🚀 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Chelsea coach Liam Rosenior said his players "didn't want to antagonize ourselves and make more noise over ourselves" by huddling before the match in the center circle.This comes after an unusual scene before Newcastle's 1-0 Premier League defeat on Saturday when referee Paul Tierney stood over the ball before kick-off but did not move away as Chelsea players gathered around him to give captain Reece James his team talk.Rosenior says no decision has been made yet on where they will be for Tuesday's Champions League…
💥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Although the team, as expected, has a familiar atmosphere, Clarke was clear that there is still room for players to play their way into the group that heads to the United States in June, where it will face Haiti, Morocco and Brazil.He said that there were four other players he wanted to include in the team for the matches between Japan and Ivory Coast, but injuries deprived him of that opportunity.“There are some players I feel I need to take a look at,” Clark…
🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar said Sunrise Leeds' signing of Pakistani player Abrar Ahmed "indirectly contributes to the killing of Indian soldiers and civilians".Gavaskar's comments are the most prominent criticism leveled at the Sunrisers' deal for Abrar at last week's Hundred auction.Leeds is owned by Sun Group, which is also the owner of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Indian Premier League teams have not been allowed to sign Pakistani players since 2009 due to ongoing political tensions between the…
💥 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: With Chelsea having so much success signing stars through secret payments, have they come off lightly?If the club is not very cooperative, they will face a harsher financial penalty and possibly a points deduction.The starting point was the aggravating factors - the length of time the violations were committed, the size of the payments, which were made by prominent figures and the seriousness of the violations.The English Premier League's board of directors concluded that Chelsea should be fined £20 million and banned from transfers for…
✨ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Chelsea Defender Reece James could be out for weeks with a hamstring injury, coach Liam Rosenior said.The Chelsea captain will miss his team's home match against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, after a 5-2 defeat in the first leg in France.No specific time frame was given, but when asked if James could be out for several weeks, Rosenior replied: "It could be."The 26-year-old could miss the next England international later this month, with Thomas Tuchel's squad to be announced on Friday.He suffered the…
✨ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: “I don't think so,” Livingstone said, describing how he was dropped by England last summer [the call] You have reached one minute. I asked why, they said they wanted to try someone else's. That was out of the gate [McCullum].“Casey didn't say anything – he said 'I'll talk to you in the summer'. I rang him one day and he said he was busy at a test camp in Loughborough. And then I didn't hear from him until the end of September."That was a…
🚀 Read this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Millwall defender Zach Sturge received racist abuse online after being sent off against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday.Sturge was sent off in the 59th minute for a foul on Yuki Ohashi while his side led 1-0, before Blackburn's Matthias Jorgensen scored twice in five minutes to turn the scoreline in Rovers' favor late on.Millwall said the abuse came from two external Instagram accounts, neither of which appeared to have any affiliation with either club.Millwall said in a statement: “Both accounts have been reported to Meta, the…
💥 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Chelsea They were fined £10m and given a suspended transfer ban after admitting making £47m in secret payments to unregistered agents and third parties during transfers between 2011 and 2018. The £10 million fine is the largest ever imposed by the English Premier League, exceeding the £5.5 million fine imposed on West Ham United in 2007 for signing Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez. Chelsea also received an immediate nine-month academy transfer ban and a £750,000 fine for registering academy players between 2019 and 2022.…
✨ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: England winger Tommy Freeman and Irish prop Tadhg Furlong both said as much after taking part in last summer's Lions tour of Australia.“Without realizing it, I think I was tired,” Freeman said of his return to Northampton.“I felt like my body was fine and I was telling the coaches ‘yeah I’m fine, I’m fine.’ I think just mentally it was a little bit more of a struggle.”“Maybe it all seems insignificant the next year,” Leon Furlong said three times.Perhaps the French players do not…
✨ Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Kilmarnock teenage winger Findlay Curtis has surprisingly joined Steve Clarke's Scotland squad for two friendlies later this month.Curtis, 19, joined Kilmarnock on loan from Rangers in January after making 26 appearances in an impressive first half of the season at Ibrox.With Bournemouth's Ben Gannon Doak just back from injury and Scotland lacking depth in the wide attacking areas, Curtis has his first opportunity to impress as Clarke prepares to lead Scotland into the World Cup finals next June.Scotland host Japan at Hampden on Saturday 28…
