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Ian DarkeSep 12, 2025, 05:00 AM ETCloseDarke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most recognizable soccer voices.Only three gameweeks have been played in the Premier League season, and already some observers are handing the title to Liverpool. The defending champions have spent nearly £450 million to improve their squad, and they are the only team with three wins to start the 2025-26 campaign.…

Jones sustained an issue during the Reds’ victory over Arsenal at Anfield last time out and, therefore, won’t make the journey to Turf Moor.However, the rest of the Premier League champions’ squad has reported back to the AXA Training Centre fit following the international break.“I think they are,” Slot told his pre-match press conference, when asked if his players are injury-free after representing their national teams.“We train for the first time today with them, with most of them – the non-internationals did train with the U21s this week already. “Curtis Jones, of course, I don’t know if you knew, but…

Colin UdohSep 12, 2025, 04:26 AM ETCloseItinerant writer. Engineer in a previous incarnation. One time Black Belt. Lover of football, flirter with other sports.Nigeria international Gift Monday has welcomed the return of superstar USWNT forward Trinity Rodman, and the impact her presence has had both on the NWSL team and Washington Spirit fans.After a four-month absence due to a persistent back injury, going all the way back to the Olympics in 2024, Rodman returned to the field for the Spirit on August 3 and instantly showed why she is such an important piece of the Washington machine, marking her comeback…

The rivalry between Southampton and Portsmouth is one that runs deep.It is not just about football – this transcends football. These are cities on the south coast with important ports, where the intensity of the rivalry is said to have intensified during the 1970s. That went to another level when, just a fortnight after leaving his role as Pompey boss in November 2004, Harry Redknapp went down the road to Saints.Only Alan Ball had managed both clubs before that; no one has done since.In 2015, when Emirates struck a sponsorship deal with Portsmouth landmark the Spinnaker Tower and announced plans…

Sep 12, 2025, 04:00 AM ETAll of the Premier League’s biggest clubs are monitoring Ajax midfielder Jorthy Mokio, while Chelsea are in talks over signing another talented South American teenager in Deinner Ordóñez. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors and gossip from around the globe.Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s grades | Women’s gradesTOP STORIES- Onana leaves Man United on season-long loan- Gotham calls record deal for Shaw a ‘no-brainer’- Chelsea face 74 FA charges over agent paymentsJorthy Mokio made his first-team debut for Ajax in February, shortly before his 17th birthday.. Raymond Smit/Newhouse Media/MB Media/Getty ImagesTRENDING RUMORS-…

With a name inspired by a four-time Oscar-nominated Brazilian film, Zepiqueno Redmond is now looking to write a script of his own after leaving Feyenoord for Aston Villa before joining Huddersfield Town on loan this summer.A product of the Alexandria ’66, CVV Zwervers and ADO Den Haag youth academies before eventually joining Feyenoord in 2019, Redmond now finds himself in England at the Kirklees Stadium in the next stage of his budding career. The 19-year-old will be hoping to become the latest player with ties to Suriname, a small nation on the north-eastern coast of South America, to thrive amongst…

Sep 12, 2025, 02:32 AM ETWest Ham have taken the unusual step of banning supporters from taking half-and-half scarves into the London Stadium for the team’s Premier League clash with London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.The scarves, which are often sold by unofficial vendors outside football stadiums, have long been the subject of consternation from regular match-goers who reject the idea that someone would wear memorabilia showing both teams rather than exclusively the one they support.The move was communicated to fans as one of a number of “increased security measures” West Ham say have been designed to stop away supporters…

US President Donald Trump is doing his worst to undermine the dollar with tariffs, attacks on the Federal Reserve and pushing the national debt higher toward US$38 trillion. But the real threat to the dollar’s reserve currency status is happening behind the scenes in Beijing. There, officials are quietly and meticulously seizing the moment for a Chinese currency ready to fill the void. To be sure, the dollar is still very much on top. It represents more than 58% of central bank reserves compared with the euro’s 20% and the yuan’s roughly 2%. Yet President Xi Jinping’s team is quietly…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Anti-Muslim incidents have “skyrocketed” across Australia since the Israel-Hamas war began nearly two years ago, the country’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia said. The envoy, Aftab Malik, handed his first report to the government on Friday.The report’s 54 recommendations include a review of counterterrorism laws and procedures to investigate potential discrimination.Malik also recommended a wide-ranging inquiry into Islamophobia to investigate its main drivers and potential discrimination in government policies.“The reality is that Islamophobia in Australia has been persistent, at times ignored and other times denied, but never fully addressed,” Malik told reporters.Islamophobia had intensified since the…

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry has arrived in Ukraine for a surprise visit in support of wounded service members.Harry’s representatives confirmed they were in the capital, Kyiv, on Friday, though they declined to discuss the prince’s schedule for security reasons.This is the second time Harry has visited Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion in 2022. He made a trip to the western city of Lviv in April.“We cannot stop the war but what we can do is do everything we can to help the recovery process,” Harry told the Guardian newspaper while on an overnight train…