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A fan has been arrested for allegedly making racist gestures and noises aimed at Kylian Mbappé during Real Madrid’s game at Real Oviedo last month, Spain’s National Police have confirmed.Madrid won the match at the Estadio Carlos Tartiere 3-0 on Aug. 24, with Mbappé scoring twice.On Wednesday, police said that an individual had been identified making monkey sounds and gestures, after analysing TV footage of the crowd’s reaction to Mbappé’s 37th-minute opening goal.Kylian Mbappé was subjected to alleged racist abuse last month. Etsuo Hara/Getty ImagesLaLiga reported the incident after the game, and the fan has now been detained and questioned, and…
Oracle stock roared 40% higher on Wednesday after reporting gobsmacking cloud demand numbers, setting the company on track for a historic gain.The cloud giant is on pace for its best day since 1992, and is now quickly approaching the $1 trillion market cap benchmark. Oracle is now at $950 billion.The company said Tuesday after the bell that it has $455 billion in remaining performance obligations, up 359% from a year earlier.”This is a very historic kind of print right here from Oracle with this backlog,” Ben Reitzes, technology research head at Melius Research, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime” on Tuesday. “The…
Jeff CarlisleSep 10, 2025, 08:58 AM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Alejandro Zendejas stood in the postmatch mixed zone, one could barely tell how prominent a role he had played in the United States men’s national team’s 2-0 victory over Japan.He was almost serene as he described the night, sharing the field once again with Christian Pulisic — whom he first crossed paths with as a 14-year-old at the old U.S. under-17 residency camp — and delivering the critical first goal. He also knew he’d made the kind of impression…
Former Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent video of a child, Nottinghamshire Police have confirmed. The 43-year-old from Collingham is due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates Court on Thursday, September 11 and is currently on conditional bail.He has been charged with a Category A offence which relates to a video file recovered by officers in February 2025.Category A is the most serious of the categories.The charge of making an indecent image of a child refers to activities such as downloading, sharing or saving abuse photos or videos.Coote was sacked by Professional Game Match Officials Limited…
Sep 10, 2025, 08:28 AM ETDavid Coote is set to appear on court on Thursday. Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty ImagesFormer Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent image of a child.The ex-official, aged 43 and from Collingham, is due to appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, Sept. 11.The charge of making an indecent image of a child refers to activities such as downloading, sharing or saving abuse photos or videos.The allegation relates to a video recovered by officers from Nottinghamshire Police in February, the force said in a statement to ESPN.Coote was charged…
Steve Evans tended to take the jibes about his weight in good humour. But the advancing years coupled with his expanding waistline made it an issue that he was determined to confront. Four young grandchildren have a way of lending perspective.”I want to be around when they are 25, 30,” Evans tells Sky Sports. “I want to see them have kids. Is that possible? Yeah, it is possible.” He has given himself a better chance by losing six-and-a-half stone of that weight in the months since leaving Rotherham. A trip to a cardiologist sparked the change. “I was worried about…
It has not been the start to the new campaign that either would have expected.Ipswich Town, hotly-tipped for the title, are still without a win. They have drawn three and lost once, and two of their points have come courtesy of very late penalty awards. But by contrast with Sheffield United, their season has started swimmingly. The Blades, under new boss Ruben Selles, are without so much as a point. They sit stone-cold bottom of the league.The pair meet on Friday night at Portman Road following the international break. Both have made moves in the market to try and rectify…
Kylian Mbappé has hit out at what goes on behind the scenes in football in a wide-ranging interview with L’Equipe, saying “if I didn’t have this passion [for the sport], the world of football would have disgusted me a long time ago.”On Tuesday, Mbappé became France’s second-highest all-time goalscorer — overtaking Thierry Henry, and behind Olivier Giroud — by converting a penalty in the team’s 2-1 win over Iceland, taking his tally to 52 international goals.In an hour-long conversation published in French newspaper L’Equipe’s magazine on Wednesday, the Real Madrid forward discussed his personal life, the national team, and the…
Sep 10, 2025, 06:48 AM ETCristiano Ronaldo become the joint-top goalscorer in World Cup qualifying history in Portugal’s 3-2 triumph at Hungary on Tuesday.The Portugal captain scored from the penalty spot to net his 39th goal in World Cup qualifying and join Guatemala’s Carlos Ruiz as the highest scorer.He found the net twice in Portugal’s 5-0 win at Armenia in Saturday’s World Cup qualifier.”Two games, two wins, let’s go Portugal,” Ronaldo said on Instagram.The Al Nassr forward could overtake Ruiz, who retired from football in 2016, when Portugal resume qualifying on Oct. 11 against Ireland.Another goalscoring record is well within…
Sep 10, 2025, 06:17 AM ETBrazil’s Football Federation president Samir Xaud spoke of the adversities his national team encountered in their 1-0 defeat against Bolivia in Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier, stating “we played against the referees, the police and the ball boys.”The five-time World Cup winners, who had already secured a spot in next year’s tournament, lost their first game under coach Carlo Ancelotti at El Alto.Miguel Terceros converted a penalty in the first-half of stoppage time after VAR review, a result that allowed Bolivia to advance to the playoff tournament for the 2026 World Cup in the final round…