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Bournemouth owner Bill Foley has sold his 25 per cent stake in Hibernian, after both parties agreed the partnership was not working.Hibs’ majority shareholder, the Gordon family, have purchased the shareholding following talks over recent months. Foley, who owns Bournemouth through his Black Knight Group, paid £6m for his stake in February 2024.Hibs chairman Ian Gordon said: “We remain fully committed to the success of Hibernian FC. Every decision we make has Hibernian FC at the heart of it.”Over the last few months, we have had detailed conversations with the Black Knight Football Club group regarding Hibernian FC. During those…

Wolves have appointed Rob Edwards as their new head coach after he left Middlesbrough to join the Premier League’s bottom side.Edwards has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal at Molineux. The 42-year-old had been in talks with Wolves since Saturday after he was stood down from Boro’s Championship game against Birmingham and was given permission to speak to Wolves.Middlesbrough stand to make somewhere in the region of £3m to £4m in compensation. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from the Premier League match between Chelsea and Wolves Edwards takes over a side winless in…

For the second time in two months, the relationship between Barcelona and the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has been pushed to breaking point over the handling of Lamine Yamal’s persistent groin injury.In September, it was Barça coach Hansi Flick who was furious with how Spain accelerated Yamal’s recent fitness issues in FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Turkey and Bulgaria, accusing them, and national team coach Luis de la Fuente, of failing to take care of their young players.This time, it is Spain and Luis de la Fuente who have been left “surprised” after losing the 18-year-old forward for this…

Jeff KassoufNov 12, 2025, 08:20 AM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.NWSL awards season can sometimes feel like a prank, so much so that the classy, self-aware United States defender Becky Sauerbrunn had to casually denounce her own title as Defender of the Year due to funky voting — not once, but twice!Snubs season has returned in fine form in 2025, with the initial voting period preventing an MVP candidate…

Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden cannot play in the same England team together, says Thomas Tuchel.The England head coach made the striking statement to TalkSport after earlier saying in a press conference he would only pick players in their best position and not change his formation or system just to get star names onto the pitch. Tuchel also said he would not take five No 10s to the World Cup. England have an abundance of talent in that position but the indication is he will make the tough call to leave out one or more of Bellingham, Morgan…

Thomas Tuchel believes England are building a “precious brotherhood” and warned dropouts will not be accepted ahead of the World Cup.England have already sealed their place at next summer’s finals ahead of two qualifiers this week, starting with Serbia at Wembley on Thursday before signing off for the year against Albania in Tirana.This camp comes a year on from Harry Kane publicly expressing his disappointment after nine players withdrew from interim boss Lee Carsley’s squad for Nations League games against Greece and Republic of Ireland.At the time, Kane said it was “a tough period of the season and maybe it’s…

Geoffrey Bindman, who was one of Britain’s most distinguished human rights lawyers, lived and died a man of principle. In normal times, a lawyer who founded the leading law firm Bindman and Partners, who was chair of the British Institute of Human Rights, winner of The Law Society Gazette Centenary Award for Human Rights in 2003, and knighted for his services to human rights, would have received a bevy of tributes on his passing. But these are not normal times. Bindman’s death has been greeted with relative silence, particularly from another human rights lawyer who was close to him and…

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has said Lionel Messi returning to the club as a player is “not realistic” after the Inter Miami star’s surprise appearance at Spotify Camp Nou this week.Messi, 38, made an impromptu visit on Sunday to Barça’s stadium, which is still being redeveloped, ahead of joining up with the Argentina squad in Spain.He later posted the images on social media alongside a caption saying he hoped to “return for the goodbye I never got to say as a player.”In an interview with Diario Sport, he then reiterated his desire to return to the city in the future,…

Nov 12, 2025, 06:05 AM ETOscar joined São Paulo in December last year. Miguel Schincariol/Getty ImagesFormer Chelsea midfielder Oscar is in hospital after a fitness test revealed abnormal cardiac results, his current club São Paulo announced.Sources told ESPN Brasil that Oscar, 34, on Tuesday felt unwell while using an exercise bicycle and temporarily lost consciousness.The Brazilian player was taken to a nearby hospital and is under observation.São Paulo said in a statement: “Oscar showed abnormal cardiac reactions during a routine preseason medical checkup conducted via Super CT on the morning of the 11th, and immediately received treatment from the club’s medical…

 KUWAIT:  The Public Authority for Manpower announced on Wednesday the adoption of a new mechanism to regulate the working hours of employees in private schools, setting the duration at seven actual working hours per day.The decision aims to improve the working environment in the private education sector and ensure the stability of the educational process.In a press statement, the Authority explained that the new mechanism-proposed by the Private Schools Union of Kuwait (PSUK) and approved by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Al-Yusuf Al-Sabah-was introduced following a comprehensive study by the relevant departments.The study examined the…