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Nov 28, 2025, 01:42 PM ETVictor Edvardsen was fined for mocking Angelo Stiller. GettyA player has apologised, and been fined by his club, for mocking the appearance of Angelo Stiller.Go Ahead Eagles punished their player, Victor Edvardsen, after an incident with Stuttgart’s Stiller in their match on Wednesday.His gesture towards Stiller prompted an on-pitch furore between the two sets of players.”I want to apologise for my behaviour yesterday,” Edvardsen said on Thursday.”Things were said and done between us that do not belong on a football pitch.”After the match, I went to the Stuttgart locker room to offer my apologies. “I have…

Nov 28, 2025, 01:20 PM ETIran has decided to boycott the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington next week because the U.S. denied visas to members of its delegation, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on Friday.The agency quoted Iranian soccer federation spokesman Amir-Mahdi Alavi as saying that officials faced visa obstacles that go beyond sports considerations.There was no immediate comment from the White House.- FIFA alters WC draw format so top sides won’t meet early- WC ticket sales for exact matchups to start Dec. 11Alavi said the federation had reached out to FIFA and hoped it could help resolve…

Airlines around the world canceled and delayed flights heading into the weekend to fix software on a widely used commercial aircraft after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month.Airbus said Friday that an examination of the JetBlue incident revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls on the A320 family of aircraft. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency issued a directive requiring operators of the A320 to address the issue and said it may cause “short-term disruption” to…

Nov 28, 2025, 12:41 PM ETA Chelsea employee has admitted abusing her position to defraud the club out of more than £200,000 ($264,000).Claire Walsh, 39, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday to a charge of fraud by abuse of position between June 8, 2019 and Oct. 23, 2023.Walsh, who worked as an assistant treasury manager at the Premier League club, admitted dishonestly abusing her position to obtain £208,521.65 for herself.Asked what plea she would enter, Walsh, of Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, said “guilty.”Magistrate Kieran O’Donnell told Walsh: “You’ve been charged with an offence of fraud which exceeds £200,000…

Sky Sports is giving 200 fans the chance to secure a unique Slawn x Sky Sports shirt, with each winner getting access to a month of free Sky Sports via a one-time NOW TV code.London-based artist Slawn has teamed up with Sky Sports to create the first-ever shirt to come with a month’s free access to Sky Sports content, and it’s sharper than a Peter Drury punchline! A true collaboration of art, fashion and football, Sky Sports has partnered with the trailblazing creative to release a limited-collection of hand-sprayed shirts, true to Slawn’s signature style, that bring streetwear swagger to…

It has become the great political hack of our era: European governments have discovered a magical shield that allows them to advance the most draconian, racist and dehumanising anti-immigrant policies, without being accused of racism. The secret is disarmingly simple: put a non-white face on the cruelty. Appoint a brown or Black minister, ideally with a refugee story in the family tree, and let them deliver the policies a white politician fears to articulate.  The modern state has merely perfected what colonial administrations mastered long ago: ruling through intermediaries. Only now, the stage is domestic rather than imperial – and…

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.The president explained his decision on social media by posting that “according to many people that I greatly respect,” Hernandez was “treated very harshly and unfairly.”In March of last year, Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court of conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S.A. He had served served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation of roughly 10…

A burnt-out armoured car fitted with an anti-aircraft gun rusts away inside what used to be the lobby of Khartoum’s wrecked Meridien hotel.  Khartoum hospital, a colonial-style building dating back to the British era, is out of action. Tower blocks and government buildings across the Sudanese capital are blackened and burned.  Palace Road, in the historic heart of the city, was once one of Khartoum’s busiest thoroughfares.  Now it’s almost empty, no cars, and in places the loudest sound is birdsong. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked…

Lizzy BecheranoJon ArnoldNov 28, 2025, 11:21 AM ETNow that the Philadelphia Union, FC Cincinnati, LAFC and Minnesota United FC are splitting time between the couch and the golf course, MLS is down to its final four.Inter Miami CF are peaking at the right time, New York City FC caused another upset, the Vancouver Whitecaps won a star-studded shootout, while San Diego FC’s magical inaugural season continued. That sets up this year’s conference finals: Miami vs. NYCFC, and San Diego vs. Vancouver.So how will Saturday’s matchups go down? ESPN asked Lizzy Becherano and Jon Arnold to assess the postseason forms of…

Inter Miami head coach Javier Mascherano insists the team needs every player on the roster to defeat New York City FC in the Eastern Conference final on Saturday night at Chase Stadium, giving the same importance to those who start the game on the field or the bench.”Yes, we’re clear on how we’re going to play. It’s not my way to let the players know who’s going to play until the last day,” said Mascherano.”I think that’s the best way to keep everyone focused and engaged in the match because I still maintain the same thing. It’s not only the…