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Recall ends striker’s five-and-a-half-year absence over alleged role in a blackmail plot.
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Doctors say hospitals in the Japanese capital are already overwhelmed and ‘have almost no spare capacity’.
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Textbook header from a corner was one of the most sensational moments of this or any Premier League season.
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The Chelsea-Man City match has been switched to the Estadio do Dragao to allow English fans to attend.
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Liverpool and Egypt footballer calls on world leaders to ‘make sure the violence and killing of innocent people stops’.
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Manchester United’s loss at home to Leicester hands Manchester City their third league title in four years.
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New poll shows nearly 60 percent of Japanese want the already delayed Tokyo Games cancelled.
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UEFA starts disciplinary proceedings against Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona over breakaway competition row.
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Delivery of COVID jabs set to begin in May to give Olympians time to be fully vaccinated before July 23.
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Prosecutor alleges police officer used unreasonable force against Black former footballer Dalian Atkinson.
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As a Manchester United fan protest leads to a match postponement, experts say owners must rebuild trust with the fans.
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The Premier League says it is tightening up its regulations to stop any future attempt at a breakaway structure.
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Inter Milan’s first league title since 2010 ends Juventus’s nine-year reign in Italian football.
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Anti-Glazer movement has gained momentum following the club’s failed attempt to join a breakaway Super League.