcelo Bielsa is already a cult hero in West Yorkshire One Leeds United fan has gone viral on Twitter due to a comment he posted on YouTube channel Tifo Football, in which he shares his story about meeting their manager Marcelo Bielsa in Wetherby. According to the anecdote, the Leeds boss is exactly how we imagine […]

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“This isn’t just any sandwich…” M&S has launched an LGBT sandwich in the UK and Ireland to celebrate pride. To appropriate fulfil the acronym the fillings are lettuce, guacamole, bacon and tomato, all served in colourful rainbow packaging. The sandwich is priced between £3 and £3.85 depending on store location. The high street supermarket is […]

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Before we begin, let us make abundantly clear that we did not endorse the following Game of Thrones fan theory that completely mugs Arya off in favour of *checks notes* the aunty shagger As you will no doubt be aware, Jon Snow absolutely bottled it during Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 3, ‘The Long […]

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He is costing the club £500,000 per week, including bonuses Alexis Sanchez’s dismal spell at Manchester United is set to come to a premature end this summer following reports the club are willing to pay a significant amount of money just to get rid of the player. Sanchez, who has started only eight Premier League […]

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Please, whatever you do, don’t give Sonic a dick. Sonic doesn’t need a dick. Or maybe he does. I don’t know Since the trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie dropped a couple of days ago, his appearance has been under constant scrutiny by fans and critics alike, with the film industry’s demanding and quite frankly […]

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He played Chewbacca in five of the Star Wars movies In a statement released by his family, it was announced late on Thursday evening that 74-year-old actor Peter Mayhew had passed away in his home on Tuesday 30 April. Mayhew was best known for playing the role of Chewbacca in the original Star Wars Trilogy, […]

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The musician is currently awaiting trial for 10 counts of sexual abuse The man representing R Kelly, Steven Greenberg, has defended his client as he awaits trial after it was alleged he keeps women hostage in his home and operates a sex cult. Speaking on BBC podcast The Next Episode, in an instalment entitled ‘Defending R […]

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She was found guilty of lying to avoid a speeding ticket Fionana Onasanya, who has served as the Member of Parliament for Peterborough since June 2017, has become the first MP ever to be ousted by a recall petition. Onasanya was jailed after lying about a speeding offence to avoid a ticket. As a result […]

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All four goals were worthy but this award belonged to John McGinn We love a Goal of the Season competition here at JOE, and this year there were a couple of clubs in the Championship that had a set of ridiculous nominees. As we covered last week, Sheffield Wednesday had a wonderful showreel of long-range […]

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An extended, mini-series version of the film has been released on Netflix Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, The Hateful Eight, is now a four-episode mini-series on Netflix. Even better, it contains 25 minutes of additional footage that wasn’t included in the cinematic release. Fans of Tarantino’s western-themed, parlour-room whodunnit, which stars Samuel L.Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer […]

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London Underground workers will stage a three-day strike over the FA Cup final weekend The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has announced that 1,200 maintenance and engineering workers will strike for three days from 7 am on May 17 in a row over safety, with the FA Cup final taking place the day after […]

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Unless you’re a Liverpool fan, obviously In case you weren’t aware, Lionel Messi is still some kind of alien that crash-landed in the Andes 31 and a bit years ago. Last night, as his team dismantled Liverpool to win 3-0 at the Nou Camp in their Champions League semi-final first leg, he did this to […]

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On a night when Lionel Messi scored twice, including one of the goals of the tournament, it was Barcelona’s languid enforcer Sergio Busquets that took centre stage Barcelona and Liverpool played out an astonishingly frenetic first leg of their Champions League semi-final with both sides fizzing the ball around in the early stages. The Nou […]

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Wave after wave after wave, the boy-wonder Ajax zombies just keep on coming Take a second to think of the players you associate with Ajax. They can be pretty much any age, from any generation, and the ones that spring to mind will still be all-timers. Cruyff, Neeskens, Krol. Koeman, Rijkaard, van Basten. Davids, Seedorf, […]

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Hello and welcome to this week’s: we have all been doing something slightly wrong our entire lives and were hitherto completely oblivious You may or may not be aware of the upcoming J.R.R Tolkien biopic starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins, the one that will detail the early life of The Lord of the Rings author, […]

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As you’d expect, the replies aren’t pretty Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri has made the rather controversial decision to release a club statement congratulating the Owls’ historic rivals, Sheffield United, on earning automatic promotion to the Premier League. Chansiri, a Thai businessman who owns the Thai Union Group – which, according to Wikipedia, is the world’s […]

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Winterfell United 1 (Stark 90+5) White Walker Wanderers 0 Not since Manchester United’s dramatic comeback against Bayern in the 1999 Champions League final has a game of this magnitude been turned on its head at the very death, with United wonderkid Arya Stark pouncing on some sloppy defending by the White Walker rearguard late on […]

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The Lille forward has one interesting requirement before he decides to move Lille winger Nicolas Pépé has been subject to a series of transfer rumours this season after a scintillating run of form for Les Dogues, who currently sit in second place in Ligue 1. Pépé, who has scored 19 goals and 11 assists in […]

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“I’ll never die, I’m Chuck Norris/Fuck the government and fuck Boris” The video for Stormzy’s latest banger ‘Vossi Bop’, released at midnight on Thursday, has just about everything you could ask for – from an Idris Elba cameo to a 28 Hours Later-style opening scene on a deserted Westminster Bridge in the twilight hours. It’s […]

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Three German clubs, two Premier League rivals and Barcelona, obviously Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp has revealed the six other football teams he enjoys watching when he gets the chance in a recent interview with Austrian/German sports streaming service DAZN. Unsurprisingly, half of the teams are German – with his two former employers Borussia Dortmund and […]

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The artist appears to have backed the climate change protests that took place in London this week A suspected Banksy piece has been spotted in Marble Arch, London, where the Extinction Rebellion climate change protests have taken place over the last fortnight. Support for Extinction Rebellion has reportedly quadrupled following their blockade in the capital, […]

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The Mr. Robot and Bohemian Rhapsody star was heavily rumoured before the live announcement today The producers of the yet unnamed 25th James Bond film have today announced the cast, including the confirmation that the Oscar-winning Rami Malek will be starring opposite Daniel Craig in what will likely be his very last outing as 007. […]

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Last night we saw ‘the good Pogba’ and a ‘classy and composed’ Fred, according to The Guardian Player ratings are an art form. They’re easy to do but extremely difficult to master and if, like me, you believe French doom-mongers L’Equipe to have it absolutely spot on, dishing out 1s and 2s like the old […]

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Zinedine Zidane is eyeing up the England international like he eyed up Marco Materazzi’s chest It has been, as they say, a meteoric rise for Jadon Sancho since the former Manchester City youngster made the bold decision to move to Borussia Dortmund for £8 million in August 2017. The 19-year-old has proved a revelation for […]

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The merger between Asda and Sainsbury’s has been #cancelled The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked the potential merger between two of Britain’s biggest supermarkets: the Walmart-owned Asda and rivals Sainsbury’s. Despite the fact that the British public had already come up with the perfect name for the joint venture, the move has been […]

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